PolarisAstrum on DeviantArthttps://www.deviantart.com/polarisastrum/art/What-Are-Ghosts-Made-Of-77005977PolarisAstrum

Deviation Actions

PolarisAstrum's avatar

What Are Ghosts Made Of?

Published:
1.2K Views

Description

**Warning For The Sake Of The Viewer's Eyes: This is an oldie!**

Sadness? Regret? Sorrow? Torment? Pain? Haunted souls? Torture? Despair? Emptiness?
Once they had great owners who took care of them and loved them.
Then one day a farmer appeared and showed interest on them. With all his corruption, he managed to get them both.
Maybe just for pure cruelty or more he tortured them; broke the Unicorn Stallion's horn and blinded the Pegasus Mare.
The Unicorn was found dead one morning without his horn and a scar near his left eye.
The next morning the Pegasus was found dead too with her eyes almost white due to being blind and her forehead bejeweled in such a brutal way that she had been bleeding.
How did they die no one knows, but they say that in foggy nights, if you listen carefully, you can still hear them scream like they did in the night when they died.


I also did this one back in 2006 and I was rewarded a Mod's Choice for this work at the time(the mod's choice award on Elfwood is given when the moderator who's seen the work to see if it follows the rules before it gets published on the site, really likes it work for some reason and gives it a Mod's Choice, those works are featured a whole day at the site's front page, kind of like DD's, but a little different).

Yes, the thing hanging on the necklace around the unicorn's neck is the rest of his horn.
And, like I said back at Elfwood, I do know that ghosts are supposed to be transparent and so on, but I drew it like this, it was what my imagination told me to draw.

Now that I think about it, 2006 was probably one of my most productive years until now.

I won't move this to scraps because it would break my heart to do so, I still love this as much as I did when I finished it :D

I did no changes to this one, it's simply a new and better scan. The old one can be found here: [link]

August 2006
Graphite pencils(5b, 7b and 9b).
Image size
1024x723px 1.11 MB
© 2008 - 2024 PolarisAstrum
Comments22
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
LiveVivaciously's avatar
Ah I remember this one!
perhaps one of my all-time favorites of yours, the very picture that made me stumble across your art in the first place!

I've always loved the beautiful, haunting feel to this piece. It's so terribly sad and somber but It holds a lot of feeling as well.

Hehe, I just had to comment this with my new account.