A Change Of Perspective

A Change of Perspective

I was not expecting so much attention on my latest Flatland artwork, as I´m writting my biggest post so far it´s about to hit 400 notes.

Thank you to everyone for sharing my artwork, following me and thanks to everybody leaving comments on them, I truly appreciate what you have to say about my work!

So, I wanted to write a little about my personal relationship with this novel. Although small, it did help me create a point of reference for my growth over these years.

I knew about this novel since 2016, after the 2016 Bill Q&A mentions Edwin A. Abott. Of course my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to figure out this world. I ended up falling on a 4th dimension theory and Mathematics rabbit hole.

Since a lot of conversations surrounding the book where around theories on the 4th dimension, rather than giving political comentary on the book. As it´s rediscovery was made in the year 1920´s, one could imagine why that was the case. For the most part, due to Einstein´s main interest being how Edwin A. was able to somehow predict the 4th dimension´s existence.

Thanks to this, I didn´t take Flatland´s themes into consideration, and just read a few chapters out of order.

July 2024, The Book of Bill releases. Once again, there´s a reference to the novel in one of the pages. And for old times sake I decided to revisit Flatland. Curiously it´s when I got recommended the 2007 Flatland movie to no end, I eventually, after a long weekend of College work, decided to watch it as I animated.

After that, I decided this time I would finally give myself the time to finish the novel. With an older and more open mind I was able to finish the book and understand it´s themes; critiquing bigotry and seeing the world through a whole new perspective. Makes me wish little me finished the book instead of taking its message for granted, could’ve helped get over some mayor denial I had back then.

I believe things happen a certain way for a reason, maybe it was for the better that I didn’t finish that book back then, at least it gave me the opportunity to better appreciate it :^]c

I hope this community keeps on growing. And I hope to see more people create more content for this interesting world!

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mechastab

9 months ago

Now THAT'S Thinkin' In 3D!

HHEHEHEE HAH FLATLAND FANART BE UPON YE

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staring.

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mechastab

6 months ago

flatland maxxing

haha i like typing that anyways guess who finally uploaded an animation .. thats only around 8 seconds, I DID !!! and it took wayy 22 darn long ! my upload schedules really inconsistent but oh well

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mechastab

9 months ago

my linesonaa (i just copied & pasted my haircut and glasses)

i'm posed for this

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arts flatland

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mechastab

8 months ago

I should be doing homework rn.

The picture shows Abel and Anthony. Abel is a yellow-orange with yellow cheeks and brown spots. Anthony is a square with cilia sticking out and an abridged part of all the parts of a cell. He is also partially transparent. Abel is shown holding Anthony over his right eye. Abel is smiling and talking while Anthony looks flabbergasted. The light source is coming from Anthony.

The text reads: Y'know, it's fun to look at you up CLOSE"

But nah, it's my birthday I can do what I want. Have some silly goofy art of my current favorite silly goofies.

Also, more tweaking on my designs. Abel now has a "bread" shaped spot on his face and Anthony actually looks like a cell now!

Progress shots below cut:

Also here's a remake reference of Abel. Most likely gonna be the final design but don't take my word for it. (He also uses he/they now cuz I'm non-binary I get to choose who's also non-binary (they're actually agender lol)).

A ref sheet for Abel. On the left is his post-war design. His blue eye is on the right side of his body and the scaring is on the left. He also has glasses now, and he looks exhausted.

On the right is Abel pre-war. He is the version drawn in Image 1. He has both hands up while smiling. He has heterochromia, a glove on his right hand and bracelets on his left.

He's my fruit basket I love them sm

A progress photo of image 1. It is a flat color version of the drawing.

A progress photo of image 1. It the line art version of the drawing.

A progress photo of image 1. It is the original sketch of the drawing.

Have a good one dudes✌️✌️✌️

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HAPPYBIRTHDAYY!!

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mechastab

1 month ago

ruthie redesign yay

A digital drawing of an original stylised Flatland character named Ruth on a grey background. Ruth is a humanoid creature with an eye for a head with a rounded top point, a droopy eyelid with three black and one white bottom eyelashes, dark grey skin with light grey patches, clawed hands, a dent in her torso, and a short fat tail. Ruth is stood with her head tilted slightly to the left with a nervous expression while looking to the top right corner. She is waving with her right hand while her left hand rests on her hip.

also additional simple character info sheet thingy i made with this :

[ID: the same image as described above, but it has some additional text and images added.

“Ruth Bea Galton” is wrote at the top right in large black text, followed by “| she / her | 25 |” underneath. Below this is a pink, orange and white lesbian flag and British flag beside each other. Under the flags are several paragraphs of text, written as follows: “Only child of respective solicitor, Hugh Galton, and his wife, Beatrice Galton.”, “Currently resides in a little cottage on the edge of a rural town far from home, along with Liz Huntsworth. Makes a living by selling her hand-knitted pieces to the local clothing shop that Liz works for.”, “Irregularity occurred at age 12, after being hit in the street by a young isosceles man. He did not survive the ordeal.”, and “Personality is reserved, pessimistic, and anxious - but sarcastic.”.

On the top left, light grey text reads “voice claim : Katie Leung”. On the bottom left, there is black text that reads “Canon faithful form:” with a drawing of Ruth as a non-stylised Flatlander underneath. She has the same colours and spot patterning, but is worm-like in appearance.

End ID].

also ruth playlist reveal

and i can’t forget the cat pic that made me want to redesign her in the first place. she’s literally her

A picture of a black and white cat laying on its back. On its belly is a black heart-shaped spot.

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SHE'S SO LOVELYY MMRRMRMMR + full info YAYYS

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mechastab

9 months ago

Stars?

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mechastab

8 months ago

Also, forgot I had more art to throw around here. Hello Loreen enjoyers I bring more ghost content (ignore the low quality, did this in between some of my classes)

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mechastab

7 months ago