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End of civilization

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Right, something not Hetalia in this (fairly) big (for me) art update of recent drawings. Although it was inspired by Hetalia. The (white) flag came from me wanting to draw the Nordic nations with their flags in different poses.

This picture was drawn with a "end if civilization/humanity's decline" theme. Not fall from grace but... an ending. The kind of end that comes around when you reach your limit. The lady in the picture is not meant to represent any person, group, nation or people. Perhaps civilization or humanity itself. I'm not sure.
I imagined this as a painting, really, and a small dialogue, between two people came up. They're standing, observing the painting, which would be fairly big, I persume. More than life-size most probably.

"Tell me where you found her, Alfred. Tell me which ruin you've stolen from this time."
"I dinna steal 'er from any'ere, teddybear."
"...My name, is Frederick."
"'xactly."
"...How do you get teddybear out of Frederick?"
"Fred'rick, Freddy, Teddy, teddybear. 's easy."
"...Why did I even ask?"
"'cause ya always need ta know stuff. So, smarty pants! From 'en is t'is pretty picture?"
"... I'm fairly sure I can say that it was... painted in the aftermath of the apocalyptic catastrophy, right after it. Unless it even was *during* the fall of the known world."
"'s a short period fer painting such a big picture on. Isn't it?"
"It is, Alfred. It surely is..."

This is war
The end of civilization
I'm sorry, forgive me
I couldn't keep anything that I promised you


This picture also inspired a poem, or the text written on the picture did. (Hand-written was replaced by in Photoshop because it turned out to tiny when picture was resized. ^^; ) Last part in italic is not from the poem. >.>

Oh yeah, worthy of note is the reason for her state of... semi-undress? the state of her clothes, or what's left of them?
I like training anatomy. I like doing the little, defining details on the body that makes it pretty. I'm just not too much for uploading naked figures. :9 So this is me, what I do when I want to preserve as much of the details on the body as possible and not have to cover it with cloth. Minimum coverage. But still awsomely artistic (in my eyes so far XD I have yet to see all my mistakes in the anatmoy.)

Bashing time!
>_> That hand. Ugly.
D: I noticed, the last moment while inking, that I didn't know what kind of shoes would fit the outfit! And I had already (from the get go) given her a posture that said she was wearing high heels (because I find it beautiful). So I had to cover her feet. And so, the pose isn't too defined anymore! D: Her legs are crossed with her (from the viewer) right one in front of the other.
My friend said the rapier was rather short... D: I didn't look up the lenght of any rapier, I just knew what type of sword I wanted and drew. And in my defence, she's wearing her (none-existing) high heels. XD;

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This is a piece that means a bit to me, the symbolism in it. Therefore, I'd not like to see it used by others unless I give consent. The question is free, as we say in Swedish.

Text, picture, idea (c) me
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