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I bought a book about haunted Britian and Ireland. It gave be the inspiration to draw this image. Yes, this was first a graphite drawing, which I drew on an A3 leaf of paper. I started drawing the church first of all and a few head stones. It still need more, so I added a moon with a smiley face. I then added more head stones and then decided to add a high cross, because I wanted this to be set in Ireland. On the right of the image I then drew a dead tree with a face, I still think its really cool looking. It still needed something else so I added more trees with faces and two other trees in the forground. Still, there was no life in the image and that's why I added the raven. It seems as if we are seeing everything from his/hers view point.
I always had the aim of giving this image a sort of cartoon look about it and recently I decided to paint over the drawing. I used layers when painting and when it was finished I though it would be a good idea to give the painted layer just over half opacity. I think I've given this image a unique look and I'm quite proud of it, even if its not the best drawing/painting in the world.
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