when you are not bound by the practical considerations of manual labor and movement, things get weird pretty fast. I find that in history the choices of the wealthy or powerful pretty much revolve around “what is impossible for the
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Tag: design
Earnets
sometimes it’s the little things. so say you got these big ol antelope ears that probably help you hear pretty good but also would get in the way with a lot of day to day activities. you don’t want any
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We can take it further
some of these had specific design goals in mind, but most are just experimentation to see what I like and what I could potentially use. the colors are interesting, but I need to constantly keep in mind what they will
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Ancient mystery
The world has existed for countless years and will exist for countless more. It is the cycle of things. So the wise men say.
Leveraging an idea
I was always fascinated by atlatls. I’m not sure how much they would overlap with a society that uses bows, but whatever. they seem more like a javelin-throwing tool than one that launches arrows. like bows, the design of atlatls
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RED FLAG! (well, grey)
flags always interested me. I have an entire folder on my pc of flags that I think are neat. throwing around some ideas for flags of regions, nations, families, companies, what have you. just seeing what works and what doesn’t.
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Where your treasure is…
Every single person worships something. Every person who has ever lived has worshiped something. It may not be a deity, it may not be as part of a religion. I may worship money, I may worship myself, I may worship
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Critters
an alien world calls for some alien animals. or “animals”. whatever they are. no reason it has to fit into our constructed plant/animal/fungus/etc categories. some winners, some not so much. some of them have showed up already, like the weird
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Flat-footed
I never quite know how alien to make the motherlanders. they should be alien enough to challenge cultural expectations and force you to relate to someone different than yourself, but they shouldn’t be so alien as to be unrelatable. there
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Setting the setting
As some may have noticed, I don’t like drawing backgrounds. They drive me nuts and bore me to tears. it’s not so much that I can’t, I just don’t care. In particular, I hate interiors. But I knew that the
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