#moon derg art

[moonlight-tmd]

Here, have a BlitzBee art!

It was supposed to be a short comic but 7 minutes in I got hit with the returning realization how fuckin awful I am at those.

So instead I did something I'm actually good at.

[targaros]

Hello! I'm a devious creature :3

She/her, pan. B-day 12 September.

I run @pebbles-five, @moon-to-the-looks, @significant-harassment-no, @red-suns-seven, @of-straw-sliver (inactive), and @cats-slug, all in-character blogs of rain world Iterators and Slugcats! I have accounts on Archive Of Our Own, Flight Rising and Art Fight!

Tags (expect me to forget about them often):

#art, #reblog, #poll - self explanatory #(mine) / #(not mine) - specific to art; if is of my property or not #swirly-eyed cat - things that have to do with the creature

Below the cut see random stuff i like/fixate on

Things that I like/seen/can/have to work with (a list of everything in my life basically):

Audio and visuals: Studio Ghibli (Spirited away, Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Cat Returns, Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo), Lord of the Rings, xkcd though I don't understand half of it, Monty Python, Monk (tv series), Les Luthiers, Back to the Future

Audio: Tally Hall, Brian David Gilbert (Dances Moving, most songs he made), miscelaneous oldies (Frank Sinatra, Dancing In the rain, Puting on the ritz)

Games: Flight Rising (my favourite derg), Rain World, Half Life, Team Fortress 2, Sky: Children of the Light, TloZ: BotW, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Outer Wilds, Dark Souls, Don't Starve, Undertale, Minecraft, Age of Empires II

Coding stuff: Python, HTML, CSS, AutoHotkey, Twine (Harlowe)

Creatures: Ants, Furnarius Rufus, Maned Wolves, Strandbeests, SCP

[stardomthenightwing]

How many followers do you have? And can you name them in in order?

I have 87. I'm so close to 100!

This is a very, very strangely specific question, but I guess it can't hurt anyone. Congratulations every single one of my followers! You are officially featured in a Stardom The Nightwing post! Why am I so dedicated to stupid things like this; I just typed out every single one of my followers' names and taglines.

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I hope this anon isn't secretly an evil mastermind who's going to use this information to kill me somehow...

[zephyrnoodles]

Lair Review for Santana

@santana-fr​

Dragons of all sorts and colors living and vibing in a lair that is neatly organized. Very nice!

The first derg I picked is Garric:

What a soft looking tundra. I like the blue accents in the bubblegum pinstripe and the moon fade softens all of his lines. He looks like he smells like raspberries and tea. He gives me vibes of a sweet old man who gives you tea and pastry and swaps stories with you. The faeries seem to like him too! Are they after the sweet cream he has stored away?

Next one up is Ran:

Take a look at this gorgeous wildclaw lady. Her colors are beatiful and the choice of genes is perfect. Also that skincent is amazing. I would totally steal that dragon if I could. The lack of apparel with the exception of the sylvan headpiece suits her well, the skincent already adds a lot to her. She looks like she rules a forest kindgom. Badass.

More under the cut!

Now let’s talk about Antares:

That’s a plaque man right there. I love what garnet noxtide does to his wings. the blue/purple accent color makes the red look more intense imo. I like that you chose to use spectral fuchsia stuff instead of the red one since it picks up on the blue/purble of his wings and his amethyst spines. Also that skincent looks so badass! It works well with the Wasp gene since it compliments the chitinous style of it all.

Tybalt is next:

Sand is a wonderful color. And lionfish & noxtide make good use of it. Lionfish can be very busy at some times, but it works very well here. I like how the white ghost picks up on the white that is included in lionfish. Your choice of apparel for him is a+. The teal and copper colors really add to his overall image. And the electricians powerpack hints at his lightning origin. Also i’m a fan of faceted eyes and they pop out so well on spirals.

Last but not least: Quietzie

Poison is such a great gene honestly. Usually I’m not a fan how it adds red to tourquoise but it works so amazingly well here. The skincent picks up on both the red and the turquoise and the buttercup of his tertiary. His lore says he is a bard and I can totally see that. And: All that great art in his bio! Hell yeah!

[umbramatic]

Worldbuilding June 2020 Episode 9

9. What religion and cosmology exists in your world?

The people of Klidi worship various gods as protectors, guides, and helpers. While these gods often resemble one particular species or another, the religions that sprout around them often are practiced by multiple species, and the gods are capable of altering their appearance beyond their preferred forms anyway. As with the species themselves I was sadly forced to narrow down. (OH BOY TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE DEITIES MY FAVORITE)

(The Overgod)

I've mentioned this one before. The progenitor deity of Klidi itself and beyond. Aside from her origin myth, little is known about her, not even to the other gods, but she is said to resemble a cosmic grey whale.

(We talked plenty about this fellow on Day 4.)

(Efilla)

The goddess of life, nature, and acceptance, and patron guardian of Klidi itself, who can be as ruthless as nature itself but decrees all people should treat each other with tolerance and respect and to punish those who do not. Takes the form of a woman with dark hair, green eyes, and green clothes.

(Basically the second-in-command to the Overgod.)

(Celosia)

Goddess of the moon, peace, and calm. Her followers, relatedly, tend to be some variety of pacifist. Takes the form of an anthropomorphic luna moth.

(Do you like moth girls? I like moth girls.)

(Ellegia)

The goddess of death, decay, and finality. She appears in the visions and dreams of many, usually foretelling doom, but she is not antagonistic. Takes the form of a woman of indeterminate species in a dark dress, wielding a bloody sword.

