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I think Chapters 10-12 might be among my favorites of the early Shimeji Simulation chapters. Chapter 10 obviously for being a huge turning point in Shimeji and Majima's relationship as Shimeji truly accepts Majime as her friend, and of course for all the great surreal imagery.
But Chapters 11 and 12 do a lot to expand how we see the rest of the world while touching upon themes of communication and connection that tie together most of the manga.
The in 11 isn't as eye-catching as in chapter 10, but it does an amazing job of highlighting the uniqueness of the mostly one-off characters while giving us the idea that the world is filled with interesting and unusual people just like this
The art in Chapter 12 isn't particularly standout for the most part, but the paneling and dialogue does an amazing job of conveying the theme of communication
It's also the first (possibly only but I need to reread more to confirm that) time we get narration from Majime's viewpoint, expounding on her fear of being alone
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New on my blog - a comparison between my original image and how it was used as cover art for books.
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Forgive Me Father, 2023, Digital Painting by myself, Liz Pence
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#original art#my art#illustration#artists on tumblr#small artist#digital art#digital illustration#digital painting#digital drawing#digital artist#horror#horror art#horror artist#dark art#religious art#religious trauma#religious imagery#painting#surreal#surreal art#surrealism#surrealist art#creepy art#creepy aesthetic#tw religious themes#religious horror#comikbook
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Today I got some lingo soup for ya: (with a slightly philosophical garnish and some [almost punny] metaphor noodles)
[Beware of surreal imagery and loosen your associations, we will associate freely now: ]
"The disheveled common thread... ...returns as colorful web"
In German, the idiom "common thread" is literally translated as "RED thread" ("roter Faden").
That is why I kept spinning that metaphor noodle soup even further, and came up with the idea of the "colorful web" that emerges from the disheveled fibers of that "red/common thread".
What does it mean?
It just means that I could connect the dots about my biography and the life circumstances that we were/are in - and that now I can clean up that mess. It just means coming to terms with what happened - and yeah, it was shit. I'm happy it's over now. And although cleaning up the mess our past has left behind is extremely exhausting, I look forward to the life I have still ahead of me.
I am the colorful web of the disheveled fibers that never formed a functional thread. That's neither tragedy nor anything unique, it is just as it is, an adaption to circumstances, an adaption to feed the intrinsic will to live: Nothing more, nothing less.
[2024/03/11]
#knottys art#knotty et al#lingo soup#linguistics#metaphor soup#metaphor noodles#analogies#analogy#metaphor#imagery#surreal#surreal imagery#roter faden#common thread#loose associations#red thread#colorful web#my being is semi-coherent#or such idk#german#german language#language#lingo#languages
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I don't question my existence anymore, no. I don't doubt it.
When I'm sitting at the dining table, abuzz with who got their ass kicked by the corporate pisswheel today and how the economy will never recover, do I question the fact that my back is stuck to the ceiling, eyelids sewn open, cursed to watch my ever so slightly twitching body sitting inanimately amidst everyone while I hang upside down?
No. I sucker punch my guts back into my stomach and i take another gulp of water. I bare my teeth. They see a smile.
I barely even raise a finger when i wake up in the middle of the night gasping for breath and shriek in silence when i see a 12 year old sleeping in my bed. I don't make a big deal out of it when my heart is beating right out of my chest because Dear God Who Is She? Who is this child beside me, lying there with the familiarity of a lifetime reflected on the smooth skin of her eyelids? I don't open my Pandora's box, as I lean against the doorframe, watching my sweaty frenzied form thrash about on the bed in sheer panic, throwing hands and cursing God.
I observe and do not question, as my body stares at his own sister in disbelief, and i see no sign of recognition flash across his pale,bloodless eyes.
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I should have known "Demons" was an Italian film
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That is absolutely WILD that you mentioned pomegranates!! goodness gracious I don't know if you have already you need to watch Sergei parajanovs 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates (it's on yt). Not only is it stellar but it is really aesthetically similar to your work and guess what? You could see a little machete vasco, as one of the themes is young love being choked out through separation because the main character Sayat Nova leaves for a secluded monastery!!
I love The Color of Pomegranates! It's been one of my favorite films for years, it's so hypnotic, textured and visually rich, I always come back from it feeling nourished. If my work manages to remind you of it even in some minute way I'm beyond happy.
#I love you surrealism#I love you religious imagery#I love you donkeys and chickens and sheep#I love you poetry art history passion love violence and death#I love you evocative use of the color red#answered#phodicae#it's indeed on youtube at the moment! with subtitles (even though there's very little dialoque)
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sold to @ultrainfinitequest !!!! thank you so much!
