Some watercolor mushroom bots I made a while ago for Gallery Nucleus’s Power in Numbers 5 show. Having one of these actually made would be great for the current quarantine situation lol
[image description: several watercolor paintings of mushrooms inside robotic terrariums. Each mushroom variety and robot are different. Mushrooms depicted are: shitake, portabello, oyster, enochi and porchini.]
[ID// The words "There is no right time, just time and what you do with it" written in yellow on a brown background. In the middle of the text is a drawing of an orange and pink clock with a green frog sitting on a lilypad next to it. //end ID]
air-mail by winter winds
[Image description: digital art of a white pigeon in a little uniform jacket and hat. Next to it is a mail box made to size. To its back is tied a little wooden platform with a regular sized stack of letters. Colors the drawing consists of are white, blue, red, yellow, and green. /End description.]
Who had late Victorian Scooby Doo on their 2024 bingo card? Hmm?
The idea came to me when I was thinking about Sherlock Holmes and then remembered the iconic mystery solving gang hehe
[Plain text: Mystery Inc. but it’s the 1890s. End plain text.]
[Image descriptions: Three drawings. 1: Mystery Inc. from Scooby-Doo dressed in Victorian clothing. Fred wears a cream suit with a blue waistcoat, red tie, and brown shoes. Daphne wears a purple dress with a purple bow around her waist, poofy sleeves, and a white undershirt. She also wears a green ribbon around her neck, and a green and purple hat with pink flowers on it. Velma wears a red skirt, an orange blouse with poofy sleeves, a short red tie, and glasses. Shaggy wears black shoes, brown pants, a green waistcoat, a white shirt, and a black bolo tie. Scooby-doo looks more or less the same.
2: Daphne spreads her hands out in front of her and says, "I need a real, live ghost." Velma smiles at her and replies, "That's an oxymoron, Miss Blake."
3: Fred carries Daphne, with her wrapping hr arms around his neck. they are both terrified.
4: Scooby-Doo looks at something to his left. End description.]
The Starry Serpent
[id: art of a black serpent with blue, sparkling lines on it and glowing blue eyes. the serpent is flying in gray clouds above a city at night. /end id]
The Beast that Bothers
[Video: an animation of a cat bothering a person who’s asleep in bed. The person is drawn in desaturated yellow, the cat in orange, everything else is dark blue. The video is a compilation of actions on the cat's part, in time with the music (the Raggedy Sax).
The cat pokes their head up, from behind the person. Kneads their pillow. Kneads the blanket over their body. It prepares itself and pounces on the person's hand. Bumps heads. Stretches paws forward and gets startled by the person's hand. Rolls of the person's back. Licks its butt. Cleans paw while on top of human's head. Stands upright on the headboard, facing the wall, and swivels up its head and glowing eyes towards us. Licks it's paw. Lays on the side of the human's head. Seems to try and cough a hairball on that same head. Runs around in laps around the room and lands on top of person's back. Starts tapping the human's head, at which point the person's face scrunches up. When the human finally sits up the cat is suddenly curled up fast asleep, and then they also go back to sleep. /End description]
[image description: it's a drawing of a redesigned version of the Tusken people from Star Wars. They have more elements from the source inspiration for their original designs, so they look more human and less like barbarian-monsters. One element that I'd like to undeline is the Bantha tusks on their clothes. Each Tusken person has their own Bantha and they only get one in their lives, so the baby teeth from their Bantha are kept and treated like precious reminders of that moment when their Bantha chose them. Everything they're wearing is different shades of brown to blend in with different parts of the desert. There is two people in the drawing: a Guard, who's tasked with keeping territories safe and a Pilgrim, whose role is to find and protect wells and water. End of i.d.]
I'll do several of these, and y'all are more than welcome to give me feedback I don't mind
These are absolutely gorgeous, and are WILDLY more culturally sympathetic to the source cultures that "inspired" (which is an absolutely horseshit term to use, considering the nauseatingly racist way that inspiration was utilized, though I will reluctantly concede that environmental similarities between Bedouin groups and the Tuskens are somewhat reflected in their nomadic lifestyles with heavy importance placed upon their livestock, as well as their longer, full-coverage clothing that lends well to arid and sandy terrain) the Tuskens.
I always like to imagine that the Tuskens have a very strong tradition of sharing oral histories and a rich material culture, both of which are heavily shielded from outsiders. And why wouldn't they be? The vast majority of the interactions that Tuskens have with anyone outside of their tribe result in violence and ignorance, loss of their ancestral land, and ultimately a drastic interruption of their lifestyle.
But imagine a Tusken culture of rich bantha wool textiles, dyed with native plants and woven with intricate patterns that perhaps delineate family ties or tell stories and histories. Imagine jewelry like OP illustrated above, jewelry with emotional and cultural significance, jewelry crafted with materials and in ways that no one that had not lived generations in the Tattooine deserts would know or understand. Imagine a culture with significance woven into every fiber of its material history, imagine deities and stories and history and the beauty of a people who have taken a cruel environment and made it home and made it beautiful.
What if, whenever the Tuskens venture out with the knowledge that they may meet an outsider, they only wear their plainest clothes, in an effort to preserve what little bits of their culture that outsiders have not managed to destroy, yet? What if they have decided that being feared and condemned as savages is the lesser evil than losing more of their land or lifestyle?
Star Wars may have presented the Tuskens from the perspective of the colonizers (ie. off-worlder moisture farmers and the like), but I love the Tuskens and just think it's nice to think about.
More Jedi Leia concepts inspired by Padme outfits.
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[id: three illustrations of Leia posing with a lightsaber in a short tunic, leggings, and knee-high boots paired with the image of Amidala/Padme outfits that inspired them.
