Tried to do one of the hardest Shadow redraws yet

Sure most of you already know, but this is the original:

this is absolutely incredible, thank you for sharing

WE DOIN' CRIMINAL DEEDS AND EVIL ACTS

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Lost plots of ds9: Jake and Nog go on a double date that turns out to be a recruitment seminar for Quark’s pyramid scheme. Dukat comes aboard the station and no one cares. He leaves in a rage.

#i would so pay for an extra episode where Gul Dukat is completely ignored by everyone on the station#sisko: dealing with tweleve ambassadors and doesnt have time to cater to his ego#odo: spying on quark and only grunts at him as he goes by#kira: conviently on bajor and not taking calls#miles: suffered a head injury and doesnt even recognize him#julain: dealing with the pain of not being recognized by obrein either#garak: on some away mission to the gamma quadrant that he ‘a simple tailor’ was needed for#everyone else: didnt even know he was there#dukat: 😡

HDU PUT THAT IN TAGS

After-credits scene of Dukat signing up for Quark’s pyramid scheme.

hail to the king, baby. (prints)

Star Trek, no. 24, Gold Key, 1974. Cover by George Wilson.

the wording on this Jack russell vid beamed a permanent mark onto my brain

absolutely fucking obsessed with this picture of him as a puppy. that's animal

There is, I think, no arguing that contemporary genre art has a character distinct from previous decades. I also think that while there are big shifts in aesthetics somewhat aligning with each decade of the 20th century, here in the 21st things have definitely slowed down — I feel like the look of genre art has fossilized somewhat in the last 20 years. I don’t have a good explanation for why. Sometimes I wonder if I’m blinded by nostalgia, and that there really aren’t any obvious objective differences at all.

Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s (2023) is a compelling argument, I think, that there ARE definite differences. The book, by Adam Rowe (and spinning out of his social media accounts dedicated to, well, ’70s science fiction art) looks at both artists and thematic categories of art from the period, mostly from paperback covers, and offers commentary and historical context in the text. The result is startling: a body of work by a variety of artists working in their own styles that nevertheless seems visually unified. With the exception of a couple outliers, this stuff all feels of the ’70s. The fact that there are some inclusions from both the ’60s and ’80s makes this even clearer.

I think the most interesting thing about this is how bizarre some of the ’70s art seems to be. A lot of these artists appear to be entirely off the leash, delivering work they WANTED to produce rather than what they were directed to produce (you can see a shift toward clearly pairing the cover art with the content of the book in the later part of the decade). There was also more money in the work, then, so speed wasn’t quite so big a part of the equation as it is now.

And, greater questions of genre art aside, Worlds Beyond Time is still a mesmerizing collection, worthy of your time even if you just want to feed pictures to your eyeballs.

Some very kind words about my art book!

This tumblr is a great RPG history course, and the author has his own amazing art book out as well, called Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership

so true buddy

It’s time to activate it…

Bites The Dust! now this entire post will be reversed!

Am I having a fucking stroke

yes

more jhudy bcz im predictable

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

Artfight attack