(I also like more feminine grim reaper types.)

(Niata)

The goddess of magic, mystery, and forests. She is enigmatic and odd and those species influenced by her in particular are known as the fey. Resembles a woman in mage robes who is a hybrid of multiple species. 

(There'll be more on her in Day 16.)

(Norgun)

Nonbinary deity of justice, restraint, and patience. Believes that if conflict is to happen it must be to fix injustice in the world. Resembles a green-skinned humanoid with long hair, strange wings, and what can be best described as a "battle dress". (A bit of a note. I didn't mention it in Day 3 because I was trying to narrow the scope a bit, but there are orcs in this setting, and they tend to gravitate to Norgun a lot, even though they're hardly the only ones who worship Norgun or Norgun is hardly the only deity worshipped by orcs. They're meant to run counter to conventions of what an "orc deity" would be like.)

(Also I drew them!:)

(Nyxian)

Nonbinary deity of darkness, confidence, and passion. Their followers are more pleasant than you'd think. Resembles an enby vampire in, dare I say, edgy clothing. In a romantic relationship with Solah - their religions get along.

(MORE UMBRA SELF-INDULGENCE)

(Repscal) God of pride, power, and valor. Often invoked by warriors going into battle. Resembles a hybrid of all the dragon species.

(derg god derg god derg god)

(Sheliel)

God of ice, determination, and hope. His followers believe struggles are like winters and they exist to be overcome. Resembles a man with crystalline wings.

(I have art of this one too! Though this time it was made by TabrisDuCiel on Toyhou.se:)

(Solah)

Goddess of the sun, happiness, and positivity. Said to be cheery and bubbly... unless you get her mad. Resembles a white-haired woman with various sun motifs on her clothing.

(SUNNY D BABY)

(Stevgonzrak)

Not much is known about this strange eldritch deity, its cults are scattered and enigmatic. Some say it is as old as the Overgod, and while Niata controls magic on Klidi this terrifying being is the source. Is it truly a threat to the entire universe, or is the truth more complicated than that?

(Okay, so uh, this one happens to be one of my favorite OCs of mine. But we'll talk about him later.)

[snickertoodles]

8 Character Creators for Writers/OCs

Update: Added Picrew, and image examples.

One of my favourite ways of wasting time while getting to call it “worldbuilding” is spending hours toying with online character creators and making my OCs with them.

Jokes aside, it’s a good way to figure out what they look like, especially if you’re not an artist (and even if you are it can help you with creating an initial outline of their appearance. It’s a lot easier to pick the hairstyle that looks “right” than to draw it yourself sometimes).

So here’s a few of my favourites. These are all free and online unless otherwise stated.

(Fair warning, most of these are either cutesy, cartoony, or anime-styled because that’s what I like.)

Picrew - User-submitted, usually anime character makers of wildly varying style and quality. The whole site is in Japanese, but you can navigate fine if you translate it. There’s animal, male, and all other kinds of makers too.

Wonder ☆ Meka

Character Creator

Girl Maker

Rinmaru Games - Various anime-styled character makers that suit both modern and fantasy human OCs.

Video Game Avatar Creator & Ascension Couple Creator - Fullbody, male and female (male in Ascension only), fantasy creators with a range of colours and options for clothes, hair, etc. In Ascension you can make humans, moon elves, and have two at the same time.

Mega Anime Avatar Creator - As it says on the tin, anime bust suitable for male, female, and androgynous characters. There’s a lot of stuff here.

Mega Fantasy Avatar Creator - MAAC but with more fantasy-based options and a less 2D cartoony style.

I’ve also found the newer Manga Creators helpful.

Missangest Games - Fantasy-based, fullbody, usually female characters like mermaids, knights, angels, etc. in cartoon/anime-like style. These have more original concepts suited for humanoid fantasy/RPG characters.

Mermaid Dollmaker

Dark Warrior Creator

Cursed Fairy

DollDivine and Azalea’s Dolls - Generally female, modern and fantasy makers, some animals too. Both of these are just pretty good resources for high-quality character makers from across the web, though some are hit or miss. Make sure you look at the “exclusive” games that are made by the site creators.

X-Girl - Pretty in-depth maker for mutants, fantasy and sci-fi, girls with magical powers, etc.

Dragon Maker - For your Western-styled dergs. You’re stuck with the one body type and pose, but this is good if you need a canvas for figuring out your dragon’s horns, frills, coloring, etc.

Azalea Scene Makers - Various fantasy races, multiple characters and customization options.

Candybar Dolls (Boys version) - Cutesy pixel art “dolls” with hundreds of different pieces. The UI is kind of difficult to navigate, and the clothes are mostly suited to modern humans, but there’s a lot of options. There are other versions of this game here.

Gaia Online Avi Builder (Requires Sign-Up) - Cutesy, chibi-style pixel art for male, female, and some animal characters. There are thousands of items, but they’re organized atrociously. If you have the patience to deal with the slowness and total chaos you could make pretty much anything. Use the search bar to find items based on keywords.

Hero Forge - Fantasy/D&D characters, multiple races. Create your character as a Dungeons and Dragons mini. Lots of poses, objects, clothing and options. However it’s all entirely greyscale; you’ll need to use GIMP or something to colour these yourself.

