Winter in a bottle, preliminary

[eller]

This is, again, only a preliminary Inktober scribble - I have absolutely no time for drawing right now, so... The page in my book is still empty, but hopefully, I'll come up with a better idea. Here, winter is poured out over the landscape from a bottle.



I appropriated the blue-on-blue thing from aliax_alexandre who did some really awesome ALFfH fanart in that style.

Again, I used the cheap 4x4" note paper (that really is not a watercolor paper), but this time without black ink. The blue is a cheap permanent marker (the kind of felt-tip thingy that comes in packs of four, black-blue-red-green, for 1€). The white is ink and ink pen. I found out that the blue marker can be used as sort-of-watercolor if you take the color from the tip with a wet brush. Funny: I thought the brush tip had been dyed permanently blue by the marker, but when I took up the white ink afterwards, it washed the blue out again! Solvents are interesting things. XD

Comments

[leecetheartist]

Oooh pretty!

[aliax_alexandre]

ROFL! Well, admittedly, blue paper goes well with the theme of winter :)

And a literal bottle containing winter! I would never have thought of that, but I love it. It goes well with your usual fairy-land :)

Heh, solvents are weird things indeed. I'm having fun (or sometimes "fun") comparing the results I get when I use felt tip pens, markers, various types of paints, and so on, and especially when layering different types.

[eller]

Heh, I'm an extremely literal person. :D A bottle containing winter? No problem - I'll do exactly that... Sometimes I think that's collateral damage from all that informatics stuff. Talking to computers will change the way a person thinks...

And I also love experimenting with all kinds of artists' materials! :D It's just fun to watch what happens when... and then I add XY over that... And then I do something really horrible to the paper... :D

[eller]

Thank you! :)

[aliax_alexandre]

A truly extremely literal person would tell you that there's nothing to Tarot beyond being a card game and having pretty pictures ;) If you can do Tarot and rune readings, no matter what you use them for, you're not as literal as you think.

Sometimes I think that's collateral damage from all that informatics stuff. Talking to computers will change the way a person thinks...

Well... I like to think of people as computers too :D Input data, get a result. So yeah, the more you train your brain to think one way, the easier and more automatic it becomes.

(And then we run into the problem where everyone runs on their own algorithms, which most people can't even describe, but which they are sure are universal! I see it also on a sociological level: once you get enough people together, social algorithms start to set in, some more universal than others.)

It's just fun to watch what happens when... and then I add XY over that... And then I do something really horrible to the paper... :D

Exactly :D I did come close to "doing something really horrible to the paper" today, because it's cheap and thin paper which tolerates very little manipulation.

[shadaras]

That's lovely, even if it also makes me a little sad because I am not looking forward to winter itself. :)

this is the correct icon

[yhlee]

Oh, how gorgeous! The colors really do fit the theme so well.

[tjoel2]

I love it! And winter is my favorite season. :)

[eller]

Thanks! :)

Re: this is the correct icon

[eller]

Thanks! (And that's a fitting icon!)

[eller]

I don't know, there are some things I like about winter... Though it's not my favorite season, either.

[eller]

Being a card game, having pretty pictures and being a truly random algorithm! ;) ...uh, but being literal and having intuition do not mutually exclude each other, right?

[shadaras]

Winter is beautiful and wonderful and magical in small doses, but I currently live in a place where it always feels like it lasts too long.

[aliax_alexandre]

... *starts thinking furiously about the definitions of "literal-minded" and "intuitive", and adds Jungian typology into the mix*

No, they wouldn't be mutually exclusive at all. Quite the contrary, they could be complementary by nature. It seems like I made the mistake of considering only one type of literal-minded people, when, if we conflate them with Dominant Thinkers, there would be at least four of them, two of which would also be strongly intuitive (though in different ways), and the other two would be less strongly so, but still quite a bit.

*adds this to list of hints as to your possible type*

[eller]

This psychology stuff is too complicated for me XD