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incendavery · 2 years

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#artists on tumblr #rainbow art #rainbow aesthetic #snails #illustration on tumblr #experimental illustration #freeform illustration #davedrawsstuff #art that isn't corvids #image description in alt text

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clubbingclown · 1 year

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Girlie better survive the car ride to campus or I'll scream <3

#Art #My art #Experimental illustration #Doll #Sculpture #Tunnel book?

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bethfuller · 2 months

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jibaro.

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#drawing this was crazy #5hrs of pure experimentation #jibaro #alberto mielgo #love death and robots #illustrators on tumblr #illustration #my art #bump #artists on tumblr #digital art #art #digital illustration #sketch #bethfuller

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whingesart · 4 months

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Much love to shiningsylveon on TH for being my first test subject for 16:9 experimental illusts! Had a lot of fun drawing Agnes, their android musician kitty🌺🌆

#furry #safe fur work #digital art #vaporwave #future funk #experimental illustration #digital painting #commission

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barladera · 13 days

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feel gutted

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scurviesdisneyblog · 11 months

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𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝Ｉᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏꜱᴛ-ʀᴇɴᴀɪꜱꜱᴀɴᴄᴇ [ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟ] ᴇʀᴀ (2000 - 2008)

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camilicy · 1 year

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Lost in the sauce 🐭🍒

#art #myart #artists on tumblr #drawing #illustration #doodles #my art #doodle #cute #animals #sylvanian families #I had this in my dump folders and decided to revive it #some experimental doodling

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atompalace-official · 9 months

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#sylveon #shiny sylveon #pokemon #digital painting #art #fairy type #forest #rays of light #eeveelution #illustration #atompalace art #experimental!

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styllwaters · 5 months

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KNIGHT DEITIES

It's been a hot minute since I posted Vivere 44 art. Been intensely busy with school for the past few months but now that I've graduated I've got a lot of time to kill! Since the Knights post surpassed 1k notes I figured I may as well elaborate on them more. I'm so blown away by how much love they're getting already! Thank you all <3

I'm gonna talk a bit about Mountain and Plains Knight religions, mythology and a snippet of evolutionary history. I will cover Polar Knight religions in another post. The focus is on two gods in particular, Uwet-Jana and Kiraiarik.

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Uwet-Jana is the demigod of good health, vitality, and inner balance. In some regions they are also the god of fertility. The name of their Host is Uwetsil, and their Helmet is Serrjana. Mainly worshiped by Mountain cultures, Uwet-Jana takes the form of a Knight whose Host and Helmet are physically merged into a singular being.

Kiraiarik [pronounced ki-rai-ah-rik] is the personification of the host-helmet symbiotic relationship. They are the god of symbiosis, rebirth, and love. Kiraiarik was the name given to two immortal partners, a Host and a Helmet, who began as a singular being born to the sea in Ettera’s prehistoric era. Ettera decided to make them Two, one half (the Helmet) ruling over the sea and the other (the Host) having domain over the land. The story goes that in every form they take, they try to find each other - for their body remembers being One.

Both gods have lots of lore to their name. Further information below!

UWET-JANA

Uwet-Jana's Host body has long spines and red stripes like a Pike, and long fingerlike paws like a Helmet's manipulators. The Helmet section sports two long horns and elegant facial markings. Uwet-Jana has an iridescent sheen on their golden fur, catching the rays of the sun in a shimmering glow.

The story of Uwet-Jana is as follows: Both Uwetsil and Serrjana were born as runts, in a dark time when sickly Knights were seen as curses and not worth caring for. Their Order, believing them to be bad omens, cast them out to wander the tundra alone. They believed that the natural forces of Ettera (the Knight’s homeplanet) would quickly end them. However, Ettera took pity on the castaway, sending them three blessings. The first gift was a bone with marrow inside that ensured one is never hungry or thirsty again. Then, Ettera sent a warm, sweet wind into Uwet-Jana’s lungs which warded off all sickness and disease. Finally, a sun shower fell, the rains cleansing them and blessing them with a coat made of ivory and gold.

Transformed into a demigod with a hybrid body, Uwet-Jana was offered a place among the deities in the sky - but they refused, preferring to stay on the ground to share their gift with the mortals. Unbeknownst to them, their Order who had exiled them was struck by three curses from the Gods to mirror Uwet-Jana’s blessings: all the rivers in the area dried up and all their hunts were unsuccessful, leaving them with no food or water. Infections and diseases picked them off one by one, and a great storm ravaged the land, destroying their home and all remaining survivors. Uwet-Jana now blesses Knight Orders who take care of their sick and ailing members, and ignores those who don’t, leaving them to the wrath of the Gods.

Although they are nomadic and always on the move, many Mountain Orders will refuse to leave any sick members behind. They may also keep ivory statues of Uwet-Jana in their bags as a token of good fortune. Sometimes these statues are filled with bone marrow, or have holes which make a whistling sound as wind passes through it as a reference to Ettera’s gifts. Occasionally Pike Helmets are born with an extra long ‘horn’ spike, and are considered a child/reincarnation of Uwet-Jana. Additionally, whenever it rains while the sun is still shining, it is seen as a blessing from the demigod.

