Thoughts On The Antonym Of Local Fashion

Flatland (2007) models by Otis Le PoOtis (me) in Blender 4.1

space girl and star boy

[ID: a digital painting of two original stylised Flatland characters, named Liz and Atlas, done in a lineless style.

Liz is a humanoid creature with a star-shaped head, an eye with no pupil, four gold hoop earrings and a tail with a star on the end. She is red, orange and yellow, but her left hand is blue. Atlas is an isosceles triangle with limbs, a tail with a V-shape on the end, and one eye with a star-shaped pupil. He has two chipped corners and scars on his side and eye. He is white with a yellow central gradient and gold limbs.

Liz and Atlas are floating while facing each other with their tails curled behind them. Liz is holding a small Earth, while Atlas holds a small crescent moon. Liz has a wide-eyed expression, but Atlas looks tired with a half-lidded eye.

The background shows a nebula, with clouds around the bottom of the image and stars at the top. The clouds behind both Liz and Atlas glow orange and white respectively, reflecting their light.

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symbolism explanation under the cut (this ones a doozy) :

Liz is depicted as per usual as the Sun, with Earth in her hands - a placeholder for Ruth. Atlas is supposed to depict the North Star, with the crescent Moon in his hands being Chief. Liz is coloured in a rough manner (to give a ‘fire’ effect), while Atlas is coloured much more cleanly (to give a polished gold and matte painted porcelain appearance) - both reflecting their personalities.

The gold components of Atlas’s body are much stronger than that of his fragile porcelain body, it is damaged and chipped compared to his unscarred limbs. His limbs are identical to his father’s, who held the same position as Atlas in his prime and is someone who Atlas looks up to. These are strong and have been handed down to him, but his body isn’t as sturdy. The white porcelain is painted yellow and spreads outwards, as if trying to blend into the tougher gold parts of him - trying to be something it’s not.

The Earth and Sun complement each other in a way that is somewhat similar to how the North Star and the Moon do. However, the former are much closer to one another than the latter are. The Earth symbol is closer to Liz’s hands than the Moon symbol is to Atlas’s hands, representing Liz and Ruth’s close relationship compared to Atlas and Chief’s continually distancing relationship. Liz is unfazed and shows no emotion in her eye, she knows where the Earth is and trusts it won’t leave her ‘orbit’. Meanwhile, Atlas stares longingly, yet tiredly, at the crescent Moon slowly daring to leave his hands.

Liz, as a star, is a light source onto whom no shadows cast, and her light casts onto both ‘Ruth’ and ‘Chief’. The Earth also blocks some of her light from the Moon, casting a small but intense shadow on it. However, Liz’s light doesn’t reach Atlas and it’s instead reflected off the Moon and back onto him - despite being a star who should also produce his own light. He no longer gets his light, i.e. comfort, from Liz anymore - but instead a skewed and watered down version of it from Chief, who is the one closest in proximity to him anymore.

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Also, forgot I had more art to throw around here. Hello Loreen enjoyers I bring more ghost content (ignore the low quality, did this in between some of my classes)

sphere test animation

also hi guys sorry 4 not being as active in my tumblr !

just busy with school so nothin’ 2 worry about

flatland fixiation is still raging on >_0

My boy Kin is done!! (2/3 of the main siblings, maybe more if I decide to do the ENTIRE family)

TW: mentioned abuse

Good luck trying to decipher my handwriting :)

(He ate his twin before he was even sentient lmfao and still ended up with chronic pain of his own. My boy cannot have a decent hand of cards given to him in life at all.)

This was the movie

they’re gonna execute the Mother to elevate the Man

[ID: a digital painting of an original stylised Flatland character, referred to as Mother.

Mother is a humanoid character with dark grey skin, clawed blurry disembodied hands and a sharp point on top of her head.

She has a light grey veil-like covering over her face, which also drapes down her back. The veil has a circle marking in the centre. She is wearing a long grey dress with long angel sleeves that end in ruffled cuffs and a skirt that rests on the floor, a dark grey sash around her waist and a dark grey pelerine.

She is facing directly forward, with her arms held out to her sides and her hands splayed open. She is stood in a white arched doorway above a light grey floor with a large dark red circle behind her head, akin to a halo. The light from the doorway is illuminating the surrounding pitch black space. There are two thin trails of blood coming from under the veil that go down her neck and onto her pelerine.

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additional shots including the initial rough draft and plain line work that i like under the cut <3

[ID: three images that show the same illustration as above, but with as different versions. The first image is the uncoloured line work version, the second is a rougher sketch version with a dark grey background and white star-shaped halo, and the third image is the exact same as above but Mother is farther away. End ID].

More art n comics below. My art is set in my own adaptation of the book, with loose inspiration taken from the 2007 movie :P

A-Line poked a hole through 2d space and slipped into the 3rd dimension, escaping her murder charges. Good for her!

repost cause i made him bald on accident