Emsworth Analog
December 16th, 2009
The next printmaking project, then. Photo process is awfully fun if you do everything in Illustrator anyway.
Really Bad Omen
December 14th, 2009
My first printmaking project that looked any good, based on an image I have not been able to get out of my head since reading Homer.
Product of a Deranged Mind version 1
December 13th, 2009
This is the first time I have ever free-handed anything in Illustrator.
Festive, Firey Pigeons
October 29th, 2009
John Howe’s three swans, Valruin’s three crows, and now three pigeons; I’m not entirely sure why birds seem to naturally stack this way. Unless all of aviandum is conspiring to stop me from being squashed by the Bozeman of course.
Group Topic: Dickens Coat of Arms
October 10th, 2009
This is a classic example of calligramancer heraldry. Though as such, there is not a great deal one can learn from it just at present, but I shall attempt. The calligramancers devised their own form of heraldry centuries ago, and while there are perhaps more written records pertaining to this particular sect’s history than any other, all these records were taken down by members thereof. So it is hardly surprising that perusal of said histories is one of the more dangerous home occupations.
According to Clarinda Hemp’s notes on the subject, the central figure often denotes something “roughly equivalent to a personal familiar, though not exactly, actually not very like at all.” The figure positioned directly above it seems to act as a modifier of some sort to the central figure; I believe it serves as a technical notation regarding the thing’s exact nature to other calligramancers, but I am uncertain to the symbol’s exact meaning.
The outer symbols are less mysterious, if they are indeed examples of Baldwin’s Stars, the “nasty, pointy ink blots of death” Clarinda wrote about. These exist as a sort of numerical code; a trio in a coat of arms signifies that the bearer used his arts to rendered military service to crown.
-Ophelia Himmle, The Search for Guppy
Heraldry of the Closet
September 30th, 2009
The concept has been sitting about for a while now. Back to Dickens.
Group Topic: Summer Movie
September 12th, 2009
It all began when an employee of Nine Palms Retirement Community became exposed to the contents of a mysterious thermos confiscated by internal security forces. It ended when a number of Nine Palms residents escaped the community in a garden shed secretly modified with a few thousand helium party balloons. The aforementioned security forces were unable to prevent this as they were, at that time, pinned down by the aforementioned employee, encased in a flock of inexplicably vicious pigeons.
Stationary Version 2
September 7th, 2009
Just for something to post: I reworked the stationary last spring.
Group Topic: Tom Bombadil
August 7th, 2009
In Buckland it is often more important to keep trees out of the fields than crows.
Muses part one
August 6th, 2009
Okay, this is by far the most random thing I have ever posted. Actually it’s the most random thing I have ever made. It consists of roughly one part inspiration from Josiah’s seal, two parts fondness for vague visual symbolism, and about fourteen parts pure Bill. In other words, it was a complete mental tangent and I haven’t the foggiest idea how it managed to get made. I could always cheat and say that it’s my tribute to Web Cave but I don’t think that actually occurred to me until I was about halfway through.
Anyway, I did the concept sketches over Christmas and when we were given our first 2D assignment (make something presumably 2D and vaguely self-portraitesc) I already had the designs and whipped up the chap on the right, and I have been working on the rest, off and on, ever since.
The subjects themselves are finished, but the setting needs work: once I figure out what kind, I‘ll complete the work and be at peace. That is until Bill convinces me to redo the entire tarot deck with inside jokes or something.