Yora playing chess

[eller]

Here, I was not only painting, but also playing with some craft materials! My friend Anke sent me those lovely die-cuts in the shape of chessmen (she knows my taste almost TOO well; I suspect she got these things more for my sake than for her own) and obviously, I had to start making something with them immediately (or as immediately as possible, anyway, with actual work distracting me). Even more obviously, the picture had to be Yora, a character from one of my stories. She's ever the chessmaster and she doesn't even have to distract her boyfriend with one of those outfits to win the game. (Though I have to say - these giant sequins make a nice bra.) I used all kinds of other craft materials (stickers, several origami papers and other craft papers, rhinestones, washi tape, ...) so the overall impression stays somewhat coherent.

Comments

[yhlee]

Will do! Haha, poor Physics Today, but my understanding is all their issues are also online (at least the recent ones?) anyway. And I might as well get some use out of them before they go into recycling! :)

I used to look at the pictures in mineraology books! They are fabulous.

And thanks! The icon is by gargargarrick. I am unfortunately catastrophically poor at chess--I missed the critical period--but I love the imagery. (I'm Korean-American and come from a family of go players. Nobody in my family had the faintest clue how to play chess when I tried to learn, so I eventually gave up. Too bad I didn't try to learn some go instead! *g*)

[eller]

Now I wonder what kind of images are featured in Physics Today and what you're going to make with them. :D

...and I always wanted to learn go, unfortunately nobody in my family has the faintest idea how to play and... you get the picture. XD I used to play chess tournaments when I was in high school and I tend to be good at strategy games but go is something I didn't have the opportunity to learn. By now, someone explained the basic rules to me, but obviously I'm really bad at it since I have no one to practice with.