#cays commission sheet

[caycanteven]

[magebunkshelf]

Hiya! I’ve been a huge fan of your content and have admired your work for a long while, and I’d love to perhaps draw some fanart sometime! Have you by chance posted reference sheets for any of your characters? Or maybe have a fanart tag for other artists? Thank you for your time and consideration! ^-^

Oh my gosh, that's really awesome of you! Thank you for listening, I'm really glad you enjoyed my stuff!

I don't really have reference sheets for my characters, I know some people have character design sheets for their OCs for things like fan art but no I don't have any refs like that. All the art I've used in videos, either commissioned or originally fan art that I asked if I could use, is on the lore wiki though! So for some characters like Mitch, Aru and Cay if you click through to their page there's a gallery for the official art. Most characters don't have an "on model" design though, for some other characters like Llyr there's fan art that other people have made that basically taken over my headcanon for how they look, but nothing official yet.

All this being said, I don't really like enforcing "on model" stuff for character designs. Only a few characters have set designs, like Mitch and the Respawn party, but even then it's really awesome when artists come up with their own things anyway! A while back someone made some really cool Mitch art that was pretty different from his canon design, but was still really amazing! If you want to make any art, please don't feel limited to sticking to a specific design!

Any character art you see in the videos, you'll be able to find it on the wiki. For all the other characters, I often have an idea in my head for how they look, and there may be fanart people may have made for them, but I generally don't have a set design. If you'd lke a written description for how I imagine a character looking, please feel free to ask! But again, it's absolutely fine by me artists want to go off-model, it's amazing seeing what people come up with

I don't have a fanart tag, not entirely sure how they would work? I think I'm still a fairly small-time creator so I've never really thought about it. But if you post anything here on tumblr or on bluesky, if you @ me I love reblogging / reposting to help get more eyes on it!

This really made my day, thank you

[forestwhisker]

Tldr: I'm trying to save up for a service dog! Please check out my commission sheet!

Hello! I'm Cay but many of you may know me as ForestWhisker. I'm a 24 year old recent college grad looking for work in the animation world but that's for another time.

I'm writing this asking for some help fundraising a service dog for myself. Without getting into too much detail about my health, I've got a chronic fainting problem and have been blacking out in dangerous places and been shepherded to ER rooms more times than I'd like. I was told by a doctor I qualified for a service dog. Unfortunately, my insurance isn't going to help me so I'm putting out this easy visual guide for commissions!

Please take a look at my commission guide or my etsy "Forestwhisker" if you'd like to help me out! 100% of my commission funds are going to saving up for a service dog. I've found a place in LA that will help me train one for my needs. Thank you!

Email: 404ghostfile@gmail.com

Twitter: Forestwhisker

[fusion-ego]

Reminder that my commissions are open!

🌸MOVING MANIA SALE🌸

From November 25th, 2023 until April 30th, 2024, I am offering PAY WHAT YOU WANT commissions! Toss whatever you want at me money-wise, tell me what you'd like, and I'll draw it for you! (Complex backgrounds not included.)

ETA for art is between 2 hours to a week depending on complexity!

Payment through PayPal or Ko-Fi! I don't charge an hourly rate on top of my flat rate, so the price you see is the price you pay.

Updated: 11/26/2023, added new sale details.

More examples under the cut.

Example characters not belonging to me on and off the sheet feature: Logan Helterson (@darkwarfy or @emmettnet ), Bryn D. Soren, Tammi Lami, and Cai Rhys (@ashencreations ) and Blue (@raptures-songbird )

(Click for better quality)

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[fliipclaw]

sidequest session no. 1 - everything goes horribly wrong

me, before the session: lets make some extra characters so that we can still do sessions when not everybody’s available 

me, after finishing the session: i did not intend for this to happen 

shoutout to cai for utterly failing at a character sheet. honestly there needs to be an award for failing that badly. 

the party arrives in goldhaven, where business has been suffering from a series of earthquakes and cave ins

they’re guided underground by two humans named xyrstina and leovenafter a while of walking the cave collapses behind them, trapping them, and a carrion crawler falls as well

“hey, matt, do you want some deja vu? it’s gonna make a tentacle attack on you”

“for fuck’s sake, what are you doing to me?”

erazire (@mogel2134letsallannoycaimore’s dragonborn fighter) splats the carrion crawler into the ground 

everyone is at the front, which is a nice change of pace from the usual everyone is at the back 

more earth becomes unlodged and a kuo-toa falls down from above 

“we’re not fucking the fish person” “we can try!” “WHAT?!” “we can but that doesn’t mean we should!”

the kuo-toa is terrified of everything. especially erazire. 

