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TheGreatHouseBeyondTheWest by ~taintedsilence:icontaintedsilence:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Fanart

©2004-2009 ~taintedsilence
:icontaintedsilence:

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I like Yuugioh, I honestly do, but I get sick of seeing art of mou hitori no Yuugi that have nothing to do with ancient egypt. So I added some historical accuracy to this one. Though I'll admit my own inaccuracy: the Giza plateu IS a plateu, and is nowhere near this close to the Nile. The background just needed it though, and it goes with one of the symbols in the picture. See how many of them you can name. (hint: there are TWO in the picture title!)

Prismacolor pencil.

10 minute edit: fixed up sky/clouds and colours in general.

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~lotti Jul 25, 2004, 8:44:34 AM
WOW!!! awesome colors!!! and so wonderfully drawed!!! congrats :) :clap:

btw..I know what the symbols are, but i don't know what they are symbols for :D

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~MelinaWOLF Jul 25, 2004, 8:44:51 AM
WOW! This is really great i love the detail you put into this picture ^_^
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~taintedsilence Jul 25, 2004, 9:02:33 AM
for? They're ancient egyptian symbols, relevant to the picture. Thats all, really.

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:iconewynn:
~Ewynn Jul 25, 2004, 9:43:10 AM
This is awesome! :heart: You're amazing with pencil crayons and I really wish I had half the ability you do with them. And as such I'm inlove with the water :drool: :heart: Wonderful work!

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~kuroi-fayth Jul 25, 2004, 10:23:25 AM
:wow: Beautiful coloring! I just love the setting and the way you captured dusk.

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~rahn-lionheart Jul 25, 2004, 11:21:00 AM
Nice coloring... It looks so nice. *_*

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~kili Jul 25, 2004, 12:53:28 PM
the colors are excellent, so vivid:D and the art work is exquisite as well, very nicely done!

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=purplerose Jul 25, 2004, 1:25:09 PM
Lovely vibrant colors!

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:icondae-han:
~Dae-Han Jul 25, 2004, 6:55:23 PM
It looks superb but I can't find the symbols probably because I'm retarted...
:icontaintedsilence:
~taintedsilence Jul 25, 2004, 8:59:02 PM
no, you just have to know a bit about Egyptian mythology. I'll give away the two in the title now (since they're in the title they're kind of obvious) The name 'pharoh' means (and is written in glyph) as 'great house.' The egyptians also believed that the pharoh was the sun of Ra, the sun god (Osiris) and when he died he became Ra. The pyramids were to the west of the Nile because the sun sets in the west, so thats where souls (kaa . . . or maybe its baa. I get those mixed up) went to become Ra. The west is the land of the dead; so Mou hitori no Yuugi is the pharoh of the land beyond the dead. Fitting considering he's 3000 years old . . . .

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