#plart

[tacitcrow-blog]

Sorry for your loss :)

Found this half-finished portrait in an old* notebook and got around to experimenting with real ink/watercolor again!

Materials used & unedited photo under break

Well. There was also a little plastic mechanical pencil involved at some point in the process. But I forgot to put it in the photo lol

That freakin red-brown calligraphy ink is my favorite thing in the world. I'm starting to think there's a good amount of copper in it because it oxidizes green if left out while watered down... or when it comes into contact with that white ink on its right. Which was mildly annoying to discover by accident here but I'm very excited to be able to use it on purpose in future...! (I just need to figure out how to get more. I'm running out.) *the notebook is who knows how old. Got it secondhand. The drawing dates back to like this April at the earliest

[professorlizzard]

Ammon, the elder god of Learning. It created the Ammonite people out of the purest slime mold. It gave them a single commandment: to learn. Unfortunately, Ammon is also the elder god of Pareidolia, and in a world where magic is real, this might cause problems.

[mrgladstonegander]

when the whole squad doesnt know a damn thing

[palvenue]

wham bam tma time. posting a good bit of it solely for chip (that one img is based on the guy with the fish. and the last is a reference to another post)

[luckiestplant]

For my Literature class i was allowed to make a short comic adaptation of a literary work that influenced me, so I picked Demian. If you want to read my explanation of why I picked it and made certain decisions, you can read it under the cut ! :)

[It is 862 words. I only needed to write 2 paragraphs. I... really like this book LOL]

I chose to adapt Herman Hesse's "Demian" because it's a very influential book for me. I saw myself in the protagonist, Emil Sinclair in how he worries about what other people think of him as a kid, leading him to tell different lies to different people. His struggle to rationalize what is "good" or "evil" is rooted in his religious upbringing, and his first step towards discovering himself and his own values is from someone (Demian) telling him a different perspective, and inviting him to think for himself. I felt seen in how Sinclair wants to be guided by others, but feels unable to teach others, and seeing him eventually reach independence makes me want to reach that point too. He starts off the book seperating things into binaries like Man and Woman, Good and Evil, but over the course of the book those concepts start to overlap and gray for him. He admires Demian and Beatrice for being a boy with feminine features, and a girl with masculine features, and when he eventually meets Frau Eva, he loves how handsome she is. The scene I adapted, where he sees himself in his own painting, not visually but emotionally, really connects with me as an artist who puts themself into their work, and gets a slightly better understanding of myself when I first step back and look at it. I don't want my pictures to look like a mirror of me, but still reflect me somehow. And with my experience with gender, I see myself in Sinclair's idealization of androgyny, even if those sorts of words would not be used at the time. This connection I felt with the book helped move me to read more classic literature and see myself in them.

I decided for the first page to not have a lot of narration because I felt that it could be told through pictures. The scene starts with the sun "slanting red through my window" during sunset, and "Inside my room it was dusk", which gave me my color palette for the comic; reds and warm purples. Sinclair is not very detailed in the first page because I thought it would feel more atmospheric, and to emphasize the self discovery on the second page. The three panels on the bottom were repeated with subtle changes in expression to give the feeling of time passing as, in the narration, "For a long time I sat oppposite it even after the picture had faded out." He blends in with the light of the painting because of how much he's taking it in; the last panel's sudden contrast is the moment of realization leading up to the next page. The painting's sudden detail is partly because I got too into drawing it, but is so important that it should be in substantially more detail; it is a catalyst for Sinclair, and it is symbolic of his connections (and future connections) in the book. Besides Sinclair's emotions, it is the most detailed description in that scene, and the way he describes it radiates joy and excitement.

The first panel of page two has vague drawings of Beatrice and Demian, with Sinclair sparking with recognition. I wanted him to have a similiar feeling as the painting, glowing with color, because this is an important moment for him. Beatrice is not very detailed because he has never talked to her; she is someone who he saw on the street and admired, and at that point, he had not met Demian in years. "But myself" is split from the sentance to give more emphasis on his revelation. The second panel's narration is split but tied together to make it feel more floaty and slow, to emphasize each point, and to help direct readers to the next panel with Demian (the lines in the last panel are also supposed to help cheat with that). The text around Demian purposefully switches alignment and leaves extra space to 1) help connect the flow of narration from the second to the fourth panel, and 2) because it conveys Sinclair's semi-divine view of Demian (masculine and feminine, youthful and mature). The woman in the fourth panel (who he later realizes to be Frau Eva) has especially split narration because he doesn't know her yet, and she is a dreamy "ideal" to him; she isn't concrete in his world yet. For panel 2 and 5, there is an egg cracking and a bird flying off as a reference to a motif later on in the book; "The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born first must destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas." This quote has found its way into media inspired by Demian, and influences how people see the characters, and it's an especially touching quote because of how strong and confident it feels. If the bird (Sinclair) is not able to break his egg (the sheltered world he grew up in), he will never "hatch" and fly to Abraxas (self-discovery). It felt especially important to me to include this motif even if it hasn't technically appeared in the book yet, because it is a perfect metaphor for growing up and for Emil Sinclair.

[ritsu-shinjo]

[You are cordially invited to the annual Frostheim Masquerade Ball.

Hosted by the Kamurai family.

November 15th, 7:00pm ༝ Cocktails, Dinner, and Live Music.

Mask Required ༝ Formal Attire]

So clearly, the ghost that runs this account is very late to this - the long nights are hard to find the free time to respond well. But here is some art of Ritsu from the masquerade event we ran during October on one of the discord RP servers the ghost is in:

The event took place over the course of three IRL weeks. The characters were all stalked by a mysterious guest, manifesting from an anomalous mask that escaped containment in Frostheim ( good job @frostheim-guardian ).

Characters were transported gradually to the far off land of Carcosa ( unless you’re @taiga-shark who just head butted the King in Yellow until it got tired of it and just let you fall in).

One might recognize Carcosa as the New York State Capitol Building in Albany. Some of these pictures are literally just of the million dollar staircase.

So anyway… I have included Ritsu’s pink stag masquerade outfit. I wanted him to wear a lot of soft, romantic colors to really throw people off of the staid, sort of bland clothing Ritsu might normally choose to wear if left to his own devices. Sorry about the inconsistent lighting, I took the pictures at different times and likely used filters on the headshot to color correct.

Anyway, if any of that sounded fun, feel free to join the server below.

Check out the Tokyo Debunker RP community on Discord - hang out with 27 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[polteban]

i just realized i never posted these ladies

design notes for ATU-500 + mspaint doodles under cut

[luckiestblock]

my @mcytblrsecretsanta​ gift for @ssilentwillow​ ! drawing of Gaslight Gatekeep and Girlboss. hope you dont mind it’s after christmas! :,D

extra sketch+palette stuff under keep reading