#shiny pls

[thatgothsamurai]

not me pretending i made them sparkly romance manhwa

[hamartia-grander]

Bald's Gays 3 memes

[duraante]

nero likes strawberry ice cream with chocolate chunks. he told me himself

a set of polaroids. still workin on V but i dont think ill finish any time soon orz. sorry for the obnoxious watermarks 💔 anyway look at the creatures

[kulapti]

Aug 2023, bookbinding of The Silent Isle Imbowers by Tharkuun.

I’m sooo so so pleased to finally share this! I have been actively working on this for many months and waited until Tharkuun received her copy before posting so the final result would be a surprise.

-----------About this bookbinding under the cut

This binding has been one of the more elaborate pieces I have attempted so far. This has been my first binding where I (1) made three copies of a piece at once, (2) used a modified a historical illustration, (3) collaborated directly with another artist on the decorative elements, (4) finished matching art for the cover and title page, and (5) layered paint and heat-transfer vinyl for the covers. These are also (6) the first non-tiny books I have made with this style of hinge and cover attachment.

Pretty much immediately after I first read this story I felt I had to make myself a copy of this. I had a strong mental image of a vintage-looking cover for a fairy tale, with a deceptively simple design of flowers on the cover, probably with fancy metallic accents, the kind of thing you’d find in an interesting used bookstore with no summary, no text on the back, no dust jacket, just the flowers and maybe a title. I’m going to make a separate post about making this cover design a reality because oh man has it been a journey lol! I designed and drew the digital art for the cover (digital because of the cut and application method), as well as the corresponding title page illustration (pencil and dip pen, scanned, title added digitally).

When I asked Tharkuun about it she was excited to suggest I get in touch with quillingwords, who generously agreed to collaborate with me! Among her talents quilling writes calligraphy, and hand wrote both the book title and chapter headers for me to incorporate into my plans. Check OUT those chapter headers! So fancy! A font could never!! Quilling has also been very encouraging and let me yell about this project in dms for months so the final result could be a surprise for Tharkuun. Thank u so much quillingwords, your calligraphy adds invaluable amounts of swag to this project.

I was going to do some kinda neat font for the chapter headers, but quilling’s work is too cool for that and I decided to use a modified piece of a historical illustration instead. The illustration also happens to be cool as heck: I was browsing the Artstor database (an academic quality resource available for free via Jstor, my beloved) and found E. N. Neureuther's 1836 gorgeous etching for etching of the fairy tale Briar Rose, an illustration made for a printing of a Brothers Grimm recorded German fairy tale with Sleeping Beauty elements. Much to my delight this illustration not only matches the general look I wanted but is actually relevant to the story, itself a Sleeping Beauty spinoff.

Slightly less stylistically consistent are the endpapers, which are prints of two different paintings by Arnold Böcklin: Isle of the Dead (1883) in the front and Isle of Life (1888). The first painting had occurred to me as an excellent visual to go with the story, and Tharkuun and I discussed this and agreed that pairing it with the related later, more optimistic piece was too thematically appropriate to resist.

I had fun and learned a lot making these books and I am very pleased with the result!!

Materials: Archival bookboard, cardstock, cotton cheesecloth mull, archival PVA glue, linen thread coated in beeswax, paper cord, red cotton embroidery floss. Blue cotton backed with archival paper, acrylic paint, machine cut black and gold heat-transfer vinyl. Laser printed text and illustrations. Metallic scrapbooking paper.

[the-clotpole-and-the-disgrace]

i forget if gems/rocks/minerals are a part of the fun aspec stereotypes but they should be. case and point:

also the last one reminds me of a beta fish and i find that amazing 😌😂♠️⚔️

[ryuusea]

More Modern True Friend Problems + never get tired of doodling Liam stealing Sherly’s clothes

[kaqzu]

But him, he's unkillable... that's why our partnership works

[diamondsheep]

Zorooo ⚔✨!!!

this is a redraw of this fanart that i made in 2022

[aratribow]

One of the ocs of my platonic spouse @saunne FINALLY BROKE THROUGH AND IS NOW OUT IN THE WILD!!

The link to his fic right here!

Enid "Elpis" Ainsley

A Doctor of Chaos (Harmony/Fire) originating from the Xianzhou Luofu. She is one of the Heliobi that separated from Furynox during the Fyxestroll event. Just like the Chess Ghost, she was deemed harmless by the Ten-Lords Commission (because she saw IX and turned into a Doctor of Chaos almost on the spot) and let roam free, being even allowed to leave Xianzhou after having made a deal with them.

Enid is obsessed with the concept of "becoming human". As an Heliobi, she does not possess her own emotions and no innate moral or ethical system and she believes that emotions and moral/ethics could be the key to "cure" IX. As a non-human, she then decided to use herself as her own test subject to try to learn "Humanity".

As her challenge to IX, she asked to be sealed in a doll-body, cutting herself from possessing hosts to feed on their emotions, in order to learn how to feel her own emotions + "to exist is to suffer" as Heliobi have a certain level of repulsion against advanced technical equipment due to their ability to manipulate energy.

She decided to attach her existence to none other than ✨ Veritas Ratio ✨ (and I'm sorry Enid, you cute but your taste is shit)

[ilikerosesalot]

Every instance of prsk characters wearing glasses (so far!!)

[lollipopmixclo9]

I gave up on rendering the weapons but GUNS N' ROSES RAAAAHHH MY FAVORITE KIND OF DYNAMIC I'M SO HAPPY THEY INTERACTED IN GAME EFVWJKV

inspo from @/reikiwie-art's so we're official now ?!! ♡♡♡

[outletcrash]

曲高未必人不识

自有知音和清词

红缨猎猎剑流星

直指怒潮洗海清

a portrait of yun jin <3

[winn-wynn]

I feel like Percy and Oliver would look at the stars when neither of them could sleep. I think they would discuss the stories behind the constellations.

Based off orignal below the cut:

[literallyjustanerd]

perfect way to christen my new drawing tablet!

Tup finally getting the break he deserves

[mrsbowisa]

day 8- drawing till bday

Sweet mama shes back

[justfriendsbestthings]

Simon’s Month Day 13: Hoodie

@youngroyals-events