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Absence and fire

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Second week and second quote in my series explanation and collection here:  alpha-dragon.deviantart.com/ga…
The Quote:
"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans fire."
-François de La Rochefoucauld
 
For a long time this has been one of my favorite quotes and most hated as well. In most things in my life I tend to be very balanced and take everything with moderation in mind. Except Passions of the heart. I'm particularly bad about falling in love. It usually consumes me entirety or is blown out so quickly it leaves no mark. I kind of wanted to illustrate how what I thought was nothing but a candle lightly flickering has on more than one occasion been dropped into a stack of kindling that brought everything to burn down, (metaphorically speaking of course.) The Illustration is a candle clumsily dropped and left unattended as the low flame waits for enough wind to either blow the flame out or set the world on fire. The embers that I honestly drew in very carelessly show where this one is headed.

This piece being a part of my Illustrated quotes series, I initially wanted to offer all of the illustrations as prints on this site but in creating this piece I was not really at all satisfied with how it came out so I won't be submitting this as a purchasable print, I'm over trying to make the kindling look good. I still don't think it does but it's better than some of my other attempts.

Technical details.
Rough draft drawing: 30 mins - 1 hour (great this ones going to be EASY!)
Time spent making fourteen brushes trying to create somewhat recognizable kindling: 32-45 hours (there goes easy, only used two brushes also)
photo editing in Photoshop: 12 hours.
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1600x2000px 936.17 KB
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