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chiropteracupola · 3 months ago

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With star-silver sneakers, above the living and dead...

[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea]

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #the fool: moth worley #caption lyrics are decemby william fitzwilliam... LITERALLY MOST MOTH LINE OF ALL TIME #with the return of fall so too returns moth's sweater. yayyyy.#let them have their little ben gates moment. the haunting is immintent.#this was a little coloring experiment and I liked how it turned out #so perhaps there is more actual color theory and less Piling On The Adjustment Layers in my future

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chiropteracupola · 5 months ago

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Grande fête au château il y a bien longtemps / Les belles et les beaux, nobliaux, noble sang / De tout le royaume on est venu dansant...

[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea]

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #moth and compass: road to bremen #the lieutenant: chadwick goodfellow #the light keeper: luna maitland #the fool: moth worley #making them into silly little medieval minstrels As A Treat...#goodfellow of course showing thigh. he has to do so.#caption lyrics from tournent les violons. also known as probably my most listened song of summer 2020 :|

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chiropteracupola · 9 months ago

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spooky scary sleepover

[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea]

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #the lieutenant: chadwick goodfellow #the light keeper: luna maitland #the fool: moth worley #the magician: peregrine #or as the esteemed nat calls them: Our Freaklets #given that m&c is made out of the sheer Idea of summertime haunted shenaniganery a drawing of this nature was inevitable #you have seen a CREATURE so now it is time to GET INTO YOUR JAMMIES and FEEL A CHILL RUN DOWN YOUR SPINE #and given that I am writing this post rather late at night I do believe I shall do the same!#get cozy and play my vincent price audiobooks :)

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chiropteracupola · 8 months ago

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MOTH AND COMPASS VISITS THE MUSEUM OF THE VANISHING DOG

[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea, museum of the vanishing dog is a podcast by @boyhood and @samsketchbook!]

#em draws stuff #museum of the vanishing dog #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #the fool: moth worley #the magician: peregrine #the light keeper: luna maitland #the lieutenant: chadwick goodfellow #with special guests Spam Furby Wet Flesh Lump and Mellified Lamb!#as soon as the 'he just won't die' souvenir shirt came up in the immortal canine episode I knew I wanted to draw moth wearing it #and then things got a little out of hand and I started doing Complex Lighting and Composition #samsketchbook's artwork seemed like a fitting influence for Fanart of Ye Podcast so I've borrowed a little from the creature shapes #as well as 'our furby of the horrible meat' which itself is art for the museum! it was Surprisingly delightful to draw said meat :)

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chiropteracupola · 1 month ago

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Oh, let's go down to Bremen / Take my paw in your hand...

[moth and compass crew, requested by anonymous]

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #moth and compass: road to bremen #the fool: moth worley #the lieutenant: chadwick goodfellow #the magician: peregrine #got really excited about Stacking them and then realized that it wouldn't work in canonverse because goodfellow is incorporeal enough #that moth would just fall through him...#had a lot of fun with this one since the requested palette was the same as the recent 5deer one and I wanted to make it super different!

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chiropteracupola · 1 year ago

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ready to suit up for all manner of adventures!

[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea]

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #the fool: moth worley #LOOK I DID IT I DREW THE THING #and what is more I did it on an approximately 8.5x11 canvas so I should be able to rig this up so I can make some nice pdfs of it #STAY TUNED (planning to set up a ko-fi shop à la zinebash) for A MOTH YOU CAN PRINT OUT REALLY NICEYS :)#moth is my little dress-up doll as it is and soon they can also be Yours #vaguely planning luna + goodfellow dolls as well but this took it out of me a little so they will have to wait until I feel up to the task #also. moth fullname reveal. hiya.

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chiropteracupola · 1 year ago

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rainy day

[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea]

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #the fool: moth worley #the magician: peregrine #moth gets THIRD OUTFIT YAY #ooh maybe I should make a little paper doll of them with their various mix-and-match clothes. that would be funny.#I do kind of dress moth and luna up like dolls most of the time and that is a great deal of the fun of drawing them #goodfellow on the other hand....he is not exactly fashion-minded #but yes! back to the heart of moth and compass! which is 'what if it was fall and you had a very cozy sweater'#I say as I type this out in my shorts so sweaty and over-warm

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chiropteracupola · 1 year ago

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salutations. would you like to explain the deal wktb the moth and compass guys they look very polite

moth and compass! the project I've been working on with @natdrinkstea this year-and-some!!

I believe I've introduced our dramatis personae — Moth, an Inquisitive Young Protagonist; Goodfellow, a Ghost; Luna, a Lighthouse-Keeper; and Peregrine, an Ordinary Cat — a few times before, but I still don't think we've every really talked about the story!

and that is because it has taken. quite some time to actually figure out what Goeth On in moth and compass proper. it's a mystery-fantasy, that'll probably be best told as a scrapbook or a puzzle game or a thing along those lines*, and a somewhat purposefully-nostalgic ghost story. it's everyday magic and the haunted sea and learning to look beyond what you think is there and bubblegum pop road trips and creepy creatures in the shadows and the kind of navigational equipment that, if you use it just right, might take you places you'd never otherwise be able to see...

