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He's very pretty to me

What magazine is this lmaoo

I love making art that looks like official artwork, rubik qube

Also i took the text from an epilogue of an existing copy of flatland

space girl and star boy

[ID: a digital painting of two original stylised Flatland characters, named Liz and Atlas, done in a lineless style.

Liz is a humanoid creature with a star-shaped head, an eye with no pupil, four gold hoop earrings and a tail with a star on the end. She is red, orange and yellow, but her left hand is blue. Atlas is an isosceles triangle with limbs, a tail with a V-shape on the end, and one eye with a star-shaped pupil. He has two chipped corners and scars on his side and eye. He is white with a yellow central gradient and gold limbs.

Liz and Atlas are floating while facing each other with their tails curled behind them. Liz is holding a small Earth, while Atlas holds a small crescent moon. Liz has a wide-eyed expression, but Atlas looks tired with a half-lidded eye.

The background shows a nebula, with clouds around the bottom of the image and stars at the top. The clouds behind both Liz and Atlas glow orange and white respectively, reflecting their light.

End ID].

symbolism explanation under the cut (this ones a doozy) :

Liz is depicted as per usual as the Sun, with Earth in her hands - a placeholder for Ruth. Atlas is supposed to depict the North Star, with the crescent Moon in his hands being Chief. Liz is coloured in a rough manner (to give a ‘fire’ effect), while Atlas is coloured much more cleanly (to give a polished gold and matte painted porcelain appearance) - both reflecting their personalities.

The gold components of Atlas’s body are much stronger than that of his fragile porcelain body, it is damaged and chipped compared to his unscarred limbs. His limbs are identical to his father’s, who held the same position as Atlas in his prime and is someone who Atlas looks up to. These are strong and have been handed down to him, but his body isn’t as sturdy. The white porcelain is painted yellow and spreads outwards, as if trying to blend into the tougher gold parts of him - trying to be something it’s not.

The Earth and Sun complement each other in a way that is somewhat similar to how the North Star and the Moon do. However, the former are much closer to one another than the latter are. The Earth symbol is closer to Liz’s hands than the Moon symbol is to Atlas’s hands, representing Liz and Ruth’s close relationship compared to Atlas and Chief’s continually distancing relationship. Liz is unfazed and shows no emotion in her eye, she knows where the Earth is and trusts it won’t leave her ‘orbit’. Meanwhile, Atlas stares longingly, yet tiredly, at the crescent Moon slowly daring to leave his hands.

Liz, as a star, is a light source onto whom no shadows cast, and her light casts onto both ‘Ruth’ and ‘Chief’. The Earth also blocks some of her light from the Moon, casting a small but intense shadow on it. However, Liz’s light doesn’t reach Atlas and it’s instead reflected off the Moon and back onto him - despite being a star who should also produce his own light. He no longer gets his light, i.e. comfort, from Liz anymore - but instead a skewed and watered down version of it from Chief, who is the one closest in proximity to him anymore.

are those flatland(2007) doodles. yes. yes this is. i watched it with my friend today and also i cant draw normally anyway

edit: thank you so much @/accessible-flatland-art for the image id!! in the alt text

I think a lot of people haven't actually read Flatland so you may not realize A. What Bill's eye mutation means and B. What precisely Bill did to destroy his homeworld.

Bill's home isn't completely the same as Edwin Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (notably, women and men can be both polygons #feminism) but we can assume most of the mechanics are the same. The basic premise is that the world is 2D. Everyone perceives the world in a 1D way, along the plane. There's a part of Journal 3 that describes this pretty well.

Bill can see up to the stars because his eye is on the flat surface instead of on the side like everyone else, like this:

(He's also slightly 3D, as we can see in the show.)

But there's one more important Flatland detail. The denizens of Flatland (and therefore likely Euclydia) do still have organs "inside" their bodies. Since there is no depth, they're just on the inner radius of their bodies. The 2007 Ehlinger movie adaptation shows that:

If Bill wanted to "give his world a new perspective" and "show everyone what they were missing," he wanted to get everyone to look upward.

Meaning he probably tilted the entire world.

Meaning everyone not only slid off of the plane, but all of their organs spilled out and everyone died.

...Hence "so much blood."

(The only issue with this is that it doesn't account for the number of times Euclydia is referred to have been burned ("saw his own dimension burn / misses home and can't return", he only has ashes leftover), but I'm sure the act of turning an entire dimension upwards expends a lot of energy.)

Flat Dreams yippeeee

Doodles from last night

jimmy and curly from mouthwashing reminded me a lot of r. line and vincent so i drew them with a quote from that

Redrew of the first Hex design I made,,,,

1st image 9/19/24

2nd image 12/16/24

Yeah,,