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uwmspeccoll · 2 years ago

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Typography Tuesday

Last week we presented a 1900 edition of The Confessions of St. Augustine with illustrations by Paul Woodroffe (1875-1954) and a title-page border designed by Laurence Housman (1865-1959), all engraved in wood by Houseman's sister Clemence Houseman (1861-1955). Another visual element in the book is the use of elaborate, wood-engraved, Arts and Crafts-style initials found throughout the book. Today we are showcasing all the initial letters used in the publication.

Their design is uncredited, but it is possible that they could have been designed by Woodroffe as he was deeply influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. Two years after illustrating this book, Woodroffe was elected a member of the Art Workers' Guild, an organization of artist and designers associated with the ideas of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement, and in the same year he became closely associated with Charles Robert Ashbee and his Guild of Handicraft and Essex House Press, institutions closely allied with the movement. Again, it's conjecture, but we would like to think that Clemence Houseman had a hand in engraving these initials.

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#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #initials #wood engraved initials #Arts and Crafts movement #Paul Woodroffe #Clemence Houseman #The Confessions of St. Augustine #fancy initials

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egophiliac · 3 months ago

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did this as a quick scribble at like 1 AM last night and...immediately lost all motivation to ever clean it up. ( ᐛ ) but I had to draw my son being the fanciest little flower boy who ever threw petals down an aisle. oh my god.

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #eternity float #eternity float of the coral sea #surprise! my art actually CAN look worse!#but i just love these fancy lads so much #like i was initially kinda 'CORAL S -- aw no merforms? :('#but i figure they're probably saving a proper underwater event for azul so whatever it's time for HYPE #especially because it looks like it might be WEDDING-THEMED(!!!)#and/or kiss the girl(!!!!!!!)#and honestly for both of those jade is actually the funniest possible ssr choice #sorry leona we found the one event that...no he would still be hilarious. dangit.#honestly though these are top-tier choices all around #if i was going to walk around a beach while jade talks endlessly at me about the legend of the mermaid princess with big sleeves #i could ask for nothing better than riddle malleus and rook to be standing there tossing flower petals at me the whole time #i know it's probably all ~algorithm-based~ or whatever they have that tells them what characters to use #but there is legit a little something i think in doing a kiss the girl theme with those three #the three guys who have some of the most trouble properly expressing themselves #and also jade who i assume just thinks they're all prime sources for hilarity #he will 100% be looking for opportunities to 'accidentally' push someone overboard #bonus points if there's a very fancy cake that they can fall into on the way down #i don't know anything about what the story will be yet but i know that much is true

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byjovewhataspend · 1 year ago

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the students got too rowdy after curfew and erasermic had to come out and scold them

sort of the goth couple equivalent to that 'flowing sheer robes vs sleeping cap and nightgown' couple meme.

#erasermic #present mic #eraserhead #shota aizawa #mha #bnha #hero academia #my art #we all know aizawa is goth but what a lot of people miss is that present mic is clearly goth too #if you havent noticed before youre realizing it right now #my actual initial inspo for this was going to be that he had a fuckton of those cathedral looking tattoos #and fancy crosses #(and i wanted that one anime schoolgirl in the plaid skirt with the big cross)#but wouldnt you know it i could not for the life of me draw those things #SO we got ecclectic vaguelly 'dark' messy tattoos instead

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iceagebaby · 5 months ago

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obsessed with @mudpuddless king halt au, ive been thinking a lot

crowley is in denyal, he is just hibernian RIGHT?

i also have some skeches of halt in regal clothing, but im not a fan of them, and i cant find accurate irish royal clothing to use as reference, what i drew was just making it up as i go

#rangers apprentice #halt o'carrick #crowley meratyn #my art #sorry my dearest fallout followers #i like to think halt in araluen while wearing ranger-like clothes they are still a bit too fancy for a simple forester #hence the patterns #crowley is short but halt is shorter he cant be taller than 160 so his cloak is shortened #coming from an already short man bro im 170 #halt is holding a scroll because the initial idea that crowley finds out when halt passes the good will to oswald #ive read those books in polish and some time ago already(though multiple times) and im currently rereading then so its difficult for me to #place how their dialogue in english would go #ive also skeched out some scenes but im really not happy with them #i have been thinking about that au a lot #ive went into a rabbit hole researching the clothes #and im trying to research stuff look at images and 75% of what i see is ai shit please if anyone knows more about irish regal clothing dm m #zwiadowcy w naszym roku pana dwa zero dwa pięć #an afterthought if anyone has king halt au ideas my asks are open

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fantasticalleigh · 2 months ago

