Art Anyway

[rowyn]

This weekend, having finished the art card project, I found that I kept thinking about doing art anyway. By midday Saturday, I gave up and decided to work on a new picture. During my multiple art supply runs, I'd come across something called "Aquabord™". It's "Claybord™ textured", and appears to be a piece of the kind of board used to make

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[terrycloth]

Oooh, that's a really nice one. n.n Poor bird, though... or do otter-dragons still stick to fish?

As for the background... yeah, it works I think. Someday someone's going to have to draw a picture of the world tree sky as described in the book. I suspect it would look very silly. Or at least busy.

[rowyn]

I was thinking of putting the sun-lantern in, but then thought "that would put my figures in shadow with the sun behind them, and my lighting is unrealistic enough already".

I don't actually remember what the other sky-oddities were -- I'll look them up if I do another World Tree illo. I'm not actually sure the tree should trunk be visible in Kytheria, since the Kytheria branches are all the ones at the top. On the other hand, I seem to recall Sythyry talking about being in the shadow of the trunk from time to time, so maybe.

Or maybe it's still growing! :)

[terrycloth]

I think it said somewhere that it's still growing, and Ketheria is just the top level of branches... for now. One of the branches in the back looks awfully high up, though.

Other oddities I can remember offhand: A moon with a hole in it, a giant floating cani head, and the serpent that swims around polishing the stars.

[rowyn]

Oh, and Lut had the same thought about the bird: "Shouldn't it be more alarmed? You should do a sequel picture, with no bird and a few feathers dangling from the otter-dragon's mouth."

[terrycloth]

*giggle* Maybe it just swooped up from behind and the bird hasn't had time to react yet.