A Good Kind of Madness

andy_illustrates

[andi-o-geyser]

a full SAGA of chaos choices at the diner in the centre of your mind

[azwillustrates]

~ The Abandoned Pool ~

I had this idea of Girl and Kuro in an abandoned pool, filled with fog, glowing plants all around them, and hints of creatures lurking beneath the misty clouds.

It didn't quite work out that way haha, but I'm going to try and see if I can make it work with watercolours! That'll be a challenge for next week 😁

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil

Why did you stop making bagels?

What did the bagels ever do to you?

XD

I stopped because I went to New Zealand, and didn't bring my sourdough starter. There's frozen sourdough starter waiting in the freezer in my house in Scotland for me to return and start bageling once again.

Working with rye flour was fun, as it was closer to using clay than to using dough. They were not beautiful but they tasted amazing.

(Photos: before and after boiling, and after coming out of the oven.)

[ineffable-writer]

Neil, as a fellow bread maker, I’m begging you to share your recipe. Those look amazingly delicious and mine never turn out that well.

[neil-gaiman]

Here's my notes to myself from the time:

100 ml starter 200 grams rye flour 220 ml water Mix well, cover with cling film, leave overnight. Next day, add 50 g of Buckwheat flour, 50 g of Barley flour, 100 g of rye flour. 1 tsp of sea salt and 1 tbsp of maple syrup in 2 tbsp of water. Mix well, cover with cling film, leave for a couple of hours in a warm place. Put a big pot of water on to boil. Add syrup to the water. (I’m using date syrup.) Take a bowl of water. Wet hands. With wet hands, make a ball of dough, handful size — think medium snowball. Smooth it, make the hole in the middle, drop into boiling water. It will sink to the bottom, then rise. After a couple of minutes, turn it over in the water. After a couple more minutes take it out and put it on baking paper on a baking tray. I sprinkle the paper with flour. Keep hands wet through all of this, as if working with clay. Don’t crowd the bagels in the water pot. No more than 4 at a time. Give them time — they get puffier. When all the bagels are on the baking tray (it makes 6 or 7) put them in the oven for about 16 or 17 minutes. Then turn them over. Back in the oven for another 6 minutes. And then they come out. Off the tray. Let them cool, and then eat them.

There's no heat setting mentioned, because I was cooking them in an Aga oven which doesn't have fancy things like temperature controls, but is somewhere around 220C or 420F.

[neil-gaiman]

Reblogging for the people who have been complaining that Tumblr isn’t showing this post on a search. I searched for it and found lots of people talking about how nice it was that Neil Gaiman was sharing a bagel recipe but not seeing this. So I’ve re blogged this and am using my name (Gaiman) and the singular of bagels (bagel) in here to see if Tumblr’s search functions work if you prod them.

[azwillustrates]

A group of urban legends playing a game of cards.

[azwillustrates]

Some people told her to forgive and forget. She felt there were better ways to deal with the matter.

[azwillustrates]

~Spirits Amongst Us~

She sat by his grave and read to him, just like he'd read to her so many times before.

[azwillustrates]

Falling Stars 🌟

... And when the stars started falling, a hush fell over the world...

[azwillustrates]

DeltaFall

In colour 😬

[azwillustrates]

An Old Campsite

~ Wandering in the forests of a small uninhabited planet the unusual pair stumbled upon an abandoned camp site. It looked like there had been a fight; chairs were tipped on their sides and covered in scorch marks, papers strewn across the floor and stains on the floor that were best left undisturbed. An abandoned helmet - from an armour maybe?- sat on the unused console, the words "SecUnit" engraved on the side. ~

[azwillustrates]

I've still got two more of Kuro on the go which are insanely background heavy and will take me a little while longer. But I'd actually been wanting to do something like this for a while (my year-old "concept art" is up in my stories if anyone is curious as to how this started 😂). It was fun to sit down and draw something a little simpler!

[azwillustrates]

Over a month late, but I really enjoyed doing it and her art inspires me everyday, so thought I’d share anyway! This is my DTIYS entry for the fabulous @fairywulf and her totally deserved 10k!! She’s amazing and awesome and if you’re not obsessed with her you soon will be 🌸

[azwillustrates]

Meteor Shower 

[azwillustrates]

~The Temple~

[azwillustrates]

The Temple

"The torii gate towered over them, the shimenawa swinging silently in the breeze. Although the stone steps on the other side looked no different to the ones they were standing on now, the two adventurers knew better. Once they crossed the gate's threshold, there would be no turning back. No matter what they found on the other side."

[azwillustrates]

Worm Girl

[azwillustrates]

“The Golden Apple.”

This is the piece that developed from the previous line-art. As you can see, it's pretty different. When I finished the sketchbook line-art, I didn't like how it had turned out, which is why I decided to try the same piece out in a slightly different style. Looking back now, I don't mind it as much - I can see a pretty cool style developing from it. But I also love the warmer, more whimsical style that the second attempt produced, and I think it fits better with what I was picturing. In essence? My style is very much still fluctuating. And for a change, I think that's actually pretty cool.

[azwillustrates]

“Spellbound.”