Black Desert Online ($10 on Steam) - 3D character maker, male and female warriors, fantasy. If you’d love to spend 5 hours screwing with your characters’ exact facial shapes, this might be worth the money even if you don’t want to play the game. You can also pose them once you’re done.

The downside is the lack of hairstyles and outfits. Plus you’re essentially locked to the body type/general appearance of the class you pick (and all the female classes are pretty much “cutesy anime girl”, so not a lot of variety there).

Also, the game is fairly intensive, and like 30+GB big. So you have to have a good computer and some space, just for a character creator with an MMO attached to it.

Other paid/downloadable character creators to check out:

EVE Online - I haven’t checked this one out yet but it looks to have a similar depth to BDO, and it’s free. And takes up less space.

SoulCalibur V and VI

The Sims 3 and 4 (and maybe 2 with mods)

Sims 4 Create-a-Sim Demo

Elder Scrolls Online

Skyrim with RaceMenu (and other eyes/hair/etc mods)

That’s it, have fun. I might do in-depth looks at character creators in video games someday.

[moonstalkerwerewolf]

AT: Giant Derg by MoonstalkerWerewolf

Mixed-media trade for @pikminpedia  with Dragon Sarge and a Moon (because he's gigantic). For time's sake (since I was on call for work and not actually off), I inked this traditionally while doing the colors digitally. His half: Geeb the Lazy Boy

Artwork and Moon © MoonstalkerWerewolf/Me.You can find more of my art on my deviantARTor artblog! Please DO NOT repost or remove the source and comments!

[elizadoolittlethings]

Mark Gatiss: ‘There’s nothing quite like the sheer bloody terror of theatre’

by

Mark Shenton

- Sep 29, 2016

By a strange sort of coincidence, October sees Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton all appearing on the London stage.

No sooner does Gatiss open next Tuesday in The Boys in the Band at the Park Theatre, than the very next night Shearsmith begins previews for a West End revival of Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser, and three weeks later Pemberton leads the cast of Dead Funny. The three men were, of couse, all co-founders (with Jeremy Dyson) and stars of The League of Gentlemen, a TV comedy troupe that was born as a stage act (and won the Perrier comedy award at Edinburgh in 1997), before making three TV series between 1999 and 2002 and then a feature film in 2005.

“This is a sort of two-yearly story now, when we all seem to be doing plays at the same time,” says Gatiss, talking in a lunch break from rehearsals a couple of Saturdays before previews begun. “But we’re just working really.”

Today he tells me frankly: “I owe everything to the League – and we’re talking about doing something else now, as it has been 10 years since we worked together and we’d love to again.” Yet it also keeps reappearing in his life anyway: “It goes in cycles of rebirth. People come up to me and say they loved it when they were kids, which makes me feel ancient; but then kids come up to me who’ve just found it, too. It goes round and round.”

During those League years – “we were together for 11 years” – he and the others made a total commitment to it. “We made a pact that we wouldn’t get distracted. We’d seen a few of our contemporaries go off and do other things, but we didn’t want to lose sight of what we were doing, so if we did anything else it would be only short things that we could fit in.”

If the League will forever be a marker for him, another has become Sherlock, the modern version of Sherlock Holmes that he has written with Steven Moffat, and for which they’ve just completed a fourth series of three episodes.

“That takes it to 13 we’ve done in six years. People ask why we don’t do 10 a year, but it’s hard enough doing three every 18 months. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing, like bottled lightning; it just came together, the idea of doing a modern version, the writing, the casting and the timing of it. Conan Doyle spent all his life trying to work out why people liked Sherlock Holmes; Steven and I just go, ‘fine’. It’s been astonishing; it sells to more places than there are countries, which is something to do with oil rigs and other territories. And Benedict [Cumberbatch] and Martin [Freeman] have become superstars through it.”

Gatiss is himself far too modest and self-effacing to consider himself a star, though as an actor earlier this year he won his first Olivier award for best actor in a supporting role for his appearance in Three Days in the Country at the National Theatre, and said in a post-award red carpet interview: “I’m over the moon, I really am. It’s a thrill, I’ve always wanted one and I am really pleased.”

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He had every reason to be; as Kate Kellaway put it in her review in The Observer: “Mark Gatiss, as the ‘maestro of misdiagnosis’ Shpigelsky, gives a comic tour de force, and his immodest proposal to middle-aged Lizaveta brings the house down. He sinks to his knees to propose, but lumbago prevents him from rising and he crawls, in a most undignified style, across the stage, bottom up. It’s funny, but it is the more subtle aspects of Gatiss’ performance that fascinate most: the way he holds a smile, lets it go beyond its sell-by date: there is Shpigelsky’s vanity and misplaced confidence in it.”

He tells me he never had confidence in that comic routine himself: “Una Stubbs once told me that when she was doing a play at the Donmar Warehouse a friend told her how she loved that thing she was doing with her hands, and she never got a laugh from it again after that. It’s the old saw about a good review being as dangerous as a bad one. With the entire back routine in Three Days in the Country, I couldn’t remember what I had done about three months in; I lived in mortal dread of it going away, but it was also good because it kept it fresh.”

He keeps himself fresh by combining two careers, one as a writer, the other as an actor. “I’ve always done both. In an ideal year, I do half and half. Sherlock takes a long time to write, then four months to film; I then like to spend three months on a play.”