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KIRAIARIK

Kiraiarik's Host is depicted as a small creature with a striped pelt to mirror its ancestral form, and the Helmet as an aquatic beast with long, trailing red fins. It is frequently shown twisting around the Host, sharing its blood. Kiraiarik is also often simplified as two disembodied eyes looking at each other. (And yes, the artstyle is a nod to medieval depictions of heraldic beasts!)

To understand Kiraiarik, one must be aware of how much Plains religions are intrinsically tied to concepts of evolution and paleontology.

Digression on the origins of Etteran symbiosis:

Large stretches of Plains Knight deserts and scrublands were once submerged beneath the sea. As a result, there are countless fossil hotspots which have been unearthed over the centuries. These high concentrations of fossilised remains have lead to Plains cultures basing their religions around said discoveries. Although many features have been warped, the general timelines are strikingly similar.

For instance, a mass extinction event occurred on Ettera millions of years ago, caused by a series of catastrophic volcanic eruptions on a worldwide scale. This event is known in Plains culture as The Remaking, traditionally interpreted as the planet shedding its skin. Many species were decimated, but some groups survived; these happened to be phyla who possessed an exposed ‘Interfacer’ organ, a precursor to the specialised Integrator organ which connects the Host’s brain to the Helmet’s. Before The Remaking, there was no prior record of the deep symbiotic connection which Knights possess (scientifically deemed ‘Hyperadvanced Mutualism’). The Interfacer organ was used in the phyla for species to communicate simple stretches of data to each other, such as health and reproductive status. After the extinction, populations of these species were dwindling. To ensure their survival, an odd phenomenon occurred in which many individuals began to interface with different species who possessed the same organ - strangely enough, some were able to successfully exchange information. These individuals survived and passed on the practice to their offspring, eventually culminating in what would be discovered as a very primitive form of mutualism. Host and Helmet ancestors (pictured above) were some of the first species to achieve this.

As the planet recovered and populations increased, the relationship continued to solidify and become more complex, with symbiotic species sharing memories, emotions and complex thought. In modern times there is now an entire class of organisms on Ettera which possess an Integrator organ for Advanced Mutualism, including Knights.

Kiraiarik is said to be a manifestation of this relationship. After The Remaking, their two halves finally managed to find each other again, eternally locked in a joyous dance of love. (Side note: the love in question is not platonic nor romantic, but a deeper kind which is indescribable and not easily understood. Due to their intricate nervous systems, Knights have a higher degree of emotional intelligence and can experience sensations we would consider alien). When a Plains Knight is experiencing inner turmoil, they will often pray to Kiraiarik to restore a healthy connection. The god’s blessing is also called upon when an infant Host and Helmet first Assimilate.

Note: Many Plains ‘saints’ and deities have palindromic names which can be read both forwards and backwards, an indicator of holiness. Fun fact, the word Kiraiariku means “Your heart and mine are very old friends.”

Thank you for reading! More Knight content coming soon ;)

#come get yo foood #vivere 44 #my art #knights #speculative biology #spec bio #speculative evolution #sophonts #spec evo #xenobiology #art #illustration #worldbuilding #artists on tumblr #good god I have been working on this for over a month.#also been playing around with a fun new brush #a bit painterly and experimental

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8bitchoco · 2 months

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pompom play If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

#guys i only have 1 art style i swear #v experimental but im pretty happy with how this turned out :D #art #my art #artist on tumblr #digital art #digital illustration #fanart #honkai star rail #hsr #honkai star rail fanart #hsr fanart #firefly #firefly fanart #firefly honkai star rail #firefly hsr #pls dont let this flop i put my blood sweat and tears in this #HHSHHSDHHSHSHSHSHSH

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polturn · 2 months

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Digital painting style experiments. I used the same brush, color scheme and base sketch. Each was painted a different day.

The first I was very intentional and aiming for a distinct simple bold look. The middle I blurred my eyes and aimed toward realism when I laid the colors down, then I cleaned it up with my focus on bringing out emotion. The last one I turned off my brain and overworked it to see where it would end up.

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oh! theres also a bonus one. It was too out of place to include in the set

#my art #Idk how much sense this all makes but im yappin anyway #character design #concept art #illustration #art style #art style experiment #experimental art #experimental #surreal art

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incendavery · 2 years

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#artists on tumblr #illustration on tumblr #experimental illustration #surreal illustration #freeform illustration #fall leaves #cat skull #goat skull #crow skull #dahlias #candles #fall aesthetic #autumn aesthetic #davedrawsstuff #art that isn't corvids #image description in alt text

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isbergillustration · 1 month

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I think maybe the secret to digital art is no layers and no adjustment layers. Make the process as much like painting as possible but without permanently staining every single article of clothing I own. Anyway this one is called Three Reasons To Stay Alive Until Late July 2024. Maybe Even Early August.

#another one that was a photo study for exactly 23 seconds #drawing #digital art #eldritch angel #procreate #artists on tumblr #illustration #my art #experimentally this one is a print

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artwins · 1 year

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