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A painting I did almost a year for Imaginary Redux artbook for IFS. I did some colour corrections do it, so it might look a bit different from the one anyone saw in the artbook.

Title : Shen Hua or in chinese 神画
Meaning (God's painting/drawing) and sound the same as the chinese words for "legend"

This is based on a story I read when I was just a kid. I can't remember the original ending to it, so I just do my own rewrite :D

A talented but poor artist was given a magical brush and ink slab by the Gods of heaven out of pity and out of admiration of his paintings.

Whatever he paint with the brush will come to life, first he painted food to feed his hunger, then he painted a house to have a roof over his head.

Then he painted gold to solve his poverty, but soon the king heard about this and ordered men to seize the brush.

But the artist painted an army which he used to overthrow the King and took the throne for himself. He grew greedy and painted more wealth and his kingdom became more powerful.

But as time past the artist aged and he begin to fear death. On hearing that the mythical creature call the dragon possessed a pearl that can give eternal life, he picked up the brush for one last painting.
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*darkn2ght Apr 30, 2010
reminds me of hua long dian jing^^
i love the awe u create in this piece!
wow, this was for IFS!?cool. u ever sent your works to a magazine with similar name called Imagine FX before^^?

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~TheAngelDragon Sep 27, 2009
Your story sounds so familiar. I think I've red about it when I was still a kid but I can't remember. Still this is a stunning piece. I love it. I think this piece isn't receiving as much love as it deserves. Only 4000+ views? It should have been at least 10,000 by now!

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Mood: Wow! ~muuuhbot Jul 23, 2009
Awesome!
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~Sangiev Dec 13, 2008
Hello there,
Your stunning piece of work, has been featured in my latest News Article : Stunning Digital Painting You may find this one, here : [link] So hopefully, you'll have a look at it and enjoy and maybe even a little :+favlove: will be wonderful !
Thanks for your support, again congratz !

Regards,

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"Man ! You should seriously write for magazines, Vogue or something" :p ^archanN made my day :heart: :p
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*Luches Dec 14, 2008
thank you for the feature :)

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~Sangiev Dec 14, 2008
:)

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"Man ! You should seriously write for magazines, Vogue or something" :p ^archanN made my day :heart: :p
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~Jonpa Oct 31, 2008
.b e a u t i f u l.

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~AlexSatriani Oct 24, 2008  Student General Artist
nice nice

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~ArchievalTome Oct 23, 2008  Hobbyist Writer
Ooops :D

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~X-A-N-A Oct 23, 2008
Brilliant!

:lol: I love the background people's reaction :D

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