Theatre has become a mainstay for Gatiss. “I usually do a play a year, sometimes two,” with credits that stretch from the National (where as well as Three Days in the Country he also starred in Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings) to the Donmar (The Recruiting Officer, Josie Rourke’s first show at the helm), Hampstead Theatre (Howard Brenton’s 55 Days), and London’s Old Vic (All About My Mother). “I can write while I’m in a play, too, and I like that – it gives structure to the day – but I always forget, like the amnesia of childbirth, how tired I get. When you do a play you shift into a different pattern, and become more of a night owl, although I’m very much a morning person. When you’re in the theatre, you eat late and sleep later so that has an effect on the day.”

Theatre has also always been in his blood, ever since he first attended a drama club at school and an after-hours youth theatre, before going to study at Bretton Hall in Yorkshire, where he first met the other Leaguers and they formed The League of Gentlemen. “It’s such a different experience to sitting in a caravan waiting to film something. There’s nothing quite like the sheer bloody terror of theatre – and the smell of a freshly painted set is exactly the same wet paint smell I remember from drama club at school. It gives me the same tingle of anticipation and nerves and excitement.”

Being in a play is like a holiday romance – it’s very intense, then it dissipates

Of course, one of the joys of working in the theatre is that it is much more social than the solitary act of writing. “Sometimes I feel like I’ve been chained to a desk for months, so there’s nothing nicer than joining a new group of friends and everything that comes with it. It’s like a holiday romance – it’s very intense, then it dissipates.”

There’s no room for holiday romances, or ‘showmances’ as I’ve heard them dubbed, though: for the first time, he is working on stage with his actor husband Ian Hallard, whom he married seven years ago. “We’ll be like Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray now,” he quips. The ceremony was held at Middle Temple, the ancient Inn of Court in central London, and he can’t resist telling me: “The ceremony took place beneath the portrait of Edward Carson, the man who prosecuted Oscar Wilde. Who’d have thought? He’d be turning in his grave.”

Doing The Boys in the Band, Mart Crowley’s 1960s play about a group of gay men, together now was prompted partly by Hallard’s involvement in a rehearsed reading of the play four years ago, which Gatiss saw and tells me how much it resonated.

“One line that stood out was: ‘If we could only not hate ourselves quite so much.’ I thought it was brilliant. And then [producers] Tom O’Connell and James Seabright got a production together and the Park Theatre said yes, and I had a gap, so I joined, too. Ian was doing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Theatr Clwyd in the first three months of the year, and then I went straight off to do four months of Sherlock, so this is a good way of seeing each other now.”

There are other perks, too: “Jack Derges is utterly delightful – being kissed by him every day is all right. But Ian gets kissed by him first,” he hastens to add. The Park is also local to them – they live in nearby Islington – and he says: “I love this theatre. It has an indie feeling to it, and has a really loyal, local audience. But I’ve also wanted to play this part since I saw the film when I was 12 or 13. It’s an important play – it’s fascinating to see where we were, where we’ve got to, and between that, where we think things have changed or not at all. You know that a play is good when you stage it at different times and it means something different each time.”

Continues…

Q&A: Mark Gatiss

What was your first non-theatre job? I worked as a gardener in a hospital across the road from where my dad worked.

What was your first professional theatre job? Working at Darlington Arts Centre, now sadly gone, which in its day was second only to the Barbican in terms of size. I was a deputy stage manager.

What is your next job? I’ve got a lot of things to write, most of them secret at the moment.

What do you wish someone had told you when you were starting out? Don’t sweat the small stuff.

Who or what was your biggest influence? My greatest inspiration is Alan Bennett – I’ve never worked with him, but he is it. My acting hero is James Mason, who as a screen actor was unsurpassable; on stage, it is Mark Rylance – his Richard II was a life-changing experience for me, it was breathtaking.

What’s your best advice for auditions? Don’t go, leave them to me! But apart from that, whenever I’m involved in producing things, I try to get actor friends to come in and read in for those auditioning. It’s very unusual for actors to sit on the other side of the table, and they always find it revelatory. At the end of the day, they realise it is very rarely about not being good, but about the fit, and that’s reassuring to know. So my advice would be that if you can, try to get to sit on the other side of the table sometime – it will make you feel so much better when you don’t get a job.

If you hadn’t been an actor and writer, what would you have been? I’m very blessed to do this as I can’t do anything else. The only other thing I really wanted to was be a pantologist, but I didn’t have Latin.

Do you have any theatrical superstitions or rituals? I try not to as I’m quite a rational person, but in the face of the terror, I can’t tell you how many times I find myself whistling in the dressing room and having to go out in the corridor and turn around three times and blow a raspberry, hoping no one notices.

He goes on: “There is a lot of stuff in this play about self-loathing that is very relevant. The idea that that has gone away is a fallacy. The levels of mental illness and suicide in young gay men particularly is awful. I was talking to a friend recently who told me about a friend of his who struggled to come out. We imagine, living in our metropolitan bubble, that it is easy, but he had gone through hell – it sounded like something from the 1950s, but was to do with what was going on in his own head.”

The play premiered in 1968, a year ahead of Stonewall and the new age of gay liberation that ushered in, but it was a landmark play for portraying gay lives on a mainstream stage so unashamedly, and maybe critically. Some activists have resisted its portrait of these gay lives as too hostile and unhappy; but as Gatiss points out: “I hate the notion of things having to wear the weight of everything on their shoulders. This is actually a particular view of nine particular men, written from a very autobiographical standpoint by Mart Crowley. I feel very like I’m on a soapbox about this, but why should this play have to shoulder everyone’s stories? Obviously it was different when there were very few gay plays, but it’s not like that now that there’s a multiplicity of them, so we can look at it in its context.”

