Audrey Shae
Posts: 62
1/2/2012
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Are they being drawn like parallels to the Major Arcana, like one is the Fool and one the Tower? Or just in the style of the cards? I like the idea of dream cards though. Maybe something about mirrors? :?
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KatarinaNavane
Posts: 462
1/2/2012
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They're just in the style of cards. In addition to EBZ I was inspired by the Abarat books and a number of other fantasy works where tarot decks in other worlds contain cards very different to the ones in ours. The Abaratan deck contains cards like "the door to the stars" "the daughter of curiosity" "the man lit by candles" and "the tree of knowing". Madame Shoshana's deck in ebz contains "the blacksmith" "the boat" and "the gibbet." This deck belongs to unwritten fantasy/steampunk world that most if not all my artwork belongs to.
RE mirrors: Any idea how hard it is to convincingly draw a mirror? haha actually the main reason I left it out is to only use the five that are from The WasteLand poem.
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Alerane
Posts: 25
1/2/2012
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I drew my character the other day
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Chris Gardiner
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Posts: 539
1/3/2012
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That's excellent, Alerane. Love the bat. That is a Bat with a Plan.
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Owlor
Posts: 152
1/4/2012
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KatarinaNavane wrote:
. RE mirrors: Any idea how hard it is to convincingly draw a mirror? haha actually the main reason I left it out is to only use the five that are from The WasteLand poem.
Definently, who's familiar with the Venus effect? Whe the subject of a painting is a person admiring a mirror, the face of the person is often shown even from angles where it shouldn't be. Its an interesting psychological effect, I am endlessly fascianted by the fact that the incorrect way of drawing something looks more "right" to us than the correct way. This is used in movies all the time, because it allows you to film a character looking into a mirror without also getting the reflection of the camera crew. That was random art trivia of the day.
Nice charcter Al! I like the hollow (sorrow-spider taken?) eyes and the incredibly cute bat.
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Boyd Cantigaster
Posts: 25
1/4/2012
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That is one fantastic cameo. Both in concept and execution.
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Boyd Cantigaster
Posts: 25
1/11/2012
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The Game of Skyglass and Scarab has finally started.
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Branden Linton
Posts: 391
1/11/2012
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Alerane wrote:
I drew my character the other day
Do you take commissions?
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aethergeologist
Posts: 5
1/16/2012
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Here's a picture of my character I did a while ago (sorry about the hugeness)
I've got a few other sketches lying around, but I'm not sure what I've done with them.
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Owlor
Posts: 152
1/17/2012
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Looks like a young Fester from the Addams family, nice Cameo, I like the background details.
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Alerane
Posts: 25
1/21/2012
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Branden Linton wrote:
Do you take commissions?
I do indeed. If you'd like to arrange one pop me a message.
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JayMorphea
Posts: 1
1/26/2012
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Have your eyes been blessed by the Correspondence?
Mine have.
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Boyd Cantigaster
Posts: 25
1/27/2012
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May the blood flow
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Alerane
Posts: 25
2/1/2012
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The puissant and devious Miss Difova Fenn.
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Owlor
Posts: 152
2/1/2012
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Stylish cameo, Alerane! That is not a lady I want to give any trouble...
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Elanor de Momerie
Posts: 8
2/11/2012
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A sketch of Elanor writing at home with Little Dorrit keeping her company:
For the amount of research I went through to try to get a true "Victorian" look, Elanor sure doesn't look like it; most fashion plates at the time portrayed clothing that I couldn't imagine people ever wearing at home when they actually had to do things other than stand still. I even gritted my teeth and laced myself down to twenty inches to try to get an idea of how a corseted figure would look from the side, but it looked just so wrong to the modern aesthetic I couldn't go through with it.
(Oh, and I'm going to exist in the world of denial where the game is currently in the year 1880 and not 1890. 1880 had such prettier dresses as opposed to 1890 where leg o' mutton sleeves actually got to the size of a leg of mutton and collars looked like their sole purpose in life was to strangle you.)
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ladylikeikneel
Posts: 84
2/11/2012
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Elanor de Momerie wrote:
(Oh, and I'm going to exist in the world of denial where the game is currently in the year 1880 and not 1890. 1880 had such prettier dresses as opposed to 1890 where leg o' mutton sleeves actually got to the size of a leg of mutton and collars looked like their sole purpose in life was to strangle you.)
This is the Neath, darling! We don't trouble ourselves with those silly surface fashions. Look terrible by candlelight and all that.
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Owlor
Posts: 152
2/12/2012
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This is a place where people where ferocious mushroom hats, you prolly dont have to worry too much about period fashion. Really nice portrait Elanor!
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streetfelineblue
Posts: 1459
2/13/2012
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(Oh, and I'm going to exist in the world of denial where the game is currently in the year 1880 and not 1890. 1880 had such prettier dresses as opposed to 1890 where leg o' mutton sleeves actually got to the size of a leg of mutton and collars looked like their sole purpose in life was to strangle you.)
In compensation, we've got hats heavy as iron (because they're, uh... MADE of iron), and hats whose sole purpose in life is to devour your brain!
Seriously though - three decades have passed since London went to the Neath (revolutionaries say it's been "stolen"). As lady just remarked, fashion has since taken a distinctly peculiar turn, confronted to Surface trends.
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Jack Blackstone
Posts: 124
2/22/2012
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Presenting Mr FIRES!
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