Phosphor [&]

it took him two months and it's so nice to look at and cleanly done omg

his carrd! https://wanderingmask.carrd.co/

I finally finished a NEW CUSTOM MAP ART!!! "Visitor," a portrait of an enderman, is extra exciting because it's my first full-palette map painting, meaning I used block height to access all the highlight and shadow colours available!! More on the full process under the cut, but the short version of what this means is:ITS A VERY COMPLICATED CONSTRUCTION. I created the art, then planned and built this manually, without any mods or schematics for construction. Huge props again to everyone else in the server for helping me gather all the materials to make this absurd thing possible!!!

This was the original art! I'm a huge fan of the "compressed" look of the vanilla paintings, so I've been starting with a large image and shrinking it down, though there were a lot of pixel tweaks to get it to read well. After shrinking it to 16x32 (for an art made of two maps), I convert it to a limited palette that I've set up to match the colours minecraft actually has available:The map palette is actually tremendously limited, so figuring out a painting that will still look good with that constraint is a challenge in and of itself!
Anyway, the way minecraft maps work, a block that is Taller than the block to the north of it shows up with a slightly lighter colour, and a block that is Lower than the block north of it shows up on the map with a slightly darker colour. So when making a key for this one, I marked all the squares with a little arrow if it's the lighter or darker version:Each "pixel" here is a full stack of blocks on the mapped area: 64 blocks, 8 rows of 8. In order to achieve the affect of every block in a given pixel being taller or shorter than the block to the north of it, dark and light shades need to staircase either up or down. Because staircasing downwards in survival sounds even worse than this madness, I did some planning to make sure each of the "downwards" staircases would touch the ground, so I could simply staircase up from south to north instead. This involved figuring out how many up and down movements were in each individual column and planning out 32 little layouts:
It's worth noting that if you look up minecraft map art on Youtube, most of what you'll find is either, the simple realisation that placing blocks allows you to make custom map art, or an explanation of how to use a generator that will let you plug in any picture and then produce a schematic for you. It's very cool that these exist, but I wanted to do full palette art myself, without an auto-generated schematic, and at the time THERE JUST WEREN'T ANY TUTORIALS FOR HOW TO DO ALL THIS?? Now, having the experience of finagling all this, i think perhaps the reason is that this is a mad undertaking.
ANYWAY: PROGRESS SHOTS!!I actually love how the staircases look..... its like some kind of modern sculptureFewer shots of the second half since I did it on call with friends; the last screenshot is one Thren took of me activating the new locked map to use for the gallery.
Once these paintings are done, I lock the finished maps, make copies, and stock them in the art gallery so other friends on our server can also put these paintings in their homes! It's a lot of work, but really rewarding to see my art decorating various buildings around the server. ;u;
I have one more custom full-palette painting I've done the art for and gathered all materials for; I still need to do the full key and plan staircasing for it before I can start, but HOPEFULLY if my resolve doesn't waver there'll be at least one more of these!!

for all your fallen london stamping needs! may or may not make more in the future, in which case i'll update this post with them.

art is by failbetter games / from fallen london (some i traced pixel-art'ed over, others i did not) and this is unofficial fanwork.

the following are stamps relating to ambitions and plotlines, and contains vague allusions to spoilers for their respective storylines, grouped under tabs for organizational / hiding spoilers purposes.

bag a legend

heart's desire

light fingers

nemesis

making your name

ARTISAN OF THE TRANS SCIENCE

RISE UP MY FELLOW IRL CHAIN-BREAKERS

okay well. I did my first ever Mass Attack. With a buncha Fallen London OCs. It's not finished, I still have plans to fully colour it!!! But I needed to submit it before Art Fight was over and realized that colour would not happen in time. SO HOPEFULLY IN A MONTH OR TWO I WILL HAVE A FINISHED VERSION but for now, by requests of friends, here it is on tumblr for sharing.

I'm not gonna tag everyone becuase that would be SO MANY PEOPLE idk if they are even on Tumblr... Maybe I will go through that effort for the full coloured version. But you can find all the character credits in the spread sheet in here.

[this is the bonus version, the art fight version is missing poor edward + some of my friends characters that aren't on art fight]