Generalized Art Post #2

[yhlee]

Follow up to Generalized Art Post #1, which is getting long (and probably long to load as well).

Art may be posted as comments here. :) Please limit width to 600 pixels (and for on-screen viewing you probably want to limit to 72 dpi as well, so the filesizes don't blow up).

I've really been enjoying seeing the creativity of those of you who make art & graphics. :) Thank you for sharing your works!

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[venndaai]

Moth boy with some wormy mothlings!



Tentative Wasp plan? Lmk what you guys think.

[zuhrovet]

Awww, spiral-y purple tendrils!

Is the gym near the cargo area? Even more superficial question: do the Wasp's bedrooms have en suite bathrooms, or are we fighting about who showers when? (Is there one bathroom that everyone else has given up on, because every surface is covered with a precarious stack of Ashari's stuff?)

[yhlee]

I suck at visuals AND ship design so I'll leave y'all to it re: the Wasp. :)

(Eee!)

[vass]

Both of these look great.

[slybrarian]

Seems highly plausible!

knight of roses, Renaissance Florence edition

[zuhrovet]

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[pengwern]

it looks like it could be one of those glass thingamajigs where you lay strands of color down and slice across for beads!

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[zuhrovet]

I am grateful we lack access to my middle-school self, who would feel compelled to make the attempt in Fimo clay.

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[vass]

Oh, cool.

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[slybrarian]

Cool!

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[zuhrovet]

Thank you! (Somebody tell me what else to make with silver gouache? I bought a tube of it, but I feel weird about fake metal in actual re-enactment contexts . . .)

[venndaai]

I KNEW I'd forgotten things! Thank you I appreciate your constant attention to detail.

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[venndaai]

Omg, that's so freaking cool. But have I missed what it's referencing in the rpg...?

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[venndaai]

Something voidmothy?

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[yhlee]

I don't know about the RPG specifically but I assumed it was a generalized jeng-zai illustration (cf. Machineries of Tarot--uh, when Stephanie gets back from vacation I've got to ask her about putting up a full list of the cards so that people don't go crazy trying to extract them via readings seeded by pseudorandom number generator...).

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[yhlee]

Okay, I bite: where do you get silver gouache, and can you get it in gold as well? I'm sitting on gouache in Titanium White and Carmine for Art Purposes but I confess it hadn't occurred to me to look for metallics...=D

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[venndaai]

omg yay that's exciting!

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[zuhrovet]

Yeah, this is what you get when you cross jeng-zai with the Rosenwald Tarot (and the limitations of my linocut skills; I need a finer round gouge or to use actual wood or both).

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[zuhrovet]

(Is there a map from the usual Tarot suits to jeng-zai suits?)

[jeng-zai and Tarot]

[yhlee]

[Not exactly? If I had to pick something, I'd say Roses = Coins, Gears = Pentacles, Eyes = Swords, and Doors = Wands because it's left over...that being said, I only have a fairly cursory knowledge of Tarot lore. pengwern would probably be the one to ask. I can post a list of all the jeng-zai fortunetelling meanings to the comm if that would be of interest/amusement. ]

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[zuhrovet]

[Oh, that's interesting! Roses=Wands, Gears=Pentacles seemed like the obvious matches to me.]

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[zuhrovet]

Any place you get other gouache, and yes, you can definitely get gold as well. I have a little tiny bit of shell gold that works the same way but is genuinely gold metal.

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[yhlee]

[My thinking was Roses = Andan = rich bastards = wealth/bounty = Cups. I'm sure an argument could be made for Wands though! I usually have to look up the meanings...XD ]

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[yhlee]

Thanks, good to know!

Ahahahaha one of my favorite artists (Stephanie Pui-Mun Law) is primarily a watercolorist who has taken to putting ACTUAL GOLD LEAF on her paintings. Like, I am not nearly good enough at art to be spending $$$ on genuine gold. XD It sure looks pretty, though!

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[zuhrovet]

[Ah, I went Wands=Growing Things=Roses.

I used to have the Rider-Waite deck memorized well enough that I could do readings with ordinary playing cards, but I'm much, much too rusty these days.]