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"My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain...For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.Now at last I have found the courage to turn away from the foolish echoes of human gladness. Optimism, blind hope, pathetic yearnings...I have let them all go, one by one, and I am as content as I shall ever be on this earth, in my peaceful solitude.
My kingdom lies in eternal darkness, many feet below the level of the Parisian streets outside, shrouded in the chill silence of the grave. Darkness and silence have been my companions since the day I chose to turn my back upon the world of men and create an empire that was solely mine.
From the moment of my birth my destiny was to be alone.
But it took me more than forty years to accept that harsh and unrelenting fact--to understand where peace and resignation lay..."
~Erik, Susan Kay's Phantom, p.261
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Not toe mix fictions, but this just screams Ghoul from Fallout to me o3o
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I'd never heard of those characters before, so I looked them up and holy crap! You're right!
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crazy amazing. thank you for this awesome interpretation of Erik.
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He looks kinda like Sherlock Holmes, but I like it 
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So I'm not the only one who thought that!
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Aawwwww!............. I just love that book. What a wonderful illustration of a quote!
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LOVE it!! You're always so fantastic at perfectly capturing Erik, wow!!
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I read that page yesterday. XD
This is so awesome.
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*squeals happily* Erik makes me happy; thank you for being born, drawing Erik, and over all being awesome.
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Kay is genius. GENIUS! *glee*
You too, by the way. I never before saw drawings that depicted Erik so faithfully. Beautiful!
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I can't get enough of your phantom art...love it.
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Now why wouldn't you choose THIS over a pewny little boy with a pencil mustache? No, I'm not too fond of Raoul.
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so sad indeed. Resignation of yearning for human happiness. All blue pen or colored pencils?
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Gaaaaah I love how you draw Erik so so very much.
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How can I love so much this crazy, tormented, deformed maaaaan?
I loved the fact that you wrote a piece of Kay's at the background and his eyes remained yellow!!!I think that your Erik it's one of that really looks like the one in Leroux descripition, love it
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A really nice companion piece to "If" -- what could have been and what is.
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That's the look Erik gives me every time I try to play music
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Absolutely awesome
Another special gift for my first anniversary with the Phantom
Such a genius. Thank you very much!
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love how his yellow eyes stand out from the blue.
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WHY DO I LOVE HIM.
WHY.
he's supposed to disgust me.
instead I love how he looks.
the only thing that could mke me not love how he looks would be if he was bald.
no offence,but i do not like bald guys.
XD
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I do, too, trust me. I do, too.
I really do believe that one can find beauty in the grotesque, so whenever I draw Erik, I try to show the twisted sort of beauty he possesses. I always imagined him perpetually elegant and almost regal, despite his...um...significant lack of nose.
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Oh Erik, charming and poetic as always. <3
The facial details and shading are beautiful. Excellent work.
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Oh, your art is always so beautiful... You draw Erik maskless, his deformaties completly uncovered and yet there is beauty in what would normally be considered total ugliness...
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Thank you so much! I do believe that beauty can be found in things that are considered "ugly," so I try to communicate that whenever I draw Erik. I think attractiveness goes beyond looks--many people aren't what you'd call conventionally beautiful, but they have that certain something, a charisma that makes them hard to forget. That's Erik, I think.
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The beauty that is found in ugliness is the grandest of all is something I've been taught to live by.
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As ever, wonderful shading and use of detail
Your posting of this coincided nicely with my re-reading of Leroux's Phantom
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Thank you so much! Ha, funny how that worked out!
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Erik's yellow eyes. ♥ They're always so enthralling, and they stand out beautifully in this.
For whatever reason, the slope of his shoulders makes him look slightly disgruntled, like "Hello, yes, please stop drawing me; nobody would hang any rendition of me on their wall unless they were blind."
But at the same time, there's such expressiveness in his face. Or, rather, you get the feeling that there's so much behind the carefully stoic expression.
And, erm, your handwriting is lovely. The variation of light/dark words in the background is really nice.
You should really take up portraiture as a part-time job or something. I swear.
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