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That context is also, of course, pre-Aids – though it’s a sad fact of that disease that it claimed no fewer than four of the play’s original New York cast. During the 1980s, the play duly fell off the gay theatre syllabus entirely; as Gatiss puts it: “There was a period when clearly this was the wrong thing to put on, when we were absolutely under siege. But the last time it was done in New York, Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times that it was apparently all right to like Boys in the Band again. As time passes and things shift, it is not just ripe for revival, but also still relevant. It’s a false assumption that all battles have been won. There’s a massive debate in the gay community about masculinity, for instance. And what really interests me is the notion how, in any community or cause, when you start to achieve victories, the things that give you common cause start to fray and then you start to turn in on yourself. It’s a bit like the Labour Party is doing now. But so much has been achieved.”

Yet the gay community is facing new challenges now, such as the disturbing rise in chemical drug addictions. “A friend has a really interesting theory about the perhaps subconscious feeling among gay people that we are somehow ‘other’. There’s that wonderful line in Inherit the Wind that you invent the telephone but lose the charm of distance; so for everything you gain, you lose something, too. And maybe the rise of chem-sex is a way for men to say, ‘Yes, I can marry and adopt children now, but I’m still not like you.’ And that’s really interesting.” Addictions are a way to try to cure, or at least temporarily relieve, pain, “whether it’s drugs or sex or booze, which this play is about. And from the outside, all looks fine now – you have Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno [Tonioli] on the TV, and Ian and I were on Graham Norton [on BBC Radio 2] this morning, so visibility is not an issue. Obviously huge steps have been made, but it’s folly to think that everything is rosy now.”

Continues…

Mark Gatiss’ top tip for an aspiring writer and actor

• As Churchill said, keep buggering on, that’s the only thing you can do. For writing, there’s no such thing as a would-be writer. You do it or you don’t, so just get on with it. People are scared, they think they’ll be judged – but the only person doing that is yourself.

Some may still resist the portrait of these bitching, unhappy gay men all over again, but Gatiss is ready with his answer to them: “If someone says that’s not me, it’s not supposed to be. I find repellent the closing down and over-policing of things; it suffocates debate.” That’s a debate he wants to have. And apart from working with his husband, the play has an added resonance for him, too: in it, he plays Harold, whose birthday party provides the setting for the story, and he tells me, “I’ll turn 50 during the run, though we don’t have a show that night.”

After the run finishes, he plans to take a holiday at last: “I’m going to try to have an actual month off, to see if I can do it. People ask me if I’m a workaholic – I don’t think I am, but I love to work. Noel Coward once said work is more fun than fun, and I finished a script the other day and gave myself a day off work and I went off for a massage. But I was quite bored by the end of the day.”

CV: Mark Gatiss

Born: 1966, Sedgefield, County Durham Training: Bretton Hall College Landmark productions: All About My Mother, Old Vic, London (2007), Season’s Greetings, National Theatre (2010), The Recruiting Officer, Donmar Warehouse, London (2012), 55 Days, Hampstead Theatre, London (2012), Coriolanus, Donmar Warehouse, London, with Tom Hiddleston (2013), Three Days in the Country, National Theatre (2015) Awards: Perrier award for comedy for The League of Gentlemen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (1997), BAFTA for The League of Gentlemen TV series (2000), Royal Television Society award for The League of Gentlemen TV series (2000), Golden Rose of Montreux for The League of Gentlemen TV series (1999), Writers Guild award for best short-form TV drama for Sherlock (2012), Olivier award for best supporting actor for Three Days in the Country (2016). Agents: Sarah Spear/Grace Clissold at Curtis Brown

The Boys in the Band runs at the Park Theatre, London, until October 30

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week 4

Artist Research

Wednesday’s session - 3 artist

Viki Johnson -

Viki is a norwich based artist who’s work is inspired by nature, folklore and patterns with the use of bold colours through out. Her background in art is traditional through print making which has now led her to create her own style of art with the use of illustration, colour overlay which has now allowed for her work to be recognisable. Personally, I really do like her style of work, the bold and bright colours really do add another dimension to each peice and brings it more visually exiting to life.

I also love her cyanotype illustrations with so much detail include into them with the blue and white contrast really bring out every detail which creates these impressive and stunning designs.

Susan Derges

Susan is a Devon based artist who is most know for her natural and scientific process of art especially her cyanotype in which she sometimes uses the moon light to process her work which I find such a creative and inventive way of producing the work but in a different approach. I think her cyanotypes are stunning pieces of work that really showcased the details of how beautiful nature is and allows us as the audience to in a way have more appreciation for the beauty we are surrounded around.

Marco Breuer

Marco is a German photographer and artist. Most of his work to revolves around not using a physical camera but instead using photographic, abrasive and incisive techniques. I do in particular like all of his style of work but primarily his cyanotype based pieces.

I really admire his work like this in particular because I love the patterns and designs he has been able to create, so abstract and random yet so put together and stunning. I feel like these prices in particular relate to my them of ‘Pallets and Patterns’ well and gives me so inspiration to see just how beautiful random patterns and colours put together can be.

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here, have a lil somethin

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Photograms and Camera-less Photography (Research)

This research is a few images from the artists that we had discussed it in lesson. Each of these artists have very different art styles to each other but are some what correlated and linked with each other.

Each artist has a short explanation about who they are and what their type of art is all about/ inspiration. Will also talk about parts that were included in our work and what we had taken to use when the group went to the dark room.

