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Hello! my name is Mojay. I am a bun that is also a fish. who draws.

My Art

#nomad, goatherd, star

main: @bun-fish

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#pinned post #peace and bun on planet dirt

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) colourized

#shitpost(X #i am so sorry #ok i hauve schoole tomorrow tis bed time #also pls picture the first as genly giving estraven the 'promised free ride' to karhide #i have been gettin the noots lately.#tlhod

wigglybunfish

ARTnimorphs. nimonARTs. peri fauna feed presences. bugging secunit is its passion!

I picture its feed presence to move a bit like how the animal spirits in this video do. swoosh

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@somekindofsubprocess i laughed Out Loud

#peace and bun on planet dirt

armada

i think they're plotting against me

#college finals are approaching and i have 13945 projects due #and yet im still drawing the next self-indulgent illustration like my life depends on it #mojay u have no sense of time.#ceramic casting #id in alt #art department shenanigans

breq playing that stringed instrument at strigan's!! picturing it as something alike to the himalayan dramyin. (not pictured: seivarden half dead in the bg)

“A wooden box sat on a table in a corner, a long oval with a carved, pierced lid and three strings stretched tight across. The wood was pale gold, with a waving, curling grain. The holes cut in the flat top were as uneven and intricate as the grain of the wood. It was a beautiful thing. I plucked a string and it rang softly.”

#i have 'code ice planet as tibet' desease. incurable #even if the instrument only has 3 strings and the dramyin has 6. shhhhhh #fun fact for u: the word 'dramyin' means 'good lute-sounds to the ear' in tibetan :)#imperial radch #ancillary justice #breq #justice of toren #id in alt #traditional art #watercolor #my fanart #wigglybunfish #tibetan dramyin

so exited you are doing tlhod art yippee!!

the book lets go of no one and i am caught like pesthry in a trap. happy to be here \o/ you've been a great inspiration, i love all your art and linework!!

#asks

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"Sorve"

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#超級喜歡你的筆觸啊啊啊啊啊啊#the bits of turquoise accents...#also：蓮霧提及‼️‼️#love the idea of something like wax apples adapted to gethen weather flgjkdjf#i imagine they'd be sturdier and way less juicy than irl 🤔 via @thirrith

嗚哇哇謝謝你🥹🫶 太開心了>< also on the wax apples: lmao yea you're absolutely right. watch it become persimmon-like (or perhaps plum-like) once removed from our sub-tropical environment

#happy wiggling

"Sorve"

#can u tell i like sorve. sweet winter child #home culture bleedover re: drawing breadapples as wax apples #and:#big surprise karhidish is actually traditional chinese messily written upside down(X #the first speech bubble is sorve's name translated phonetically #and the second just says 'mom'#if ur curious #the left hand of darkness #tlhod #sorve harth rem ir estraven #therem harth rem ir estraven #genly ai #ursula k le guin #id in alt #traditional art #my comics #my fanart #wigglybunfish

my multi-year long love for tibetan culture and newfound tlhod worms are merging and growing into something chonky and terrifying. potentially beautiful

#when sci-fi does the thing with having traditional elements along with starships and radios. wool and textiles with intricate machines.#i go bonkers yonkers #i love you imperial radch and moebius and nausicaa of the valley of the wind and #the left hand of darkness #bunfish wiggles

one of those long talks in the tent on the ice.

I made a tlhod plot-chronological playlist here for those interested :)

#including the jerry cans (has inuit throat singing) in the playlist felt like the right thing to do #come closer. road to hell (reprise) from hadestown won't hurt you :) I promise :)#also featuring: the trusty Chabe stove #the left hand of darkness #tlhod #ursula k. le guin #genly ai #therem harth rem ir estraven #watercolor #tradiotional art #wigglybunfish #my fanart

Tibet-coded planet gethen you are so real to me

#listen. i know a hieb is tabard-like but what if: Tibetan Chuba #the left hand of darkness #tlhod #ursula k. le guin #genly ai #therem harth rem ir estraven #wigglybunfish #my fanart

ceramic peppers from class that had entered the ovens last week. I knew the glaze combo I chose would be banger

#was tempted to eat the pepper i used to make the cast but ultimately decided against. could be yucky #art department shenanigans #should that be a tag. hm maybe.#ceramics #ceramic casting

wigglybunfish

I'm in the college midterm hectic-but-fun zone at the moment so I'd thought I'd blog about it.

