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[STAGE: TRANSCENDENCE] by Slunchy

[STAGE: TRANSCENDENCE]

Slunchy

Commission for ruskova on FA B)

this character takes a lot of prescription drugs and is obsessed with the Illuminati!!!

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    I've also favourited this on Furaffinity, and since seeing it yesterday I can't get this out of my head, this is perhaps the most adroit illustration I have seen in some while. I could chalk it up due to my coloured preferences as being an ex-patient, but there is so many elements that come together and take the whole thing a considerable length, making it a really strong piece of composition.

    You have the hazy brain-foggy background in its muted splendour has this brightness to shining out against the character giving a very chemical crystalline quality. The Pills a blur but as they're scattered builds the illusion of depth and the jarring off-centreness some retain a three dimensional if I had the appropriate eyewear. The typography strikes me having this sinister Nietzschean motif (specifically his Doctrine of Eternal Recurrance) yet I can stop murmuring it to myself; getting a small uncanny buzz. It fits the four-arms reminiscent of a Bodhisattva, transpiring from the psychiatric imagery; the lotus imbued like a saline solution to be inserted IV. Even the triangle I can vaguely get, being similar to the diagram of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Each corner representing THOUGHTS, FEELINGS and BEHAVIOUR. I mentally perceive the Psychological trying to make a picture of his Ego or mental state, but he escapes it becoming Transpersonal. The Illuminati, the third eye, and the different elements in his hand: This all hones in on the theme of Transcendence, I have never seen something conceptualized so beautifully than this.

    I really wish I could've seen how you made this, or any of these End Stage Bosses, but this by far is my favourite.

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      I can't believe I haven't seen this comment until now! Thank you so much for this. You speak very eloquently about the subject matter! I'm so glad it resonates with you. I particularly appreciate that you can see Nietzsche in this, because he is one of my favorite philosophers, and though I didn't make the connection initially I can definitely see it in there, especially since I was envisioning this character to resemble having "ascended to a higher plane of understanding," as it were. Thank you!!

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        You might enjoy Alan de Botton's Consolations of Philosophy (Not to be confused with a treastie written years ago) as one of the chapters "On hardship" talks about how Nietzsche's philosophy can benefit people, or the reader interested in such work. But it really delves into a biographical account of Nietzsche even though upset and marginalized by German society, was swimming by a Pool near the Swiss Alps, and having the luxury of cheeses alongside .. I honestly wish I could remember his friends names, besides Richard Wagner.