Madame Dapper

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Welcome to Madame Dapper's gallery! Here you'll find my body of visual media works, including finished artwork and photography.

About the artist

You can find me on my main blog, @andi-rigby, and on my sketch/art blog, @andi-sketchbook. Types of work I enjoy creating and that you may see on this blog:

Traditional art in many media (often together), including sketching, painting, and mixed media

Digital 2D art

2D digital design (such as covers or photobashes)

3D modelling, rendering, and/or printing

Crochet

Knitting

Sewing

Typesetting

Bookbinding

Sculpting, including both clay and mixed media

"Kid crafts" (you're never too old for popsicle sticks and macaroni art)

Beadwork, often incorporated with one of the above

Other work I enjoy creating that probably won't be featured on this blog (but you can find them on my other blogs):

Short stories

Experimental fiction

Stories that aren't short

Fanfiction (long and short)

Conlangs

Worldbuilding (unless I'm making art about it)

Essays

Shitposts & memes

About my work

No AI, ever

I have never and will never use generative AI in any part of my creative process. All work on this blog has been thoroughly and lovingly hand-crafted.

About my photography

Photography in this gallery was taken with a Nikon D3200 DSLR with a 18-55mm lens unless otherwise noted. Most shots in the #macro photography tag were taken with one or more macro/magnifying lens attachments. I have lost the dates of some of my photos but have done my best to post the dates of photos when I know or remember them.

Photos tagged "photohunt" were taken as part of a friendly deviantArt chatroom game in the early 2010s. I had a lot of fun playing Photohunt back in the day, and it was a great way to inspire creativity without feeling pressured to make huge spectacles. (A moderator/judge would post a prompt and participants had 20 minutes to capture, edit, and upload a photo to fit the prompt. It was fast paced and fun, and I got some really neat photos out of it that I will treasure forever.)

While my creative focus has moved away from photography, it was an integral part of my creative journey and I'll always have a place for fun, creative photos in my heart.

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Yosemite Lake, Merced, CA

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Yosemite Lake, Merced, CA

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When I was in high school I bought a bright green violin for $40 on eBay. It was a terrible instrument and never stayed tuned even while I was playing it and it sounded kinda like ass... but it was super pretty.

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Locks on the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, Germany in December 2012

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Lydden Hill, England in spring 2013

This was taken somewhere between Canterbury and Dover as part of my final project for the photography class I took that semester.

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The London Eye, London, England in spring 2013, I think

I was in London quite a few times during my tenure in Canterbury, so I'm not exactly sure which trip I got this on. I seem to recall, though, that this was after going to a pub with a special friend of mine who had stopped in London on his way to Moscow.

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Halloween 2011, Merced, CA

A friend of mine, dressed as a Weeping Angel. I dressed as the TARDIS that year (the blue thing in the second shot). The photos are lightly edited but she did wear a lot of gray makeup on her hands and face. We wore our costumes on campus and she scared/impressed quite a lot of people.

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"Snack Time"

A photo of Widget, a rat I took care of for a few months in college while he was between homes. Smart boy, loved shoulders, hated baths.

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Various cats. In order: Crookshanks, Misty, Marshmellow ("Melly"), and Marshmellow again.

The first two were pets of a friend. Marshmellow was a cat we got when I was in middle school. I named him because he was the chillest kitten ever. He eventually got old and we had to put him down when I was in college, but he was a very good kitty.

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Bay Bridge, San Francisco Bay, CA (Taken from the Embarcadero)

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Some tourists at Leeds Castle, England in September 2012

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Taken in Leeds Castle, England in September 2012

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Various architecture shots taken in England and northern Europe, 2012 to 2013

I don't remember where most of these were taken but I really enjoyed taking photos of the cathedrals while I was living in the UK.