#runesael

according to ~some dude on reddit~, I don't have synesthesia because it doesn't precisely match ~some other dude's very specific and individual experience of it~, but for the rest of the world (and my doctors), I have synesthesia.

these images are composites. i can't paint all of the information i get from music. think of these as overall impressions of the song, rather than direct 1:1 translations. there's also artistic choices in here. i am, after all, an artist, and that does influence the things I make. shocker, I know. also some of these things just don't make sense without some outside influence on the composition. *shrug*

anyway, yeah. maybe it's just bad sensory wiring, maybe I'm nuts, maybe it's maybelline. who knows. this is part of my reality, so I'm sharing it with y'all.

end result is some trippy paintings. hope you enjoy them.

top down, left to right:

deep stone lullaby - destiny 2 - beyond light

athanasia - destiny 2 - beyond light

regicide - destiny - the taken king

journey - destiny 2 - the red war

king's descent - destiny 2 - the witch queen

the man they called cayde - destiny 2 - forsaken

the internet crashed in the middle of typing up this post. they should all individually be labeled, but I cannot be asked to type out all of those song titles again (sorry.)

this is almost all of the synesthesia art that *isn't* destiny / video game that I did awhile back.

oh, i also painted all of (most of?) hozier's self-titled 2014 album. never really posted them up in one place. soooo here ya'll go.

left to right, top to bottom:

1 - take me to church 2 - angel of small death and the codeine scene 3 - jackie and wilson 4 - to be alone 5 - from eden 6 - in a week 7 - cherry wine (the live recording in the parking garage, not the other one)

in a week and cherry wine are my favourites out of this batch.

back in 2019 or 2020? i painted all of "wasteland baby" by hozier. + jackboot jump

these are all old, and I'd approach them differently now since I've just, frankly, gotten a lot better at painting. they still hold a soft place in my heart and I'm fond of them.

top to bottom, left to right:

1 - nina cried power 2 - sweet music 3 - movement 4 - no plan 5 - nobody 6 - to noise making (sing) 7 - as it was 8 - shrike 9 - talk 10 - be 11 - dinner and diatribes 12 - would that i 13 - sunlight 14 - wasteland, baby! 15 - jackboot jump

no plan and as it was are probably my favourites out of all of these.

four character portraits i did back in ... 2021? for an actual-play ttrpg stream of "shore of dreams"

✦ Illustrator ✦ Fire Mage and RL for @AnnorlundaEU ✦ disaster wizard, IRL bard ✦ NB ✦ neutral good ✦ made of puns, capslock, and goofy voices ✦ #critter ✦

Whoever did the ambiance in Boralus and Boralus keep deserves a damn medal. I grew up in a coastal town and the sound of the waves and the wind is perfect. It’s also making me desperately homesick. *laughs*