Kezrek's Space Cafe

The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya Volume 1 rerun Book Two Update 3 of ??? (READ the Latest Update, starting from this page)

The very-utterly-hopelessly-lost Zeynel encounters a helpless stranger in the middle of nowhere. Zeynel momentarily struggles between his innate desire to help and his wariness of danger, but he helps anyway. The stranger awakes, and they have a conversation about names, being lost and carpets.

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This section probably has the most revamped dialogue in the entire 10th Anniversary remastering, much of it in the "Mora talks about Balkan rugs" sequence (the last double spread in this post). The base of it is still there, but the framing is now more a patriotic ode of the Balkans (or more specifically in Mora’s case, Romans) in the face of their conquerers, the Ottomans – introducing the theme of colonialism (as told in the pattern-making via the weavers and the transportation of carpets as part of international trade) and the nightingale as yearning for home. These are themes that will become more salient in Volume Two, but which I didn't realise yet the first time I wrote that sequence.

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Grace going “oh!! But!” and teaching them about starfish, to their absolute delight

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

I'm so normal about this movie that I did this in 3 days with a total of 10 hours of sleep. If you know this song you know it s time to bring out the tissues.

Distant Planet I

A little tiny microscopic dragon, rotifers passing by.

Unicorn Doodles

In Looming, magical creatures speak in various "muddles", which is a rule applied to any language that is understood by that magical creature like a language: Rhyming words, whispering words, saying words backwards. Unicorns speak in a muddle called Honours. They can only understand you if you speak (in any language) with absolute honesty to them. Speaking dishonestly is akin to speaking a foreign language - they literally will not understand you.