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7 Deadly Sins - Envy by ~elestrial:iconelestrial:

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©2007-2009 ~elestrial
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Submitted: April 4, 2007
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She yearns for what she cannot possess
..but is intent on taking it

Made for a project at school on the 7 Deadly Sins. This is the second of the 7-part series.

Symbolism
I chose this model because of her pose: she's wrapped in a cloth and hunched over. The meaning I took from it is the cloth that's wrapped around her represents the envy that consumes her, and the hunching and onward-looking infers that she's completely bent over and obsessed with those she envies. The snake is often a symbol for envy, so I've incooporated a few of those into this piece. The skulls represent the people she has hurt because of her jealousy (represented by the snakes weaving through the bones), and inferring that she will go to any length to hurt those she is jealous of.

The setting is based on the book Dante's Inferno: a dead, desolate place.

All of the seven deadly sins in my series are women because:
A) Women are thought to be more "sinful" for over hundreds of years now. Don't get all woman-activist on me for saying that, I'm a woman myself - and no, I don't believe that "women are more sinful." I think people are people; neither sex is more sinful than the other.
B) There are more women stock providers then men on deviantart. Sorry guys, but there's just not enough of you for me to use!

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Continuation of the Series
Pride - Gluttony - Wrath - Sloth - Greed - Lust
Completed Series Combined
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`davincipoppalag:icondavincipoppalag: Apr 4, 2007, 9:32:05 AM
wonderful depiction!

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~romanova:iconromanova: Apr 4, 2007, 9:43:11 AM
:clap: good work

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Quien habla mucho tiene algo que esconder,
quien calla con coherencia está convencido de algo.
=Shadowelve:iconShadowelve: Apr 4, 2007, 11:07:15 AM
:giggle: I like Envy... This looks so cool and a bit haunted... :love:

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If You really love something,
it's better to set it free.
When it comes back to You
it'll be Yours forever.
~elestrial:iconelestrial: Apr 4, 2007, 4:11:43 PM
Thanks :) That's the look I was going for :D

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~elestrial:iconelestrial: Apr 4, 2007, 4:13:37 PM
Thank you :)

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~malkavian40:iconmalkavian40: Apr 4, 2007, 4:26:19 PM
Envy is a creepy thing.

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Winter comes and the winds blew colder
While some grew wiser, you just grew older
And you never listened anyway,
And that's the hell of it.


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=Moondustdreams:iconMoondustdreams: Apr 4, 2007, 4:57:24 PM
Wow,this is awesome.I cant wait to see 'lust' for some reason. I love the series.very interesting.
`davincipoppalag:icondavincipoppalag: Apr 4, 2007, 5:09:03 PM
=D

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l'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!
~elestrial:iconelestrial: Apr 4, 2007, 5:20:17 PM
They're all done, I'm just submitting them one at a time every few days :P Lust is last since I put it in the final panel in the project..so you'll have to wait a while :P

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