Did you know there are English to Pirate translators? lol... Now you do!
Anyway, I'm soooo incredibly happy with this week's mandala... Doesn't that look just like a helm of a ship? =)
And the first person to tell me why a pirate probably would never have had this design made for his ship will get the high res. image sent to them =)
Pirate's Helm
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Gallery: Motifs
Max. Print Size: 28" x 28"
““Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
The creation process:
This time, I wanted to change it up a bit. So for the first time since "Raizul", I decided to change the formulae I use (the second and third tabs):
At first, I was a bit disheartened because I wasn't getting much with the new formulae... A lot of static and useless bulky shapes. But I persevered and it payed off... Eventually I found proper mandala-y shapes.
The fourth image put me in mind of a compass and got me thinking of ships and pirates:
It was only when I rendered the preview that I discovered the ship's helm! And the colours were great too, after loading a sunset image for the diffuse map. Just a bit of tweaking and it was perfect.
If only all my creative processes flowed so beautifully.
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A few recent posts of mine:
"Etherosphere - Gallery: Motifs" | "Contained" - DIFS Pong with @welshpixie |"Alien Edifice" - Art Explosion Contest
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