#artificial sun

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[strudeldoodlearts]

mysterious elevators and terrible open office concepts

As I said in the previous post, I kind of want to change up how I draw people. Simplifying/chibifying them would open up more expressions and brain energy for the rest of the drawing.

I am also a sucker for artsy/cute video game sprites, which definitely influence this style decision.

As for this second picture, I thought about crappy open offices and someone's attempt to make one a bit more nature-adjacent to boost employee morale.

I chose rough seats that fail to qualify as balancing exercise ball seats and put them close together for extra 'chumminess.' I also thought that the (royalty free) image would add to the aesthetic (while shortening my drawing time. ^^")

[theenchantedquillmagazine]

The Inevitable Rise and Fall of The Great Silver City

Genre: Sci-Fi, Alternative History

In a world not too far off from our own, where the line between man and machine had grown indistinguishably blurred, rose the Great Silver City. It was an utopian monument of human advancement, a testament to the irrepressible march of progress. The sky-reaching chrome edifices gleamed under the artificial sun, a constant beacon of hope in an increasingly chaotic world.

The people of the Great Silver City were not just ordinary humans. They were transcended beings, their bodies seamlessly integrated with advanced technology, a fusion of flesh and silicon. These were the Cybers, the city's soul, the embodiment of human evolution.

But beneath the metallic sheen of this seemingly perfect world, something stirred. On the eve of the Grand Convergence, a prophesized event where the Cybers would finally shed the last vestiges of their human forms to become purely digital entities, a lowly maintenance Cyborg named Syl discovered a startling secret.

The Aural Core, the heart of the Great Silver City and the eventual convergence point for all Cybers, was showing signs of destabilization. What was once a harmonious fusion of technology and biological life was on the brink of collapse. And nobody, not even the Council of the Seven Engineers, seemed to know why.

With the Council unwilling to halt the Grand Convergence, Syl found himself entangled in the thick web of city politics, cybernetic spirituality, and a creeping existential dread. The stakes couldn't be higher. Was this disruption part of their evolution, or was it a prelude to their doom?

Further complicating things was the mysterious figure known only as the "Purist", a character shrouded in shadow who was slowly gaining influence in the City's underbelly. Was the Purist friend or foe? And how did they remain seemingly untouched by the techno-fusion that defined every Cyber's existence?

As the Great Silver City races against time, Syl must untangle the mystery, challenge the Council, and confront the Purist. At the crux of it all, a question hung in the simulated air: "What does it mean to be human when humanity is left behind?"

As we leave Syl on the precipice of destiny, the Great Silver City shines under the artificial sun, a beacon of hope and despair. In the world of Cybers, the line between salvation and annihilation is as thin as a strand of code. And perhaps you, dear reader, hold the key to their survival... or their inevitable end.

[metalshockfinland]

ARTIFICIAL SUN Release New Official Video ‘The Giants Collapse’

The new official video is the title track and 2nd official video from ARTIFICIAL SUN’s debut album The Giants Collapse, set for release via Sliptrick Records on May 9th. “This song is talking about stepping out from your weaknesses, angst, daily anxieties as an individual and if you let all that control you it will eat you alive and destroy you instantly. The message behind this is that you need…

[chipsy]

[boyrobott]

Astro Boy's Closet: 1980s (2/2)

[tenspontaneite]

fancy pibble having a big think

[thegreatyin]

I have played relatively little of both Sunless Skies and Sunless Seas, but I will occasionally say THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN as though I were some sort of superfan. Basically THE SUN is an infectious meme and it fucking got me good.

we got another one for the admiralty lads 🎉☀️

[turbotasthick]

A stray cigarette lain on the ground…

A voice, stern yet comforting would have scolded the younger one for even looking at it. The voice would have pulled him away, attention elsewhere…

He picks it up.

Silence. . . .

He snapped his fingers, little sparks emit from the friction and the flames eventually lit up the cigarette.

Theres no point in caring anymore.

He inhaled.

[pawphin]

hi,

[fidjiefidjie]

🖼 Vincent Van Gogh et les Beatles 🎶 Here Comes the sun 🌞

Source: Fundación Mustakis

👋 Bel après-midi

[myokk]

Thank you so so so much to everyone who sent in their character!😇🙏 these were scribbled up between art demonstrations and constant “profe la nariz la hice mal me ayudas” etc questions😅

I had so much fun drawing these, I hope I did your characters justice!!🥰🙏💓

@masqueradereveler21

@serpensortiamaxima

@eternalremorse

@superconductivebean

@slytherin-paramour

@limonnitsa

[harveybwabbit92]

[I had thought about Ultras and their skeletons, then thought what if they were similar to a cat's skeleton? Where the vertebrae are all held by muscles rather than by ligaments, (That would explain Blazar.) and now I'm imagining Taro trying to hide from toddler Taiga for five minutes so he can eat a candy bar without sharing with his son, but Taiga finds him and gets into to the room by squeezing in through a gap under the door which scares the shit out of Taro! cos he didn't know they could do that!]