Man Ray-

The first artist is called Man Ray. He was known for his photography and also his fashion and portrait photographs. He also Is very well known for his photograms that he named after himself “Rayographs”. Despite being born in America he spent most of his career out in France, Paris.

As you can see In the pictures above and below his photograms consisted of various different items of different shapes and sizes. These photograms could really consist of just about anything. The stranger the object the better the outcome of the photogram.

The work that he creates an effect in an almost x-ray like manner. It reminds me of when a suitcase goes through the security scanner at the airport and shows the inside if the luggage. Man Rays work is the most like what we made in our work with the monochrome shade and using the inverse of what is really shown in real life.

Susan Derges-

Susan Derges is a photographer from Britain born in London in 1955 and attended the Chelsea College Of Arts. She specialises in camera-less photographic processes, most often working with natural landscapes. Derges puts large sheets of photographic paper in rivers then by using the moon light and a flash light to create exposure then this print the natural forms onto the paper shown above and below.

The way that she makes her art is very beautifully done as its all natural and out in the world and not cooped up in an office working away. This gives a new peaceful side of photograms that I didn't know existed. The art gives off a very calming element to it which is what I think is the goal. The colours used in the art are different to what we did. Where we used a monochrome shades she often uses very calm toned down almost pastel colours displayed below.

Her art is shown all around the world from New York to Japan in various different museums and show rooms.

Stephen Gill-

Stephen Gill is a photographer from the UK based in Bristol born in 1971. His work was highly inspired by his childhood fascination of collecting insects and small water life in containers to then look closer at under a microscope.

Just like the other artist featured in the thread his art is show cased in a number of different galleries and museums around the world. 

Gills work is by far my favourite of the artist talked about. Theres just something about how odd and strange his work is that is so appealing to me and I'm sure many others worldwide. 

The whole concept of Gills work is that he breaks open old style film cameras and fill them with these weird and strange everyday items. Then take pictures of  a some landscape in the background. His work is all about layers. When building up the layers in this work you need to be cautious on not to go over the top and ruin the display but involve enough to create an interesting piece of work.

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Photogram Artists

Man Ray

Man Ray is famous for his photographs commonly known as photograms, he however dubbed these as “rayographs” in a punning combination of his own name and the word “photograph”. To make them he placed objects, materials, and sometimes parts of his own or a model's body onto a sheet of photosensitised paper, he then exposed them to light to create negative images. This is a traditional process of camera-less photography was produced in the 1930s, with which Ray has managed to create pieces of art that have stayed interesting and eye-catching until now.

As well as using lots of different object and materials, Ray also experiments with distance, movement and other techniques. For example objects that were lifted further from the paper and closer to the light would have less crisp edges and enlarge, by merging different distances together you can see all the objects as layered. Another effect you can create using light photography is capturing movement, as you move an object under the exposing light it tracks the whole path of the object and keeps it light as long as it’s done quickly.

Ray has also taken some reflective images that slightly distort the face, I think this is an interesting effect and therefore used this as inspiration for my distortion photography. I looked for ways to recreate this effect, using reflective materials like glass or mirrors.

Susan Derges

Serges Derges is another photographer who uses the traditional technique of photograms, however adds unique and modern ideas to create something special and never seen before. Rather than the usual process of placing objects onto a piece of light sensitive paper and exposing the light in a dark room, Derges uses the night landscape as her makeshift darkroom. The natural light of the moon acts as the light that exposes the paper, and the nature that grows above the paper leaves a contrasting mark of itself on the paper.

The water ripple effects are also very interesting and unique because it’s also naturally captured, this is done by submerging large sheets of photographic paper in rivers which over the time of light exposure photographs the movement of water. I think the combination of both natural elements, within the image itself and the process of photographing, creates such an intriguing image  that could seem edited together but is just a creative idea with a traditional process. 

However as you can see her art is in colour, which is not possible with the photogram technique used. So what she did is first invert the image, because when taken it inverts the usual shades/contrast, and then digitally add realistic colours to the photos. This made them look more realistic and eye-catching, especially when compared to most photograms.

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Virtual Sketchbook #2

1) Journaling

2) Writing and Looking

Susan Derges’s photograph Gibbous Moon Cloud contains very thin and detailed lines, organic shapes, cool hues, low saturation, highlights and shadows, areas of large visual mass (clouds), implied motion within the ripples, high contrast in tones, and achieves balance through the two thirds method in photography. It yields unity within a seemingly monotone color palette, but variety in the values. The darker areas, such as the twigs and leaves, act as areas of subordination, allowing lighter regions near the top to be emphasized. Susan Dereges, Gibbous Moon Cloud (figure 9.15, no provided page #)

