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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Mirasol on October 26, 2024, 02:32:29 AM »
24: Des(s)erted Drylands

Yes, I did spell this prompt wrong on the list (probably?), but so did the person I took it from, so I´m not sure if it was an honest mistake on their part or if it was an intentional pun... :.D
I briefly considered adding various desserts into the landscape, but decided against it in the end...

Something a bit different again, trying to do something with abstraction. It´s loosely inspired by Tolkien´s artstyle (I have a book with the illustrations he made while working on the Hobbit and tLotR), though from memory, as I forgot to take a picture of the drawing I wanted to reference (I painted this in College again) and didn´t think googling it would work.
Here´s the reference, the wallpaper-site I took it from just said this place is in Arizona.
(EDIT: I replaced the photo for a less twisted one... :) )

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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Mirasol on October 24, 2024, 03:38:43 PM »
23: Cemetery

The cemetery on Toivosaari, as depicted in SSSS A2, page 108. Sorry, without anything clever to add, the creativity-juices weren´t really there yesterday... :P

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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Mirasol on October 23, 2024, 12:57:59 PM »
Hehehe, I was hoping you´d do something with Godsquirrela, Grey. :D Was not disappointed with the result.


22: Exotic Flora

So what if Dahlias aren´t really exotic (according to my mom)*? I´ve been looking for an excuse to draw these all October! (Reference for the middle-one actually grew in my own garden. :D The other two are fancy special breeds I photographed in a park.)
But flowers are another thing I find quite difficult. So I attempted 3 different styles to see what works best for me.



*While they come from South America, they are insanely popular in my area in Germany to the point they grow in pretty much every garden. So how exotic is that at this point? :.D

Spoiler: pretty pretty flowers • show


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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by thegreyarea on October 23, 2024, 05:24:47 AM »
Quote from: JoB on October 18, 2024, 08:49:56 AM
Well, the region is somewhat teeming with rumours of one nicknamed "Godsquirrela" ...  ;)

See what you made me do? ;)



My take on day 4 - Deep in The Woods...


NEWS FROM THE SILENT WORLD

GIANT SQUIRREL!


Professor Mickelson shared another surprising, and terrifying,
picture from his adventures in the silent world,
on the land once known as Canada.
We can be glad that the professor and his team
managed to safely come out of this situation.

"For three days we walked deep in the woods, following a stream.
We were surprised for finding little to no big animals, infected or not.
I was taking some pictures just outside our camp, in that morning,
hoping to catch that magical moment when you can see a glimpse
of sun through the fog and the trees, when I heard... no, I felt,
coming from the ground, shaking my bones, a heavy "thump",
and every other sound in the forest suddenly died.

Of course I followed the first rule, and waited. It grew louder,
and each thump made the trees, and everything around, shake,
like a little earthquake. And then we saw it, through the fog.

I actually believe that fog, together with our
cold blooded stillness, saved us."


So many amazing things!!!!!!! I'm loving this! I'll just leave this one, and come back later for comments on all that great art! :)


Original picture of a person deep in the woods: https://unsplash.com/photos/person-standing-beside-trees-NLGtLHoP8UY

Original picture of the (pre-rash) squirrel https://whitesquirrelinstitute.org/articles/the-elusive-fox-squirrel-a-south-carolinian-charmer
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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Mirasol on October 22, 2024, 12:29:03 PM »
21: By the Beach

So a while ago when playing Tears of the Kingdom I got stuck halfway up a cliff by the beach because it started to rain (I didn´t have the complete anti-rain-gear yet). The place I was going was :sparkle: right there :sparkle: so I figured teleporting away to do something else wasn´t worth it (and the beach was full of monsters I didn´t feel like facing, so walking wasn´t an option either).
But yeah, waiting for better weather and looking into the distance, I realized once again just how beautiful this game´s scenery is.



I painted this during class with a little travelling-set of watercolors I have (where the glittery watercolors are in too :D) and its accompanying self-watering brush. I haven´t really used this brush before. It worked a lot better than expected. Pretty much no unwanted paint staying on the brush and mixing. Definitely a viable option for painting on the go I think.
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Worlds & Stories Discussion Board / Re: The Webcomics Discussion
« Last post by Keep Looking on October 22, 2024, 09:41:14 AM »
One thing people here might enjoy or like to hear about is ShortBox Comics Fair! It's a digital comics fair where you can buy PDFs of original comics by different artists!

It's open until the end of October, so there's still a bit over a week left until it closes (it happens in October every year).

I really enjoyed Blade of the Fane by Theo Stultz, which is a medieval fantasy story about Osric, the unmotivated last descendant of a long line of mystics tasked with defending an enchanted temple from invisible monsters. Unlike his ancestors, Osric was not born with the ability to see the monsters. With the death of his grandmother, an ominous prophecy about a dragon and the re-appearance of his childhood friend Daegal, Osric must face the dangers of a role he was never able to fill.

A shorter comic I enjoyed was Offering by Jocelin Kee, which is a contemplative urban fantasy story about a temple that is merged with an office building, an office worker who has to share their space with a god, and how they learn to live with each other.
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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by wavewright62 on October 22, 2024, 03:43:08 AM »
Bravo, I really loved these stories, especially thorny's chilling / warming trolls.    And I imagine shanty towns would have cropped up in the Known World, although sadly they rpobably did as good a job of using exposure on their residents as cleansers protocols.  I do wonder though, about Y1-2 people who never would have imagined themselves *happy* to find a shanty town to live in. Alas that the writing mojo goes no further than that tonight.
I was just about to point out that I couldn't see Jitter's large pic, but now I can.  And of course, docks are also in the air!  FAscinating.

Bravo to all!
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Arts and Audiovisual Media Board / Re: SSSS Memes/Edits Thread
« Last post by wavewright62 on October 22, 2024, 03:28:37 AM »
Ya know what?
Valid.
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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by Mirasol on October 21, 2024, 03:53:53 PM »
20: By the Docks

(Now there´s already a "2" in front of it, time flies...)
A redraw from a shot from Arcane Season 1 (hehe, as I can say now that the second season is coming out in a little over two weeks :D), Episode 4.

I haven´t really figured out how to properly use that watercolor-white yet... :P Or I should really work on stopping to mix the paints directly in the pan. Or both.

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Events Board / Re: YoinkTober 2024!
« Last post by thorny on October 20, 2024, 12:53:39 PM »
Quote from: Mirasol on October 20, 2024, 11:59:28 AM

spoiler

That's my guess, also.

Quote from: Mirasol on October 20, 2024, 11:59:28 AM

thorny, I really liked this story! What an interesting premise!

Thanks!

-- spoiling for spoiler, especially since the story itself has wound up as the last thing on the previous page:

Spoiler: show


I didn't have that in mind at all, at least in conscious mind, when I started writing the story. I just started off writing about an isolated inn, hoping that what to write would become clear as I went along. When I put in the earlier line about their not saying where the beer comes from, I was mostly thinking that I didn't want to figure out who was making the beer.

So I went on writing, describing the inn and precautions and so on, and I came to the point at which it seemed somebody ought to tell a story. But what story should they tell -- I'd need at least a bit of description? Story, story, I need a story!

At which point, as near as I can tell, the back of my head put together (if it hadn't already) the line about the source of the beer, the canon troll who kept her soul, and the noncanon troll written about elsewhere here who keeps his mind and his compassion; wrapped them all up together neatly and presented them to the front of my head. Aha! That's what I'm writing about!
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