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…OF COURSE I WAS GONNA DRAW THE MEEP MEEP PHOTO

#and im glad so many of you liked that initial post with the pic lmao i was not expecting that #fantasticalleigh’s art #leigh talks wrasslin #wwe #drew mcintyre #cm punk #punkintyre #drewpunk #wrestling art #wwe fanart #chose not to draw drew in all his fancy gear bc i wanted to finish this fast and i was on a roll

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mxtxfanatic · 2 months ago

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Feng Xin and Mu Qing are such great friends to Xie Lian that Xie Lian has to tell them to their faces to stop using his trauma over their abandonment of him to beat each other over the heads while claiming to be the "better friend":

Xie Lian seized the opportunity to separate the two, amiably saying, “First, the Crown Prince, His Highness out of your mouths is precisely me. This Highness didn’t speak, so don’t use me as a weapon you can pick up and cast aside in attacking others. I don’t think that either of your houses’ darens would engage in this kind of lack of decorum!”

—Chapter 4: A Ghost Marries a Crown Prince on a Bridal Sedan (Part 2), me

What great friend behavior.

#tgcf #tgcf revised version #tgcf quotes #like both of them can fuck off #they do not see him as a person but as a object to be wielded and controlled #a fancy bauble to be kept safe on the shelf until it's time to beat each other up with it #they are not initially good friends to xie lian! neither of them!!!#I’m tagging this as revised simply because i translated it from the revised #but this exact scene and excerpt are in the draft

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myokk · 2 months ago

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jimmy page warmup sketch for today😇🙏

#im going to be so honest I only wanted to learn how to draw so I could draw these insanely attractive androgynous men from the 70s😔#this sketch im happy with because it was 45 min I was going fast #are there things I would change????? yes ofc😣 BUT overall I’m happy bc it looks like him🫶#you can see my failed Robert plant attempts I was talking about yesterday as well #I love how I’m doing the shading lately but idk !!! I think my initial sketches were just so bad I couldn’t save them🫠#also practicing these guys for OTHER nefarious purposes (learn how to draw Eloise’s hair once and for all)#anyways that is my art yapping of the day🙏#going to a Michelin star restaurant for lunch today and I AM SO EXCITED !!!!!!!!#every time we go it’s like the best food I’ve ever eaten in my whole life it lives in my brain forever 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹#(lest you think I’m fancy I’m not😔 my in-laws HOWEVER are & they’re visiting for the next two weeks)#jimmy page #Led Zeppelin #Robert plant #artists of tumblr #pencil illustration #pencil portrait #sketchbook

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thistransient · 4 months ago

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Very into this book stand

#adventures today included a random guy trying to help me get a bus after multiple auto rickshaw drivers refused to use the meter #and quoted me ridiculous prices outside the train station #if it was 43र in the morning to get there it certainly shouldn't be 100+ going back #anyways he claimed to know where i was going but mixed it up and then we had to get off the bus #whereupon he told me to stay back while he organised a rickshaw to return #which was only 20र but then he wouldn't let me pay him back #i had initially decided to just walk the 15 min down the road but he was really determined to help #i was initially suspicious but asked him why and he said he felt bad for foreigners who don't know how to do things in india 😅#i also braved the commuter train thank god they all seem to just go in a straight line north to south #cause the signage is not clear so i just got on one and hoped for the best #airbnb host also took me out for my first and very fancy falooda #tomorrow going to goa to meet up with the guy who invited me on the motorbike trip in ladakh last year #mumbai #india #books

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void-writing · 1 year ago

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Escape from Flower Fruit Mountain

"What can you do? You were all trapped. Either you all die in Peng’s hands or the celestial flames burn you all alive. You never should’ve sent your brothers inside. There’s no exit, no - wait.

There was a way out. The transportation circle in your room you never quite got to erasing."

Chapter 15 of "Queen of the Mountain" by @centuryberry

#screaming from the void #my art #queen of the mountain #lego monkie kid #i hope you appreciate me giving xiaotian sokka's pose and boomerang lmao #and that i gave red son horns :)#i had a lot of fun designing yue's fancy queen outfit in case you couldnt tell :) also! return of the little crown i gave her a while back #(except EVEN FANCIER)#if youre wondering where the thrall is; he's doing the family guy death pose in the center of the circle XD #(i initially forgot about him while drawing this and couldnt easily fit him in anymore so...yeah lol)#louhou and jidu are so so tiny i love them <3 #i draw rinrin's hair/fur as especially curly so i gave that to jidu :) meanwhile louhou's fur looks closer to the others in style

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ghcstcd · 2 years ago

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have a you ever seen what a velvet worm is? If not then I highly suggest you do. Trust me, you’ll be pleasantly surprised

This creature looks so pathetic, I was compelled to draw it.

