Minutia R

Starry skies over the mountain hut - Adlerweg, Tirol, Austria, October 2022

photo by: nature-hiking

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exploring some ruins

the original idea was a brother-sister pair of tomb robbers whose great. great? great. grandfather or something was some type of archaeologist and a guy who found a map hidden away after romans burned down his family home cross paths and go looking for. something.

Trying to feel out interest! I’ve gotten confident enough making vtubers, that I feel like I can offer commissioned pieces. These would go for $250 and up depending on complexity. Would anybody be interested?

"From glittering sand I sculpt his flanks, From pentinaed copper I forge his hooves. The Eye All-Seeing I set in his face, An angel most holy I set in his flesh."

back at it again! :^) very excited to open single character portraits for this round! All info in the form:

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Rulan, after JW Waterhouse’s Cleopatra.

I decided that this would be titled “Rulan” rather than “Jin Ling”, with the thought that the setting of the painting, somewhere in Koi Tower, is one where people are more likely to call him Jin Rulan. I also considered titling it “(New) Sect Leader Jin” but I thought that would be confusing, and “Rulan” better parallels the original painting title.

Initial sketch is here!

Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.

Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)

I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.