“this is my first time doing this voice and I already regret it”

“lizard! Its a lizard!” “its different from big fuckin scaley bastard” 

erazire is being intimidating so chi (@distressedphilosopher’s elf sorcerer) throws his cape over him. erazire rips it in two.

“i hate this voice”

ember (@clearlynotoriginal’s half-elf sorcerer) stands in front of erazire and waves her arms to try and obscure him from view. ember is 5’6, erazire is 6’8.  

the kuo-toa tells them that the person shaking the earth- the earthshaker- is their god, and the earthquakes are keeping them safe 

“do we have to kill god?”

the kuo-toa takes them to the kuo-toa city

 me: has a breakdown over the voice I’m about to do

the friendly kuo-toa is banished by the archpriest for bringing strangers into the city

the players manage to figure out that the earthshaker was created by the kuo-toas in order to protect them from nearby mindflayers

“we can either spend a significant of time hunting down the mindflayers or we can burn down the temple and convert them to a new religion” [everyone objecting at once]

“there’s actually two options because we’re going to be morally correct and not burn down temples”

erazire tries to destroy the temple. ari (@spuddycai’s elf druid) tries to charm him. unfortunately, it fails. 

“matt, I do have to remind you that you’re not playing tarrik this session” “i know… you know how people have an angel and a devil? erazire has two devils and they’re both tarrik” 

the archpriest banishes them from the city, blowing them downstream. ari and erazire manage to hang on to the edge of the city. chi and ember fall. ember manages to swim, chi begins drowning.

erazire falls down to save him. ari gracefully drifts down. 

“we’re doing a lot of rolls this session which is a change from last session where we did like maybe five” 

they spot the kuo-toa from before who points them in the direction of the mindflayers 

ari turns into a reef shark and pulls the others down a water-filled tunnel

however, the others can’t breathe underwater

they take some time to recover on the side and notice several magical items calling to them from around the room

chi gets a jar full of gummy sweets. when ari tries one, she starts glowing from the inside (they also have healing properties, but ari wasn’t injured) 

ember gets a pretty wizard’s hat that convinces others she’s a powerful wizard 

erazire gets a tiara that lets him understand one other language at the cost of every language he already knows

ari gets a necklace that allows her to use a dragonborn-style breath weapon at the cost of her voice 

“why would you give it to your sister after you knows it makes things sound like gibberish?” “hey cai, have you ever wanted to prank your sibling?” 

the kuo-toa from before joins them and shows them the way down to the mindflayer’s lair

“only the earthshaker can kill the dark things!” “we can do anything an earthshaker can do!”

kuo-toa: will we die? / everyone: maybe….? / ari: no, everything’s gonna be just fine!

they descend down some stairs into the earth and when they reach the bottom the earth opens up with a fiery fissure and several magmin come out 

ari falls into the crack but casts conjure animals and has some giant eagles pull her out to safety 

erazire kills one of the magmin with his breath weapon

ari uses her thorn whip to knock the remaining magmin back into the pit 

they get to the end of the corridor and enter the illithid’s throne room

chi and the kuo-toa are hit by the mindflayer king’s attack, knocking them out and putting them out of commission for this fight 

their guides reveal themselves as a wererat and werebear respectively 

“i’m just gonna hit it with my hammer!” “are you regretting playing a fighter yet?” “it’s going better for me than a warlock is” 

ari tries to charm the mindflayer and fails. the mindflayer crushes ari’s skull and devours her brain.

