Space Girl And Star Boy

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.

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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.

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mechastab

10 months ago

redraw of one of my favorite lines from le chat du rabbin that i think fits these two very well

og under the cut + explanation

“Je lui demande de me montrer une image de Dieu. Il me dit que Dieu, c’est une parole.”

R. Line justifies her neglect and disdain towards Trey, her own son, by using the Gospel of Three Dimensions, claiming that the Holy Sphere purposefully guided evolution to give Women larger brains than the Isosceles of the village. Women are inherently better, and are above the Isosceles: this is the structure set in stone. Trey, suffering daily under this dogma, questions their religion and the existence of the Holy Sphere. If the Sphere was real, he would have already saved them from the conditions of poverty and suffering their villages are put into. Because of R. Line's overbearing nature and refusal to accept any other point of view other than her own, Trey does not believe that the Third Dimension or an afterlife exist. R. Line is content with sending her son to his own death, under reassurance that their next life in a higher dimension is all that matters.

umm now some very choppy explanation of symbolism in this bc it's hard to put into words:

-The background is yellow to show the idea of the Sphere, specifically R. Line's ideal of the Sun as a holy object that is intertwined with the Holy Sphere: Only R. Line's beliefs are what matter, and are extremely overbearing and searing. R. Line is outlined in yellow, as well as the pupil of her eye being yellow to show this ideal is the lens she views the world through. Trey does not conform to the idea of a Holy Sphere, and has no yellow on him, but he is surrounded by it because it is forced onto him.

-Also relating to their pupil colors: In white, Trey is seeking out an answer grounded in reality and truth. In yellow, R. Line makes up her own answers, and justifies them through saying they are only what the Sphere would want. Similarly to this: Trey has a very solid outline because he wants direct answers that make logical sense and can be proven. R. Line's outline is blurry/indistinct because she is willing to lead her life using blind faith. Trey's limbs are fading because his limbs are the body part that have the most semblance to his mother (very angular + have spikes on the shoulders), and no matter what he does, he is still his mother's son. + it also shows how he does not have much time left before his death

-The black holes on the bottom represent the cross-sections of a Sphere, and the Sun in the back represents R. Line's pendant. These are not concepts that can be translated correctly into 2-Dimensions, and stick out as something that is really not true. These concepts are shadows displayed on a wall in an attempt to mimic the real thing, hence them being black and solid. It is an attempt for them to project the Sphere into their lives, but in the end, it is all false. The idea that R. Line dedicates herself to, an all-powerful and omnipotent Sphere that will bring salvation, is false. But she whole-heartedly believes in them, and willingly allows them to consume her life. It is also why she is fully black: Her life is only a vessel for her belief in the Sphere, and she has no real emotional connection to this plane of existence. This is also why blood is draining into the most prominent cross-section: She allows so much death and suffering, ruins the lives of all that get close to her, watches her son's death without lifting a finger to prevent it. All in the Sphere's name.

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mechastab

4 months ago

birfday… want to say that i am very grateful to be a part of this fandom, as this book is a very dear thing to me and i have met many wonderful people through it. here’s to another year of incessant ramblings and drawings