3) Connecting Art to Your World As someone who dyes their hair frequently, color has had a massive impact on my life. In middle school, I always wanted to dye my hair an unnatural hair color; I felt that having such a dark hair color (in terms of value), which was incredibly common, was boring. It didn’t fit my personality. After managing to convince my parents in my sophomore year of high school, I dyed my hair bright shade of blue, highly saturated at first, but bound to fade after months of wash. It was intense; it definitely grabbed the attention of others, though I partially wish people wouldn’t bring it up as often as they did. It didn’t define me, it was part of me. Then, in the latter portion of my junior year, I wanted to try something different, I was getting tired of blue. Due to the potency of its color, it would rub off on my hands and pillow; everywhere I looked, it was blue. Instead, I reached across the color wheel and picked something I felt was more fitting: pink. It was bright, but exciting and happy, more than just punk-esque. Unfortunately, pink didn’t last very long as warm colors apparently have a harder time sticking to hair (at least, in dye). I refused to go back to blue, and recently picked out a new pair of glasses, which were purple, so I decided to match it. Now, with hair that’s darker in tone, but bright enough to be noticed, I feel like I’ve found the right color. It allows me to express myself, but it doesn’t separate me from the general crowd too much, just a little. I think if I was to pick a color scheme for my life, I’d pick the colors from the post-its that stand in front of me every day: a vibrant, strinking pink; an equally bright yellow; and a softer, cooler blue. When I’m happy and excited, sometimes it feels like nothing can get me down, but, similarly, when I’m down in the dumps it’s difficult to get back up without rolling through a sad playlist or two. The pink is there to represent my passion and love for my life, and the things I love to do (draw, graphic design, etc.).

4) Art Project

Ever since I was a child, I really really loved polar bears. Painting this was a nice reminder of not only how much I love them, but also my Canadian roots. I miss cold weather, sometimes.

5) Photo/Design (Group 6)

Black and White

Color

Both of these shots were taken by esports photographer Robert Paul, and his choice in their color was distinct; it had meaning. In the first shot, Paul increases emphasis on Overwatch League host Malik Forte through tonal differences. Colors, instead, would distract from the intended focal point, as the crowd is filled with numerous figures in an amalgamation of different colored jerseys and signs; thus, the filter acts as means of subordination, therefore, it is successful. On the other hand, in the second photo, Paul purposefully uses the bright colors of the stage to enforce a jubilant mood: most prominently is the color yellow, often associated with joy and natural sources of light, such as the sun, and alongside it, though more in the background, is blue, which is seen as a calmer compliment. By using color photography, Paul further gets the message across, that the players are out there, having fun.

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Susan Derges

Much of the work of Susan Derges revolves around visual metaphors which aim to explore the relationship between oneself and nature. She seeks to capture both the visible and invisible natural processes - the physical appearance of sound, and the reflection of the moon and stars on water. She pioneered a technique which involves capturing the movement of water by immersing photographic paper directly into rivers or shorelines.  Recently she has begun working in the studio combining analogue and digital techniques to create unique perspectives some people could deem to be impossible to capture.  Her practice reflects the work of the earliest pioneers of photography but is also contemporary in its experimentation and awareness of both conceptual and environmental issues.  

During the 1980s and 1990s Derges worked with other artists and photographers aiming to revive the art of the photogram, taking it to new and unexpected places with a freshness of scale, colour, and concept.  

Her work reflects the practice of the earliest practitioners of photography but is contemporary in its experimentation and awareness of modern technique, concept, and environmental issues. Derges’ most recent images include gates, arches and bridges to explore themes such as reflection in oneself, memory, and the flow of time. A lot of her most recent work explores “the internal experience with the external landscape.” This includes ideas such as reflection on the water surface, shadows on the surface of water ripples, and the unknown lurking beneath a river- these all give visual impact, reminding me of feeling captivated by the images I have dreamed up when asleep. Yet, on the other hand makes us as a viewer question “how real is our own perception?” Derges has a beautiful control of colour,  and her most recent work bring together the fabricated and the observed.

Her concept is what has inspired me the most in my own project. It has made me think deeply about what I would love to be portrayed within my own imagery. The words I have highlighted above (in bold text) are what her work makes me deliberate the most.

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Audio & Playlist for January 1, 2020: Year End Special

If you’re a regular listener to the show you might know that I love TRADITIONS and this has been a Uneasy Listening tradition since year 1! Well it started out as an anniversary of my first show (February) thing but as that got more and more meaningless I switched it to year-end. So here we have a show consisting of one song for every (non-recurring) topic I did this year. I must say I have done MORE THAN ENOUGH RADIO this week thank goodness I am done... Oh wait I’m back on the radio on Saturday with songs about silence! Aieeee.

Note it is also traditional for me to mess SOMETHING up in my year-end show and this year it was playing a song I already played on the original show (the John Cale song that I played on my ocean show a mere days before re-playing it, derg!)

link to downloadable audio Playlist: Scrawl - 11:59 It's January (months)

DJ speaks over Holly Golightly - Grandstand

Neutral Milk Hotel - Engine (milk) Chocolate Milk - Honey Bun (desserts) Chumbawamba - Shhh (volume)

DJ speaks over Jackie Mittoo - Rocksteady Wedding

Jigsaw - Seven Fishes (sea creatures) Buzzcocks - Sitting Round at Home (home) Urinals - I'm a Bug (animal noises) The Monkees - I Don't Think You Know Me (Peter vocal) (Peter Tork memorial show) Richard O'Brien - Shock Treatment (mental illness) The Osmonds - Traffic in Your Mind (surprisingly heavy) Crash Course in Science - Kitchen Motors (rooms)

DJ speaks over Mac Rebannack - Storm Warning

T. Rex - Dandy in the Underworld (underground) The Equals - Let's Go to the Moon (the moon) The Archies - Bicycles, Rollerskates and You (bicycles) Miss Nelson and Bruce (Haack) - Motorcycle Ride (motorcycles) Arctic Flowers - Weaver (fiber arts)

