sword dancer by hakubaikou

This has inspired a character, that has been bouncing around in my head for ages. I finally put it into words, base on the world of "The Exalted" pen and paper, rpg. Aressa

I LOVE how you captured the sense of motion, beautifully done

Epic, I love the effect you used for the motion

holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is freakin amazerazering!!!!! love it <3

I love the sense of motion in this, and the expression is wonderful. You can tell she's greatly enjoying this and she finds it entirely effortless, which gives the entire image a bit of some dissonance, since she appears so serene and relaxed, while actually performing something quite deadly. Great job!

OMG WOW. I still get surprized by how amazing of an artist u are. Wow this is just so awesome! Its so beautiful & flavored with action. Its elegant, energetic, striking......I could go on.
I just LOVE how u made the swords blur to imply speed, & the whirling shape of her garments & hair as shes spinning just make it so much more awesome.

very beatiful

very well done. I love your blurring

Hey, that's me! *sigh* ok, so not. Just wishing...

I love how the colors and the sense of motion are so balanced here--beautiful work!

Beatutiful.

omg it

Oh wow. The flow of this piece is amazing. The dance pose of the character together with the movement of the hair weapon and dress are incredibly beautiful.

I totally love your style

beautiful as always.

jajaja niiiiiiice x3!

Awesome!! The sense of movement is wonderful

Perspective! Color! Movement! *dies happy*

it's stunning.. love how you captured the graceful movement.
the lighting and angle's beautiful too! *w*

this is a fine example of full viewing as mandatory... when I first opened it I was confused, then I looked at it properly and was quite pleased. Lovely perspective and movement. Nicely done.

I adore the perspective and how you've made it into such a beautiful, deadly dance. The colours look wonderful together and I like how you've blurred the swords and the clothing to make it look as if everything is spinning around and moving.

Somehow, it's very peaceful but...melancholy almost. Like she has no-one to dance with so she can only practice with her greatest loves, her swords.

Really well done.
The strokes you used to create the dress, the position of her body and the vanishing swords perfectly gives the movement sensation.

Beautiful work

Utterly stunning and totally inspirational. I applaud the choice of viewpoint and the sensation of movement. Brilliant!

amazing!

HOLY IMPRESSIVENESSS!!!! seriously dude



i just keep staring.....i dont even have words to how express how beyond amazing this is!

cuz !



beyond superbly outstandingly excellently wonderfully all-inspiringly breathlessly beautiful

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those STILL dont do it justice though!

I love the movement. And lookin' at the inspirational photo, I'd say your end result (with the foreshortening) looks really good

pertty colors XD

Somehow on the the preview tab I saw a frog that reminded me of the frog sensei or whatever from Naruto. But now I see her lol.

Very cool and I love the angle and everything. Very neat!

This reminds me of a story I began once, about sword dancers. She reminds me of the main character a great deal ^__^

Great work! The pose is an interesting one

Astonishingly beautiful

I seriously love every single picture you make. Your work is totally incredible.

ha! You're so interesting in getting your inspiration from a random photo! I like that... also like swords. mmm. pointy.

Fantastic!

That looks awesome!