#looking like a fucking renaissance painting

[clairedaring]

Has Wut ever told you… that the old Joe's house was intruded?

MY STAND-IN (2024) | 1.08

[cryptocism]

"just as I did, in 1983."

you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable

[evanostic]

nori as that 'mary magdalene in a cave' painting by hugues merle (below the cut)

[hadeljoshi]

i loooooove his hands :(

[ellicler]

the way that daniel is like 'i'm sooooo normal unlike you insane freaks' and you can plainly see he's also a total freak

[strayylightss]

does he not know i am!! so close!! to losing my mind!!

[dimonds456-but-only-hlvrai]

OKAY HERE WE GO.

3rd times the charm gdhjsdsfjhdjak

Also I FINALLY learned how to draw Gman! He looks so much better now omg.

Old refs below the cut for comparison's sake

what was i even doing omg. It becomes more obvious when you flip back and forth between them but. yeah.

[gender-euphowrya]

still baffles me how so many turves have this weird combination 1950s/catholicism aesthetics going on like. yup both things were notoriously amazing for women

[arsenicflame]

i love you round faces i love you soft jaws i love you chubby cheeks i love you double chins i love you softness i love you i love you i love you

[angelacostumery]

i'm so glad you guys like this costume! it is one of my favorites. but I put my absurd pumpkin pants on one leg at a time just like everyone else.

...literally

anyway, here are some construction/project notes/wip photos in case you don't have 50 minutes to spare for the full video about making it!

inspo wise, The First Book of Fashion: The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg [this is an affiliate link] served as the major influence for this. the book is basically documentation of what this man and his son wore to major events in his life over a period of decades. he was getting ootd painted before it was cool.

the base pattern for the pantlegs came from another pair of ridiculous pants I made a few months earlier.

the paned portion is made from homemade piping sewn to strips of jacquard that are backed with twill tape to prevent fraying.

I made so much fucking piping for this oh my god. each of these strips was 20"+ long, both sides have piping, and these are the panes for ONE LEG. there were also sleeves. we're talking like 60+ yards of piping.

perhaps unsurprisingly, these strips were too thick to gather. so instead I had to overlap them to create the shaping over the leg. it looks OK but isn't ideal.

after this was done, velvet ribbon was sewn over the marked point to hold them in place.

oh! I also sewed a layer of mesh over the orange base fabric to dull it somewhat and provide contrast before sewing on the bands.

the upper portion of the pants was made from even strips of velvet and jacquard seamed together and fitted over a cotton base. the appliques were added to cover the fact the stripes meet at an angle at the side seam, and I sewed on orange sequins because I like sequins.

the happiness I felt when this fit was immense, I must say.

the bodice is two pieces, one for the front, one for the back. it laces up the sides with hand sewn eyelets. it wasn't very flattering as just an expanse of orange of the chest, so I added appliques to the front and back, too.

the black detailing around the top edge is made from varying widths of velvet ribbon.

the sleeves have similar elements of everything shown above--a paned upper portion, velvet ribbon trim, and a bit of lace at the cuffs.

unlike most of my projects the sleeves have no lining forcing the shaping, what you see beneath/between the panes is the chemise worn beneath this. it's made from the mesh used as an overlay on the pants with a jacquard/velvet ribbon collar which you can see peaking out above the neckline of the bodice.

oh! and then there is the pumpkin hat! there is a video on patreon about making this somewhere, I think.

and it's just that easy to live out your renaissance pumpkin prince/ess dreams!

[marzipanandminutiae]

could the beach painting not be intended as a somewhat ~racy~ depiction (see: the topless woman), hence the short/tight clothes?

oh it 1000% is

that is his Fantasy Version of Combinations, I'm convinced

it's like that one artist nobody now realizes loved to depict women half-dressed, because corset-covers look like tank tops to us and petticoats look like normal (even old-fashioned and concealing!) skirts. what was that guy's name? with all the blue silk?

...TOULMOUCHE

this woman is showing her underwear. a glimpse of petticoat might be fine, but Skirt Hiking To Reveal A Huge Amount? nope. that is a sexy painting.

