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Another collage-y monthly experiment, I'm having incredible fun with these. Most photos were taken on my recent trip to the Vienna art history museum. I love how collaging added a new way in which to view the world, I'm always on a lookout for interesting things i could use!

Digital collage and drawing on horizontal canvas
Theme: Fantasy / Dark fantasy / Experimental
Character: My OC Lubi (he/him, transmasc) and a skeleton
#Artsky #QueerArt #TransArt #DarkFantasy #SwordAndSorcery

The image features a cloaked figure standing centre-left. He is clad in a black robe, and his bare chest, somewhat obscured in the black tones, features an elongated red heart down the middle and top surgery scars. In his left hand, a golden sword. The high cloak collar is decorated with gold necklaces. He wears a rounded helmet with a heart-shaped facial opening, pitch black save for two red dots for eyes. The back of his head is aflame with a stylized, textured fire. Parts of the figure are referenced off a ring wraith from Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings.

Left of the figure is a castle atop a rocky hill, black and grey, with a few prominent spots of light-orange lighting and a slight red distortion. This is an edit of a photo I took at the Vienna Art History Museum of a 16th century handstone miniature made by Caspar Ulich.

In the upper right-most part of the piece is a celestial object - a golden decagonal shape with a spike coming out of each side, and flames coming down below. The shape was taken from a wooden mosaic on a 17th century cabinet made by Giuliano di Piero Pandolfini.

The ground is crowded with dark plantlife and winding gold smoke, as well as a colourful texture, a photo of a reflection of a 16th century mother-of-pearl-covered reliquary casket. This texture is also used in the glow from the golden object.

The background is a large purple-blue slope with a little dark green sky visible on top, littered with murky stars, brightest just above the figure. Dead low-res trees can be seen in the fore- and background. The source is a stock photo of Deadvlei valley taken by Erhard Nerger. Below the golden object's glow, one of the trees is sprouting a plant with a star for a flower, which the cloaked figure witnesses in amazement.

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Sketched an idea for a Talespin Kaa possibly working as Khan Industries' shrewd accountant. Definitely took inspiration from Sir Hiss and Mr. Snake during his dapper moments in The Bad Guys. 🤑

Fanart of Kaa from the Jungle Book in an alternate Talespin design where he's wearing a green blazer with the sleeves hanging out, a blue collared shirt under an orange vest and a red bowtie on top. He's adjusting his orange glasses with a thoughtful, closed eyes expression, a gold watch strapped near the end of his coils. Another sketchy drawing shows Kaa smiling while writing on a notebook, using his coils to hold it up and hold a pen to write in it.

often when i do something absentminded i will have the recurring thought, "i'm roman emperor stupidus fuck." when i lose my keys i am roman emperor stupidus fuck. when i drop something fragile i'm roman emperor stupidus fuck. i just touched a hot pan, and indeed i was roman emperor stupidus fuck