aaronmiller

Monkey -Drawing

Added 2019-06-10 00:18:37 +0000 UTC

Art update!

Monkey drawing is wrapped up. There's a lot going on with this piece. The working title so far is "Key Keeper and the Vault of Secrets." Working with opposites the Key Keeper is blind, as is justice. You've likely seen the blind figure with scales. It then made sense that the tortoise would hold secrets there's the locks and keys. The blind monkey and seeing orb. I want to paint the shell like antique or rusted door hardware opposite the seeing orb which will be a chrome sphere.

I struggled with the floating object. Starting out as a gem, and changing into a floating portion of statue. The shape and size just wasn't working for me. Then I changed it into a simple floating eye. That didn't feel right either. Then maybe a magic orb to look like an eye. And my research landed on sphere shapes and a chrome ball. When I think of chrome I think of Sorayama. I grew up loving his work so that had to be it. And now it is the Sorayama Orb.

The bird is a motmot, a messenger for the Key Keeper. And the bottom of the Giant's Key is a gada. I'm really looking forward to painting this soon. I plan to work on it next week at the Illustration Intensive workshop.

Metal Mask Tokens

They are supposedly in the mail to me. It's been a real trial to get these. I've met another vendor and have ordered some samples. If every goes smoothly, then I expect future orders of my metal tokens to go smoothly. Thanks for your amazing patience. I certainly know I've had to work every level of my patience trying to get this order complete.