#mask form

[neurotic-symbiotic]

Judgement Time

Please allow the quiet mask bearer plague doctor judge your trolls. Reblog with one (1) oc/fantroll and see what he has to say.

[fuckyeahursulavernon]

The text is hard to read at this size, I realize, but says "The sky is always the same/but/many peculiar things happen under the ground." 

No, I don't know either. It was just where that little masked rabbit wanted to be.  - Ursula Vernon

[fuckyeahursulavernon]

Unlike other spirits of this type (for lack of a better term) the deer do not merely appear and fade away. Instead they will act as guides for anyone brave or foolish enough to follow them into the forest.  Where you wind up may bear no resemblance to where you thought you were going, and I can't even claim that it's where you're needed or supposed to be. But it's usually interesting, anyway. - Ursula Vernon

[fuckyeahursulavernon]

Noodling around with some character designs--one of these days I AM going to write "The Happy Little Capybara Visits Xilbalba" a children's book set in the Mayan underworld, just to prove I can do it. These two characters are the Mayan messenger, Skull Owl, who functions as a villain of the piece. (The Lords of Xilbalba are a bunch of bad dudes in their own right, but you can't pit a happy little capybara against the Scab Stripper or the Lord of Pain--it'd end with a happy little damp splat--so they're more of a neutral, creepy backdrop.) The other critter is called the Glorp. It started out with a severed skull growing on a tree, and ended up here. I'm trying to make the skulls on both sort of stylized and in the Glorp's case cheerful, because--well--I'm a stylized and cheerful sort.  I dunno if I'll stick to these designs--probably someone'll point out that they look exactly like X, and I'll scream and clutch my head and go try to change them--but that's always the problem with extreme stylization. Somebody's usually done it already. Still, gettin' my brain there, which is good... - Ursula Vernon

[fuckyeahursulavernon]

Quick little study done when I was fooling around with the masked critters. I think this is the one that led to "Owlform."  - Ursula Vernon

[fuckyeahursulavernon]

I had a 4 x 12 canvas, and started fooling with it. Then I remembered that I hate canvas, so I glue chipboard to it, and then paper, and then more paper, and there was some acrylic medium and some other stuff, and the end result is small and untidy and has weird little critters.

Which, when you think about it, describes most of my incidental art… - Ursula Vernon

[fuckyeahursulavernon]

[dragoncharming]

Random drawing of a random creature...and now you know as much as I do. - Ursula Vernon