To the friends and family of intern ____________

They were a good intern, and will be missed.

[willartforlovegems]

Look at this baby and his space and his sun and his adorable face. 

[nataliehall]

the feeling of the wind blowing through your hare :*

[halorvic]

“I sought a statement from current mayor Dana Cardinal who is, of course, a former intern and dear friend of mine. I found her at the end of a dark hallway, draped with rotting black cloth and thick with cobwebs, where she was sitting on the Mayoral Throne and contemplating her hands.”

[terminallytwee]

good night, night vale. good night

[sillymonsters]

H. R. Van Dongen

[quendergeer]

absolutely insane sock game on this twink

[bonesnail]

2 cards in one day!  How wonderful!

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[allhailthevoid]

god almighty, weird at last :(

[superficialdree]

Eventually, I became convinced that I was not alone in the labyrinth; that somewhere among the arches was a beast, stalking me. I would stand still for hours, listening to that wind, searching for the slightest sound of movement off in the distant halls of arches.

[pendergosta]

If Cecil Palmer Voiced a GPS

“Drive straight for 300 feet as you contemplate your own unlikely existence. Try not to notice the void pressing down upon you from heights only imagined in the haziest of dreams.

Oh, also you should have turned left about three miles back.

…And now you may never find your way back again.

Really, though, you should ask my Carlos. He’s very good with directions.”

[driedhibiscus]

"There is a person in a car driving up to your destination in the near future, but that person is not you.”

“In three miles, prepare to turn red. I am told it is the only way to trick the bulls flying in your direction into thinking you are immaterial.”

“Follow the road. Organize campaigns for the road. Serve the road. Hang on everything the road says to you, every whisper you think you hear in the suffocating heat of traffic. Become disillusioned with the road, blaming it for the meaninglessness of your own existence. Engage in a power struggle with the road, taking out your rage on the object of your once-adoration. Assassinate the road. Frame the driver next to you for it.”

“Slow down, my friend, this is not a race. Alternatively, it is, in which case it’s probably too late, anyway.”

“I’m sorry. This just in: DO NOT turn red in three miles. I repeat, DO NOT turn red. It appears this is not a reliable way to dodge the bulls flying in your direction. Recalculating route.”

[driedhibiscus]

I loved episode 42. Fey was awesome, but what did it for me was the worldbuilding. So here’s an attempt at the entrance to the radio station.

(It sounded like Strex did a lot of renovating, hence the gaudy wallpaper. They also probably installed a dress code.)

[mikimoshpit]

So look at the fleeting stars with fleeting eyes, and feel how the earth beneath you gives. It is all a temporary manifestation of particles, and it is all unraveling back to particulate silence. The bustle of the human day will come and will go. And then there will be night.

But how beautiful these moments within the dissolve! What a temporary perfection we can find within this passing world! Everything good ever done! Everything good that was done today, and all the good people doing it, and back and back and forward and forward, all of that beauty within a universe unraveling.

- Cecil Palmer, Welcome to Night Vale, Episode 49 - Old Oak Doors Part B

[designyourvictory]

[aconsultingmind]

Here have some color on the battle sketch from… I think literally last week lmao. It’s over here: [CLICK]

Once again, just like what I said on the sketch, I’m very much aware the ‘Smiling Dog’ no longer has something to stand on. That doesn’t mean I’m going to drop this monster.

[mischievousdog]

Welcome To Night Vale fanart from July. Episode 10: Feral Dogs is my personal favorite episode so far!

[dovesick]

various types of pigeons

[willartforlovegems]

SO SO I couldn’t record a speed paint because my laptop can’t handle it anymore, but I still wanted to show sorta the process I used this time! I’ve been waiting to redraw the precious Space Carlos, so here he is! April 20th 2016 vs April 20th 2017!

I like the contrast the older Carlos has with his background, but I found it difficult to recreate that and instead went a different route with the new Carlos, and I can promise you it looks better closer up. 

[bonesnail]

WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE TAROT

0 - THE FOOL: Cecil Gershwin Palmer

“A trickster as often as an innocent protected by his own luck, a madman who speaks the voice of the gods, or an idiot who hides strange powers. The Fool is a symbol of the in-between, of The Grotesque, innocence, divine inspiration, madness, freedom, spontaneity, beginning a journey, inexperience, chaos, creativity, and infinite possibilities.”

Hey!  In addition to drawing the cards themselves, I have decided to supplement them with short writeups detailing my process in choosing the card and working on them themselves!  For the previous cards I have done, I will retroactively add the write-ups.

Since this is technically the “first” card, a little bit of a background regarding the Tarot project itself.  Ever since I was a teen I really enjoyed card motifs, and as I got into college I have been fascinated with Tarot.  Awhile ago, the Homestuck Kickstarter project happened and I was immediately inspired by the Tarot deck reward, so for awhile I waited for a piece of media I could dig into and tackle the design challenge.  The night Ep. 31 debuted I had come down with a horrific cold that kept me up the entire night.  Listening to the new episode and unable to sleep, I decided, “to hell with it, I’m gonna do thumbnails for a Tarot deck."  And here we are now.  I am currently working on the 22 Major Arcana, but I have plans to do all 78 cards, because to be honest this is such a fun design challenge.

The Fool - who would’ve been a better pick than our lovely narrator, Cecil Palmer?  I think as a character he bounces canonically and speculatively between the descriptions of the Tarot above, and he wasn’t quite a fit for The Magician; that role would later be filled by Carlos.

As for a design choice, the picture here is fairly standard, nothing particularly weird or symbolic.  The color palette I chose provided a nice, natural light.  The pose helps with Cecil’s ambiguity, but it’s somewhat impossible to go through this art challenge without using some definite designs, so here’s my Cecil… somewhat.

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