[Art] wherein Liz draws various things

[edenfalling]

Over on Tumblr, somebody suggested that for April Fools, fan writers should make art and fan artist should write stories -- a sort of conceptual bodyswap. I thought this sounded fun, and dug out my art supply box. At first I couldn't think of any fanart that I both wanted to draw and thought I had any chance in hell of pulling off, so I drew a random freehand mandala instead:



This is the kind of thing I used to doodle all over notebooks during lectures, only usually in a single color of ballpoint pen rather than multicolored Crayola markers.

Then I had the notion of making another mandala, only out of various Homestuck symbols. But before I started on that, I wanted to do something with the little strip of paper I tore off a printer sheet to make a square for my first mandala. So I folded it into quarters and drew four scribbled pictures of a tree over the course of an imaginary year. (I dislike waste. *shrug*)



After that, I got started on the Homestuck mandala. I'm using Beta kid god tier symbols only, because A) I didn't feel like trying to draw Hope or Rage, and B) more than four symbols in a single work starts to get conceptually overcrowded.



I'm still working out how to add Breath to this WIP, since it's not circular like Space, Time, and Light. Possibly four smaller diagonal versions in the corners of the page?

If anyone has suggestions, I am all ears! (And I'm setting this aside for the night, so you have time to make suggestions, should you wish. *grin*)

Comments

[sapote]

1) I really love the homestuck mandala 2) help, it's making me ship them 3) I think breath around the outside as a sort of frame would look nice! And that's got a nice inward progression: breath, light, time, and space.

[edenfalling]

1) Thanks! 2) *evil laughter* 3) The arrangement is based on the kids' order of introduction in the comic: first John, then Rose, then Dave, then Jade. (If I were color matching, I don't think I'd put orange and blue right next to each other...)

[sapote]

2) this is the kind of thing that makes me such a sedoretu nerd. Sure, a romantic story about them dating and going on picnics, whatever, but show me something that could be a crest for the ancient and noble house of Strilondbertley and I am about 150% more interested.