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #the fool: moth worley #the lieutenant: chadwick goodfellow #the light keeper: luna maitland #the magician: peregrine #late august so it's time to swap moth back to their fall outfit... like a snowshoe hare growing in their winter coat...#there's some quotation about 'unimaginative soldiers' I read once - I think it was about claverhouse...#something along the lines of Stops Thinking Entirely If Given An Order and That is goodfellow down to the bones of him #which is. very amusing given that the essential genre of the thing he is in is a puzzle-book or possible a puzzle video game #does this answer the question. Not Sure. feel free to ask for more specific follow-up - I'm always down to chat but the thing is that m&c #is the most Vague out of all the various projects when it comes to precisely what and how it is!#*also of the strong belief that a moth and compass meow wolf installation would be so so so cool and good...

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chiropteracupola · 2 years ago

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so I made some of those character-inspiration collages...

[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea!]

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #the light keeper: luna maitland #the fool: moth worley #the lieutenant: chadwick goodfellow #these are Visual Design Vibes and also Personality Vibes #working in a very loose sketchy style because my hands will not allow any other at this time #but I think it worked out just fine!#moth gets shorter every time I draw them and I think that is good and right #I went back through a lot of older art to pick outfits for this one and ended up going back to the very first skirt I designed for luna #it's such a fun one and I ought to use it more often #whereas for moth's summery look (which I don't draw that much) I just borrowed the shirt I made up for demoman in cliftonsimage #mostly for reasons of I Want That Shirt so terribly much #...I said while typing this in my horrendously oversized bowling shirt.

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chiropteracupola · 1 year ago

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The Fool :)

MOTH and PERRY and their 2003 SUBARU OUTBACK

[moth and compass is a collaboration with @natdrinkstea!]

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #the fool: moth worley #this ask was from an ask game about ocs by archetype which I am only getting around to uhhhhh a month later #and there really was not anyone else to choose for this one but moth! it's literally even their tag-organizing epithet!#the main difference between me and moth is that moth can drive and I cannot (which is something of a shame since I love Trip In Car)#lyrics are from 'i own a car' by ninja sex party altho' I spent the entire drawing session listening to carly rae jepsen :)#been having a lot of fun with photocollage lately - someday I will learn to draw this my favorite car in the world but Not Today!#more carposting soon (she has Lore)#this one is that rare picture that I've shown to my parents and well we are back to Not doing that again!#mom is losing her eyesight so I will forgive her for asking 'is that santa' and also she did have nice things to say after I explained more #but dear old dad refuses to stop saying that that isn't a cat but a chinchilla - thus he has lost knowing-what-his-son-is-drawing privilege #go back to drawing gnomes pops

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chiropteracupola · 2 years ago

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beach walkin'

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #the light keeper: luna maitland #the lieutenant: chadwick goodfellow #the fool: moth worley #the magician: peregrine #making some stickers with a very specific color palette in order that they match with another sticker that I wish to put next to them #also I've wanted to draw something like this with these fellows for approximately forever #do we remember when the three-character soldier poet king walk cycle animation thing was popular? well you get the idea

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chiropteracupola · 1 year ago

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Questions 21, A, and B for the Moth and Compass crowd? 💚

this got a little out of hand, so I shall do one of the trio for each of the three questions!

21. Why do they get up in the morning?

there’s things that need to get done!! Luna prizes routine and practicality, and even though her lighthouse is no longer operational by mundane means, it still needs to be maintained and to be lit, and it’s got to be her that does it. and in between there are books to read, and corkboards to wind around with red string, and new recipes to try, and down on the shore there are plovers and sandpipers skittering around in between the rocks and the foam. there’s a lot in her life to be excited about!

a. Why are you excited about this character?

Goodfellow is. oh my tragic idiot. he’s out of time in every possible way, and he’s odd to talk to and unsuited to every way of life he’s encountered, but he’s doing almost fine despite it! he’s walking the line between ‘too unobservative to notice that something is terribly wrong’ and ‘still hung up on a guy and a life that he left behind more than two hundred years ago’ and it mesmerizes me! he talks about men in the way that a dad who has never quite figured out that the word ‘bisexuality’ might apply to him would. despite this he did in fact have gay sex on multiple occasions whilst alive. he loves the rules because following them means he doesn’t have to think and he fell in love with a man who threw himself up against the figurative electric fence of the articles of war until it nearly killed them both multiple times. he has an imaginary collection of tank tops from beachfront crab shacks. if you ask him too many personal questions he’ll wail mournfully and vanish into thin air. he has still never quite realized that he was bad at his job. he was so bad at his job to the point where he got many people killed. and his sideburns — well, his sideburns are beautiful!

b. What inspired you to create them?

Moth, well - Moth started out as me. but along the transition from that to where we are now, once again, it was the Vincent Price audiobooks — I was the kind of kid who liked potions and rituals and looking for ghosts, but didn’t do any of those things as much as I would have liked, so when it came to Moth, I imagined the me that would have listened to Vincent Price reading ‘How To See Ghosts Or Surely Bring Them To You’ and ‘Don’t’ and taken that advice! here’s that kid with Carly Rae Jepsen on a borrowed pink ipod, weird hair and weird cat and jeans that don’t fit, and here’s the adventure they’ll have!

#answers from the cupola #oc time again hehe #moth and compass #the light keeper: luna maitland #the lieutenant: chadwick goodfellow #the fool: moth worley #for reference those vincent price audios are on 'a hornbook for witches'#print copies of which unfortunately run to SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS (they only printed 553) or else I'd own one :(#anywayyyyyy.

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chiropteracupola · 2 years ago

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