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moondrunklesbian-deactivated202

You know the problem with reading a book? You get hooked and then it ends and you feel sad

moondrunklesbian-deactivated202

This post is cancelled, I have found a new book and everything is all right again

moondrunklesbian-deactivated202

By Talos this cannot be happening

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shelandsorcery

Alright, for my last piece for Swords, let's do a process thread! Here's the thumbnail that Epidiah and Nathan and i picked! This is probably about a 1 x 2" sketch.

I've been calling this one the Pearl Axolotl to keep track of it, hopefully that clarifies some things.

shelandsorcery

ok so the first thing i wanted to do once i got this onto my computer was flip the orientation of the creature so the head and the pearl were a surprise in the distance, and the second thing was add some people to be surprised, so here's my glamorous digital sketch of all that:

shelandsorcery

With things reoriented, i did a full drawing, focusing on mailing down a composition that reads well, and a story worth reading from said composition! I've been trying to create new characters for every card for Swords -- these three are all princesses who've gone rogue, in my mind.

shelandsorcery

And as a final digital step, i used the drawing to map out my colour and value scheme in much, much more detail. This piece is now ready to get transferred to my watercolour paper and stretched on a board!

shelandsorcery

This is what the transferred drawing looks like! I use inktense pencils to trace it via a lightbox and then work them into the surface with water so they don't move around.

shelandsorcery

Because of how much I needed this one to have a strong glow underneath what are going to be mostly cold colours, I ended up going in with a transparent wash of yellows and oranges so that every other colour I put on top is going to be affected by these, going forward with the painting process.

shelandsorcery

And finally the painting properly begins!

The biggest lesson for me as a fantasy illustrator that I just keep having to relearn is that the prep work is the work. Being able to paint these things on paper at all doesn't mean that I have a good drawing worth painting - I find that in the prep work.

shelandsorcery

Painting progress!

Over the course of this project, I learned to focus on subject matter that I felt I could bring to life more robustly with gouache on paper than via my digital painting approach. The pearls in the walls on this one are definitely in that category!

myselfandsomeotherbeing

"Lesbian welders, San Francisco", n.d. From the Visual Arts Legacy Collection (JSTOR)

bunjywunjy

how was chicago??? i can’t believe i was within goldfish radius and didn’t even know

It was fun! The big onion never disappoints

bunjywunjy

Chicago, lit. "place of the wild onion", Algonquin language groups

bunjywunjy

also. it's got Layers

oodles-of-reblogs

Why is there a car in that oddly empty industrial warehouse?

bunjywunjy

That's not a warehouse, that's lower lower wacker.

LAYERS

mammalianmammals

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fibro-memes

juneiper-art

real talk i have become a problem recently. the hospital wanted my fingerprint and i said no. the receptionist was like: but its such a convenient way to check in! and i said ok i dont want you to have my biometric data. and she was so baffled. i said, can you not check me in using an id card?

well of course but dont you want to provide your biometric data for your convenience?

nope thanks!

juneiper-art

fuck this happened again i was buying some LPs and the clerk was like: can i have your email? and i was like no.

she full on stared at me. she was like: but i need to put you into the system.

and i was like: need to? you NEED to? i don't want to give my email

and she was like: but...how are you going to return items without an account?

and i was like, with a fucking receipt??? wtf is going on right now. if i can't return them i guess i'll die??whatever

kosmogrl

lunarriviera

transfemmbeatrice

thought of this immediately and was delighted to discover it’s the same op

megacarapa

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

megacarapa

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

romanceyourdemons

guy currently hurtling toward a migraine at a rate that would impress most astrophysicists: i wonder wgat is happening in my beautiful telephone

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shelandsorcery

Alright, for my last piece for Swords, let's do a process thread! Here's the thumbnail that Epidiah and Nathan and i picked! This is probably about a 1 x 2" sketch.

I've been calling this one the Pearl Axolotl to keep track of it, hopefully that clarifies some things.

shelandsorcery

ok so the first thing i wanted to do once i got this onto my computer was flip the orientation of the creature so the head and the pearl were a surprise in the distance, and the second thing was add some people to be surprised, so here's my glamorous digital sketch of all that:

shelandsorcery

With things reoriented, i did a full drawing, focusing on mailing down a composition that reads well, and a story worth reading from said composition! I've been trying to create new characters for every card for Swords -- these three are all princesses who've gone rogue, in my mind.

shelandsorcery

And as a final digital step, i used the drawing to map out my colour and value scheme in much, much more detail. This piece is now ready to get transferred to my watercolour paper and stretched on a board!

shelandsorcery

This is what the transferred drawing looks like! I use inktense pencils to trace it via a lightbox and then work them into the surface with water so they don't move around.

shelandsorcery

Because of how much I needed this one to have a strong glow underneath what are going to be mostly cold colours, I ended up going in with a transparent wash of yellows and oranges so that every other colour I put on top is going to be affected by these, going forward with the painting process.

shelandsorcery

And finally the painting properly begins!

