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jordangreywolfPer the earlier "guild drama," I was doing a lot less (read: no more) artwork based on Warcraft RP. I still kept at drawing food doodles for a weekly article. I made some progress on the house, doing some major clearing out of the garage. The main impetus for this was that the washing machine died, and I NEEDED to get a handle on all the junk piled up in the garage in order to get the washing machine out, and a new one in. I set up a "triage" area in my family room, hauled stuff in from the garage, cleared space, got the washing machine out, and then, rather than just hauling all the junk back out to the garage again, made a concerted effort to GET RID of a bunch of junk, and to better organize the rest in bins on shelves before putting it back out there.
One end result was that I could actually walk around in the garage when I was done ... and the family room was finally looking presentable. I set up a workspace so I could fix up some wall-hanging projects -- I'd accumulated several items I wanted to decorate a wall with for a "Fallout-ish" theme, but my plans to fix them up got delayed. Now, I could get back to that.
Kul Tiran Sole Food
That's sole, as in the fish. I played around with trying to make a "Kul Tiran" pattern to some dishware. I made a design and used the Polar Coordinates distort option in Adobe Photoshop to make a pattern for a plate.
A Very Merry Un-Birthday To You!
Actually, I originally drew this while struggling to figure out a silly birthday card design for my little sister. I thought, "I'll send a virtual birthday cake!" But ... what FLAVOR? Well, if I don't know, then I should just do ... ALL OF THE FLAVORS! And then I imagined it getting really out of hand, like something precariously-stacked that might be at home at the Mad Hatter's tea party. I was thinking of turning it into an entire Wonderland un-birthday party scene, but ... eh, it was a lot of work just doing the cake, really. XD So I just went with that for now. Maybe I can use this as an "Items of Wonder" card illustration for a silly Magic Foodstuff item for Wonderland No More.
+1>new California Republic Tin Sign (Alteration)
(Printed tin sign, modified with craft acrylics.)
At a nearby Goodwill, I found a tin "California Republic" sign for cheap, a bit scratched and dinged up, and I was inspired to grab it and repurpose it for some "post-apocalyptic" signage, Fallout-style. I used some acrylic paints -- a mix of Top Notch Coffee Bean and Americana Black -- mixing them up until I could get as close as possible to the look of the dark brown already used for the bear, to add another head. There was no way to squeeze in a "NEW" in front of "CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC" in any way that would look new, so I just used some Top Notch Barn Red to make an obviously afterward-added "NEW" to squeeze into the corner. I did further touch up with a mix of grey and white I had on hand to touch up some of the mottled "galvanized" metal look of the rest of the sign. (Not actual bare metal, but a printed texture, and it was scuffed up enough to spoil the illusion at a glance.)
This wasn't originally one of the items I planned to put up on the wall, but when I saw this in the thrift store, I "had" to get it, as I could envision a pretty clear plan on how to Fallout-ize it.
A Fellowship of Hobbits
I mean, that's what you call a group of hobbits, right? Anyway, once upon a time I got "The Hobbit" board game from Iron Crown Enterprises (yes, it's that old), and I painted up the hobbit playing pieces. Sadly, this isn't REALLY much to do with the Middle Earth Roleplaying Game (MERP), aside from that the fold-out board might make a nice map, but it still had the ICE branding.
To differentiate the figures, I gave each one a cloak. This was way back in the olden days when muted colors just weren't a thing (at least, not for me or for any of the miniatures I saw used for gaming), so they're a bit bright and garish. Also, it's a real challenge to do facial expressions -- the varying expressions are all accidents of the brush rather than a product of any intent to do more than just make sure there were eyes and eyebrows.
I've never actually PLAYED the game, and the rubber bands used to hold the cards together have long since calcified. I'll likely try to find out if any one of my local friends is enough of a fan of Lord of the Rings to give this a new home, but I figured I'd at least take a picture to catalog my effort. I mean, how rare this is -- a game for which I actually got ALL the miniatures painted! XD
The thing is, here I was going through a bunch of board games and figuring out what I definitely wasn't going to actually play. I took some of them to a used book store that also has board games and offers store credit for books/games they take. I didn't get an incredible amount, but far more than I would have by dropping all that stuff off at Goodwill!
This one is probably going to head that way on a future trip, but it's among some games I wanted to make sure all the pieces were there first, and clean them up a bit. I don't want to waste their time or mine with something that turns out to be trash. The minis are too large, out of scale with typical RPG minis. That made them easier to paint, but I just don't need four "giant hobbits."
Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
Or is it Upside-Down Pineapple Cake? Or maybe Pineapple Cakeside Up-Down? Whatever it is, I trust it's tasty.
Just trying to draw foodstuffs again, hoping to make it look edible.
The Ruined Highway
Tablescapes terrain boards (originally from Secret Weapons Miniatures, but now from Elrik's Hobbies) of the "Rolling Fields" texture type, painted up to look like desert wasteland with the heavily-eroded remains of a roadway. The terrain boards are HIPS plastic (each tile is 12"x12"); I added the roads by taking some black-dyed Aves Apoxie Sculpt two-part epoxy putty and mixing globs, then mashing them down into place with a texture-stamp made using Hinodewashi Oyumaru "plastic clay," to give them a cracked-pavement look, and then trimming with a hobby knife to blend the edges a bit. I then dry-brushed with a "denim" grey acrylic, and roughly painted on bits of color meant to represent the remnants of old painted lane stripes. A few roadside wreckage elements as bits and printed "signage" were added as scatter details. The rusty guardrail is salvaged from a Pixar Cars play set.
This is intended for use with 32mm scale minis for games such as Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, but the scale might be "squishy" enough to pass for Gaslands, too. After all, RL scaled roads would have a bit more room in each lane. (I'll just have to try and see.)
I actually fixed these boards up a while ago, but realized I didn't have any pictures of JUST the terrain boards, without a bunch of props on top of them. During my excavation of the garage I found a bunch of my Tablescapes boards. They were high-impact plastic, so they did just fine despite all the water that poured through the garage.
Radiation King Sign (Alteration)
I found this crown-shaped light-up sign at a local Goodwill, and it immediately made me think, "Radiation King!" Okay, so it really doesn't match up perfectly with any iteration of the Radiation King logo from the Fallout games (the one instance that has a "crown" as part of the logo only has four tips, not five), but I decided to go with it anyway, and painted in a take on the "Radiation King" logo as it appears in a poster in Fallout: New Vegas. Two of the LED bulb sockets won't light up -- I swapped bulbs and it's clearly the sockets, not the bulbs themselves -- so I guess I'll have to go in and check the wiring. Still, this is post-apoc chic, so a couple of dead bulbs won't necessarily kill the look. XD (And, besides, it's not like I'm going to be leaving this on and burning through AA batteries on a regular basis.)
I decided to hang it over the microwave and mini-fridge in the game room, covering up an old and non-functioning land-line phone jack. Having it immediately over some appliances sounds about right (even if they're not ACTUALLY powered by micro-fusion). The mini-fridge is something I got to keep after my office closed down, but I never actually USED it before I had my house-flooding incident. Part of the work of refurbishing the family room to the point of being able to invite gamer friends over was to make sure the thing actually worked. Fortunately, it does.
Pink Flower Fairy
I also found some old hard drives, and some older doodles. Here's one I did back in 2011 as a request for my (then-) little niece, for a "pink flower fairy."
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Date: 2024-02-13 04:38 am (UTC)Pink flower fairy is excellent. ^.^
Great job on the New California Republic signage! being from California, I might be biased, though.
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Date: 2024-02-13 03:13 pm (UTC)The first part was to add another bear head, since the New California Republic logo has a two-headed bear. (To my knowledge, there are no two-headed bears or "yao guai" in the game, but, hey, mutations don't need to be CONSISTENT.) Changing the title to "NEW CALIFORNIAN REPUBLIC" would be more challenging, since the lettering clearly didn't leave room for "NEW" on the left side. However, I decided that the aesthetic demanded that I paint this as if someone were ... well ... doing exactly what I was actually doing, and that was to just modify it with paint. XD So I just added the "NEW" with some sketchily-painted-in letters.
One trouble I ran into was that when I hung up the sign, it was immediately obvious which parts of the sign were painted over, and which were not. In fact, the strange thing was that the painted-over parts were more visible than the original sections, because I was getting a bit of shine from the overhead lights. So, I basically went back and "re-traced" the printed logo areas with paint, matching the color as closely as I could. (I did something similar with touching up the torn parts of the 'galvanized' texture at the bottom, though there was no easy way to get the "sheen" to look the same.)
The result seems to look decent enough on the wall -- still very amateurish, but good enough for post-apoc chic, I figure. XD I've got a few Nuka-Cola items on the wall, plus some other wall-hangings that aren't expressly Fallout, but have that "retro tin sign" look that I could imagine fitting into the Fallout universe.
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Date: 2024-02-13 07:03 pm (UTC)Could be hilarious to someday have a Fallout-themed Hallomewing display on the front of your place.