Juice's Creative Archive

~Echoes of the Saṃsāra~

Scribbles: No Idea...

Scribbles: Ido conceptual developments

Experimenting with Ido, in conceptual design. His concept is actually still very ambiguous in my imagination, unlike his wyvern counterpart. There are still multiple interpretations I have to try out, before narrowing down onto the one which is the most fitting.

Scribbles: Yu as Human

Update: Creative Block

Scribbles: Which Way?

"The map says this way..." "Huh? Didn't we take that way last week?" "Isn't that because you were hungry for a snack?" "Aren't you hungry for a snack now?" "But... We are on a mission to deliver our goods, right?" "Wait... Does that mean that we can take either way?" "... Why does the map say that we must take this way?" "Which way is the way, really!?"

Just some silly bird moment, in a speed sketch on a whim. It has been a while since the last time I drew them.

Journal: Creative Block Reflections

I have been running into creative blocks lately. It took me days to figure out what was going on, and there were many things not going right.

Firstly, distractions by the internet media. The usual struggles against entertainment media, which steals my focus and shortens my attention span. I have been using them to distract myself from those "bad feelings", feeding a dependency on instant-gratification. It was a painful night earlier, to realise that I let this shit creep up behind me again.

Secondly, perfectionism. I cannot deny as my drawing skills develop, the higher the standards I set for myself. My drawing resources are limited after all, and mistakes can feel like a waste of them alongside my effort. Thus, I end up avoiding taking risks and exploration, which prevents me from trying anything new at all. Man...

Lastly, a huge gap between my practical drawing skills and my vision of the potential images. I won't lie that even after 4 years, I still feel like an amateur. Previously, I felt like over the moon (the "Mount Stupid" of the Dunning Kruger effect). Had to come to this realisation that the lack of drawing skills was preventing me from trying anything.

I asked myself. All this time, what am I trying to create?

I'm trying to create a world, or something, that can intuitively explain EVERYTHING I experienced in life. Almost like a universal concept, an "Idea"? It is much easier to say it, than to explain it.

Why do I even bother?

I also don't know. I am just drawn to it. I endlessly consume all the knowledge and information of the world, ruthlessly crushing and condensing them into some sort of "Singularity".

That is how it feels.

A brief cover of both OCs:

Ido and Me'Zelf, opposites one the same. Phoenix and Wyvern, a very interesting pair.

Angel or Demon, is it important at all? Share the same source, whatever their Contrast.

Light and Dark, just two sides of Duality. Inseperable game, they stir up One's everyday.

Ego and Shadow, they influence One's decisions. White Feathers Black Scales, arguing all day.

A Feather too serious, a Scale too relaxed. Babbling all day, until One leads the way.

Scribbles: Coloured Bird Remaster

Also the same old bird with coloured remaster.

A slice of concept: The Fall

A legend passed through the generations, where one's fall gave birth to the Universe. Everything in the Universe is said to have the same point of origin, spreaded out by what is known as The Great Scattering.

Some believed in it, and some do not. Some sealed it as a scripture of worship, some denied it with countless piles of evidence, while some spend their entire lifetimes trying to uncover the truth.

Not even the Watchers of Idea know- No. They actually KNOW the truth, as their Prescience extends throughout the timeline. No one knows why they can't speak what they see:

Scribbles: Coloured Wyvern Remaster

Slice of Concept: A Watcher's Prescience

Watchers bear perfect Prescience, able to accurately perceive the entirety of the Universe timeline. This gives perfect accuracy in their Preception, Art of Ideation, and interventions. However, Watchers functionally have no free will and are only driven to enact the purpose of their Idea within necessity. This renders them unable to intervene across timelines, even if they can predict their own fates.

A rare Generation 0 event of Karmic Synchronicity.

With exceptional Karmic synchronicity to a distant event of the past, one’s dilemma between an Obsession of Promise and Regret, can trigger the mutation of a Gen 1 Reality Break into a Gen 0 event.

A sequence of conditions must be followed with the manifestation of a Gen 1 Reality Break by the Watcher of Regret. One suddenly finds oneself in Limbo where time halts, to witness a replay sequence of their past memories leading up to the current point. Delay of action slowly burns out one's memories by each passing flashback, until one is devoid of memory and Will at the end of the playback. One will be awakened as a subject of The Interstice, but as an empty husk.

