you are like the rivermen

c., she/her and meanwhile a man was falling through space and as he hit the earth I left this place

[galedekarios]

scholar + pardoner garb

[credit: model extraction + screenshot by @ zlofsky]

[ghostowlattic]

Apollo and Daphne, Jakob Auer, Vienna, before 1688

[demoncity]

Over the Garden Wall (2014)

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[lucy-harker]

NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) dir. F. W. Murnau NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) dir. Werner Herzog NOSFERATU (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

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PNW. March 2024.

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[mmleepmlorp]

This blog is my adult version of cutting pictures out of magazines and glueing them on to paper

[ninamodaffari]

okay you guys got me started on dishonored (the series) fucking IMMACULATE art direction. I'm going to try and sum it up but I'm honestly better with art than words so I'll try my best.

dishonored is fucking unparaelled when it comes to art direction. from when you first start the game, each level has a distinct style, color, and vibe. dunwall is dominated by cool greys, towering, imposing structures like dark sentinels watching over the land. twisting, rotting trees and an ever-present smog that overtakes the city. dunwall is inky blue darkness.

HOWEVER, from a gameplay perspective, there are visual points of interest still that stops you from getting lost in a wash of blue. dishonored is a master of using lighting and color to lead you to areas that it wants you to go.

for example, in the corner of a window you might see glowing purple lighting. these are void shrines - where the outsider will appear and share knowledge harass you. usually around shrines there are walls of writing, strange twisted words that lead you further into the mystique surrounding what the outsider is and what he *does*.

you might think the game is just awash in dull colors, but its not. one of the most beautiful and striking levels takes place in lady boyle's mansion, and it's INSANE how different it looks, because it's supposed to be a stark contrast. surrounding her mansion are the remains of a dying city destroyed by a plague. within her mansion, however, is decadence and debauchery gone awry.

it's amazing with a game that was made TWELVE YEARS AGO how this still holds up and looks fantastic. this is because they went for a stylized art direction. it's stylized, almost painterly. it looks fantastic. here is some of the amazing character design

(this is from dishonored 2, done by Sergey Kolesov )

LOOK AT THIS ART. IT'S SO FREAKING AMAZING AND THE THING IS THE CHARACTERS LOOK SO CLOSE TO T HIS IN GAME. its a masterpiece. if you haven't played dishonored, please play it. all of them.

[blankglassyqueensss]

Also didnt even mention the OTHER portraits in the game. The ones you can steal off their frames.

Sidenote: Delilah in that portrait is stunning lesbian energy

And then the portraits created by Delilah?????? In the sequel?????

Look at all these??? Seriously stunnibn and the levelcrafting is a work of art on it’s own. The art direction in these games still hold up TODAY. Seriously even BETTER than a lot of modern day AAA games. Absolutely amazing art direction by the team. The man who lead the team ALSO did Half-Life 2’s art direction as well, I believe.

Seriously Dunwall is a fantastic setting. It’s so fucking depressing and just AWFUL of a cuty. Itms damp, and disgusting and ragged and every citizen who lives there hates it. Even in dishonored 2. Actually ESPECIALLY in dishonored 2. They despise it before and after the events of the game. It’s gorgeously sunken. I can’t find the post but it was something like how some city settings are just so fucking depressing and cancerous, rotting from the inside. Nothing about the city is good.

In the SECOND game, it’s Karnaca. The southern par tof the empire, the jewel of the empire. And it is STUNNING. Lovely golden rays and yellows and reds and beautiful blue oceans. Meanwhile the city is filled with red guts of whales on the docks and the dusty and absolutely horrid, taken over mountains by mines. Plagued by bloodsucking flies and buried in despair and dust, which if it wasn’t there, would be GORGEOUS

Absolutely amazing work Arkane Studios

[dreamyvixen]

“Has your lonely night spoken to mine?”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Robert Bly, from “The Neighbor,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[psikonauti]

Zdzisław Beksiński (Polish ,1929 - 2005)

Untitled, 1979

[srrrokka-art]

Not in the Void nor in the mortal world but somewhere in between...

[literaryvein-reblogs]

A List of "Beautiful" Words: Green

for your next poem/story

Aerugo - the rust of a metal and especially brass or copper; verdigris

Chartreuse - a variable color averaging a brilliant yellow green

Chloremia - chlorosis (i.e., an iron-deficiency anemia especially of adolescent girls that may impart a greenish tint to the skin); called also greensickness

Emerald - brightly or richly green

Glaucous - of a pale yellow-green color

Jade - a light bluish green

Loden - a variable color averaging a dull grayish green

Olivaceous - olive (i.e., of the color olive or olive green)

Patina - a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color

Smaragdine - emerald

Verdancy - green in tint or color

Verdigris - a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates

Verdure - the greenness of growing vegetation

Virescence - the state or condition of becoming green

Viridescent - slightly green; greenish

More: Lists of Beautiful Words ⚜ Word Lists

[claypigeonpottery]

a commissioned piece

🌼 the helichrysum flowers surrounding the deer symbolize immortality

[deepdwellingsteamboat]

The Void DISHONORED: DEATH OF THE OUTSIDER 2017・dev. Arkane Studios

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