Praise The Signal Which Will Not Cease! Praise The Sacred Currents!

we had sibling rane saturday now get ready for sibling rane sunday!

final reunions - and final partings.

a little sketch of sister carpenter

fun adventure with friends

Poke a few holes in the tarpaulin. See if the light falls through. 

my handsewn trawlerman quilt!

some wip pics and thoughts under the cut

i had never done a quilt before so this was very exciting for me

i pieced together the entire figure of the trawler man (forgot to take photos of the head with him oops) and then appliquéd the background with part scrap fabric and part sacrificial old t-shirt

i wanted to portray the two sides of the trawlerman, with both a mouth that devours and one that returns, so i hand embroidered some bones (skull, humerus, rib) on one side and added some fish beads in the other. the intent was to show the relationship between death and life in a kind of gradient, but i don’t think it quite came across. i realized too late that it should have been only five beads instead of six, but oh well

i hand-quilted the symbols from the withermark into the coat of the trawler man with a orange-brown gradient thread and did his sort of aura with the same thread but cut and matched it so the light parts would be closest to him. the river was embroidered with some purple thread because i was tired of blue at that point

bonus shot of my fabric quality control manager

I cannot wait for act 2 to come out

Quick inktober practice with best unhinged woman Carpenter from The Silt Verses

roakes sentinel has been on my mind for months now, im SO HAPPY to finally have it drawn out !!! prelim sketches + notes below the cut :]

i think it's pretty obvious, but this was very much informed by the dog thing from The Thing. Rob Bottin is a huge inspiration to me in terms of body horror

the crab and dogs arent based on any specific species or breed. that's the problem with dogs and crabs -- theyre so diverse, you can't draw them generic without making them look a little weird in one way or another. and then that means picking a specific species or breed, which invites speculation as to why, which means it has to be done with symbolism in mind, and sometimes i just wanna paint a big scary monster with nothing else to it, yknow?

the dogs are (in canon) embedded in the shell, which i forgot about when i was envisioning the sentinel to begin with. thank god for artistic license !! sorry jon ware my crab now

not allowed to say Harry Potter, but what was your book series obsession as a teen

mine was definitely Eragon