“why are you doing so good? normally the monsters roll bad!” “i know, i don’t know how this happened!"

erazire finishes the mindflayer off by jumping from the throne and splitting it in two

chi and the kuo-toa are released from the spell’s effects 

erazire carries ari’s corpse out, and also gives chi a piggy back 

arriving back in the room where they found the magical items, they hear a voice calling to them 

it turns out to be ari’s spirit, trapped in a silver mirror 

“what. the fuck. is this.” “i have no fucking idea"

everyone gets Ari’s stuff, leave the corpse in the room, return the kuo-toa to its home where it informs the priest and the other kuo-toa’s how they destroyed the mindflayer

the party spend some time in town and the earthquakes stop; the problem has been solved

“am I just stuck in a mirror?” “yeah, you’re in a mirror now” 

[caveartfair]

Cai Guo-Qiang Is Giving Philadelphians Free Rides on a Fleet of Fiery Pedicabs

Portrait of Cai Guo-Quiang by Jeff Fusco Photography. Courtesy of the Association of Public Art.

“Go, go, go, go!” shouted Cai Guo-Qiang, with gleeful excitement, on a recent evening in Philadelphia. A fleet of pedicabs, festooned with a dazzling array of glowing lanterns designed by the artist, advanced down the street in a tight pack. The cyclists put their fanciful vehicles through a series of maneuvers, returning single file in a snaking line and then breaking into two threads that weaved in and out from each other.

“It’s really exciting to see them crisscross,” said Cai, watching them rehearse his choreography from the curb near the warehouse in North Philly where his studio team has been customizing the 27 pedicabs with almost 1,000 lanterns. “Your heart jumps.”

On September 14th, the internationally renowned Chinese artist will debut this public art project, titled Fireflies, on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the grand boulevard modeled on the Champs-Élysées running for a mile from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to City Hall. The pedicabs will show off their moves, like synchronized swimmers, in an evening performance open to the public near 22nd street.

It will be shot from above and projected via live feed on a large screen positioned at the head of the parkway below the museum. From the following night through October 8th, from 6 to 10 p.m. on Thursdays through Sundays, city dwellers and tourists can ride for free up and down the parkway in these pedicabs under their bobbling canopies of lights.

Photo by Jeff Fusco Photography. Courtesy of the Association of Public Art.

“Fireflies will give new life to our parkway at night and a sense of civic joy and happiness,” said Penny Balkin Bach, executive director and chief curator of the Association for Public Art, which commissioned the project in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. “It’s more necessary today, than ever, for us to create social situations for people to come together without judgment. It’s the embodying principle of this work.”

Known for his spectacular and surreal art events that paint the sky with pigmented gunpowder materials, in the form of fireworks and explosives (including Fallen Blossoms, which exploded in 2009 in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art), Cai is interested in shifting the role of the viewer here from bystander to participant.

“What’s very moving to me on this parkway is the fact that it is lined with so many flags commemorating the importance of the immigrant history in Philadelphia,” said Cai, 59, a Chinese immigrant based in New York. He conceived of Fireflies before the election of Donald Trump brought the issue of immigration in this country to a crisis point, and he hopes that the project creates “an image with everybody, including immigrants, roaming about freely.”

Photo by Jeff Fusco Photography. Courtesy of the Association of Public Art.

As with his explosions, which draw on his love of fireworks as a child in Quanzhou, China, Cai’s lanterns reference the ones of his youth that children carried at night during the traditional Lantern Festival, which takes place annually on the fifteenth day of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. As Cai tells it, the festival’s origin story goes like this: 1,000 years ago, the God looked down in anger at the extravagances of the people of Quanzhou celebrating the new year and vowed to burn the city in punishment. After a warning from the God’s daughter, all the households of Quanzhou lit up red lanterns and fooled the God into believing the city was already on fire.

“The lanterns have a relationship with the city’s destiny,” said Cai, who is interested in how his lanterns could now foster communication and good will in the City of Brotherly Love, at a time of national unrest.

It’s hard not to feel delight at the sight of this brigade of colorful lanterns. Suspended on curved rods sprouting from the tops and sides of the pedicabs are a constellation of animated objects and characters— robots, grasshoppers, tigers, planets, submarines, ladybugs, rockets, high heels, watermelons, helicopters, pandas, ice cream cones.

Cai’s favorite is the wide-eyed extraterrestrial, which he calls an “avatar” of himself. He identifies strongly with the lanterns shaped as stars, airplanes, and roosters (his animal sign in the Chinese zodiac)—reminiscent of the ones he used as a child. The lanterns are composed of fabric with a resin coating, made by artisans in Quanzhou working from Cai’s designs, and are illuminated with battery-charged lights.