The biggest lesson for me as a fantasy illustrator that I just keep having to relearn is that the prep work is the work. Being able to paint these things on paper at all doesn't mean that I have a good drawing worth painting - I find that in the prep work.

blue0909

Please stop being nonbinary too. God only created one gender. You must conform to that.

THERES ONLY ONE NOW?????

miketon

telekitnetic-art

TRAILBLAZER 🦊🌈

An original piece made for the Slice of Life Rainbow Art Collective!! I just picked it up today, and I'll bring it with me to Fur-Eh next month!

highlandkall

as much as i get the sentiment behind "make more bad art" there's gotta be a better way of communicating "you don't have to be technically proficient or hold yourself to a specific standard of practice" that doesn't sound as backhanded lol

halfhumanhalfasleep

highlandkall

you can't just leave this in the tags 😭

draconym

I've been in an evil mood for hours and I just discovered there was a piece of glitter stuck in my contact lens so I'm going to assume it was that the whole time and now the curse has been lifted.

draconym

yeah it was the eye glitter. I'm fine now.

gardensandghosts

What in the fuck did you possibly do to get hit with the modern day “shard of magical ice in eye that freezes your soul and makes you unable to recognize joy” curse? Like come back here that is literally how the fairytale goes, WHAT happened to you

draconym

Cast in a rock opera about vampires that is set in the 80s. There's a lot of glitter.

gardensandghosts

Oh that fucking slaps! It’s not Tanz der Vampire, right? What is it?

draconym

American Vamp by the Baltimore Rock Opera Society! Here I am playing an office worker getting attacked by a vampire:

We write all our own scripts and music so every show is something never seen before.

It's sold out and the Livestream was this past week but the video will be available in the Video Vault after the show.

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sandersstudies

Me: So tonight you can’t carry your script anymore, but you can call for line.

Child: but . . . What if we call for line like. A lot 🥺

Me: Great news! Nothing happens.

sandersstudies

Me: okay time for your scene

Child: but what if it’s bad 🥺

Me: Great news! Nothing happens.

sandersstudies

Actually I lied something does happen and it’s called we work on your skills together and you improve and are better than ever before and we both have a lot of fun and high-five at the end.

thestuffedalligator

It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.

andhumanslovedstories

#i don’t think this is what pterry meant by ‘a man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’

I absolutely think it is

seiya234

I read Jingo for the first time when I was 13.

I’m 33 now, and I still discover a new joke every time I reread it.

Terry was a comedic genius

stormsbreadth

#shoutout to the one in Soul Music about the leopard that got thrown out of the circus because it couldn't hear the ringmaster#it was several months after my second or third time reading the book that I clocked it was a Deaf Leopard (via @morkaischosen)

god DAMMIT

adverbian

When I was informed that “Vetinari” is a pun on “Medici”. That pun was so painful I couldn’t even see it.

triflesandparsnips

...are you FUCKING KIDDING ME.

*starts thunderously knocking on the doors of heaven*

get out here Terry I just wanna talk

amuseoffyre

Twurp’s Peerage made me throw a book (gently) at a wall.

In the UK, the book of the peerage is called Burke’s Peerage. Burke sounds like berk, which means a silly/annoying person. So Terry took ‘twerp’, another word for a silly or annoying person, and replaced the e with u.

The Book of Silly and Annoying People, based on the real thing with a pun on the name thrown in for good measure.

deathsmallcaps

OMG I FUCKING *KNEW* VETINARI WAS A JOKE ON FUCKONG SOMETHING I JUST COULDNT GRASP IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS A REFERENCE TO WIND SOMEHOW

sarahreesbrennan

I am not a talented punster so I was today old when I realised about Vetinari.

fiollaigean

guys it's fucking close to water

aridotdash

jennyofmany

Latinclass ca. 9th grade: the text we had to translate contained the words trans means "on the other side of" or in german it can be translated to "über/ hinüber". Also silvas; silvanis means "the forest" or in german "der Wald".

Trans silvas very simply translated into german would be über den Wald

Trans silvas -> Transsilvanien -> Überwald

My latin teacher gave me a very weird look as I suddenly facepalmed myself and groaned quietly.

arkytiorlecter

The Venturi and Selachii feud is what killed me when I got it.

The Venturi Effect is a scientific term referring to the acceleration of a liquid through a narrow tube (like a jet).

Selachii is a classification of sharks. (I discovered this when my stepson got really into sharks)

... fucking HELL Terry.

nochd

In Carpe Jugulum, Count Magpyr boasts of having helped write the Malleus Maleficarum, along with the Torquus Simiae Maleficarum, the Auriga Clavium Maleficarum, and in fact the entire Arca Instrumentorum.

The Malleus Maleficarum is a very real, very nasty and absolutely batshit insane book from late 15th-century Germany, basically laying out the procedure for catching, torturing, and executing witches. Its title translates to The Hammer of Witches. The other titles are Pratchett's inventions.

Malleus = "hammer" Torquus Simiae = "monkey wrench" Auriga Clavium = "bucket of nails" Arca Instrumentorum = "box of tools"

elfgirlcraftworks

I was today years old...

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