How to enter:
Post a comment either containing or linking to fan art, photography, or other visual awesomeness inspired by or related to this series. Because LJ lists all links as spam, your comment may appear to disappear. I will be manually unspamming all these comments, have no fear.
Please link only to your own work, not to Aly's awesome covers or to someone else's fan art (it does exist). Please indicate in the original comment whether you're in the US or international.
How to win:
I will be using the RNG to choose a winner at noon PST on Monday, February 10th. Please watch this space, as I will be requesting that you send me your address pretty quickly, so that your prize can be mailed before I fly to New York for the remainder of the month.
Game on!
February 3 2014, 23:23:30 UTC 3 years ago Edited: February 4 2014, 00:44:50 UTC
神秘動物學
(shen1 bi4 dong4 wu4 xue2 - I think, a couple of those characters have alternate pronunciations, and while yeah, I read and write Chinese, this is a not a term that is part of my usual vocabulary.*) Of course, I haven't made a five character seal before, so I figured I'd go with a fairly general layout, so I put it into seal script, messed around and got something like this:Except, wait, WTF is with this flower motif, that won't do at all, so I reworked it a bit:
And, then, of course, for the full effect:
ETA: 1 I'm in the US.
2 As I was contemplating how much it bothered me that this had only four legs but a believable insect body plan (this is intentional, but it still makes me twitch) it occurred to me that it is clearly a Cryptick.
* You know what's lame? I have colleagues and lab mates who grew up in China, and when I ask them for specific terminology in our mutual field, they mostly shrug and say "Oh, I just use the English term, even when I'm speaking Chinese." I mean, not knowing how to say Cryptozoology isn't going to lose me any sleep at night. And I was really happy to be able to tell Chen Laoshi that I was studying neurobiology and biomechanics. But... argh!
February 4 2014, 09:04:57 UTC 3 years ago
February 4 2014, 17:42:25 UTC 3 years ago Edited: February 4 2014, 17:42:42 UTC
US address!
February 6 2014, 15:39:45 UTC 3 years ago Edited: February 6 2014, 15:46:57 UTC
The photo is also on my FB - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=5
Yes, I'm in the US.
February 7 2014, 04:18:16 UTC 3 years ago
February 8 2014, 03:40:29 UTC 3 years ago
February 9 2014, 21:23:21 UTC 3 years ago
http://epiphyllums.livejournal.com/pics/c
February 9 2014, 22:08:01 UTC 3 years ago
http://effervescentmongoose.tumblr.c
February 10 2014, 21:32:20 UTC 3 years ago
February 10 2014, 07:23:29 UTC 3 years ago
#insert disclaimer about Cheap Coloured Pencils here
#insert disclaimer about I Tried Not To Overwork This And Am Now Afraid I Went Too Far In The Other Direction here
#insert ...oh what the heck, here's the pic. XD
This is what my brain insists an Indonesian coatl that's sort of a fusion between a blue coral snake and a rainbow lorikeet would look like. ;)
(I'm in Australia and happy to pay postage etc if required!)
February 10 2014, 15:34:56 UTC 3 years ago
"Commission sketches - Istas"
Also, I am in the US. Thanks for the contest :)
February 10 2014, 19:03:47 UTC 3 years ago
Candace helping William catch up on the history he's missed out on while he slept.
View here, since the image is apparently too big for this to let me upload (http://mellisae.tumblr.com/post/76240157579/sketch-of-candace-catching-william-up-on-some-of)