The artist likes working in multiples of nine, so he chose to make 27 pedicabs. Auspiciously, after already naming the project, he discovered that fireflies are Pennsylvania’s state insect. He pointed out that the parkway commemorates Benjamin Franklin, whose pastimes have resonance with Cai’s own interests. “He used a kite to see if it was possible for it to hit lightning,” said Cai. “This is like an artist’s work.”

Photo by Jeff Fusco Photography. Courtesy of the Association of Public Art.

This fall, Cai is also opening two major exhibitions. The first, on September 13th at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. “For me this is particularly significant because I grew up in communist China with the education of socialist realism,” said Cai, who has made gunpowder paintings that explore the subjects of history, revolution, and utopian dreams. “This is an opportunity for me to think of this anew.” On October 25th, Cai debuts new gunpowder paintings at the Prado Museum in Madrid, made in response to the museum’s Old Masters collection, including the mystical light found in El Greco’s paintings.

While Fireflies may seem a departure from Cai’s signature work using exploded gunpowder as a means of pigmenting canvas and sky, Bach sees them as connected by the element of chance. “As in his fireworks, there’s a point at which he’s not in control and Fireflies will have a life of its own,” she said. Cai views his role as director as only half of the piece. The rest will be completed by the experience of his diverse crew of cyclists out on the parkway.

“I haven’t grown up,” said Cai, beaming as the pedicabs whirled past him. “The lanterns are like the fireworks of my childhood. It’s an explosion that can never be put out.”

—Hilarie M. Sheets

from Artsy News

[caycanteven]

Big thank you to @under-art-reblogs for honoring me with this awesome character once again! Getting to revisit Rook and bring her to life was so much fun, and getting to the nitty gritty of her character was a long time coming, but so very enjoyable and loved!! Super excited for her debut in the fic, and I most definitely recommend ya'll to check it out upon release to learn more about her!!! Thanks so much for supporting me and my work! An Absolute joy working on this ref and with you more so!! 🫶❤️

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8 Artworks That Self-Destruct

Artists have experimented with ephemeral art throughout much of the 20th century and beyond, crafting performances or objects that occur only for a finite period of time—works that offer a temporary experience and leave little trace of their existence, save perhaps for documentary images.

Works such as these—as in the performances of Dada or Fluxus, or works that disappear into the natural world, like Andy Goldsworthy’s or Ana Mendieta’s interventions into the landscape—sometimes function as a rebuke to the commercial art world. Artworks that ultimately vanish can’t be housed in an institution or hung on a wall.

Often playful and fun, though sometimes dark and harrowing, the self-destructing works below at times make sharp, pointed statements about the human condition, as in Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s candy pile, which serves as a commentary on AIDS. Other times, they pay tribute to fleeting moments or individuals that are no longer with us, such as Jean Tinguely’s Homage to New York, or Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder, which honors the artist’s grandmother.

Jean Tinguely, Homage to New York, 1960

In 1960, Swiss artist Jean Tinguely was commissioned to create a performative work in the sculpture garden at New York’s MoMA. He produced a 27-foot-tall towering tangle of discarded iron fragments; remnants of a piano, go-kart, and bathtub; motors; wheels. Titled Homage to New York, the work was intended to transfer kinetic energy from one part to the next before destroying itself entirely. But an errant spark foiled Tinguely’s plans: The sculpture caught fire and was ended preemptively by the New York Fire Department a mere 27 minutes into the performance.

Cai Guo-Qiang, Sky Ladder, 2015

Cai Guo-Qiang, Sky Ladder, June 2015. Courtesy of Cai Studio.

Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang works with the unlikely choice of gunpowder to create his massive, ephemeral works. After a few thwarted attempts, the artist quietly staged Sky Ladder in 2015—a free-floating sculpture in the sky that connects earth to the universe. The piece emerged in the middle of the night above China’s Huiyu Island Harbour, with the artist using a combination of gunpowder, firework fuses, a hot air balloon, and a fair amount of moxie to bring the work to life without permission.

More than 20 years in the making, Sky Ladder took just 150 seconds to complete. The flames crawled up each side of the ladder, alternating in tandem like two cars in a drag race, ultimately creating the effect of painted latticework in the sky.