DJ speaks over The Champs - Train to Nowhere

Green Bailey - The Santa Barbara Earthquake (natural disasters) Trusty - A Modest Proposal (marriage) Dance Exponents - The Empty Bunk in the Bunkhouse (furniture) The Go-Go's - Get Up and Go (velocity) The English Beat - Click Click (guns) Bocal 5 - Cobra (reptiles) The Ex - Mother (invisible labor)

DJ speaks over Allie Windwick with Billy and Ingrid Jolly - Weary o' the Darning

The Rats - Come on Toody (procrastination) Richard and Linda Thompson - When I Get to the Border (immigration and borders) Fad Gadget - Ricky's Hand (teen tragedy) Shop Assistants - The Train from Kansas City (trains) Phil Ochs - Half a Century High (height) The Cardinals - Wheel of Fortune (gambling)

DJ speaks over Willie Mitchell - The Champion

Beat Happening - Drive Car Girl (cars) Pale Fountains - Thank You (thanks) The Cleaners from Venus - Mercury Girl (metal) Sixteen Guns - Private 999 (military ranks) John Cale - South China Sea (the ocean)

DJ speaks over DMZ - Borderline

The Honey Drippers - Impeach the President

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8 Camera-Less Photographers You Need To Know

This article was originally published on June 30, 2014, but we think it still rocks!

Many photographers whole-heartedly align themselves with either analog or digital photography; some even consider the two to be entirely separate mediums. At the end of the day, however, they're both bound together by the lens. Another, almost mythical breed of photographer exists, needing neither DSLR nor Hasselblad, these shutterbugs are camera-less.

Using various photographic practices, some traditional and dated (the photogram and the cyanotype), and others unique (the chemigram, and the swallow-your-film-and-let-your-digestive-system-do-the-rest process), no matter the means, these are artists creating aesthetically unique works that go way beyond the photography to which most of us are accustomed. In order to introduce you to this truly bizarre and inventive medium, we've rounded up some of the most interesting camera-less photographers both from the present and past:

1. Luke Evans and Josh Lake

Untitled' from Xero, 2014

The youngest photographer on our list is Luke Evans (lead image). Born in 1992, this British photographer has created two bodies of work that are entirely camera-less. His first and most famous series is called Inside Out. Alongside partner Josh Lake (also lead image), Evans swallowed rolls of 35mm film and had his digestive enzymes process the film. The duo "deposited" their film inside of a darkroom, washed the negatives, and printed their exquisite results.

For his most recent camera-less project, Xero, Evans utilized 400,000 volts of electricity in a highly-complicated process best detailed here. Regarding this series, Evans states, "the electrical field is destroyed through the process, thus each edition is completely unique."

'Untitled' from Inside Out, 2012

2. Floris Neusüss

'Untitled, (Körperfotogramm), Kassel, 1967'

At the ripe age of 74, Floris Neusüss creates enormous full-body photograms, inspired by the work of Man Ray and Lázló Moholy-Nagy. To create his images, Neusüss places his entire subjects' bodies onto photosensitive paper, and then exposes them to light. These spectral, sensual renditions of the human body, nicknamed Nudogramms by Neusüss himself, are the stencil-esque result.

3. Garry Fabian Miller

Becoming Magma, 2004

Garry Fabian Miller is another such camera-less photographer who still employs the darkroom process. For his series Becoming Magma, the artist, "shined light through colored glass vessels and over cut-paper shapes to create forms that record directly onto photographic paper," a unique process that resulted in cataclysmic, minimalist red and black prints.

4. Pierre Cordier

Chemigram 1-5-70 III, 1970

The oldest photographer on our list, at the age of 81, Belgian photographer Pierre Cordier employs a camera-free process all his own. Dubbed chemigrams, his images employ the traditional chemical processes of photography, including developer, fixer, and light-sensitive paper, but are created in full light. The results are intricate geometrical prints that resemble paintings more than traditional photographs.

5. Alison Rossiter

Kodak Velox F2, Expires Sept. 1, 1941, Processed in 2008

Alison Rossiter's process revolves around using expired photographic paper from the 20th Century. Once she has selected her aged paper, Rossiter brings the sheets to a darkroom and exposes them. What each print will yield is a mystery to her, but the best become like abstract expressionist paintings. She names each print after the paper's name and expiration date, emphasizing the history and nostalgia of her prints.

6. Simone Bergantini

Untitled, 2010

While Simone Bergantini does not exclusively work without a camera—in fact, astrazioni is his only camera-less project— this does not make the artist's images any less compelling. Appearing as combinations of design, geometry, and abstraction his images are made in color darkrooms without the use of negatives. Bergantini states that the series "recounts the experience and the poetics which have fascinated me over the last years and that have taught me to love photography." We hope he knows that astrazioni makes us love photography, too.

7. Dan Peyton

Hangled Urn

Dan Peyton is one of the few remaining cyanotype process purists, a purveyor of the process originally developed in the 19th Century. Cyanotyping involves placing an object onto a coated paper (similar to a photogram) and exposing it to the sun; the object's shadow creates the resulting blue image. Peyton uses quotidian subject matter including birds and flags to make simple, stark images reminiscent of architectural blueprints.

8. Susan Derges

Star Field Crossing, 2013

The last photographer on our list is Susan Derges, whose calm, naturalistic process can only be performed in the dark of night. Fully submerging photographic paper into moving bodies of water, Derges uses the moon and a flashlight to create her unique exposures. As nature becomes Derges' darkroom, our eyes become entranced.

So is camera-less photography simply an extension of the age-old art, or its own, entirely new discipline? And who did we miss?

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