My progress on OSL for the Goblin Shaman. I think it is looking pretty good! The hardest thing, in my opinion, for OSL is following the direction of the light. As long as you know where the light is going and how far away the affected objects are, you can do OSL with patience and stepping through colors. I used dark purple, blue violet + white, and pure white for my colors. I may add a slight amount of pink to the rune to make it appear more ghostly.
I hope you like it!
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W.i.p. 4hours: from freshly cured resin bits, making the base, posing, gluing, rattle can black primer and then actually getting colour on them
Not to bad
More info and pics to come, but it's like 4am and I need sleep
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(only answer this if you're in the mood for it of course) If you had to choose one colour and one single object for each of the five books in Les Miserables, which ones would you choose and (optionally) why?
oooh what a fun complicated question, I love this question!
SHOCKINGLY I got long-winded about symbolism in the Long Winded Symbolism Book:
Tome 1: Fantine
Color: Gold/ yellow
gold for Fantine's hair, and also as a color strongly tied to wealth; no other volume is going to focus quite as much on finances as this chapter, from the Bishop and the wealth he rejects, to Valjean and his rising economic status, to Fantine and the commodification of her life to gain a few gold coins here and there.
Object: a cart-wheel. I thought about the candle-sticks, and jet beads, and ships, and even teeth,but it's gotta be a cart-wheel. The wheels that carry the passengers and drivers of society but have no energy of their own; the wheels that crush anyone who falls underneath them, that take enormous force and energy and even demand the risking of life to move, break and splinter when needed to right injustice, and block all progress when stilled. The cart-wheels that stop when the horse dies, block off all hope of success at the Waterloo Inn, crush Fauchevelent and almost stop Valjean from saving his own soul. Frigging cart wheels.
Tome 2: Cosette
Color: Black
the color of a night in the dark forest, the inside of a grave or sunken road, Paris in the silence of a dark chase, a nun's habit. The color of despair, sure, the color of imprisonment, yes, but also the color of concealment, meditation, the unknown, peace.
Object: I also considered: a water-bucket, a broken chain (for Cosette and Valjean both in this Book!), and Catherine the doll-- but it has to be a coffin. I'd say a tomb, but a coffin is more visually iconic and , of course, more immediately relevant to JVJ . LM is full of tomb and coffin imagery, but this is THE Tome of Tombs and coffins -- the impromptu tombs of the sunken road of Ohain, the chosen symbolic tomb of the convent itself (the nuns have to symbolically die and be reborn to fully enter!), the literal and ironically lifesaving coffin that Valjean is buried in.
Tome 3: Marius
MAN THIS ONE WAS SO HARD
Color: Green
I REALLY AGONIZED ON THIS , it was Green or Blue though ; but the only real strong Blue imagery here is it being part of Marius' vision of Cosette
Green though! the color of growing things and spring and little seedlings just starting to grow, and flowers and Flora, and of Marius' secondhand coat , which looks black at night. New beginnings hidden in mourning , despite the losses of the past; flowers and growing things as signs of loss and loss as a beginning! It's what this Tome is all about, growth from grief and loss, and the grief and loss that comes from growth.
Object: a piece of paper, folded into a letter.
We won't get Marius' Epic Love Note until next Tome, but letters have enough of a starring role here as is! The letters Gillenormand burns to keep Marius apart from his father; the letter that doesn't burn that sends Marius to his father's deathbed; the note from his father that becomes his talisman (until lost); the letters that Thenardier sends to beg (and extort?) money, that connect Marius to Eponine and then Cosette again; letters as proof of status, proof that " we weren't meant to be like this--" ; letters as proof of identity, as love, as warnings, as traps. Letters as connection across time and generations and class and death.
Tome IV: The Idyll and the Epic
Color: Red
Object: The Barricade
look maybe both these options are stereotypical here but they are also correct. There's a whole song and years of Tumblr jokes about everything Red symbolizes and it's all in play here. It's desire and dawn and wine and warmth and death and revolution and warning and blood and fire and flowers and love. Especially love.
And the barricade is not just the single biggest Symbolic Object in the novel, it's especially the symbol of everything together, every loaded Symbolic Object in the whole book, wagon wheels and windows and doors and letters and stones and carts and yeah, probably coffins, the way this part of the novel is everyone's storylines coming together. A heap of joy and a heap of sorrows, all coming together to fight desperately for something better. Sometimes things are iconic for a reason.
Tome V: Jean Valjean
Color: White
White for dawn that's not the hour of waking; for Cosette's wedding gown; for a bottle of ink; for untouched marble and stone after the writing is washed away.
Object : THE CANDLESTICKS
I almost went with these for Tome I but no!! they belong here! in Valjean's Book! HIS symbols, that he finally gets to pass on , and oh geez if I get going on that I will NEVER post this, but you get it anyway right? you get it. It's gotta be the candlesticks, here at the end.
Thank you ! this was very fun to think about!!
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"idk how to draw environments" you're a liar??? /lh
PLEEK i think drawing a space without a reference is more what i meant :'')) i think while making this i learned a lot about being more okay utilizing references and the tools at your disposal
originally that was supposed to be a little test piece for me to figure out how to draw a room, understand the space, and place objects in it but then it became more about color + lighting. then the small things i added that weren't in the original photo (the plant, the stickers, and the brush) all started looking out of place to me so i decided to leave it like that because i was proud and didn't wanna ruin it sobs
but i stand by my statement 🫡
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VERMITHRAX — Maker Of Mirrors 🪞
Mirrors of many shapes and sizes are used by Clan Two Moons for a variety of purposes such as personal mirrors for grooming, clever mirror sequences to channel sunlight into shaded areas deeper within the city, delicately carved mirror shards set into murals and sculptures, as well as elaborate, breathtaking arrays of mirrors, glass and gemstones used in clan worship. Vermithrax makes mirrors from gold, silver and a variety of other reflective materials, sourcing the glass used in many of her creations from the clan's imperial glass-makers, Sibriex and Marilith.
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