#Lady with an Ermine parody

[24hr-coffee]

“Flansy with a Feline” parody of Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” with his cat Password 1234. I’ve had this idea bouncing around my brain for several months, but it took me a while to put pen to (digital) paper. Drawn in Procreate.

[tmbgareok]

"Flansy with a Feline" parody of Da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" with Password 1234.

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[writerdragon]

Devil with Tapiroca // Lady with an Ermine

Present for a gift exchange! The dichotomy of comics tournament characters (Erasmus the devil and Strawberry Tapiroca both belong to Baba) and also parodies of old paintings are funny to me.

[moonley18]

Sir Racha Sauce T-Shirt

Spice up your style with the Sir Racha Sauce Shirt, a hilarious and clever parody of Leonardo da Vinci's iconic painting, "The Lady with an Ermine." If you're a fan of sriracha sauce, the beloved spicy condiment that adds a kick to any dish, and you have a taste for art and humor, this shirt is a perfect fit for your wardrobe.

Crafted with a blend of creativity and comfort, the shirt features a playful twist on the classic artwork, replacing the ermine with a bottle of sriracha. The result is a unique and eye-catching design that showcases your love for both spicy flavors and art with a humorous touch. Whether you're a foodie, an art enthusiast, or someone who appreciates a good laugh, the Sir Racha Sauce Shirt is a delightful addition to your collection, adding a dash of spice and humor to your everyday style.

[cmaidaartworkblog]

Anachronism on Threadless A t-shirt design I submitted for the Threadless Dinosaur design challenge.  It finally got approved sometime last night, and there are 7 days remaining to vote on it.  

[k00273511]

With this brief, I’m taking a different approach from my previous. I’ve decided to play with the concept of parodies -- specifically creating parodies of famous art pieces. I’m passionate about fine art, so I wanted to incorporate this into my project somehow. Above you can see some parody concept sketches of different pieces I’m thinking of working on:

American Gothic, Mo(a)na Lisa, Pearl with a Girl Earring, Ermine with a Lady, Professor/Monsieur X, The Recreation of Adam.

I’m really enjoying playing around with this concept and I’m looking forward to developing it further, as well as deciding on which ideas to use.

[glecd]

[Missi with a Kitty]

finally finished this after a month of working, this was parodied from the painting created by Leonardo Da Vinci called Lady with an Ermine. I hated and love the meticulous details on it even though I had no foundation on what the detail is supposed to look like but I'm glad that this is already finished.

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[lowkeyartdemon]

@john-knows Renaissance Painting Parody of “Lady with an Ermine” by leonardo Da Vinci, but as John Seed with an Opossum. Accept my offer of peace. Im weaseling my way into all the Seeds hearts. Just you wait.

[contrololon]

JoJo Art Parodies: JoJo with Danny ("Lady with an Ermine")

I drew "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo Da Vinci but with Jonathan and Danny.

[golvio]

Her Majesty

My first post was a question about the first two endings. However, I also have some thoughts about the third.

So, this lady:

This magnificent, wonderful lady who’s credited as “The Rat Queen.”

She looks a bit familiar, doesn’t she?

Do you remember that picture we all assumed was a one-off parody of “Lady with an Ermine” from the first game?

I have a feeling that our actor friend is not the first artist she’s paid a visit to.

It’s pretty obvious that she has some connection to the Painter, given his hallucinations revolving around rats and her appearance in portrait form.

However, it seems that she got to the Director, too. The rooms in Act 4 where you let the rats out of their cages are accompanied by pieces of his monologue.

I was drowning in a sea of thirst. I was feasting but never full.

You. My teeth are yours to bare.

Stripped of all my riches, I sailed the sea of nothingness.

I come from a sea of displeasure. I have longed for affection.

Now, I live to please you.

Wallowing in a sea of shame. I was never one to serve.

But for you, I swallow my pride.

My debt to you, I will repay. Here is my pound of flesh.

Lead us, oh captain! We will follow you across the Seven Seas!

A soul pays its debt!

We’ve lost another soul!

It’s just you and me, captain!