Lounging About With My Bodice Inexplicably Open is a popular Toulmouche theme. the white "tank top" is also underwear. note the half-up hair- that is also sexy!

damnit, Toulmouche why is this lady sexy? there's a kid in the painting! have some decency! but no, Mama is praying with her child while inexplicably having removed specifically her bodice but not her skirt. nor has she just changed into nightclothes before putting the kiddo to bed like a normal person. also that is clearly her chemise and her skirt would not close over it without her corset on; the fat distribution would be all different.

this one is just gay. Mlle. Red is clearly into Mlle. Nightwear/Lingerie and her sexy 1880s pixie cut (I think? either that or her hair is blending REALLY well with the shadows). I'm here for it

"this letter is so distressing that I had to stop midway through getting dressed and put on my Bolero of Sadness. and lounge seductively against the screen. sad-ductively, I mean"

Get dressed to the point of putting bodice on

do not put bodice on

don Tiny Vest

pin roses to corset cover that would 100% negate purpose of corset cover if actually attached to it

???

Toulmouche(TM)

Once again, that's not even her corset-cover. It's the top part of her combinations. how is her skirt fitting without the corset it was fitted on top of? Seamstresses Hate Local Painter Of Specific Fetish For This One Weird Fitting Trick!

(also, "you wanted to paint a woman in this one very particular unlikely undress state you find hot, but you painted her making out with a mirror and called it Vanity etc." there's actually a version of this called Vanity, and she's fully dressed. this one is The Mirror.)

I've got nothing. Extremely obvious late Victorian undergarment on top normal late Victorian skirt on bottom, fucking Renaissance Revival pearl-encrusted sleeves. Why not. Why, indeed, the fuck not.

WHAT IS WITH THE LITTLE VEST

[sanguinaryrot]

primavera (the painting from Hannibal) is also the cover art for the vampire Armand. Quite curious indeed

[cathymee]

THE USE OF LACRIMOSA IN EP 52 !!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!111!1

[sylvies-chen]

I’ve been seeing that couples paint each other challenge where couples will spend a night in with a canvas and some cheap paints and give each other 30 minutes to try and paint each other, and now I can’t stop thinking about armandaniel doing that one night and armand’s is yeah it’s good okay like it’s not great because of the whole vampire art struggles but he was around renaissance painters for a long time so he does a pretty good job of getting daniel’s minute features and shading and whatnot but daniel’s is just. lord it’s so bad. it’s like the most primal kindergarten painting you’ve ever seen but dammit all the right ingredients are there!! he got the orange eyes and the curls and he very proudly points out that he gave armand a little ipad in his painting like his fake rashid era which he cracks himself up with but he looks over and armand is in tears because not only is he looking at the first painting of himself in over 400 years but he’s also looking at the most non sexual artistic interpretation of him he’s ever seen. like it’s just. him. he’s just existing. he’s there. on the canvas. with literally no background. not a meadow or even a grassline or anything. all this blank white liminal space around his (horrendously drawn) likeness as if nothing else is needed. no body contortions, eyes too one dimensional to even hold all his pain. daniel is just kind of chuckling and bashfully being all “ah fuck it’s pretty bad isn’t it I mean there’s a reason I stick to words, I drew your nose all lopsided on that one side and—” cut to armand literally welling up and whispering like “no. it’s beautiful.” daniel doesn’t get it. this is a liberation.

[quarterlifekitty]

Don't mind me, just daydreaming about the boys tracing their fingers and tongues along their pregnant wife's stretch marks, making her blush and whine and just melt like putty

Who knew that an offhanded complaint about the little changes to their hips or lower tummy would turn into that hahahahah.....

You’ve inspired me

Weaknesses 12: is there a possibly that I’m pregrant?

AKA their favorite parts of your pregnancy

Gaz just stares and stares at you because you have the glow. He used to think people were exaggerating about pregnant women being so radiant and beautiful, but now he thinks it was understated. You look like a renaissance painting of the Virgin Mary to him. And you know his camera roll is FULL of pictures of you, like, more so than before.

Soap loves you getting crazy horny from your whacked out hormones. You’ve got a slip n slide pussy and brother? He’s at a backyard barbecue with his swim trunks on.

Ghost kinda loves that you’re moody. He thinks it’s really funny when you get angry as fuck for next to no reason. You’re his tiger mama. Rawr.

Price loves how it gets you in the mood for nesting. How you pick out things to go in the nursery, how long you spend at different stores and by window displays just looking at toys and blankets and everything a baby could need… he thinks it looks like the most natural thing in the world.

König loves your big, soft, aching, leaking tits. I’ve discussed this before. But he’s a tit man. He loves to grab and squeeze, and now they’re even bigger and more sensitive, and full of sweet milk…. Dream come true for this guy.

Nikolai loves how hormonal it’s gotten you. How you get sensitive, a little needy for attention, how easy it is for you to be pushed to tears… he just loves to be there for you. The man likes you weakened and needy.

[defaultcake]

i prophesized my own happiness in the form of quarantine homestuck kinning?