8.25 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint, ink and paper pulp on watercolor paper
February 6, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
SLAADI: Dessicated Slaad
The oldest of the old, these behemoths have drifted on the astral tides for so long that their bodies have lost every trace of the lifegiving slime they received from the Spawning Stone at birth. Now, near death and endlessly dreaming, they haunt the farthest reaches of the multiverse, vagrant bulks of withered flesh spewing stories with no beginning and no end. Pity the adventurer that happens across them and sees the Dessicated Slaad's mask of ebon witch-light flicker into existence. These dreamers, you see, do not take well to being awakened.
8.25 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint, ink and paper pulp on watercolor paper
February 6, 2012
8.25 inches by 12 inches
acrylic paint, ink and paper pulp on watercolor paper
February 6, 2012
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
6 comments:
Lifegiving slime!
I really like the synthesis of words and image here--especially how the face is a single, tangled infinite loop with no beginning and no end, just like the stories it would tell. And the texture of the background is brilliant! Well done.
This is grand sir, grand. The background txt is solid too!
Ha, yeah, the lifegiving slime indeed! So all of this stuff I am writing about these Slaadi is just totally syncretic, pieced together from my own vague recollections and bits and pieces of what I read from all the new stuff. Even though I haven't played the game in decades. So I read about this Spawning Stone thing, and it just made me think of this big slimy rock drifting through Limbo. And it also made me think of my own frogs (I have two African clawed frogs) and how they both have this protective layer of slime on their bodies. So all this mixed with the idea of dessication, plus the Deku Tree from Zelda and...well, there you go.
Rudy, I really like very much what you wrote about the face being a "single, tangled infinite loop with no beginning and end." That was absolutely fantastic! If I didn't know better, I would swear you had been playing some RPGs yourself lately.
Thanks Scrap Princess. You really are a tough act to follow and your stories for each Slaad are just phenomenal. For me, the writing has been the hardest part but it has been fun to stretch out the mind in that direction.
Post a Comment