It’s been so long since I got to see a thing and think: wow yeah this could only happen on tumblr. This is one such thing and I had to contribute. Let Simon have a weird fucked up religious sorta relationship with Grace! This man has issues!! He’s never been off a space station!! The Hail Mary is literally as close as he could imagine as heaven!!!!!!
Something something it was always going to end this way.
Process under the break!
A piece has never consumed me quite like this one did. I spent every spare minute making DOTS for A WEEK. I skipped class to work on this! I SKIPPED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. I LOVE ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ANDI SKIPPED IT FOR THIS.
Because this was an assignment for my drawing class, it was very well documented.
This assignment was called The Vehicle Project.
Firstly, we needed to explore all the directions we could go, which was a problem for me since I decided I was making Iron Lung fanart for this project after I had seen the movie. As a part of this, we needed to explore different objects that could be incorporated, but again, I was dead set on making that submarine lol.
Because our vehicle needed a minimum of two wheels, I needed to adjust the submarine’s design a little bit and decided to put water wheels in those tube things.
And then my next decision was to make the eldritch eel using stippling (shading with dots). On my 18 x 24 inch paper…
Pro tip: Don’t do that if you have any self respect.
I spent days stippling, getting what felt like zero progress done.
And then the dots were finished.
And then I have no progress shots of me painting it because I was deliriously painting until 5 AM the morning it was due. I do have what I submitted though.
And I didn’t like it lol. Don’t trust any decision made after 3 AM, pro tip. I revisited it over a week after submitting it and got rid of the pink on its face (what was I thinking?) and made the text brighter and more luminous.
Weirdly enough, the most miserable part of this project wasn’t even the stippling. I got used to that, it was relaxing even. The fucking letters gave me the most trouble. I hate painting letters never make me do it again <- gonna have to do it again.
Anyways that has been my contribution to the Iron Lung hype on this lovely site.
Ik I never shared my political opinions here but with as much that has happened in not even a month it just bums me out. Fuck ice man, this isn’t the America soldier would fight for.
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