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When the lord's daughter was displaced from her own body by an angry witch, her wandering spirit immediately sought the aid of her family's champion vassal - the Armored Lion.The Armored Lion was a knight of renown, famous for his lion-like valor and his armor-like armor. He was a very large man who could plow through ten armed opponents with ease (eleven, if they were unarmed). Also, he died a long time ago.
This is a problem. So ghost girl instead enlists the aid of his armor which stands over his grave. Begrudgingly, the armor leaves its post to perform its master's duty in his stead.
And so begins the Armored Lion's final quest: to find the witch and destroy her. His quest does not end, because I am only half a story teller and don't know how to wrap things up. But if you believe in yourself, you can imagine it!
Sometimes people ask me "John, where do you get your ideas from?" Usually I fail to answer or make one up, but this time I can say with all honesty that I got it from stucco!
You might be able to spot it if you look in the upper right quadrant of this image here: [link]
My buddy ~Rakugaki-otoko also tried the same technique, with different results. Check it out! [link]
It's fun stuff.
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Ah, took me a bit but I can see where you got the girl from! Also, her hair came out very pretty~
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thanks!
it's of uneven length!
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oooohhhhh i really like this! i wanna color like that.
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If the soul of the armor dude grew to have an affection for the girl, this would be an anime. Wait a sec...
*remembers APPLESEED anime*
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If the soul of the armor dude grew to have an affection for the girl, this would be an anime. Wait a sec...
*remembers APPLESEED anime*
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Nice story 
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The witch kneeing before him, he Armored Lion realizes that the witch had actually been punished by the Lord for something she had never commited. Unable to fulfill his quests without regrets, he decides not to fulfill it, at all, but instead to return to his Master to tell her all about the wrongdoings of her father. The daughter is infuriated, her only hope for revenge crushed. She does not want to listen to what the Armored Lion has to say, at all. She destroys him in her fury and then kills her spirit, as she sees no means to act on her own, anymore. And the witch, too, realized her wrongdoings for punishing the Lord's daughter for something not she but he had done. And she kills herself. And thus all are punished, but freed of sin.
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"And so begins the Armored Lion's final quest: to find the witch and destroy her. His quest does not end, because I am only half a story teller and don't know how to wrap things up. But if you believe in yourself, you can imagine it!
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AHAHAHAHA!!! LOVE IT!!
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Interesting. That's a really cool idea, looking at stucco and such and drawing an idea based off of what you see. :o
This looks a little different from your traditional style, but I like it nonetheless
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I SAW IT! I SAW THE ARMORED MAN!
But, I have to say, I don't think I can see a relation to your picture here.
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Pretty sure stucco is responsible for 80% of the things I come up with.
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at least mr lion is a bit happy? sort of happy? appears to be happy?...
ok... has been forged to look happy.
his mane is way cuter than dead girl's anyway.
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omaig. i have officail proof that im not the only one getting inspiration from stucco. ok so i get mine from my crappy eyesight on occasion and the dots in the cieling more often than stucco but its almost the same right?
[i also tend to find purses slumped over to look like fish in one way or another too...]
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I'm just happy that I was able to see it. It took a little bit of time, but meanwhile I ended up seeing a big robot just to the right of the "opening" behind and around him. He's got big armoured shoulders, a small square head, a huge left arm and a square cleaver blade on his right arm.
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you mean this? [link]
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"And so begins the Armored Lion's final quest: to find the witch and destroy her. His quest does not end, because I am only half a story teller and don't know how to wrap things up. But if you believe in yourself, you can imagine it!"
You always manage to say at least one thing that makes me burst out laughing. XD
(And clearly the story ends with the witch being hunted down and arrested, because the Armored Lion is a conscientious suit of armor and knows they can't really put the girl's back if she's squished, and she's thrown into prison and left to rot in boredom until she agrees to tell how to put the girl back, only by the time she does they realize that the girl could reenter her body at any time by the sheer power of FRIENDSHIP! And they all live happily ever after, except for the dead Armored Lion guy, who's a little resentful because his now-sentient armor decided it was much more interesting taking his place fighting bad guys than standing over a dead guy's grave. Some people/armor are so disloyal.)
I love how the girl looks; her expression is so peaceful yet mournful, and the raggedy cloak around her head has a really fascinating affect. It's beautiful, excellent job once again, Johnsu.
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Thanks!
But your imagination is still wrong
Believe in yourself harder
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Curses! 
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Man, I don't see it in the stucco, but I've gotten ideas from there, too. Magic stuff.
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What a great place to get inspiration from!
Love the ghost girl's design. Great work as always.
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Wonderful work as always! I really like the lighting and soft blur that gives that kinda eerie/ghosty effect.
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heh, I can kind of see it.....
kind of
well, nice imagination anyways ^__^
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I don't see the armor but I can make out the ghost girl. That's so cool!
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Stucco is a dangerous thing. 
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I'm sure someone said something, but "armor-like armor" is a little redundant.
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it may have been intentional
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Ah, sorry. The rest of it seemed so dynamic and descriptive, I just thought I should mention that part
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That stucco wall.... it's too tempting! I've found a lot of interesting figures in it XD
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Nice to know I'm not the only one who gets inspired by random patterns
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I don't see the armor in the stucco! D:
But I do see the lady in the cloak.
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I see it!
I see pictures in stucco all the time. O.<
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dude i see it
i sometimes do that only with the marble wall in my bathroom.
one time i sat there for two hours looking at it.
then my dad knocked of the door to see what i was doing for two hours in the bathroom
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"I don't want to pinch it off quite yet!"
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welllll it was a masterbation joke, but that works too.
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...Well, mostly I see Central America...
Actually, I see a little blob just to the left of your Inspiration Zone that could have been the witch...or a tiny moose with batwings...
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I saw it on the wall. I get ideas from stuff like that too
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I love picking shapes out of stucco. I should try this sometime!
Storyline reminds me of The Eternal Champion by Michael Moorcock. It's pretty epic. Not gonna lie. β₯
"Armor-like armor." xDDDD
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that storyline would be EPIC! man so many possibilities
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