UNIDENTIFIED FUCKING THING!!! $25 minimum, highest offer at the end of next week will own it [: don't be afraid to offer the minimum, I understand! paypal or ko-fi only, apologies!
saving for uni, share if you want to!!
#adoptable#design for sale#character design#angel#dragon#bird#religious imagery#surreal character#character#OC#original character#fantasy#creature design#art for sale
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I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol
#wax seal#crafts#wax stamp#stationery#Window one is kind of stinky.. I was imagining like a swirly night sky sort of looking thing so it would be a surreal contrast of a night#sky with a window in the middle that shows a daytime sky - but the silver and purple wax kind of mixed too much together#with the black and it just looks very plain black and not all that starry or anything hjbhj.. Of course the eye is probably my favorite#since all I ever do is draw eyes and still like eye imagery for some reason. The four leaf clover is very lumpy and skrunkty but also it wa#the smallest in size out of all of them so was easier to do multiple stamps of just to try it out.#The heart with eyes wax is actually more swirly in person. I wanted it to be a mix of light pink and red and white. and the wax#did kind of all blend together but in person you can definitely see MORE of the intentional swirlyness. in this it just looks plain pink.#I was going to do one eye in the heart but it looked weird. but now two seems too plain. i could have done 3?? in a pattern.. hmm#alas. I wish I could make actual metal ones. With the clay i have to paint them in a thin layer of olive oil before stamping because#otherwise the wax just kind of gets stuck in the grooves of the clay and then you can't pull it up. Very wacky ''unprofessional'' looking#set up where I'm hot gluing circles of sculpey clay to short stumps of a wooden dowel that I sawed apart with a serrated bread knife#and then using an old paintbrush to put olive oil on them whilst holding a spoon over a yankee candle flame hjbjh#ANYWAY.. I think if I were middle class/rich/etc. this would be one of the main things in my crafting room is like.. SO many colors#of wax. and all different custom made stamps designed by me. which could be much more elaborate in actual metal.. muahaha.... >:)c#RHGghhh... I actually don't want to talk much about it since (this is probably just my Obsessed With My Own World Artist Delusions) I#think I have a really cool idea for a game that could genuinely be successful if i ever get to make it and I don't want to give#everything away and spoil the whole plot/concept in hopes that one day I can actually do it - BUT - a game that I'd like to make after the#visual novel I'm making now has partially to do with the main character working as a sort of writer/scribe/artist assistant in an elven#city (set in my world/with my worldbuilding species and versions of elves and etc) and I was thinking of maybe incorporating#somehow being able to collect little writing type items like these like.. you can get different wax seal patterns or pens or etc. when I do#stuff like this in Real Life it always makes me think of that like.. ouh... this is good research.. what it shall be like to be a littol#elf collecting wax seals and such.. indeed... GRR i need to be finished with my current game NOWWW... i MUST work on other#thingss... aughh... ANYWAY.. yay. accomplishment to do One Single Thing other than Sit In The Summer Heat And Rot#though also hilarious as this was the first cool-ish day that was below 80F in a while hgvh#waking up like 'wow.. i actually feel okay today?? like I could do things?? how mysterious.. I wonder why..?? :0'' Its The Weather You Fool#Tis Always The Weather
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Army green just doesn't stick, no matter what. Time for some fucked up eye imagery loosely inspired by soviet anti-war rock song.
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#miniature#mash fanart#m*a*s*h#mash 4077#hawkeye pierce#alan alda#dog tags#painted miniatures#painted metal#surreal#my art#artists on tumblr#eyes#eye imagery
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Rereading Shimeji Simulation and wanted to share some pages I really liked
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Holding Him
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Momento Mori (Working Title), 2024, digital painting by myself, Liz Pence
#digital artist#digital drawing#illustration#my art#original art#artists on tumblr#digital art#digital illustration#religious horror#horror artist#horror art#horror#digital painting#painting#my artwork#religious art#artwork#art#small artist#queer artist#religious aesthetic#tw religious themes#religious imagery#religious trauma#religion#surreal#surrealism#surrealist art#surrealist painting#dark art
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That is truly spectacular.
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black sheep watercolour
#watercolour#painting#traditional art#demon#surrealism#religious imagery#snake#art#watercolour art#illustration#red#teal#blue#turquoise#artists on tumblr#watercolor#this took me an embarrassingly long time to force myself to do#it should have taken like 2 days max lol#i cant believe i used to do stuff quickly#need a brain injection
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“A visitor!”
“It’s been a while since we’ve seen your smiling face! Everyone wants to see it again! Recover quicker if you can!”
I don’t Like this thing.
#Weirdcore#dreamcore#unreality#not mine#religious imagery#liminal#liminal spaces#surreal#smilygod#smiley face
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