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cimoreneThis is an absolutely ridiculous problem to be having, but I feel like I should have an icon that's appropriate for posting about Good Omens now, but because I've been desultorily practicing blackletter much more slowly than other styles of angled pen calligraphy but have been meaning to play around with the style of illuminated manuscripts for literally years and actually bought a gold acrylic ink and a cream laid paper (although in retrospect I obviously should have bought a vellum, which looks vaguely more appropriate although modern vellum is just a type of paper and can't actually be confused with the leather kind) with that in mind and then never even tried to use them for blackletter at all (let alone illumination)... my Unfinished Art Project Guilt has collided with the desire for a thematically harmonious icon, and I now have a strong feeling that I shouldn't pursue any other, easier ways to make an (even vaguely) relevant icon because that would be somehow adding insult to injury in the category of Hibernating Incomplete Art Project Ideas and the category of Actually Engaging in One's Hobbies Regularly.
I had an icon with a snake and an apple back in the day, but when I dug it out of the subdirectory, it didn't seem satisfactory anymore (possibly the snake just didn't have enough attitude), and with no other relevant candidates in my old retired icons, the field was left too wide open and hence the calligraphy idea was able to sneak in and set up a blockade. Though maybe I'll get another idea compelling enough to get around that... .
(I do have a ton of snake pictures saved somewhere from last winter when I decided to learn a lot more types of reptiles, but however much I like snakes and spiders, I always feel a little guilty about the idea of making icons of them because of the possibility that they'd unexpectedly trigger an unsuspecting viewer. I had a spider icon that I loved fifteen years ago or so and apparently that actually happened with it.waxjism, although she doesn't have a phobia and says that she likes them intellectually, has that involuntary 'brrr' reaction to pictures of snakes sometimes - not all the time, just if they look particularly slithery, apparently.)
I had an icon with a snake and an apple back in the day, but when I dug it out of the subdirectory, it didn't seem satisfactory anymore (possibly the snake just didn't have enough attitude), and with no other relevant candidates in my old retired icons, the field was left too wide open and hence the calligraphy idea was able to sneak in and set up a blockade. Though maybe I'll get another idea compelling enough to get around that... .
(I do have a ton of snake pictures saved somewhere from last winter when I decided to learn a lot more types of reptiles, but however much I like snakes and spiders, I always feel a little guilty about the idea of making icons of them because of the possibility that they'd unexpectedly trigger an unsuspecting viewer. I had a spider icon that I loved fifteen years ago or so and apparently that actually happened with it.
waxjism, although she doesn't have a phobia and says that she likes them intellectually, has that involuntary 'brrr' reaction to pictures of snakes sometimes - not all the time, just if they look particularly slithery, apparently.)