One can preserve a portion of self and memories if an action is done before the completion of the playback. If one accepts Regret as reality, one perishes with the full emotion of regret until the playbacks finish, returning to the Mortal Cycles and ending the encounter. If one’s rejects it in defiance, one immediately “Breaks the Surface” and escapes the encounter, thus ending it and causes one to Awaken as a subject of The Interstice.

“Distractions with Itself”

When dreams are out of reach, Mortals often look at each other for more realistic goals.

The mortal limitation of time and distance across the Universe, creates gaps in knowledge and communication that themselves also struggle against the flow of entropy. Hence, many civilisations never actually knew about the higher Realms. Thus, the melting pot of the Known more frequently festers within itself with the more immediate goals within reach, rather than “dream” about supernatural fantasies. This creates the phenomenon of the Mortal “being distracted with itself”.

Mortal beings begin to contest against each other for greater heights, but with a grit that could even impress the skies. Despite weak and fragile alone, they can form congregations and constructs that manifest magnitudes of power beyond their forms. Be it the ruthless brutality of conflict with countless lives thrown for the smallest gain, the most innovative technological constructs that propel entire civilisations into the stars, or the most creative imaginations of artists carved into walls…

There is no progressive advancement but rather, “entries” into the next Realm.

The Unknown naturally spreads its influence through an inheritance of Will to contradict the Known boundaries of “Reality”. There are three pathways that can predict the potential of a subject based on their “Inheritance”, ranked by their Karmic source at their triggered point of “Awakening”. The more distant the generation, the more diffuse the inheritance and associated Gravitas. However, this does not remove one’s opportunity to advance through all Realms towards Actualisation.

Generation 3 is the most common form of “Passive Inheritance” where contradictory thresholds are minimal or even non-existent, to overcome the “Horizon” for an Awakening. This only happens in environments already rich with supernatural elements of The Interstice, lowering the Known “Reality” boundaries of the Mortal Realm to weak and diffuse levels. Abundant in the Ages of Enlightenment to the point of near spontaneity, which may even result in entire worlds of Sorcery.

Generation 2 is “Direct Inheritance” via coercion by a subject of The Interstice, pushing “Acupoints” of a Mortal’s existential reality with contradictions by the Unknown. One’s dilemma against these contradictions raises the “Horizon”, requiring greater coercion for a breakthrough. The higher the Horizon surpassed at the instance of Awakening, the greater one’s future potential and Gravitas. Also common during the Ages of Enlightenment, involving interactions between sentient subjects.

Generation 1 is an exceptional extreme, triggering intervention by a Watcher of Idea. A sentient Mortal bound by obsession can hold a Karma so high, that even contradictions far exceeding one’s mortal existence can fail to create a breakthrough. If this becomes an existential dilemma that holds Gravitas even beyond that of The Interstice, an enantiodromia will trigger a “Reality Break” by a Watcher of Idea. If one can survive the full event, one can even bear the Karma of an entire Universe.

Intro: The Magic System of creativity by the sentient, named by each Realm.

Ranked accordingly: Magic (Mortal) -> Sorcery (Interstice) -> Ideation (Idea) -> Creation (Present)

Art of Magic: When purely bound within the Known, it is simply creative ingenuity with innovative “tricks” that outsmart Mortal perceptions and comprehension. In the event of Realm overlap, Mortals can borrow Sorcery of the Interstice beings, to manifest what they may call “true Magic”. However, this is where the line is drawn between the confusion: Magic manifested with external support is different from true Sorcery, a self-manifested supernatural phenomenon.

Art of Sorcery: One’s cultivated “flame” of Resolve can be harnessed by one’s Will (True Mana) to influence the natural Elements (Known laws) in their favour, generating supernatural phenomena. Its potential extends into the ceiling of “Supreme Beings” in the Universe. The less inhibited by one’s attachments of the Known, the more powerful and advanced one’s Sorcery can become. This grows with one’s expanding Will, Preception, and Attunement with The Idea.

Art of Ideation: The Watchers utilise their core Idea to relate themselves to the Universe, influencing it from their parallel Abstracts of existence. An Idea in nature has absolute dominance over the lower Realms, as part of the Known itself. Combining with their infinite Will, Preception, and Prescience, Watchers use pathways of relativity to precisely borrow or control Known laws, perfecting reality to fulfil their purposeful Ideations in absolute efficiency.