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2004 (or 05...or 03? can't remember)
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Here's how I see it, as well as what inspired me to draw it.

She essentially takes a person's life to save them. She hates to see the ending of a life, because she knows it is good, and she loves life in general... maybe she wants a life of her own. But she hates pain and suffering more, so it's the only way she can help the people who are beyond help.

Death- because she takes their life. It's not the same thing as " killing". Perhaps the people she comes to have already died, and she's guiding their souls to somehwhere safe. I don't know for sure. Angel- because she's taking away their pain. Saving them. Freeing them.

There is a light behind her, coming out from the dark. The place where the boy was lying shines with the same light, although it is stained with blood. She is clothed in black like one who is mourning, and her complexion form is thin and pale... and yet she appears to be healthy, and is beautiful.

It is a mixture of pain and relief, life and death, ruin and a new beginning.

That's how I see it.. there's a lot of room for interpretation or to combine with your own beliefs. Have a blast.

p.s. the reason it reminds everyone of pieta is because a) its a woman holding a dead boy/man, and b) I used pictures of pieta for how to draw him.
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~StarlitPaint Feb 17, 2012  Student Writer
Not scary for once!
Very well done then again, how was this done?

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~Yvaine0103 Jan 6, 2012
truly amazing. everything makes sense in this drawing. all proportions, the facial expressions. everything.

beautifull.
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~Helixmaster Oct 3, 2011
its like as if anything she touches dies...

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~ChinyboI Sep 27, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
words can not explain ^^
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~xblacklightz Aug 10, 2011
You know I don't think the angel of death likes his/her job. The one who's putting hitler down is the same one standing over a lifeless child. I don't think the angel ever tires of asking why this person. Great pic.
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~LOLMANIC45 Aug 2, 2011  Student Writer
Art at is finest Well done

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~Bearuthiel Feb 19, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
Beautiful drawing. :) I like it.

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~Yagamiseven Feb 9, 2011
She looks so gentel
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~beatrix666 Jan 11, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
StUNNiNG!!!! :heart:

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~deserts-son Dec 15, 2010  Hobbyist Writer
love it...finaly the angel of death is a woman for once :)
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