M.Doil

Designer & Artist

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The norse goddess of fertility, love, beauty, magic, and death. Member of the Aesir and Vanir. Talented practitioner of seidr; the magic of altering ones desires, health, fate, and prosperity. She is depicted with falcons, the dead, and drinking from a ceremonial goblet inscribed with the web of wyrd. My INPRNT Shop My Behance

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Inktober Prompt 2: Divide St. George slaying the dragon Purchase on InPrint

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"To Boldly Go" A lithography print  __________________ This was probably my favorite..and most nerve wracking printing process. Nerve wracking only because I was worried that somehow things might go wrong with the base I was drawing on (apparently it's very sensitive to humidity and temperature changes) and that we would be printing with heavy (and expensive) machinery (did I mention expensive?). I kind of combined the style of late 18th century prints with J.C. Leyendecker and then my own twist on things. I'm very comfortable and patient with pen and ink, and it is one of my most preferred mediums (which is why this will likely end up being my favorite process). I can't explain the process, but I can tell you why it's cool. Basically, you draw with special pens (sharpies and BIC CRYSTAL ink pens, to be exact, it has to do with the chemistry of the ink) on special paper. You then dampen the paper and ink it with a roller, and SOMEHOW, through the magic of science, the ink only sticks to the areas that have been drawn with the pen. This means you can pretty much do as detailed or as simple as a drawing as you want, and if everything goes right...reproduce it over and over again. It's a lot more detailed than that, but you can catch my drift.  As for the topic, I just threw some things that I liked together. Space, sexy gents, sexy studies, fancy furniture, science, intelligence, and did I mention space? I also watched roundabout 12 Star Trek (the original series) episodes while working on this. 

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My intaglio prints and the levels in which the different stages that it was completed 1st print: simple line etching 2nd print: Several stages of Acid dipping, areas painted with Asphaltum ground are spared by the acid, allowing various different values of grey. The darker the area, the more exposed it was to acid. 3rd Stage: experimentation with different colored ink. Mild plate toning. Entitled "FLY OR DIE"  Inspired by the book/television series "Game of Thrones" as well as wordly mythology. Birds of black color can represent teachers, bad omens, love, good luck. tricksters, and various other meanings. The power of three is often combined with the animal. For example, in Japanese and Korean mythology, there is  a Three Legged crow, and in Chinese mythology, the original world had ten suns, each represented by a single crow that rose into the sky separately. 

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INK HORN is a fictional company. All packaging was assembled by myself, and the majority of the photos and all illustrations were also created by me.

" INK HORN is a fountain pen company that prides itself in its modernity. Its products are diverse, featuring not just pens but also stationery, personalized stamps and seals, materials for artistic creation and much more. INK HORN not only prides itself in the quality of their products, but also its expansive consumer demographic. INK HORN products are for both common and extraordinary circumstances - meant for the young and old, the business person and the artist. You don't have to be a calligraphist or a collector to pick up a INK HORN product."

Full project on Behance: INK HORN Branding

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Logo process for branding project for INK HORN

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James T. Kirk: "Worlds are conquered..Galaxies destroyed, but a woman is always a woman." Star Trek Season 1, Episode 6: Mudd's Women

A casual letterpress exercise 

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Cover, table of contents, and one department spread for hypothetical photography magazine ‘f22’ for more F22 related spreads, follow the link below http://meghadee.tumblr.com/tagged/F22

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Hypothetical Forest Fire Awareness Magazine Ads

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Magazine spreads for hypothetical magazine 'f22', a photography magazine. Body copy is borrowed from an article from nature photographer Gloria Hopkins for educational purposes. All photography and typesetting by me. For more from this project, please go to my 'f22' tag. http://meghadee.tumblr.com/tagged/f22

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 "Where is this god, or what power hath he, or what hath he wrought that is a glorious deed?" Hárr made answer: "He lives throughout all ages and governs all his realm, and directs all things, great and high..."

I got an anonymous ask requesting that all of my golden age inspired nordic mythology illustrations be compiled into one post for sharing purposes.  I sought to create an intimate, fairy-tale book atmosphere while drawing inspiration from the Golden Age of Illustration.  The Golden Age of Illustration occured in the late 1800's. It was marked by a quality in illustration for advertisements and books that has yet to repeat itself. Printmaking techniques such as lithography aided in the widespread distribution of these works. I drew inspiration from artists such as Arthur Rackham and John Bauer. Mythology was also often the subject of both of these artists and many other artists during this time. The stories included in this are Brynhilde's Hell Ride, The Murder of Balder, and the Abduction of Idunna.

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...at the appointed time Loki lured Idunn out of Ásgard into a certain wood, saying that he had found such apples as would seem to her of great virtue, and prayed that she would have her apples with her and compare them with these. Then Thjazi the giant came there in his eagle's plumage and took Idunn and flew away with her, off into Thrymheimr to his abode.

The third and final piece to add to my small body of work that is a celebration of Golden Age story book illustration (with norse mythology as my subject). This is the abduction if Idunn, the goddess whose apples suply all other gods with eternal youth. Like the Murder of Baldr, Loki did not directly kidnap Idunn (nor murder Baldr, technically) but I wanted to have him being direct again. He was greatly responsible for both events in the mythos. All three pieces can be found here.

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Then Odin wreaked his wrath on me With shields he encompassed me in Skatalund Red and white, their rims o'erlapped;  And bade my sleep be  sundered by him  Who naught would fear,  nor be faint of heart; 

For my ongoing series of Norse mythology illustrations. The first was The Murder of Baldr, one of the first most moments in the history of the Norse gods that foretold their demise and Ragnarok. This is for Brynhilde, or Brunhilde, a mighty warrior who defied Othin, or Odin, the king of the gods. in deciding the battle between two mortal kings, favoring one over the other (who Odin had previously promised victory). As punishment, Odin made her mortal and cast her into a deep sleep, cursing her to marry whoever awoke her. Odin is marked by the black wings on his helm ( for he is also known as the raven god). I wanted to illustrate Odin struggling the full weight and power of Brynhilde, even though she is now mortal. Her body turns, slipping from the grasp of the King of all gods. He appears disconcerted with his decision, but even in the original texts he never admits grief for the loss of one of his greatest warriors. There will be one more in this series. Keep an eye out at my Norse mythology tag

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Digital Collage that Promotes and acts as an Informational poster for the Surrealist Art Movement

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Untitled "Trick Photography" assignment for my Digital Graphics course. 

I actually used this same location for one of my pinhole camera photos.

Which you can see here. 

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For one of my classes we recently had to design six book covers, one set using vector based illustration and the other raster based. This is the raster/photography set. You can find the vector here. The Vector Illustration Set

All photography done by me. I apologize to all of the Hannibal fans for being lame and just picking a skull for red dragon. I couldn't find very many props. However, I was allowed access to my university's extensive collection of moth specimens. You can see other photos from that shoot here. 

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For one of my classes we recently had to design six book covers, one set using vector based illustration and the other raster based. This is the vector set. The raster/photography covers

I wanted to do covers that were more respectful and classical looking for this series. Hannibal as a character has been kind of loosing respect throughout the years (probably because his name rhymes with 'cannibal'). In truth, he's a well rounded and fascinating man. Hannibal is an educated gentleman who despises rudeness, and upholds a calm, yet eery disposition. I wanted to demonstrate that calmness in the covers, while still conveying that something is still very, very off.