[metalshockfinland]

ARTIFICIAL SUN Release New Official Video ‘Hell-o’

Greek groove metal group ARTIFICIAL SUN have released an official video for the track Hell-o, the first track available taken from the forthcoming debut album The Giants Collapse which is set for release on May 9th via Sliptrick Records. The band said; “This song is talking about how behind a “Hello” or a smile, sometimes people tend to mask out their true feelings and emotions.” Video…

[princeanxious]

✨️Moondrop progress update #1✨️

Picture 1 desc/info: knowing that I'd want to make Moondrop once I finished Sundrop, I made sure that(when I remembered to, as I'm learning that i wasn't quite as 100% consistent as I hoped I was) to make traced out references of each finished carved piece so that I wouldn't waste time struggling matching both of their proportions, considering nearly every piece required a duplicate piece to help achieve the eventual 'hollow skeleton' method that I use. Also, this is what I mean when I state that theyre carved from popsicle sticks. If it works, it works. lol

Picture 2 desc/info: here's the full lineup of every carved piece I have ready for Moondrop so far, and roughly how it will fit together. Every arm piece, leg piece, and even knee joint and the head piece have a duplicate(sans for the detail on the head's piece, obviously, though the headpiece is more complex than that as well). To further expand on why I did this, instead of just having one piece each, I need to point out the arm, hand, and ankle joint pieces. They will not be connected in two places, only one, to achieve full range of movement for the limb that they are attached to.

To achieve this, whilst still trying to keep this project's weight light, I'll create a hollowed skeleton. Essentially where the insides of the limbs(and body) are made hollow via smaller pieces of wood/popsickle stick scraps glued in-between the base pieces, but leaving enough empty space on either side to add two things. One side will have a rolled cylinder of a reinforced cardboard/paper mache combo, to provide a hollowed slot for the long joint piece side to slot into, and the other side, two hollowed holes to slot a dowel through with the joint piece inbetween. (If this doesn't make sense, dw, I plan on taking pictures when I get to that stage to show how I do it)

I also just end up stuffing the remaining 'dead-space' between the carved pieces with paper before i add clay, to further sheer off any unnecessary internal weight. Now, what you couldn't see with my Sundrop, is that by the time I finished adding clay and test stringing him together and started looking at reference photos again for color references, I hadn't realized up until that point that I'd entirely forgotten to add the dca standard wire-hook on his back. Not even superficially. So this will be where project Moondrop(whom at least uses the wire far more than sundrop, lol) will deviate from my original Sundrop design. I might use paper and cardboard to flesh out his limb shapes further before adding clay to make his body even lighter than suns, I've reinforced his torso pieces to account for the hole I'll carve into the back for my goal of a Functional wire-hook, I've made adjustments to his thigh shape for better ease of movement/posability(which might coincidentally make him just a smidgen shorter than Sun by design, shhh) because sundrops leg slots and the actual part of the leg that's supposed to slot in ended up quite a bit out of alignment due to the leg shape lacking a taper at the top to allow for a rounder end. Sundrop's legs are just a little janky bc of it.

Picture 3 desc/info: this is a look at the inbetween stage that the hip piece goes through, and you'll find that it's not reinforced with wood anywhere simply because of the completely curved surface. There were attempts made with sundrop to do this but they proved to be way too hard to bother with and less than affective with just popsickle sticks. Hense I use cardboard from a soda can box(aka cardboard that's compact and can carry a heavy capacity if the design is balanced and re-attachment points are reinforced properly) and then have so far gone over certain points with paper and glue(using the papermache method) to base reinforce places and also provide more adhesable texture internally. Because, that round piece(also cardboard) is going to sit in the main juncture of the top of the hips. A hole will be cut into it to maintain the ability to string the limbs and body together, and it will be further reinforced further with paper and glue, and later covered in clay- along with the rest of the hips inside and out, thus entirely made smaller than intended to account for the eventual bulk up of the piece. This cover provides a supportive divot in the hips that the middle torso piece can sit in that will give it the range of movement intended but also aid it in allowing the body to sit up straight otherwise(something that was discovered to be needed when working on finetuning sundrop whilst test-stringing, adding yet more weight due to the fix having been made solidly out of clay. Probably provides more support to Sundrop this way, but Moon needs to be as light as possible to prevent stress cracks/damage/balance issues/ect. If I want him to be able to have a functional hook to be used to be displayed with.

On a less technical note, there isn't much to show in the skeleton stage for the middle torso piece bc it's just a hollow cylinder of cardboard, thin enough to escape the bulk, but wide enough to still be strung through. It's just a lil tube for Sundrops frame anyway lol. Though, tbf, I might bulk Moondrops middle with paper/cardboard/whatever I decide, for the, once again, lightweight intention. I use air dry clay but even still it do be solid af when dry and sealed lol

Off camera just inches out of shot of each picture is sundrop, whom has slowly become disrobed and carefully disassembled in places to give me size references for things, but also one of these updates I'll show you how I made his head/face/ ray settup- why? Because it broke. Cuz my dumbass should've used wire and not a wooden dowel to support it all. (Further more, I'm using it as an opportunity to eventually redo Suns rays, because when I did the first set, I went for accuracy in the ray count, but still wanted them to spin freely. But I realized I HATE the gap that's left anywhere if his rays arent perfectly positioned and honestly this mechanism breaking is my sign and chance to fix it now that the rays aren't locked in anymore lol.)

I've decided to give this progress update log the tag '#projectdcadoll' from now on, so any posts I make abt this in the future will have that tag!

And if anyone has any questions about any specifics of the project, I'll also answer them/respond to them under this tag, so please feel free to ask away! I'm excited to share this process with ya'll!