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Little light shining...little light guide them to me...

This is one of my favourite pieces I've made in recent time! An illustration made as I listened to Kate Bush's The 9th wave; An absolutely beautiful experience of a concept album that inspired me so much. I really love a variety of storytelling mediums and music is absolutely no exception to this.

Some more notes about my process and feelings about this piece under the cut!:

I am working on a visual arts project inspired and heavily based on the structure of concept albums and so I was looking for more concept albums to listen to.

A wonderful friend of mine recommended that I listen to Kate Bush's The 9th wave because it's a concept album they personally love and I came to really love it myself!!

I was drawing this while listening to the album because it helps me to really sit with the music and feel it. I like to have something to keep my hands busy so that I don't wander off, but I wanted to make sure I was engaging very directly with the music so drawing what I was imagining and feeling was the best thing I could think of.

It was a very cathartic experience to start with a blank canvas and let the imagery that the lyrics and instrumentals evoked guide me. I really love the way that music stimulates these images and feelings, and that's precisely why I feel so inspired to try to echo that in my more visual projects.

This is most certainly fanart for the album, but it was very revitalizing to create something with direct inspiration like this. I really want to do more of this in the future!

Drawn on: Procreate

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I feel like...since I've got a lot of original characters and fan characters I like to provide some context for when I share my art of them, I should post some simple character bios to give a little overview of my characters!

I want to host these on my neocities website eventually, but I think that for the time being it would be alright to put some bios up on this blog and I'll create a master link page for all of them so that you can find the bios and the tags I use for them.

I also intend to label each of my projects because I have so much on the go and personally I really love to find everything related to it in one place.

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Did some cleaned up bust sketches of Cheapskate-ler and Rich recently!

I haven't got too much to say about these, just that while these aren't really all that ambitious for me, it's really relaxing to just draw some expressions on characters I've had for a long time! I really like the way they turned out too!

I have so many different versions of Cheap and Rich, including a bunch where I tweaked their designs slightly to make them more original, but I will confess I sometimes miss drawing these hairstyles on them as much as I used to.

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Magical guardian Py!! This is my magical girl sona design ✨

This is the page I drew when finalizing the concept and to serve as reference, but I plan to draw this design a lot more to represent myself! The little fox there is a little magical mascot/familiar based on an imaginary friend I made when I was little kid. I got some more notes about my process below!

A few years back I made a magical girl outfit design for myself because I love magical girl stories and designs, and you can do whatever you want forever! I HIGHLY recommend that anybody who feels comfortable depicting themselves to make a sona based around something you absolutely love. It's a lot of fun!!! I think at this point this design has gone through about 4 main iterations? I expect more tweaks in the future because I always like to have a design that reflects me and currently this is what I'm really vibing with! Tweaking this took SUCH a long time to get to something I really love right now, so this really feels like a triumph. When I set out to design this, I had created a bit of a wishlist of aesthetics and other elements I wanted, and then it was a matter of balancing everything visually and making some choices to remove and heavily tweak aspects of it so it wouldn't be too cluttered or lose visual harmony. I also played around with the lengths of different parts of the outfit for visual interest.

In this design are a few nods to some magical girl designs I still really love, but in recent time I feel like there's been a bit more inspiration from european renaissance fashion seeping in because I've been dabbling into period accurate costuming! Now, it's not at ALL accurate in this design but that's not really the point; I just wanted to give the sleeves and breeches that extra poof 👌 The rest of it just just really self indulgent, like the big butterfly wing cape was an ABSOLUTE must for me. My favourite colour is featured prominently. I wanted the inner wings and bow to look like the night sky or kind of galactic so that all those sparkles would really show up and evoke stars, but the orange pinks on other elements of the outfit compliment the blue-greens and give the look and overall sunset/sunrise at twilight vibe.

Drawn with: Procreate

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This is the official kickoff for my tumblr art blog! This blog will serve as the current main hub for updates on my creative projects. Thank you for coming over to check out some of my pieces! 👋✨

I go by Pylime but you can call me Py! I'm an illustrator and story artist who loves to create surreal imagery in my art and writing and I have a heavy focus on outfit design, symbolism and exploration of a character's psyche through my works.

I like to work in a variety of different mediums; primarily a breadth of digital mediums but I also dabble in traditional media and different art forms like bead weaving.

I have a multitude of projects on the go at any given moment, so I will be categorizing my longer projects and one off projects so each one can be found easily enough!

I haven't been posting my art much in recent times, so it is my hope that I will be sharing my art freely and showing off and discussing works in progress. I find seeing the process of doing art very interesting and humbling, so in theory, I shouldn't be having any problem putting out into the world more of what I want to see!