sunandshadow

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I am an amateur game designer, an artist/crafter, and a reader. My specialty areas are design documents, story outlining, concept art, & moderating brainstorming sessions, surveys, and voting. My reading these days is mainly litRPG, xianxia, fanfiction, and the occassional non-fiction book about art or theories of writing fiction.
Bio Details44/F
Fiction PreferenceslitRPG, xianxia, fanfiction, fantasy, science fiction, and romance; happy endings only
10 Games To Know Me1. Plant Tycoon (or Fish Tycoon, same game really) 2. Rival Stars Horse Racing (or Riding Club Championships) 3. Tokyo Jungle 4. Stardew Valley (or Harvest Moon) 5. ARK 6. Master of Pottery 7. Covet Fashion 8. Final Fantasy 7 original 9. Disgaea 10. Skyri
Current ArtVirtual pottery
sunandshadowMar 16, 2025
#MastoArt #Bamboo #BambooWork #BambooCraft #Woodcarving
Hello artists and art appreciators! I am looking for any information you can link me to about an art form where hollow 3D sculptures are made from pieces of bamboo, or possibly wood shavings. The distinctive characteristic is scales, feathers, or fins made from flat chips. Most examples I've seen (in the USA) were Christmas ornaments or other hanging sculptures, usually animals, sold around 1985-1990. Probably Asian, possibly Vietnam.
Show threadsunandshadowJan 18, 2025
@SRDas Not something to set aside time for right now, but, there are some good books about the history of pottery in different locations (e.g. China vs. Pueblo area of North America are completely different) which talk about how colors were discovered as possible to produce, including modern knowledge about what elements, minerals, or control of oxygen were used to produce various historical pot appearances. Also, pigments used in glass working have a lot of overlap with glaze.
sunandshadowJan 7, 2025
@fieryzard Wonder if that's like my fear of alarm clocks...? 🤔
Show threadsunandshadowDec 16, 2024
@fieryzard @eishiya I'm pulled three ways between media right now. I've been building Lego kits (mainly flowers), so I got the urge to design a Lego build of my own, except I don't want to get into that medium, it's too expensive and gatekept. OTOH I've got an unopened box of polymer clay plus tools that I got overwhelmed when trying to plan out what to do with it, and now I keep forgetting it exists. And I have an acrylic painting planned because my friends were interested in that medium.
sunandshadowDec 16, 2024

@fieryzard @eishiya I love the softness of watercolor. Don't let anyone tell you using white water color paint is cheating - you can do some neat things with white, and, with ADHD in the mix, just having white available helps me not stress about planning out exactly where my washes need to NOT go. I love having a gold or silver paint marker available when watercoloring too, for just a few shiny accents at the end and maybe the signature.

New medium in next post.

Show threadsunandshadowDec 16, 2024
@Krisss The floor is lava?
Show threadsunandshadowDec 8, 2024
@ariana_makes Oh, haha, sorry for that then. I have seen several pictures of historical pots where a glaze failed in a very similar-looking way. BTW are you familiar with the technique where you center your bisque-ware plate or bowl on a pottery wheel, spin it up, and then apply paint or glaze? You can get some great spirals and circles that way, and if you pick the brush up irregularly while slowly moving from the inside to the outside you will get nice streaking.
Show threadsunandshadowDec 8, 2024
@alchemistsstudio Somehow these remind me of ice cream. 🙂
Show threadsunandshadowDec 8, 2024
@ariana_makes Did they provide the glaze to you? Because if so, they are mixing it too runny or maybe they failed to tell you to use two coats? Unless it was meant to be streaky as a style?? Good shapes you've both produced though!
sunandshadowDec 6, 2024

#art #mastoart
Here's a little game for any art fan! Describe your favorite genre(s) WITHOUT saying their name, in 10 words or less. Examples:

Stylized nature, elegant curves and polygons, glossy solid colors or fine-grained natural materials.

Random shapes of swirling sunlit colors brought together by metallic lines of even weight.

Radial symmetry, vivid gradients, glossy or crisp modern surfaces, ambiguously symbolic.