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My Sigil Making Technique
This is how I make the designs that I'm now using as sigils. It might be a little hard to read, so I'll re-explain it here and you can follow along with the pictures.
Step 1: Choose your starter. Most of these will be familiar to you from Tetris. There are 5 technically possible starters, but we do not ever use the L-shape as it is easy to accidentally make an evil symbol. The 2 easy starters are the heart shape (or short L), and the S-shape. They are shown first and last at the top of the first page. The more difficult starters are the square and the T-shape; they are more difficult because in the second step they form perfect squares.
Step 2: Rotate your starter around a point. The starter pieces should not leave any space in the center, because this will mess up the design. As can be seen in the first picture, the square and the T-shape form perfect squares at this point.
Step 3: Start adding the shapes you are drawn to with your intent in mind. If it is your first time, you may wish to choose an easy starter because it is easier to add shapes onto it when it is jagged. At this point it is ok to use the L-shape, if you are careful. Add each shape to the same spot on each rotation, in the correct orientation.
Step 4: Continue adding shapes until you feel satisfied with your design. The design should be rotationally symmetrical. The example near the bottom of the first page took only a few minutes to create as I thought about the happiness I want to bring people with this post.
Next page.
Step 5: Choose 4 colors. Any 4 will work, though I find it looks best if you can tell them apart. They should correspond to your intent as you were drawing. You can use paint, markers, colored pencils, or even a regular pencil drawing different designs for each color.
Step 6: Mark where each color goes. There are 3 basic rules for this.
1) Each color must not touch itself directly.
2) Each element or shape must be every color at some point around the design.
3) The order of the colors, whether it's clockwise or otherwise, must not change.
In the second image, near the middle of the page, there are examples. The first and colored image shows a valid design. The second image shows a design where two of the same color are touching. The third image shows a design where one element has the pattern 1,2,3,2. The fourth image shows a design where one element has the pattern 1,2,3,4 and the other has the pattern 4,3,2,1.
Step 7: COLOR! You can color it in clockwise for bringing things in and anticlockwise for pushing things out; you can color it top to bottom or side to side, or one color at a time. You should color it however you feel is right.
Good luck and happy sigil making!
I want to write a book/story about shape-shifting dragons. original? nope! I just wanted to do something that was in my head! :P
I may end up writing a book about a child having to face his father's sins in a laboratory that experiments on other children and living beings.
Would you like to read it? :)
“The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.”
—Alexander Graham Bell
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
—Nikola Tesla
“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. That is why many of the earthly miracles have had their genesis in humble surroundings.”
—Nikola Tesla
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
—Marie Curie
Grand Teton National Park, WY 35mm Shot on expired Kodak.
With October just around the corner, NASA has released its latest Galaxy of Horrors posters. Presented in the style of vintage horror movie advertisements. As fun and creative as all three posters are, they’re based on real phenomena. 🎃
Can you hear this exoplanet screaming?
As HD 80606 b approaches its star from an extreme, elliptical orbit, it suffers star-grazing torture that causes howling, supersonic winds and shockwave storms across the planet. Its torturous journey boils its atmosphere to a hellish 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit every 111 days, roasting both its light and dark sides. HD 80606b will never escape this scorching nightmare.
This bone-chilling force will leave you shivering alone in terror!
An unseen power is prowling throughout the cosmos, driving the universe to expand at a quickening rate. This relentless pressure, called dark energy, is nothing like dark matter, that mysterious material only revealed by its gravitational pull. Dark energy offers a bigger fright: pushing galaxies farther apart over trillions of years, leaving the universe to an inescapable, freezing death in the pitch black expanse of outer space.
Cygnus X-1 Presents:
It’s Dinner Time and You’re The Meal!
Lurking in our galaxy, approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth, is a monster named CygnusX-1. This black hole, which has about 14.8 times the mass of our Sun, will stretch and squeeze anything it captures in its immense gravity. Cygnus X-1 is waiting, snacking on its neighboring star. Don’t get too close, or you’ll become its next meal!
This chillingly haunted galaxy mysteriously stopped making stars only a few billion years after the Big Bang! It became a cosmic cemetery, illuminated by the red glow of decaying stars. Dare to enter, and you might encounter the frightening corpses of exoplanets or the final death throes of once-mighty stars.
Something strange and mysterious creeps throughout the cosmos. Scientists call it dark matter. It is scattered in an intricate web that forms the skeleton of our universe. Dark matter is invisible, only revealing its presence by pushing and pulling on objects we can see. NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will investigate its secrets. What will be revealed?
In the depths of the universe, the cores of two collapsed stars violently merge to release a burst of the deadliest and most powerful form of light, known as gamma rays. These beams of doom are unleashed upon their unfortunate surroundings, shining a million trillion times brighter than the Sun for up to 30 terrifying seconds. No spaceship will shield you from the blinding destruction of the gamma ray ghouls!
These doomed worlds were among the first and creepiest to be discovered as they orbit an undead star known as a pulsar. Pulsar planets like Poltergeist and its neighboring worlds, Phobetor and Draugr, are consumed with constant radiation from the star’s core. Nothing but the undead can subsist in this most inhospitable corner of the galaxy.
This far-off blue planet may look like a friendly haven – but don’t be deceived! Weather here is deadly. The planet’s cobalt blue color comes from a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing clouds laced with glass. Howling winds send the storming glass sideways at 5,400 mph (2km/s), whipping all in a sickening spiral. It’s death by a million cuts on this slasher planet!
beware, beware, be a very wary bear (all i can think of posting him)
new guys new guys
left to right: Lothario (Rio for short), Jack Campbell, and Tom Klaxon
they r just some pals having a good time and making fun of each other. jack is a little baby and will learn some life lessons like how to stop being a cringefail guy but also not really. Lothario is here to keep everyone (jack) out of trouble and tom is here to watch him get in trouble ♥
late afternoon light at ightham mote
I had to delete my other account but o will repost all my drawings again all of the things I post are 100% mine so don't start acussing me of art stealing please ;-;
Guess what the wedding planners are doing at the moment~~ what do you guys think of this idea?))-Moony Mun @askaflowerandtwocups