Raving mad and somewhat slightly dazed

It was an interesting experience. First, though, photos.

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My piece was the second to be talked about. I put my title next to it and shut up while people talked about my work. Which was one of the weirder experiences I've had lately.

People seemed to understand it, which was awesome. They also thought it was kind of creepy, which, well, happens. They read it as creepier than I had, but their understanding made sense. They read in things like torture, leeching the life out of something, beauty torn and caged.

All of which were things that I had meant, but building it.... I had seen the implications distantly, sterile and tame in my hands. Which is part of why I write and part of why I build such creepy fucking thing sometimes - to take control of the things in my head, to make them into something safe. (The rest of the time it's because I think whatever it is looks cool.) But at the same time....

It was kind of a...magical thing, really. People looking at this thing I had made and making their own meaning - not finding it, not reading it like it was a message in code. They constructed it themselves, using the pieces of plaster and wire that I had made and using them as a jumping off point for something fascinating, in directions I had never imagined.

Apparently from the right angle, the top piece looks like the torso of a woman. Which changes the piece into a much more interesting one than I had aimed for. It's like fanfiction - honoring the original, and doing so by using it to make something new.

I think I might have stumbled onto a part of what makes art beautiful, what makes it important - the idea that it's not something you view, it's something that is made every time it's viewed. The viewer and the artist working in sequence to make something the world has never seen before, meaning created anew in every reaction of person to person.

art project due on monday. reliquary box to hold something precious.

I decided to let the creepy out this time. Bones and eyeballs and stuff.
( booooox )

So. Behold the box. ...it needs a name. hm

I forgot to take a full shot today. Will get one tomorrow. But these are the in progress shots.
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Line art belongs to Hirano, coloring is mine.

I was struck with the urge to color Alucard's hat and do it all in noir lighting and shit. So I printed off a bit of a page and colored it fairly quickly, in the span of about four hours (rather than my normal time of a couple of days to a week). Though it is a fairly simple construction. Turned out fairly well, though I swore at the skin tone for about an hour and eventually just smeared black all over it.

The glasses turned out the best, I think.

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Irl friend raikou_ookami has sometimes cosplayed Ciel on gaia.com, and is rather a fan.  She requested I color a Sebastian+Ciel picture for her, which I have done. Eventually. I used the line art from the title page from chapter 8, when Ciel has been shoved into a dress.

The skin tones are atrocious (I'm discovering that skin tones are the bane of my art) but Ciel's dress turned out much better than I expected. A blue color scheme, because putting Ciel in warm tones is a sin. Line art is Yana's, because I am not that awesome.

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This is the title page for Kuroshitsuji chapter 13. I thought it had lovely line art, so I printed it off and have been coloring it for a while.

I still hate his skin tone (fucking yellow smudges) and scans always suck,  but I think it's done.
( ....stupid smudges  )