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dailysquiddo · 6 months ago

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but what if she was a superhero-ish guy. what then. what would you do then

#fun fact! this was gonna be a magical girl squiddo #but then i got really caught up in the whole “dirty scruffy vigilante with lots of explosives who annoys all the fancy hero people”#aesthetic. but i also have some stuff #like the bows and the wing cloak that read as magical girl #and im gonna use pastel colors and cheerful colors to make it seem like she WAS initially #a really traditional happy-go-lucky magical girl who over time had to do things her own way instead of just flashy magical blasts #and so she started making bombs and became more of an underground hero of the people who don’t have a voice #but she still has that bright optimistic magical girl outlook where she knows that the *magic of Friendship* actually has power #and she’s not optimistic in spite of a darker setting #she’s optimistic *because* of it. she’s a magical girl of the alleys and the dirty towns and the messy fights #in short she’s a magical girl who’s more hands-on #more optimistic in a realistic way #like a person who might dress up as a magical girl to save the day but doesn’t have magical powers but saves the day anyway #and she HAS magical powers #mind you #but they’re chaotic and messy and she can’t control them for the sort of picture-perfect showiness of most superhero’s powers #so she learns to use them to AID her fighting #not the sole weapon she uses #and as a result she’d be much stronger than most if her powers were blocked #because she knows how to fight on her own merits too #tl;dr squiddo is a magical girl who will beat you up with no hesitation and also has bombs. lots of bombs.#squiddo #daily squiddo #the real squiddo #mcyt #uhhh #superhero au #magical girl au #????

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empty-dream · 1 year ago

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#oshi no ko #onkedit #ruby hoshino #aquamarine hoshino #ai hoshino #gorou amemiya #akane kurokawa #mem cho #arima kana #myedit #mypic #i tried making that fancy inverted font color lol #make it look like magazine potraits #i just realized rivals kana and akane have reversed initials

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ysaefinn · 29 days ago

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Starting tmr i will interract more with the moots

#wait for me moots.....#ok...vent time (???)#tw depression #ik this is not how healing works but i think i deserve credit for my little “ok i gotta get my shit together” moments of clarity 😭#as a social interaction succubus (fancy way of saying extrovert) just talking to people i care about gives me a high lmfaoo #but still i just can't help but shut down sometimes but i still always love when someone reaches out to me and initiates conversations #i just can't help but be social when put in that situation it's like second nature lmfaoo #which is what's so confusing and why i can't put my finger on what exactly im feelings #therapy is literally never an option in a third world country that thinks love is a sin and a crime and what not #so fuck you and figure it out yourself #i recognize this for what it likely is another attempt at being productive that will likely last a week max but we'll see we'll see #I'm positive!!!!!!!!!#i get this from my mother whom i didn't know very well #now leave me alone let me finish drawing my sugutiti piece #actually don't leave me alone come sit on my lap amd watch me thirst #i have mangos in the fridge #speaking of i have a bottle of water in the freezer that i need to take out #–. 𐙚 ̊vale.speaks.ᐟ.ᐟ

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beatriceportinari · 5 days ago

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Remember this fish market beach? Well i've got a fancy sushi and adjacent beach near Raymond's house to go with it now 🐟😼

#ac #anmal crossing #it was only fish initially but i added the ramen bowls thinking ill just extend it to japanese cuisine #but the chinese restaurant tavle is too cute an item so now ita like. a fancy nonsense fusion restaurant.#fits raymond tbh!!!!!#my island's got a bunch of ruins with pillars etc #amd raymond has these more modern columns i like to think he was inspired....#so i added the same once to the restaurant's entrance #anyway i love food items so so much.....my favorite always especially the fish ones

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cuerue · 5 days ago

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not going to play the new archetype/origin in the lex imperialis playthrough, so i have decided to not wait to see the new portraits and touch up one of the existing ones instead

one day. one day i'm going to like the male portraits that owlcat put in their games, but for now my army of twinks grows

#idk. i just dont like the poses/outfits/backgrounds on a lot of masc portraits #i was actually initially going to edit that one portrait with a fancy dress for ignatius #since hes genderfluid and deserves all the pretty dresses but alas that hair isnt available for masc frame #and hairs work only half of the time with redress #i really hope they dont have any of the gendered restrictions on hairs and such for dark heresy and osiris reborn #but thats probably too much to hope for #rogue trader #ocs #lazarus #ignatius #and the last twink remains unnamed so far #tanya’s ramblings

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calamitys-child · 3 months ago

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Exercising immense self control by only exiting the big cheap art supplies shop with 2 purchases after having initially picked up like 9

#i just got inks and a brush to apply them. i Want the fabric inks and the big box of pens and the fancy paper and maybe some acrylics and #possibly some spare craft knives cause im always losing mine but! i got the initial essentials for upcoming lino print experimence #and i will get other things if and when ive had good test prints out at least

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