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My brain works in strange ways.

When I was a kid (about three to five) I was a hardcore astronomy geek. I also had an audio cassette (Yes I grew up in the nineties) of an album called "the Planets". I can't quite remember the artist, but each of the weird electronic/instrumental songs was inspired in a planet, or at least their esoteric "essence". I loved that album, and I used to imagine the wonders of each world while I listened.

Fast forward a few years, when I was about 8 or 9 my dad bought the album "Mutter" by Rammstein, and I saw again the mental pictures of the planets, with the additional benefit that, by that age, I was -sort of- capable of expressing them through drawings. Each song corresponded to a planet, and it took me various repeats of the album to draw them all. I retrospective those drawings are LAME... I still have them somewhere... but at the time, that ability to form and draw mental pictures from what I listened became quite the discovery for me. Succesive albums by Rammstein corresponded so well with what I imagined that it became a sport for me every time a new album appeared in my house. After a few years I did succesively Sehnsucht, Reise Reise and Rosenrot... each spawned like three or four iterations of my mental pictures on the planets, that evolved from simple glyph-like doodles, to semi-mechanical creatures and fantastic spherical aliens inspired in the information I had on the appearence and characteristics of the entities in the solar system, as well as the tone and feel of the songs.

My last iteration on these "spirits" was made almost 10 years ago, and I found it a few month ago while I was skimming trough my old drawings in the attic. I figured that after so much time and all the new things that I've learned since 2005 it would be cool to revisit these concepts and improve them. Last night I did some sketches based this time not in music, but in the physical, astronomical and occult characteristics of the Planets.

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02 - VENUS
· the Rebel ·

Growing up knowing that Venus had a hellish climate, I always found weird that it was associated with the Goddess of love and beauty. This is the first instance in which my personal depiction of the Planets differ drastically from the traditional ones. For me, Venus always was kind of a hostile oddball; not necessarily "evil", but indeed a dark planet that destoys everything near, including itself.

I wanted it to look vaporous and mysterious, dark, but with a sort of glaring, foggy quality... I ended up using pearls for the "eyes", which ended up being an ironic reference to traditional associations with the planet. Symbollicaly, it's the archetype of a rebel loner, think about it... No moons, weird retrograde rotation, crazy climate, thick, obscuring atmosphere... this thing takes no shit from others and keeps everything to itself.

EDIT: I'm still not sure about this one, It needs more work.

Description
My brain works in strange ways.

When I was a kid (about three to five) I was a hardcore astronomy geek. I also had an audio cassette (Yes I grew up in the nineties) of an album called "the Planets". I can't quite remember the artist, but each of the weird electronic/instrumental songs was inspired in a planet, or at least their esoteric "essence". I loved that album, and I used to imagine the wonders of each world while I listened.

Fast forward a few years, when I was about 8 or 9 my dad bought the album "Mutter" by Rammstein, and I saw again the mental pictures of the planets, with the additional benefit that, by that age, I was -sort of- capable of expressing them through drawings. Each song corresponded to a planet, and it took me various repeats of the album to draw them all. I retrospective those drawings are LAME... I still have them somewhere... but at the time, that ability to form and draw mental pictures from what I listened became quite the discovery for me. Succesive albums by Rammstein corresponded so well with what I imagined that it became a sport for me every time a new album appeared in my house. After a few years I did succesively Sehnsucht, Reise Reise and Rosenrot... each spawned like three or four iterations of my mental pictures on the planets, that evolved from simple glyph-like doodles, to semi-mechanical creatures and fantastic spherical aliens inspired in the information I had on the appearence and characteristics of the entities in the solar system, as well as the tone and feel of the songs.

My last iteration on these "spirits" was made almost 10 years ago, and I found it a few month ago while I was skimming trough my old drawings in the attic. I figured that after so much time and all the new things that I've learned since 2005 it would be cool to revisit these concepts and improve them. Last night I did some sketches based this time not in music, but in the physical, astronomical and occult characteristics of the Planets.

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02 - VENUS
· the Rebel ·

Growing up knowing that Venus had a hellish climate, I always found weird that it was associated with the Goddess of love and beauty. This is the first instance in which my personal depiction of the Planets differ drastically from the traditional ones. For me, Venus always was kind of a hostile oddball; not necessarily "evil", but indeed a dark planet that destoys everything near, including itself.

I wanted it to look vaporous and mysterious, dark, but with a sort of glaring, foggy quality... I ended up using pearls for the "eyes", which ended up being an ironic reference to traditional associations with the planet. Symbollicaly, it's the archetype of a rebel loner, think about it... No moons, weird retrograde rotation, crazy climate, thick, obscuring atmosphere... this thing takes no shit from others and keeps everything to itself.

EDIT: I'm still not sure about this one, It needs more work.