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Something Otherworldly

holy shit just had a big brain revelation

drawing another piece for cringetober and its the gijinka one and what do you know. ofc im drawing the mxes entity as william because. and my plan initially was to make his skin just normal but as i was coloring it, i made him be a similar (blue purply) color to the entity overall, skin included, but i was curious how he would look like with normal human skin too so, im coloring his face and neck and thinking, hey how could i include his springlock scars, since the pale skin is asking for some of the markings

and the fucking. the white lines all over the entity's body are the springlock scars

thats it thats my new Thought.

my new silly headcanon based on absolutely nothing besides a what if

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I want to draw stuff but I am once again so out of ideas…

This bind is finished and I'm so happy🩶

There's always room for improvement and testing new things in bookbinding. This material for the covers is not my favourite, as every little dust particle (and glue spot) seems to be visible on the surface. Did some black foiling for the first time and it's so pretty (the pics don't do justice). Would be nice to add some artwork as page overlays?🤔

Typeset is by me🖤

Anyway, this is Twenty Four Hours by the amazingly talented @ghost-proofbaby (thank you for letting me bind this masterpiece):

Please, excuse the horrible photos (Will take better once later) and my weird fingers.

Salutations! I’m in the process of creating a story wherein both characters are missing an eye. One has a prosthetic, but is presently isolating themself in the woods, and wears an eyepatch to protect the eye while alone; the other’s socket is either empty, or they have a glass eye with no actual details (iris, pupil, etc.). I’ve struggled to find references for the latter, and fear it may come off as unrealistic. I understand prosthetic eyes keep the eyelid from collapsing, but aside from that could a person just not wear one? If these options are unrealistic, please let me know. I can supply you with concept art if need be.

The story itself centers around these characters after one of them finds the other by accident. They’re painted as foils—the one hiding out in the cabin adhering to a self-made sense of logic that centers on cycles and confirmation bias, while the only who takes refuge there after running away is deeply paranoid and prone to hallucinations. The first character is missing their left eye; the other their right. I don’t want to make a symbol of their disabilities, but I feel their designs simultaneously stress their opposing perspectives, as well as the fact they paradoxically still manage to see “eye-to-eye.” Their visual impairment is just one of many ways they’re able to connect across the story, as they also bond over their obscure passions and delusions, and respect each other’s warped worldview to such an extent said worldviews start to blur together. In addition to this, the story places an emphasis upon an entity known as the “ocellus,” which is basically the “false eye” you see on moth wings. In my outline so far, it’s the name of a mysterious band which the pair discover in a record collection, and resolve to solve the mystery of (regarding the members, music, etc.) One of the characters also sleeps with an eye mask with the pattern of moth wings and their respective ocelli overlaying their own eyes; their paranoid counterpart also sees eyes in the trees and wood of the cabin.

Absolutely none of this is set in stone; before it is, I just want to know how much of it is fine, which parts “moralize” or make a symbol of a disability, and what is straight-up ableist. Please let me know if you need more details.

Hi!

The prosthetic eye has two main functions: 1) to keep the eye area stay in shape, 2) to protect the socket. Both of these can be achieved by conformers (it's like a big contact, except it goes into the socket and not on the eye) which I talked about here!

A blank prosthetic eye would probably be fine. The process of getting it custom painted is expensive from what I know, and IRL a lot of people will decide on the generic kind rather than a custom. If in your world the generic happens to be a blank, there's no problems I can think of? Potentially, you could explicitly say that it's not how most prosthetic eyes look like (maybe someone else knows a person with an eye prosthetic and they comment that it's unusual?). You mentioned that the character doesn't have it in all the time, so I don't think the trope of "blind character has blank/white/milky eyes" applies here because it's clear that it's a prosthetic.

A person could decide to go bare, but the sensation of blinking could be uncomfortable, and they would need to clean their socket more to get rid of anything that could get inside. Normal saline could be used for that.

I don't think there's an issue in them missing different eyes at all. If you want to make sure it's not giving "Just Magic Symbolism" energy then you could incorporate some boring everyday things that would make sense. If they go somewhere together, they could decide to walk missing eye-to-missing eye, so that they see what's going on the sides rather than in the middle, things like that. It could make it feel more grounded, so to speak.

I don't see any issues with the moth fake-eyes symbolism either, I think it makes sense for the story you're trying to tell.

If you want to be very safe, I would have a character (can be minor, or background) that's also missing eye(s) that's not connected to any of the potential symbolism and is more of an average Joe of Not Having an Eye.