Andy Goldsworthy, “Ice Sculptures,” 1980–ongoing

Reconstructed icicles, 2010. Andy Goldsworthy Slowtrack Society

Ice. Lifted from nearby pond. Place on top of fence posts. Early morning. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 30 January 2017, 2017. Andy Goldsworthy Haines Gallery

When the temperature in Britain falls below freezing, artist Andy Goldsworthy works quickly in collaboration with nature’s elements to produce geometric sculptures from ice and snow. Using warm water to fuse the pieces together, he crafts spheres, arches, and other figures from blocks of snow and delicate sheets of ice, preserving his works through photographs before the environment takes hold. In other meditations on ecology and the passing of time, Goldsworthy has used stones, tree trunks, and leaves to create his subtle and evocative imprints on the organic world.

Urs Fischer, candle portraits, 2001–ongoing

Bruno & Yoyo, 2015. Urs Fischer Vito Schnabel

Untitled, 2011. Urs Fischer Christie's

Swiss artist Urs Fischer poignantly captures the passage of time in his remarkably life-like candle portraits. Made from 3D body scans, Fischer’s sculptures closely resemble their muses: He has crafted candles of artist Julian Schnabel, restaurateur Mr. Chow, and art collectors Bruno and Yoyo Bischofberger, among other figures, carving out their features and rendering their clothing in colored wax.

Fischer’s candles burn progressively over the course of a few months, prompting the viewer to confront life’s slow decay and the march towards mortality. As the sculptures burn from the head down, they become disfigured, parts of their physical form dripping down in long, thin strips of wax—until all that is left is a puddle on the floor.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), 1991

"Untitled", 1992. Felix Gonzalez-Torres Blain | Southern

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled, 1991. Photo by  Marc Wathieu, via Flickr.

At first glance, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s 1991 work Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) appears to be nothing more than a 175-pound glistening pile of candy. But the work’s allure effectively causes its own destruction: The artist invites viewers to pluck from the heap of sweets, which functions as a metaphor for the impact on the human body of the devastating AIDS epidemic that swept through the ’80s and ’90s, when this work was first staged.

Gonzalez-Torres created the piece in tribute to his late lover, Ross Laycock, who fought a long battle against the devastating syndrome. The artist stipulated that exhibition staff should continually replenish the pile so that it maintains a weight of 175 pounds: the ideal weight that Laycock struggled to maintain in order to stay alive.

Judy Chicago, “Atmospheres,” 1968–74

Judy Chicago, A Butterfly for Pomona, 2012. © Judy Chicago. Photo © Donald Woodman.

In her series “Atmospheres,” Judy Chicago set out to inject feminism into the male-dominated California art landscape—to “feminize the atmosphere,” as she’s said. Using fireworks and vibrant pigments, she created an aerial display in the sky, replete with colored smoke that curled up in soft hues of tangerine, lavender, deep reds, magenta, and forest green.

In some instances of the work, women painted their bodies to match or contrast with the smoke’s colors. Though she produced “Atmospheres” in the late ’60s and early ’70s, the series only achieved prominence relatively recently, perhaps most notably when it was recreated for L.A.’s first iteration of the city-wide art festival Pacific Standard Time.

Jonathan Schipper, Slow Motion Car Crash, 2012–16

Slow Motion Car Crash, To be installed at The Armory Show-2016. Jonathan Schipper Pierogi

In his 2012 performative work staged over the course of a month, Jonathan Schipper’s Slow Motion Car Crash sees a white Volkswagen destroy itself by slowly crashing into a wall—propelled forward by a pneumatic mechanism beneath the vehicle that moves at a rate of seven millimeters per hour. The car’s movement is almost undetectable to the human eye, and barely evidenced in a time-lapse video of the event. But the car’s form gradually degrades, becoming a metaphor for human mortality.  

Fischli & Weiss, The Way Things Go, 1987

Calling to mind a Rube Goldberg machine, Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s The Way Things Go was a witty and imaginative 30-minute-long, self-destructing reactionary chain involving fire, gravity, water, air pressure, dry ice, explosions, and tires, among other common supplies. The sequences, which were recorded in a hypnotic film, get progressively more elaborate as objects burst, topple, and burn, transferring kinetic energy from one piece to the next—and ultimately imploding altogether as the piece runs out of steam.

—Katie McGrath

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