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Captain Honeysucker:
(collection of Gerard Hebert) As Imperial control waned and weakened the de-anthropomorphization of Clarissians in New Oldestland accelerated at an alarming rate. Captain Hieronymous Honeysucker of the privateering Frigate HIMS "Cloaca" was one of the first and certainly the most famous of the Ornifectors, who -- though continuing to fly the flag and generally perform as though they there animated by duty -- lost the ability to communicate in human language as they metamorphosed into novel more or less avian forms of life. His crew all became Ornifectors and their enemies found their uncanny appearance and often irrational behavior truly terrifying. Clarissians themselves, however, regarded the Ornifectors as figures of high romance, and celebrated them in song and the arts, even while rudely rejecting them from polite society. Honeysucker's very public spurning by his fiancee and noted beauty, Eleonora Thatherthwaithe, was the subject of an an epic poem by Fignall Fanngal, "The Pluming of the Roost" and two Operettas.
(Original Handmade Book Art Collage: 3 Elements)
The Free Collection
E. Boniface Neumann, de-anthropomorphic-culture charlatan and scientist-showman extraordinaire defined his time as the radical curator of the era's unique Natural History collection. In his own words, "The Free Collection brings together the bounty of this age of exploration, which comes to us in cages, and liberates it once again. For just as the explorer has liberated the cannibal from the prison of isolation, obscurity, and ignorance, only to introduce him to the kingdom of his bars, so I strike off the lock, throw ope the gate, and bid him feast on brains fatted with the knowledge of oceans, stars, ancient graves, recent wars, the latin names of hallucinogenic weeds, and white women." Indeed, Neumann did just this, buying up specimens from the furthest flung expeditions, and freeing them to roam the marble halls of the "Free Collection," where scientists came to study at their own considerable risk.
(Original Handmade Book Art Collage: 4 Elements)
BRING ME THE HORIZON - POST HUMAN
Sketchavember - Day 8
It's Shasta! I've been painting new postcards and naturally I included one of him, even though he's consistently the worst seller, because I love him and I'm going to keep drawing him until someone else does too, dammit.
Also, theme applied! All further Sketchavember pictures will be fantasy-themed (as opposed to sci-fi, horror etc.) supernatural themes may or may not count, I haven't decided. Expect fairies.
Behold! This year's postcards! I just got these ready in time for Thought Bubble next weekend (where I will be with Sammy, Shaz and Jack, in the Allied London Hall at table 93), I hit my print deadline with mere hours to spare!
This year you get Nat with his magic shadow, Shasta carving some charms (because I'm going to keep including him in these sets until someone else likes him as much as I do, damn it!), Larkspur watching mysterious lights near her home in the marshes, and Sweetpea being his adorable self. I hope you like them!
Inktober 2015 - Day 26 : ink and water I’m still working on a background technique, but I think I was a bit too ambitious. Shasta’s environment is hard to draw at the best of times.
Inktober 2017 : Day 14 - G-pen (and a brush to fill in the black) When one awakes in a strange, dark world with no idea what is going on, Shasta’s is not the most comforting face to see looming overhead.
Lately I’ve been watching a lot of videos by DrawingWiffWaffles and I was inspired to try some of the challenges and exercises she does. Maybe I’m starting to miss art school? So starting with the ball-point pen challenge, here’s Shasta drawn entirely with a cheap biro! We were encouraged to draw in pen a lot in art school, so it was very nostalgic. I remembered I also used to draw straight in biro a lot as a teenager, so I think I’ll keep the biro in my pencil case and try to do more sketching that way. Fun fact: I never write with biros so I had to buy one specially to do this. Luckily we sell the 35p bic crystals at work, so I only had to go as far as the supply cupboard.
Hunting near the Old World monuments. 2019 postcards 3/6