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Creators - Happy Birthday MyDearBasil!

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Alternate title: RPing - The Fates are Cruel Mistresses



April 25, 2013.

Faber-Castell PITT artist pen (after mechanical pencil & eraser), Art Studio tempra paint, Windsor & Newton white ink, 110lb sketchbook paper, handmade paper for mounting, Best-Test paper cement, scissors, Xacto knife.
(lol, since it's rare these days for me to use any physical media for art unless it's ballpoint pen or pencil on computer paper, I decided to list everything for future reference. XD )

So after I got this totally super sweet gift in the mail from ~MyDearBasil [link] , I knew in my heart that I wanted to send something sweet and meaningful back~~! But then like it was a month later and I didn't do it yet.. and then suddenly her birthday was coming up, so why not two birds with one stone? Good thinking! XD Just that by the time it gets there, her birthday would be over? Whoops! IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS! PLUS I PAINTED AND MOUNTED IT ON TIME! AND OH GOSH MY HAND HURT A BUNCH WHEN I TRIED TO USE MY XACTO KNIFE TO CUT OUT THE SPOTS IN THE MIDDLE.

Since she bothered painting it with REAL PAINT, I decided I had to too! And oh gosh, trying to scrummage all these old supplies up in order to do this was an endeavour of its own! XD It's been so many years since I even touched water colours and attempted to paint anything half-serious with it that I was worried about what a massive screwup this would be. Plus.. I had no water colour paper. >___> I think this sketchbook paper was okay though.. it says right on the sketchbook cover: "Excellent for pencil, pastel, charcoal, crayon & watercolour"!! Haaah~ The last time I even drew in this particular sketchbook was April 2009! Wowza!

SO ABOUT THIS IMAGE~!
It's reversible~! Yaaay~! Those are always cool, right? XD In the first stage of planning, it was just supposed to be us on our computers RPing or comment-conversing or just browing the internets. lol But then I realized that real-world imagery would require me drawing electronics and regular clothing, like us in PJs, but I don't know what her PJs are so that seemed too hard, so I thought why not just make everything look like semi-Art Nouveau esoteric instead (it probably would have been more Art Nouveau if the brush pen was easier for me to control for fine lines, but I gave up fighting it XD). SO NOW SYMBOLISM INFUSED! The things that happen when I am too lazy!

~MyDearBasil is the girl in purple. The wings on her head represent her floating headiness [link] . And since I think she's earthy (cuz Taurus, lol), she got leaves (plus Basil in her name, so they are Basil leaves). And her tumblr icon is all purple, so she also wears purple. And her magical hand mirror thing is in the symbol of antimony because that is like her thing, and  I am pretty sure she liked hardcore boots and metal and stuff, so she got leather studded boots and a chainmail collar. xD

In parallel, I am the girl in yellow/orange because that's a complementary colour, plus gold is kinda my colour anyway~ And I am a leo so I play up on that theme a lot, so I got symbols of the sun going on~! The fringe of my dress is kind of a representation of fire and phoenix feathers (cuz like.. it's my name and elements lol), plus they kind of look like red maple leaves because I am Canadian??? XD I wear flipflops at home (well, more like really thick flip flops--are they still called flip flops if they don't actually flop that much???..), so that's what I have on.

I also transformed/gradiated ~MyDearBasil's dress to blue and giving it a watery/cloudy feel, so it looks like I am sitting aorund in the celestial abode with the sun as my laptop. XD She on the other hand looks like she might be in a fiery abode and is possibly a succubus/demon given the wings on her head and the way I make my characters head-winged demons (LOLOL). Not intentional! Maybe we can say it's just turns to a tree with yellow leaves!

The overall theme is that these are goddesses looking down on their creations (characters/world-building) through their magical devices (which really represents our computer/internets lol) and finding amusement in all the trials and tribulations and triumphs of those characters~! Bwahahah~~! XD Plus there is an overall interconnectedness/harmony, or else the world we are playing with wouldn't work and you'd probably not see this image made?? lol.

ANYWAY BASIL'S A WONDERFULLY AWESOME AND SWEET PERSON AND GREAT ARTIST AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY EVERYTHINGGGGGGG~~~!

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS TO RESIST POSTING THIS BEFORE THE MAIL ARRIVED BECAUSE WHEN I FINALLY GET SOME ART DONE I GET ALL EXCITEDDD!
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Wolf-Fang4's avatar
Wow your good.