Artwork: Because It Has to Be (implied Giles, worksafe)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

I made a thing! It's a tribute to that series of slow-mo shots in "The Wish" where Giles swiiiiiiings his paperweight down to break Anyanka's amulet.





I wanted to make this for Summer of Giles, but I was super busy with a writing deadline at the time. But yesterday I took a break from all problems that are more stressful than drawing a lopsided line (did you know nail polish remover won't dissolve a metallic marker, but if the paper is sturdy enough you can scrape the marker off with an x-acto knife and then if you're too lazy to reach for the watercolors that are right there, you can recolor the scraped-off places with green pencil and nobody will ever know?).

Also did you know:
The Spheres of Heaven according to Dante according to Wikipedia: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, fixed stars (the zodiac), the Primum mobile, the Empyrean
The Spheres of Heaven according to me: the Moon, Venus, Second Venus, the Sun but silvery, helium atom?, idk it's too dark to see but might be Second Moon, clock?, asterisks, brown, the sea?

I used some public domain space images courtesy of NASA. Which parts of this artwork are from NASA is left as an exercise for the viewer. :)
 

Comments

[roselightfairy]

I love this! I really really enjoy your sort of abstract multimedia (I don't know if that's the right description, but using several different styles and influences and materials) art. This is so cool <3

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Awww, thank you very much! <3

[cornerofmadness]

Oh this is fun. I love it

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Thank you! :))

[cornerofmadness]

you're welcome

[sylvaine]

Oooooh, this is so pretty!

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Thank you! *beams*

[thewiggins]

Oh, so cool! I love the colors and the sense of movement. The words are a little hard to read in this photo, but otherwise super great. Did you add those beams in with photoshop? It's a neat effect.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Thank you very much! :))

Yeah, these shiny markers are tricky to photograph and I was decidedly half-assing it all. But you know what, why not? I just replaced the image with a version I made after posting, where the tail end of the text is a little clearer.

The light effects, I did add in my equivalent of Photoshop (Pixlr), but I didn't create them there. They're from these two photos.