If you don’t know yet- I'm an art student studying chinese painting in taiwan. so uh. welcome to chinese pigment painting 101???

anyway. what you're seeing up there is a 50×60cm drawing of my mother. it is also my midterm project in its ink-line state from last weekend. I'm almost done with the colors as of now (it is due tomorrow.) but I'm going to recount it from the very start because it has been. a Process. so to speak

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so before doing anything like sketching the outlines or mushing up paint (except maybe pre-plan the composition) I gotta prepare the rice paper. the paper is then mounted on a wooden frame like this:

which some friends and I ordered together so that's out of the way. now, the paper.

your typical rice paper from chinese art supply stores are called "raw(生)" rice paper. for the kind of pigment painting I'm doing, I need to soak it (by brushing over it) in a magic potion solution of Animal Glue & Alum. we call rice paper that has been put through the solution "ripe/cooked(熟)". what difference does that make u ask?? well

left to right are raw and ripe rice paper respectively. ripe rice paper prevents the water in the brush from spreading, typically used in a detailed drawing technique called Gong-bi (工筆). this copy painting by emperor Huizong is done in gong-bi. the material is silk, but it still needs to be brushed with the same solution that gives it the same water-stemming effect. it's in the boston fine arts museum btw:

meanwhile raw rice paper are usually used in mountain/landscape paintings that endorse the spread of water-ink, or to make this guy:

different types of chinese painting calls for different kinds of rice paper. pigment painting typically falls into the gong-bi category, so I gotta rippen the rice paper. which i did. I don't have pictures from that whole procedure unfortunately, just know I was taking up a lot of floor-space in my dorm. my roomates are very nice people. the rice paper is lorge.

this lorge. (it goes up to my nose and I'm abt 5'3.)

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due to the rice paper being the thick type and not translucent, I need to make water-friendly non-smudgeable tracing paper to transfer my big big composition. with the same dirt-based pigments I will be using to color it later. (and also because there is literally nowhere in this economy will u get tracing paper the size of a wall.)

tools needed: Giant Brush, two(2) packets of earth paint (I'm using a color I like! 白綠, white-green), container for paint mixture wide enough to fit the brush in, and ☝️our star tonite, rice wine.

the stickiness of the rice wine lets the pigments stick to the to-be tracing paper, just enough that when used, pen pressure can push it down onto the drawing paper.

I'm using a japanese brand that our teacher recommended for its specific stickiness. drank what was left later on. it's good :)

wrapping the pigment in scrap paper and crushin it into powder.

letting them all dry after applying the mixture. had to stand on my bunk ladder to get a full pic.

rip if you room with an art student because floor space is at a premium always

#ok i lied. rice glue postponing to next reblog #chinese painting #pigment painting #art department shenanigans

wigglybunfish

I'm in the college midterm hectic-but-fun zone at the moment so I'd thought I'd blog about it.

If you don’t know yet- I'm an art student studying chinese painting in taiwan. so uh. welcome to chinese pigment painting 101???

anyway. what you're seeing up there is a 50×60cm drawing of my mother. it is also my midterm project in its ink-line state from last weekend. I'm almost done with the colors as of now (it is due tomorrow.) but I'm going to recount it from the very start because it has been. a Process. so to speak

wigglybunfish

so before doing anything like sketching the outlines or mushing up paint (except maybe pre-plan the composition) I gotta prepare the rice paper. the paper is then mounted on a wooden frame like this:

which some friends and I ordered together so that's out of the way. now, the paper.

your typical rice paper from chinese art supply stores are called "raw(生)" rice paper. for the kind of pigment painting I'm doing, I need to soak it (by brushing over it) in a magic potion solution of Animal Glue & Alum. we call rice paper that has been put through the solution "ripe/cooked(熟)". what difference does that make u ask?? well

left to right are raw and ripe rice paper respectively. ripe rice paper prevents the water in the brush from spreading, typically used in a detailed drawing technique called Gong-bi (工筆). this copy painting by emperor Huizong is done in gong-bi. the material is silk, but it still needs to be brushed with the same solution that gives it the same water-stemming effect. it's in the boston fine arts museum btw:

meanwhile raw rice paper are usually used in mountain/landscape paintings that endorse the spread of water-ink, or to make this guy:

different types of chinese painting calls for different kinds of rice paper. pigment painting typically falls into the gong-bi category, so I gotta rippen the rice paper. which i did. I don't have pictures from that whole procedure unfortunately, just know I was taking up a lot of floor-space in my dorm. my roomates are very nice people. the rice paper is lorge.

this lorge. (it goes up to my nose and I'm abt 5'3.)

#next up is making tracing paper bigger than my entire body and cooking rice glue then mounting the paper. what is my life

I'm in the college midterm hectic-but-fun zone at the moment so I'd thought I'd blog about it.

If you don’t know yet- I'm an art student studying chinese painting in taiwan. so uh. welcome to chinese pigment painting 101???

anyway. what you're seeing up there is a 50×60cm drawing of my mother. it is also my midterm project in its ink-line state from last weekend. I'm almost done with the colors as of now (it is due tomorrow.) but I'm going to recount it from the very start because it has been. a Process. so to speak

#first time doing a process full chain i think. a bit nervous about it!! but i hope you're find it inch resting :)#really should not be doing this now but hggggg I'm almost done. im safe.#I'm going to have to do it all again for finals so it'd be good to have a process documented also.#chinese painting #tradtional art #pigment painting #膠彩 #og post #wigglybunfish #art department shenanigans

calamitys-child

I always say that the thing which sets Sargent apart as a portrait artist is that he draws/paints literally every subject - no matter their gender, social position, life vs representational drawing etc - like he is right that minute realising he's desperately in love with them. And it rules every single time.

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Examples pulled just from his Wikipedia page most popular works. Absolutely devastating scenes for bisexuals for over a century