Vitulinas

seonyeong illustrator, reader, mostly here for art and writing twenties, 🇺🇸 🇰🇷, super normal about selkies

[vitulinas]

So I am thoroughly bitten by the Arthuriana bug and thinking on doing tarot-inspired illustrations for queens from this particular body of literature — but first, I want to pick four queens for cups, pentacles, wands, and swords! I have some ideas starting to float around in my head, but given that my blog has some traction in Arthuriana Tumblr, I'd love to hear people's opinions on queens they'd like to see in this theming!

[vitulinas]

So I decided I'd stick pretty strictly to queens, yapped on other platforms with a few folks I know (including @onceandfuturecourt), and I mulled over motifs and themes in my head for a while — I can't promise I'll get around to them right away with all the things going on with me right now, but I figured I'd draw: Queen of Wands: Morgan Le Fay Queen of Cups: Igraine Queen of Pentacles: Morgause Queen of Swords: Guinevere

[spiribia]

The thing about character design theory is I really think we shouldn’t just keep reinforcing our “this is what a sneaky and untrustworthy character looks like, this is what a threatening and intimidating character looks like, this is what an innocent character worth protecting looks like, this is what a smart and competent character looks like, this is what a man looks like vs what a woman looks like” conventions like they’re innate human wiring that we tap into scientifically and not like, heavily societal

[gayteensupreme]

NOT staying in the tags on my watch

[vitulinas]

Painted a portrait version of my Morgause from last month! I wanted to play around with rendering the veil.

[vitulinas]

Drew a ghoul for a friend's Anarch Caitiff character! I just love rendering leather.

[romanceyourdemons]

guy working on an artwork they knew would push them technically: what the hell why do i keep doing this wrong. am i haunted by malevolent spirits and such

[hbmmaster]

[vitulinas]

they got me... up there with "buy me dinner first"

[vitulinas]

So I am thoroughly bitten by the Arthuriana bug and thinking on doing tarot-inspired illustrations for queens from this particular body of literature — but first, I want to pick four queens for cups, pentacles, wands, and swords! I have some ideas starting to float around in my head, but given that my blog has some traction in Arthuriana Tumblr, I'd love to hear people's opinions on queens they'd like to see in this theming!

[vitulinas]

Higgledy-piggledy

William Shakespeare

Double dactylic for

Iambs forsook

The dactyl is sicker

But sonnets are quicker

To fill up a folio —

Just let him cook.

[vitulinas]

I've been playing around with designs for a Greyhawk character with a more grounded aesthetic for years; have a tiefling bard with definitely no obvious ancestry from any fiendish powers (don't worry about the fingers)

[penny-anna]

Everyone needs to stop saying death of the author when what they mean is separating the art from the artist. Like FR stop it.

[penny-anna]

I know it's mainly just ignorance of what the term means but I do wonder if this happens in part bcos 'death of the author' sounds so dramatic like oh this author is dead to me, I don't care about them anymore. Whereas 'separating the art from the artist' is a lot more neutral and well. In CERTAIN CASES it is kind of immediately apparent that you cannot.

[penny-anna]

TO REITERATE:

Death of the Author is a term coined by Roland Barthes for his essay of the same name in 1967.

In brief: death of the author is the concept that analysis of a work of art should not be focused on the artist's intent; the artist's intended reading of their own work is just A reading and no more valid than anyone else's.

A good straightforward example of this in practice is the response to Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary. Weir is adamant that his work contains no politics but I would say that PHM is pretty clearly a story about climate change.

You can apply death of the author to any work of fiction and it has nothing to do with whether the author is a good or bad person.

[darkcomedies]

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

[darkcomedies]

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[awed-frog]

When an archer is shooting for fun He has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle He is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold He goes blind Or sees two targets – He is out of his mind.

His skill has not changed, But the prize divides him. He cares He thinks more of winning Than of shooting – And the need to win Drains him of power.

Zhuang Zhou (369 BC - 286 BC)

[nosiidam]

AND THE NEED TO WIN DRAINS HIM OF POWER

[corvidfeathers]

I just updated my profile to participate in artfight this year! You should toss me your username if you're playing so I can draw your ocs >:)

[vitulinas]

I'm not doing artfight this year but my friend Gawain is!

[vitulinas]

Queen Morgause of Orkney and Lothian, against the cold

[vitulinas]

"Until I can bear a fraction of your burden, Sufferer, I shall." Study for Solace, aasimar monk, Ilmatari with "particular" gifts. I wanted to make an aasimar in the mold of older settings' lore but with a more interesting design than in some previous editions; Solace is descended from a planetar in Ilmater's retinue, so they are an appropriate shade of green.

[vitulinas]

Did a study with my Lamia, Attis, for this month's TrueRef challenge.

I'll meet you out in the garden

[vitulinas]

Sometimes you play a revenant ghoul and that ghoul needs to get fleshcrafted and infiltrate a Camarilla establishment, but they insist they need to be wearing Mugler all the time to do it (this ended up being more of a dream sequence; they find the job boring and they're supposed to be invisible)