noondreemer

Sup! I'm Noondreemer.

For a long time, I thought people here only liked fanart, but I was told Tumblr also appreciates aesthetics and liminal spaces. So I decided to give it a try.

I'm a traditional artist who loves to draw all sorts of weird shit - liminal spaces, horror of noon, dreams, childhood fears, or just conveying weird vibes or aesthetics like dreamcore and weirdcore (first picture). Also, for several years now I have been working on a series of paintings about a surreal liminal desert with strange ruins (second picture). My favorite materials are oil and oil pastels, and I also love watercolors and colored pencils.

I don't usually talk about my artwork in english, managing it more like a portfolio, but I'm quite the graphomaniac in socials in my native language. So I decided to follow the same format here. I'll not only show but also talk about my artwork and and I will run Tumblr more as a creative laboratory.

Some shots of my WIP painting, oil. I can only HOPE to finish it until autumn.

Hi, more quick rough sketches. Done with oil pastels.

A second batch of rough sketches!

This time, with a desert theme and main colors being red and blue.

My attempts at glass figures, a prep sketches for a painting, wich I currently working on and will show some wips later.

I looked at A LOT of photos with glass cubes and figurines, and tried to understand with my mind where and why something is reflected, refracted, glows, shines and so on. And then I tried to produce this on stuff from my imagination.

Premonition, watercolor (background), colored pencils (creatures), collage.

One of my latest works. I was inspired by…primarily the news of recent years and the depressed and anxious mood of humankind, which is acutely felt and visible. And of which I am a part.

The black creature embodies the harbinger of some impending doom. As if we've awakened some cruel ancient god. It hasn't crawled out yet, but it's awake. And everyone feels it. The larvae simply symbolize the accompanying emotions.

Hi! No drawings today.

I've been on Tumblr for a month and a half now, and I noticed that until I send my art to the communities, there is no activity at all, especially when I first joined. Just posts with hashtags don't seem to bring anything.

I usually search for soft keywords like "art", "drawing", "painting", "pastel", "creepy", "liminal", and so on. But it's clear that many communities may have non-obvious names, and thus, even fairly large communities can be missed.

So! Maybe we could share communities where we can share our artwork?

I called it Eternal Noon.

Usually when I draw, I always have some kind of idea in mind.

No fish living here, oil.

I think, this is my most liminal piece of all of them. This is what many people who have seen this painting have noted about it. That it reminds them of something from a dream. And that it would smell of chlorine and lemons here. More than one person has also written to me that it reminds them of Enderworld in Minecraft, lol. I've never played Minecraft, and I find this amusing.

9 rooms, or how I prefer to call it in native language "Хтоническая хрущевка", which means basically chthonic postsoviet apartments. Oil, yes.

I spent nine months painting this! But even though it took me longer, the crystal guys were still more complex, this one simply had more details. I arranged the photos in reverse order - from complete painting (to catch your eye, of course) to sketches on paper. For the drawing stage I used white pastel.

The idea is that there's something weird gong on each floor. I can tell you about each one, so if you don't understand something, just ask!

My favourite room is the one with the cats in the kitchen :3

Hi, today we having a handful of not so pretty drawings!

I often make very rough and quick sketches to test ideas or to just have fun. Without construction stage and careful rendering and thinking all the way through. Just scribbles to capture an idea or a feeling asap. Some of these later turn into paintings, but most remain just that. This is a selection of such little tests, that didn't make it to the "big boys".

Another pixel art piece today!

"The most dangerous".

This is a tribute to the old game Maniac Mansion Deluxe (1987).

The drawing itself has no connection to the game's plot, rather, it was inspired by the visual aesthetic and atmosphere. And the main villains, of course)

Glass statues, now in pixel art!

Eight of Swords, colored pencils and oil pastel on colored paper.

A drawing for the Tarot challenge. I got the Eight of Swords card. I was disappointed at first (all the good ones were taken), but then I read the meaning and was inspired.

Meaning:

I decided to reverse the image: not a blind person in chains, but a moth that sees no other way but to fly toward the light. All it needs to do is fly in the other direction to avoid the fate of its fellows. But oh well.

Come on in, come on in, show your tickets.

...for my digital exhibition, lol, wich I set myself for myself in the game Voices of the Void.

The floors are covered with carpets, onto which I layered grass and sand textures. I used mushrooms for the rocks because the rocks in the game are dark gray and don't suit the "AeStHeTiC" of the exhibition.

All three items on the nightstand, including the lamp, are obtained under very strange circumstances. In short - spirits, aliens, true crime. The red piece of meat is a human heart, btw.

And this is how I delivered the art upstairs, on a very slow freight elevator.

Before decorations.

After the exhibition, head down to the workroom and treat yourself to coffee…and fish, idk.