At first, I assumed this monologue concerned his relationship with the Actor. If the Actor was James, then the Director was trying to take Lily’s place as the one who led him. He was trying to insert himself into their codependent sibling relationship, with the Actor as an extension of himself, a tool for his creative vision. His slipping into the character of Mr. Hardy makes sense for Lily, as well. He’s rambling as if delirious, as if he and the Actor have entered the same foile a deux of childhood reverie as the Actor remembers when James ran out after Lily, thinking he could save her.

However, the rooms we hear these words in are filled with rats. In the tunnels between them, we find pictures of James accompanied by a massive shadow covered in tiny eyes and rat tails, as we hear him speak to something in the darkness. And it is a rat that leads us to the end of the trail, standing on its hind legs next to the final reel of film aboard the pirate ship. The Director is not the one in control. The Director is merely a tool of the Rat Queen, through which she acts upon the world.

In the final chapter, Lily’s voice tells us that James called out into the void for her, but “something else” answered. I think the Rat Queen was that something else. We hear her whisper after James’ final lines in Act 4. “My captain,” she says, as she softly wraps James in both crushing guilt and delusions of grandeur. As if he’s the one in charge, not the one being manipulated by a shadowy force just offstage. This line is echoed by the Director as he urges the Actor onward.

I think she had designs on the Actor. She had designs on both James and Lily, or whatever was left of them that survived the boat capsizing, for a long time. She was responsible for them fusing into one, after one of them died. Then she let them loose for a while, so they could establish themselves as an artist and grow ripe with creative potential. When the time was right, she gave the Director his cue, and he dangled the job opportunity of a lifetime in front of the Actor, ready to reel them in. The Director himself said something to the effect of how much trouble it was “to bring you here,” as if he had been waiting for their arrival his whole life.

The question remains: what does she want? The ending in which she appears is a reprise of the scene that plays after the first door you open. During your first meeting (or one of many?), she opens up “James’” head, which shines and screams like the contents of the treasure chest that appears throughout the game.

“Such a shame. You almost had it.”

She echoes that line at the very end, before she puts the candles out and sends them back to the beginning to start over. The Actor was trapped in a loop. So was the Painter. He was stuck creating his masterpiece over and over again, discarding each portrait as it failed to live up to his standards. The Actor was brought in to play the role they were “born to play,” as arranged by the Director. The Director was necessary because that was the nature of the medium; an actor without direction is just a grown-up playing make-believe. The Artist drove away his family because he had to work alone.

Each of them, creating their masterpiece. The culmination of their lifetime’s work. Each of them pitted against an impossible foe. The Artist against the world, the Director against the inevitability of death, and the Actor against the person they loved so much they carried them within their hearts, even though it was killing them. The Queen gave the Actor an ultimatum. No “us,” just “me.” Remain together but incomplete, or become alone but whole, fully committed to character. But who are they? Who survived the fire? Whose life was stolen and lived by the other? Who deserved to live on?

And each of them, after being spent by the Flame, crumbled to ash. The Artist did so literally, throwing himself onto his own funeral pyre after completing his greatest work. The Director knew he wouldn’t be around to see the final cut of his magnum opus, and goes silent after delivering his last line. After he finished his final film, the Rat Queen would have no further use for him, and he would burn out. The Actor’s fate is left uncertain, but presumably they don’t have long, either. Her Majesty offers inspiration, the brightest and boldest an artist will ever know, the kind that creates masterpieces, but in return she takes everything.

Who is the Rat Queen? Is she some kind of warped muse of self-destruction who inspires artists to burn bright until nothing’s left? Is she some forgotten goddess of tragedy who sets stories into motion by playing with people’s lives? Is she the living embodiment of the myth that great art can only be born from an expression of suffering? Or does she have some greater design, some purpose she is working towards as she upends lives by touching them? She speaks through artists, but what is she trying to say? Those who create are her tools, but what is she making?

Perhaps one day we’ll find out.

[visionsofmeridian]

Zootopia fan wips. I was reading Tarienn’s story that ships lil Sharlas & Gidz and I go back and forth as to whether or not I ship them. They have a lot of potential and I like that canonically there’d probably be alot of themes and tropes you could use having to do with forgiveness and fear. What I don’t go back and forth on is my certainty that Tarienn’s gunna wreck us all and that I’m 100% in love with Gideon’s dad. 

I played with the look of grown Sharla a bit in part to show how I characterize her and just for the fun of it.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Seriously, is there already Zootopia fanart parody of Da Vinci’s Lady with an ermine?