I forgot to post it here, but since Dark Crystal's anniversary there are discounts to all my Dark Crystal related items in my new shop until December 31st !
My pages for @13daysadvent with @kaesaaurelia! I loved working on this medieval-like manuscript and learn about these crazy whales from Iceland! Leftovers are still available here: https://13daysadvent.bigcartel.com/
Full text by Kaesa:
The illhveli, or evil whales, patrol the waters surrounding Iceland in search of ships to sink. There are many kinds of illhveli, all strange, fearsome, and wicked. The Hrosshvalur, for example, is an enormous whale with the head and tail of a horse. It neighs like a horse, and when herds of them descend upon a ship, they bring a terrible smell and bad weather with them. And when they descend upon a ship, they do so literally—a Hrosshvalur may destroy a whole ship by leaping from the water and landing on it, crushing it.
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👿 13 DAYS FOR 13 DAYS 👿
13 Days: Monsters & Myths is open for preorders for only 13 more days! Get the monster-themed/Halloween zine & advent calendar!
Order your copy here through August 2! 💀 https://13daysadvent.bigcartel.com 💀 EU/UK CUSTOMERS: https://etsy.com/listing/1511275194/13days-advent-calendar-2023-ukeu-listing
For more information on our various bundles and stretch goals, check out our pinned post!
That’s me and @kaesaaurelia here!!!
Zine Preorder Announcement!
I'm very happy to announce that my first zine participation ever, 13 Days: Monsters & Myths, is now available for preorders!
I collaborated with two amazing writers:
For @crescenttwins I illustrated the Glawackus, a bizarre American cryptid, as if it was featured in an old encyclopedia.
And for @kaesaaurelia I drew the Illhevelis, Icelandic evil whales, in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript.
You can see and read the previews here, but if you're interested in seeing the full pieces, be sure to buy a copy of the zine/advent calendar before August 2! Link here:
You can also visit @13daysadvent for more infos.
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Contributor Spotlight: An otherworldly hum alerts you to Eliane T.!
Eliane T. is our next Spread and Spot Illustrator who will be creating illustrations with two writers, including the glawackus 🦡 and an illuminated manuscript for the illhveli. 🐋
You can find her on Carrd (linked will be edited in later), Instagram @/eliane.torralba, and on Tumblr @feusus
It’s me! Drawing interesting creatures I never heard about!
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Greetings to all our fellow monster lovers and fans! Our contributors have been creating all manner of creature and monster for our Monsters & Myths project this year!
Meet all our monstrous creators below!
For social media information about our contributors, read below the cut!
My first Zine ever, I’m excited! (I’m credited here as Eliane T.)
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Do not buy/pre-order the Jim Henson’s the Dark Crystal: Card Game.
I am going to make this a separate post because this is important. Please reblog this to spread awareness.
Most of the art for the card game are referenced from official material, however some of the characters (skekSa, urSan, and skekLi) were based on fanworks. The most egregious of these is the skekSa design.
While her head is based on her illustration from Tides of the Dark Crystal, the body is blatantly taken from artist SkeptiBee without their permission (I have contacted the artist to verify this).
(Art by SkeptiBee)
As you can see, it's nearly an exact copy save for the gemstone on her neck and the netting.
SkekLi and urSan were likely inspired by people's fanarts. UrSan's color scheme seems to be inspired by my depiction of her but with a more saturated color scheme.
SkekLi's in particular (the one with the orange and red stripes I'm assuming) seems to be a mishmash of different people's designs, but if you simply google skekLi you can clearly see who the artist took the concepts from. EDIT: Forgot to include skekLi's card, my apologizes.
EDIT 2: Let me clarify that the purpose of the two previous examples are showing a pattern of the card artist using fan work. This is not me claiming that the card artist stole them.
As a reminder, urSan and skekLi don't have official colored designs outside of book descriptions. SkekSa, on the other hand, has a design in the Mayrin arc comics so there is no reason for the artist to be using someone's fan design.
It's very clear that the artist who made the art for the cards googled the characters, but didn't do their due diligence in making sure what is official work and what isn't. It's horrible when someone's fanart is being used by companies for profit.
Yep! Most of them are obviously Weta Figures
And almost all the Mystics seem to be traced from David Petersen’s variant cover art for Beneath the Dark Crystal (With very weird color choices)
I loved their Adventure Game book, it was fantastic! So I’m really disappointed by that laziness. It’s maybe a lack of time and money, but that’s not a good reason to steal fanarts.
Bonus: UrSu...? Is that you...?
I took better pictures of my prints and stickers! They are for sale on my Etsy Shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ElianeTorralba
After their successful "premiere" at The Great Con-Junction, I'm selling my Age of Resistance 3rd anniversary prints and stickers on my Etsy Shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ElianeTorralba
I had an unforgettable weekend and the best birthday ever!
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💜💜💜 Very soon! 💜💜💜
Three main characters
Three suns
Three years since Age of Resistance premiered on Netflix
Happy third trine, AOR!
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In honor of the 40th anniversary of the movie that started it all, Thra-Athon is proud to promote the Great Con-Junction, the second official Dark Crystal convention and the first one in the US! If you dare, join us in Los Angeles from November 12th to 13th!
The event includes guests from the franchise, workshops, original props and puppets, an after party at the Jim Henson’s Company lot and more. Even a visit at the Creature Shop for top tier tickets!
More information and tickets here!
Day 29 - Flying Mutant Dinosaur
The last drawing I did for Creatuanary (Official prompts HERE ) This is something I wanted to do since Dinovember (My dinos here!) so this prompt here was my opportunity to mix some dinosaurs!
By the way, I always thought that Jurassic World should go a little more crazy with their hybrid dinosaurs