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Semiyar, the silver-haired minstrel, storyteller, wanderer with the unmistakable purple feather and eyes to match, and Svenana, his silver lute who trills unceasingly to him and inspires the music he is most famous for.
Finally got the chance to finish a proper portrait of him and his ridiculous outfit, with all the random trinkets he manages to collect from his journeys. It's extremely colorful, as he likes to stand out in a crowd, but I escaped the worst of it by painting in monotone instead. XD The winged heart locket is a gift for his new sweetheart, Diana, and he's also wearing a moon charm of hers.

You can learn more about Semiyar on his character profile here: [link] and more about his world and "The Wars of Avenan" storyline here: [link]

Prints are available here: [link]

0.5 mechanical pencil and Photoshop 5.5
Reference used for the lute, and a lot of extremely helpful crit and advice from *phuriedae and ~mistressofspam. Thanks so much!
Semiyar is ©me [link]

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Amazing! The detail is breath-taking. This is just beautiful!

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Behing my smile is everything you will never understand
:iconneverwintercc:
Oh wow, I really really really really like this. :D

*pats curly hair*

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Number 23:

Alaskana walks in on Truman wearing a sombrero in goofy fashion, a hoop skirt, clown shoes, waving a flashlight around in the air, holding a tray of cubed cheese, all the while screeching like a chimpanzee. What happens?
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Oh wow. I didn't feel like I could justly favorite this until I'd gone over every inch of it just because... wow. It's lots and lots of wow. The lighting and detail (good Lord, there's no word to sum up all the detail in the feather and clothes and trinkets and hair and eyes... which are fantabulasticly purple and make me smile). And I think I could prattle on about this picture's epic win qualities for quite a while. The lace on his cuff is a nice touch too, and I love how you've done the lute's scroll (if that is the word for it).

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I am "Giggly Pokey Thing" according to Crenen.
And Tern is "Pricky Leery Brat".
Crenen certainly has a talent for names...
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that sort of smoke coming out of the instrument... is it the music itself?


... anyway, this is gorgeous. Impossible Not To Fav!

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When men are honest, law is unnecessary; when they are not, law is ineffective.
:iconbluechimeraz:
I love all the details you put into this. It's so neat that the longer I look at it, the more little trinkets and things I find. This is a gorgeous piece of work. You should probably do him in color one of these days...
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What part of this is photoshop? Did you shade everything with the mech pencil? It's very lovely work you do. :D

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"The Zombies are after brains..don't worry, you're safe."
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Wow.. This is incredible. You've really, really outdone yourself in this! This is very inspirational too. =]

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I have gaurdian angels they're called my friends.
:iconchickobento:
so gorgeous!
i love the detail...

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sorry for my very bad English :(
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