In case you decide to get into that, it would be nice for them to have different causes of why they don't have eyes. It feels like in fiction it's always physical trauma, but there's a whole more that could cause someone to not have an eye;

anophthalmia,

retinoblastoma,

severe eye infection,

elective enucleation (removal) of an already blind/painful eye,

just to give you a few ideas! Giving them "boring" everyday reasons of eye loss will also make it feel less symbolic and more like a regular disability. Think "dramatic swordfight with Huge Meaning" vs "yeah I had cancer in my eye when I was 2".

I hope that this helps; if you have any further details you'd like to ask about feel free to send another ask!

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Okay I’ll stop shit posting after this one lol

BUT OH MY GOSH EVERYONE LOOK 😭🥹

I’m so proud of myself (minus the foil overlay of the glass castle cuz it was my fault for putting it over the words and now you can hardly read it) BUT THE TRIFECTA IS COMPLETE 💙

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"Ruhn reached for a blue tome whose spine glittered with gold foil. Words of the Gods. “Don’t touch it,” Lehabah warned. “It might bite.”"

The second page overlay illustrated for Illumicrate's Exclusive Crescent City set.

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How Merovingian cloisonné inlays were made

Cloisonné is the technique of inlaying Almandine. This mineral from the garnet family, previously referred to as a semi-precious stone was used plenty from 400-800 AD. It was imported from South East Asia (predominately Bangladesh and India) via the Eastern Roman Empire.

Cloisonné was usually done on a gold base or possibly used as a small detail on bronze with gold overlay jewelry.

The base was often cast. Some moulds and workshops have been found around Europe and indicate local variations in execution.

On the base of -for example- a bird brooch, a gold trim was soldered on, giving shape to the eye, wing, beak and optionally the wing and foot. How they shaped the Almandine isn’t clear yet, but it is assumed that bits were broken off from one large piece and carved to match one of the “cells” on the brooch.

A variety of putty/glue/cement was used to lock the almandine in place. Residue of these can be found on brooches with lost bits of almandine.

Optional security was to bend the gold edges over the stones. This was also dependent on regional varieties.

Additional decorations used, f.e. visible on the artefact above, are red glass paste, green glass paste and pearls. It was optional to back the garnet with reflectant gold foil to make sure the garnet would catch as much light as possible. Some researchers see this as a reference to the goddess Freya who wears a “flaming” necklace called Brísingamen. Brooches inlayed with garnet usually doubled as the base for string bead necklaces.

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Simple Gold Texture (Brush) Tutorial

Follow the photos:

You'd be taken directly to the gallery, where you must choose this template:

(Psst! Download this image.)

It will help you if you play with the brush settings, but this is my preferred one:

I know it's not that stunning and, admittedly, rather amateurish, but it gives the kind of effect you'd effect gold foils to give. Also, it works just fine.

(Tips: Use add and overlay layer modes. Sparkles help too)

REVERSE PAINTED HAFEN ZEPPELIN GLASS WINDOW, rectangular with an aluminum-colored painted ground, decoration depicting a zeppelin in flight over a southern German town, all framed within a diamond border with amber and ruby diamonds, applied leaded-foil overlay creating the appears of a leaded glass window, no signature located. German. Circa 1925.

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'Untouched Shores' by Max Löffler.

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It's a cover-up.

ElMax and it's secret has been covered up literally. Like Hopper proceeds to...

... cover the owl.

You see the horse only for a moment and they use Mike but more importantly...

... Will Byers (his arm) as a literal cover up.

And distraction especially in regards to the "heart". Or blue and yellow even though it's directly in front of us (like their secret too). Hiding them holding hands with other characters.

Like literally covering them holding hands with this Back to the Future Lametta foil stuff...

Blue and Yellow is not a Byler-exclusive color combination and with Lucas as the connection to it it's obviously the blue hair tie/bracelet and yellow watch. Yet large parts of the fandom are focused on something else and you could say: by design. Hyping up and shifting the focus through the Duffers themselves on one thing. These guys like to mix truths, half-truths and blatant lies - some can directly be identified as such as they are at odds with other statements example "making character arcs early on"≠ "changing Max's fate from dying permanently to now coma" doesn't, um, compute and would change several other arcs and the story as a whole (yet people fall for that !! ). Anyways: only trust them to a certain degree.

The coma and therefore waking is an integral part of the plot because they literally linked ElMax with their hearts and with Max inside the heart shaped exit it's obvious that they are shifting of someone being the heart of the party to someone else (actually, El herself misinterprets her own feelings for Max as feelings for Mike and we can see that when we overlay Robin's coming out speech with El seeing Max for the first time...) . Because someone will be gone, sleeping over and wake up as a "corpse'.

Sorry if this sounds like a rant but certain things are not given the attention they deserve. Just saying.