#shadow puppets

[weirdlandtv]

Cartoon by John O'Brien for NEW YORKER magazine, 1991.

[sennamaticart]

Blue Moon

[secretmellowart]

“Give to this dog son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be Javert.”

I think a lot about the folkloric story that Victor Hugo describes (or invents) in Les Mis, that uses dogs/wolves as a metaphor for that way that Inspector Javert betrays his own social class. It feels very fairytale-like, so here’s a Lotte-Reiniger style adaptation. Many thoughts, many emotions. I may animate this eventually. (And thanks to @valvertweek for the motivation!)

[9hiraeth]

I could just eat you up.

nom- nom- nom-

More versions <3

[kowai-kabuki-tanuki]

Ok, so. Shaaaadow puppets…

(Read my fic....Unbalanced Scales)

[craftmausoleum]

When I submitted the final piece to a quilt show, one of the docked areas was that the “hands” weren’t opaque. I really have no technical defense to that, but I wish I could’ve expressed my artistic defense ;_; In my mind, it was in contrast to how richly opaque the shadows were. Like, how could something ghostly create such intense shadows? Either way, I now create a plain muslin shapes to place underneath white fabric.

[yall-send-help]

this dork making shadow puppets to scare criminals

nightwing/huntress #1