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temiel — ATC: Nostra Mater Invicta
Published: 2010-05-03 04:52:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 2066; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 23
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Grand Admiral Lady Trean Maeglan, called the Red Sword or the Imperatrix Invicta, once and future champion of the Terran Empire. Avowed enemy to the illithid menace; protectress, conqueror, legendary hero.I've had this image kicking around in my head for a long time, like a "saint" version of Trean carrying baby Farael, and I've done one or two pencil drawings of it, but I never thought to actually do it in color on something as small as an ATC, which is weird because I should INSTANTLY have thought of Russian icons, but I didn't. When I put up this week's challenge for #ATC-Exchange ("divine"), I had a totally different idea in mind for what to do, but a conversation with =LadyGhostDuchess reminded me of this, and I knew I HAD to do it, just so I could have a real-life version of this thing. The scan... the scan doesn't really do it justice, because in real life, this looks VERY COOL. The halos and borders were done with super old and clumpy gold ink, which of course doesn't scan well.
3.5"x2.5". Micron, watercolor, Prisma pencil, gold ink, white gel pen on bristol.
Yes, her fingers are weirdly jointed. Yes, Farael doesn't look like a proper baby. Yes, the anatomy and folds are abstracted. I was inspired by Russian orthodox icons, which have a very characteristic style that I TRIED to emulate... not sure how successful I was, but it was super fun anyway.
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Trean certainly like a jack of all trades, isnt she? She's just awesome at everything!But how is she at SCABBLE?!
Actually, I'm very fond of emmulating old-tiney styles. Russian gothic icons are AWESOME and you were entirly successul. I know exactly what you were trying to do even when I saw it in the thumbnail in my inbox.I love that old-time tapestry style as well, harkening to The Unicorn Tapestries.
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Ah FFFFF I just typed a big response to this and for some reason instead of sending, it just deleted it. 
ANYWAY, I don't think Trean WOULD be that good at Scrabble, come to think of it. She lacks the patience for puzzles and "scholarly" and "creative pursuits", since her specialties lie almost entirely in the field of ass-whompery. She's not even much of a combat strategist, truth be told; her MO mainly consists of "if it has an ass, I'll kick it; lacking that, I'll just kick whatever it's got".
I also really love old-timey styles. I've only tried to emulate one, once, and it was a Japanese woodblock... but really, it didn't come out that well, but I was in school, and bored by the assignment, and just didn't care that much. 
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That's really accurate for what you were imitating! I thought it WAS a Russian saint painting!
Fantastic work
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Oh, awesome! 
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Love it! I took an art history class that covered that kind of art, and the style is VERY distinctive
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Woooaah that's awesome *_* It really looks like those old Catholic vitrals , portraying saints! I love how you managed to fit all elements of the characters there in an artistic way <3 Like Trean's fire hair and Farael's wings! And what a coincidence that those characteristics are soooo 'holy'! XD
So Trean is Farael's mother? :3
And I also get impressed by how much details you manage to put in those tiny paper cards!
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AAAAAH thank you!!
She is indeed his mother. This is both of his parents together: [link] ...yeah. Things didn't end so well with them.
This one, I'll have to give you, had my hand in SERIOUS pain when I was done. 
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Hey, as Mark (Russian Orthodox raised) once said: "If it's not gold, then it's not holy!"
That's a lotta fine work! Great concept, too!
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Hell YES! 
I'm very glad you like it. 
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