A lowly son of a Camelot upholsterer, faced with an impossible quest to break a curse placed on his family by the dark taxidermist, Mourlpod. His future looked impossibly bleak until the night he was visited by a very old, very short woman who offered to teach him the arts to escape his predicament in return for his allegiance.
In the years that followed, he rose to both lordship, and knighthood, striking fear into the hearts of evildoers with his wyrd implements of war, which the old woman had taught him to wield. In time, he formed a secret organization in like appearance to his mentor’s past following, teaching them the use of his arms and sent them out to carry bruises to the darkness. And this so-called League of Umbrellas survives to this day.
Oracle of the Closet Illustrator, Seals, Umbraverse
The sixth Istar, bearer of the Umbrella of Westerness, sleeper agent of the Valar, the first umbralite in recorded history.
As opposed to the other Istari, her charge was the fourth age and every age thereafter. She waited out the War of the Ring, posing as just another Shire denizen, but once Souron was overthrown and her compatriots were preparing to depart, she faked her own death and vanished from the Shire forever. She is attributed with the death of Shelob and the final defeat of the man once known as the Mouth of Souron. For hundreds of years she led small bands of devoted followers in secret missions to combat the forces of evil. Her ultimate fate is unknown, the last record of her actions being from the Arthurian era where she passed the secrets of umbrella combat, and the mandate of the Valar, over to Lord Couch.
Oracle of the Closet Illustrator, Seals, Umbraverse
Well, for somebody.
This is what happens when the the song you are basing your artwork off of is completely useless in the radial-imagery department, and the badly-conceived-lines-that-can-be-twisted department, and is completely happy to boot.
This is also the next installment of art belonging to the Pigeons of the Apocalypse genre, and it probably won’t be the last. Originally, there was to be a much more elaborate swirling vortex of pigeons but as they say, “Man’s imagination exceeds Illustrator’s memory.” So anyway, I went with the Forerunner Pigeon Arc look, which denotes less of the unbridled, primal energy, and more of a clear avimorphic construct of dire function. One of these days I’ll have to work out what it actually does.
2-D project the fourth.
Oracle of the Closet Illustrator, Projects, Umbraverse
A poster advertising a hypothetical exhibition by art deco-ist A. M. Cassandre.
Oracle of the Closet "Real Art", Illustrator, Projects
Okey, this is the last one. You should all be greatful that I don’t allow double-blade and duel-saber to be forms.
Oracle of the Closet Illustrator
