#ShadowBox

[riya-artwork]

BLUE DEER / 2020-2024

[the-gabardine-fox]

New set of completed papercrafts!

Available to purchase here:

[rhythmgameurl]

Did a Limbus Company art this time! I've been listening to Hero for 10 hours now, my brain's starting to hurt... but this is definitely one of my best pieces~! Let me know what you think, and if you've got suggestions!

[bfleuter]

New trash-bash sculpture!

[katarinanavane]

Two mini rainbow curio collection shadowboxes.

[zoestanleyarts]

My Gullible Gulls character, Squeenie the Squid Queen posed in a homage to the Catherine video game cover art. I wanted to try something experimental and more hands on with this illustration. I purchased a shadowbox frame and various craft paper to cut out and assemble this into a shadowbox paper craft.

This project was started back in March 2021. It was an ambitious project to begin with. I hadn’t made the proper time or had the space to work on it. With that, I had put it on the backburner. 3 years later, I’ve managed to finally chip away at it. This has to be my new favorite artwork yet! It's really nice to hang a physical piece of artwork in my home.

[atariforce]

Atari 2600 E.T. by Jules Sorin

[scarlet-titan]

Stolitz shadowbox. Like with the Moxxille one I had some extra stuff I couldn't fit in there. There was a pin I wanted to get for this, it was like the big one with the pride flags in the Chaggie and Huskerdust ones but it seemed that it wasn't being restocked and then I realized I had enough to fill the shadowbox without it.

[ghostweaver]

The other day, after countless hours of weaving and sewing with painfully-countable hours of sleep, I finished my most recent project: a set of multimedia shadow-boxes to commemorate some of the lessons I've learned this past academic year.

The butterfly is meant to symbolize how small actions can make a big impact, combined with a touch of messaging about the importance of Conservation.

The paper plane is meant to symbolize the necessity of play when it comes to learning and innovation, and how small, seemingly trivial tokens can spark incredible, meaningful inspiration.

It's difficult to see here, admittedly, but each has a backdrop of laser-engraved fabric, the butterfly with a milkweed stem and information, and the paper airplane with blueprints of a real plane. The quotes in front were laser engraved as well, onto acrylic this time, and the divots from engraving were filled in with silver acrylic paint to make the words more visible.

I'd love to make more like this someday. But for now, I'm so happy with how these worked out :)

[othersidearts]

Finished my Darkwing Duck shadowbox I got signed by Jim Cummings! Making of video in separate post

[hjtart]

“Religious Vision” shadowbox. the girl is visited by a biblically accurate angel (the hanging buttons)

[the-gabardine-fox]

Loved seeing the glorious evolution of this piece! Shadowbox papercraft featuring one of my favorite characters from Arcane, Viktor!

[rhythmgameurl]

It's Joey Wheeler / Katsuya Junouchi's birthday! It's the second yugioh alter I've made, this one of the cover of the first ygo Manga I ever owned physically, and what introduced me to him! Did you know I still play flame swordsman as a deck?!

[bfleuter]

A new trash sculpture.

[ichigoli]

Mistborn Shadow Box Master Post

Recently, I began working on a Shadow Box concept using paper, resin, and various mix-ins in a 4" square coaster mold.

Mistborn has such a dynamic and bold aesthetic that it felt like a wonderful place to start. It was also my first Cosmere book.

At least if it's Ruined, it's still perfectly in setting.

I started by drawing out a high-contrast, dynamic silhouette of Best Girl Vin above Luthadel.

Each layer was cut out of card stock. I picked a shimmery metallic for the skyline but it doesn't read through the resin so I'll skip next time.

I poured a layer of resin mixed with gray and black mica powder for ash into the channels around the rim of the coaster.

I alternated resin and paper to space the pieces out, swirling white ink between the rooftops for Mist.

A quick peek through the bottom of the mold shows nothing shifted out of position...

The last layer has a lot of red and Garnet ink swirled in. I deliberately under-blended it to get some variety in the pockets of color.

Something I didn't anticipate is the difference in density between the paper and resin. Thin spots tried really hard to float leading to some odd curling in the corners, but nothing deal-breaking.

And the big reveal!

... kinda underwhelming. I went too hard on the mists, and a lot of that ash escaped containment making the whole effect muddied and hard to see ...

BUT WHAT IF WE BURN TIN!?

Awww yeeeah, there's our girl. The red background being transparent and irregular really let's that fiery red sun POP.

A softer background mutes those lovely Allomancy lines but the effect is just too pretty to fault it.

I learned a lot from this project and already have some exciting ideas for more!

Stay tuned for the next one in progress right now

Sneak Peek:

[rustbeltjessie]

We Have Always Lived in the Castle // Jessie Lynn McMains, September 2024

Just a little tribute to one of the finest opening paragraphs in literary history, and to my favorite unlikable protagonist, Merricat Blackwood.