Woooo~~~ This piece has been a long time in the making... I sketched it I don't even know when, then Ksi inked it on the ipad. After that I flat colored it and sat on it for a while, figuring it was as done as it was gonna get. A few months later (which was like, last week) I found a shading tutorial that just REALLY made sense to me and broke down shading in a way I could understand better... This is my third attempt ever at shading digitally (or at all really). I'm fairly proud of the results, it took a lot of time and energy, I hope others like it as well @~@

This piece was drawn while listening to and inspired by TOOL- Third Eye. The creature is my monster character Spooky, in an unusually content mood~

<i>Dreaming of that face again.

It's bright and blue and shimmering.

Grinning wide

And comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes.

On my back and tumbling

Down that hole and back again

Rising up

And wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye.

In... Out... In... Out... In... Out...

A child's rhyme stuck in my head.

It said that life is but a dream.

I've spent so many years in question

to find I've known this all along.

"So good to see you.

I've missed you so much.

So glad it's over.

I've missed you so much

Came out to watch you play.

Why are you running away?

Came out to watch you play.

Why are you running away?"

Shroud-ing all the ground around me

Is this holy crow above me.

Black as holes within a memory

And blue as our new second sun.

I stick my hand into his shadow

To pull the pieces from the sand.

Which I attempt to reassemble

To see just who I might have been.

I do not recognize the vessel,

But the eyes seem so familiar.

Like phosphorescent desert buttons

Singing one familiar song...

"So good to see you.

I've missed you so much.

So glad it's over.

I've missed you so much.

Came out to watch you play.

Why are you running away?

Came out to watch you play.

Why are you running away?"

Prying open my third eye.

Prying open my third eye.

Prying open my third eye.

Prying open my third eye.

So good to see you once again.

I thought that you were hiding.

And you thought that I had run away.

Chasing the tail of dogma.

I opened my eye

I opened my eye

I opened my eye

and there we were...

Open my eye

Open my eye

Open my eye

and there you were...

So good to see you once again

I thought that you were hiding from me.

And you thought that I had run away.

Chasing a trail of smoke and reason.

Prying open my third eye.

Prying open my third eye.

Prying open my third eye.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zV78IgXzB0