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“The Earth” Hand embroidery. DMC embroidery threads on linen. Frame : 8cm in diameter. Planet : 3,5cm in diameter. https://www.etsy.com/fr/shop/OphelieTrichereau I take custom orders. #embroidery #broderie #theearth #earth #laterre #terre #planeteterre #earthlover #earthplanet #earthembroidery #earthart #earthartwork #planetebleue #plueplanet #planetembroidery #universeartwork #universe #solarsystem #solarsystemembroidery #spaceart #astro #galaxy #cosmos #cosmic #astrology #astronomy #astronomyart #astronomyartwork #handembroidery #ophelietrichereau

Este es oficialmente el anuncio más raro que me ha salido nunca en tumblr. Ojalar poderlo rebloguear para reírnos todas, pero se actualizó la timeline cuando estaba investigando si se podía denunciar por inapropiado.

La disonancia cognitiva de que apareciera justo después de un post de Buenos Presagios y antes de otro de Canción de Hielo y Fuego es real, amigas.

This one.

based moffat

L'astronomie pittoresque - Jules Loridan - 1896 - via Gallica

The Road Goes Ever On embroidered by seejor.

“After 100ish hours of work, I’m so happy to say this beast is done!!

For the most part, I had an idea that I thought would be cool, drew it up, and transferred it to fabric (here’s the hoop pre-stitching). Prior to this piece, I’d only done florals – some from patterns I bought online (Namaste Embroidery) and some of my own design – so really I just wanted to see if I could embroider a dragon. I hadn’t been embroidering long but was feeling ballsy.

So that’s the pattern… as for color choices: the mountain, clouds, fog, and trees were entirely a product of I’d bought a bunch of floss I thought was pretty and kind of went together and figured why not give it a try. I love how the mountain came out. The gold for the text was my favorite gold I’d worked with in a sunflower piece (I have an entire floss organizer of just shades of yellow because of that piece, so the gold pieces pretty much just followed). Smaug’s colors and pose in general were inspired by an illustration of Smaug Tolkien did that I’ve always loved.

Process in general: I kind of made most of it up as I went along. I knew what effect I wanted in various sections and if I couldn’t figure out a way to make it look the way I wanted with stitches I knew, I’d go googling. The pile of gold Smaug is on is all seed stitch (I don’t know if it’s technically seed stitch, but that’s what I’m calling it) and literally caused me to set this piece down for two years.

- the implement I used to transfer the design was a Sakura Gelly Roll white pen. In a pinch, the gel ink can be removed (like when I edited out the two other mountains)

- I wore a reasonably high powered, rechargeable headlamp for a lot of this project in an attempt to have my stitches be as precise as possible. It ain’t pretty, but it worked pretty well!”

Okay, don't get me wrong here. I LOVE Jurassic Park. I love seeing their dinosaurs. But after watching Prehistoric Planet, and going back to look at this...

And then looking at this...

Notice how much healthier the second set looks? Their lips cover their teeth, they actually have fat on their bodies, their skin doesn't wrinkle like they're dehydrated. You can't see every single tendon and muscle move because you aren't supposed to. Dinosaurs are animals, not reptilian body-builders.

THIS is the kind of change I want to see in how we create realistic depictions of not only dinosaurs, but all prehistoric creatures. Paleoart has always had a huge issue with shrink-wrapping and making these animals look terrifying instead of making them look like, well, animals.

Well done, BBC.