The first is the red throne room dress from Phantom Menace, where the glowing jewels are replicated on Leia’s knees and belt buckle, the sleeves are shortened and Leia wears a reduced version of the hairpieces and makeup.
The second is the Lilac dress from Phantom Menace, which is merely shortened and given a utility belt on top of the wide sash. Leia again wears a reduced version of the lacy headgear and makeup.
The third is the blue Tatooine dress with overcoat from Attack of the Clones, where Leia has made the underdress overlapping robes with a tabard, used the rest to wrap her feet under her boots, and added a belt.]/end id.
champion
[Image: digital art of a Black woman in modern clothes holding a sword, using pyrokinesis. She’s drawn from the knees up; the camera is low, making us look up at her. She has medium brown skin and straight, medium long black hair. She walks forward with a serious expression, flaming sword in one hand, the other balled into a flaming fist; the edges of her shorts are on fire. She’s wearing brown short shorts, a chain for a belt, and a white crop top. She has silver hoop earrings, a chain necklace with a lighter for a pendant, and eyebrow, belly button, and lip piercings. She also has metal shoulder armor and a forearm brace. There are yellow/orange streaks in her hair, and the underside is the same colour. The background is orange. End description.]
ok this is the last thing im posting tonight (alastor concept and a sir pentious)
[Image 1: drawing, a bust of Alastor from Hazbin Hotel as a human. He has a red shirt, black tie, and red coat lapels. A monocle, red make up around the eyes, brown skin, short curly brown hair in an old fashioned updo. He's smiling wide, revealing a gab between his two front teeth.
Image 2: a sketch of Sir Pentious, also from Hazbin, as a human. He has padded shoulders, a bow tie, and long black hair.
/End description.]
I wonder if next season is going to have husk and angel be incredibly obviously into each other and they're the last to realise it. keep imagining a tropy scene in which angel is dressed up for something and husk calls him beautiful without even thinking, followed by the both of them completely unable to process the moment. just bluescreening and blushing and not looking at each other
The idea is sooo cute I hope they add this into the show next season🤞
[Image: drawing of Angel and Husk from Hazbin hotel. They're both blushing, sweating, looking down, and turned away from each other. Angel is wearing a yellow outfit. His lower pair of hands is holding up his handbag, while his upper arms are reaching down to twist the hem of the dress. Husk is holding a glass alchohol bottle with cracks across it, and gripping his forearm with the other hand. /End description.]
illustration of atalanta and the calydonian boar i did for the dames anthology
[ID: An illustration rendered in shades of blue and yellow. In the foreground, drawn almost entirely in blue, is a muscular woman with neck-length, wavy hair, wearing a Greek-style dress and a glowing crown of leaves in her hair. She has a fierce expression with faintly glowing pupils and holds a bow and arrow in her hands. Three apples float above her head. Close behind her, far more loosely rendered, is a massive golden boar with four tusks and wild eyes. End ID.]
Fun little modern AU drawing
I like this because "modern AU" implies that Baldur's Gate 3 takes place in the past and not in a fantasy world that is completely disconnected from our own.
[Image: drawing of Astarion and Shadow heart from Baldur's gate 3, shaking a claw machine full of plushies. Astarion is wearing a grey blouse with a black cardigan, and red and black ring, necklace, and earring. Shadow heart is in a black dress with complicated straps. Mesh arm warmer on one hand, silver bracelet on the other, and rings on both. Her hair is in two ponytails. She's yelling, "Back! More!" Astarion yells back, "I'm fucking trying!" The word "fucking" is censored. /End description.]
endless night
The fact that Antarctica is a whole ass continent which had diverse ecosystems for hundreds of millions of years and is now a barren expanse of ice never ceases to freak me out.
[Image description: three paneled comic drawn in black, white, gray, and red. Text in it reads, "Millions of years ago, plants grew here. But now, there's only us, and the endless night."
Panel 1: side profile of a penguin with a red halo. Some leaves next to it. "Millions of years ago, plants grew here."
Panel 2: same penguin standing in front of the silhouette of the moon. It is leaning forward towards the baby penguin laying between the larger one's legs, keeping itself warm. Now the baby penguin has the red halo. "But now"
Panel 3: frozen mountainous landscape with a red sun. "There's only us. And the endless night."
/End description.]
sheep girlfriends. ewefriends if you will
[Image: black and white drawing of two humanoid sheep dressed in alternative fashion. They're facing us and each has a hand on the other's back.
The shorter stocky one on the left has on a band shirt with a sheep's skull and "band name" written on the front. Underneath that is a long sleeved shirt with horizontal stripes. Her wide black pants have multiple pockets and zippers and are obscuring her feet. Her checkmark patterned suspenders are hanging down. The wool on her head is covering the top half of her black face.
The right sheep is taller and slimer and has horns (four of them) and a nose piecing. The wool around her eyes and snout is black. She has tall boots with a whole column of buckles. A short dress with a corset bodice with chains hanging on it. The skirt portion has non-functional lacing in the sides. Her left forearm is covered in studded bracelets. She's using that hand to hold a Monster energy drink.
/End description.]
My brain: You have so many tight deadlines. So many things on your weekly schedule. So many important jobs. You have to get important work done!!!
My hands:
It's a
[Image 1: a Canada goose is laying on the grass. It rises on its feet, revealing there's four of them and they're paws.
Image 2: the goose stretches like a cat and trots off.
Image 3: several tags that read, "weird griffin", "does this make this a gryphon?", "some manner of griffon".
/End description.]
yearn
[Image description: a digital art piece in purple tones. A trans man with top surgery scars is held from behind by another person, hand placed gently over the man’s chest. The text next to them reads: “Oh to be held every night / A luxury easily taken for granted” End ID.]
just fuck me up why don't ya
