š¹ wear flowy dresses in intense colors and flower patterns
š¹ enjoy art of all kinds
š¹ collect your favorite poems and inspiring quotes
š¹ try to find beauty in everything
š¹ spend time in art galleries, museums, theatres
š¹ be nice to people and charm them more with your intelligence than your look
š¹wear gold and silver jewelry and perfumes with musk and almond
š¹ put flowers in loose hair
š¹ surround yourself with antiques, books and paintings
š¹ music to love: celtic rhythms, harp, āCeremonialsā, orchestral
š¹ care about your inner beauty and mind as much as about your appearance
āYou know, it took me some time to embrace having a tree indoors at all, you have to remember that it was immigrants who brought that tradition over to the New World; it was probably the early 1800ā²s that it was widespread enough that we simply had to have one, too.
Having a living tree indoors, shedding pine needles and sap and possibly serving as a Trojan horse to spiders and such, was not something I wanted! All that kindling, it was the same fire hazard that it is today. But Claudia wanted it, and so we started having them for her. In those early years, we made ornaments by hand to go with those given us as gifts by friends and neighbors: crystals, blown-glass baubles, figurinesā¦ Our own handmade ones were always more valuable to us than the finest artisan ones, Louis still has a few of them, and we handle them with great care.
ā¦Got a little distracted there.Ā
Fake trees were a thing in the mid-1800ā²s, I recall some that were made with goose feathers dyed green. Other artificial tree methods followed, but we continued with the real thing. The scent of pine was endearing to us by that time.
Currently? I would think that Claudia would lose her shit, as they say, over the myriad synthetic versions of the holiday tree, the LED lighting running cleverly through the branches.Ā
So to answer your question, it varies on the year, but I think thereās something to be said for getting an artificial tree thatās flame-resistant, and can be easily recycled after use. Thereās something deeply depressing about walking the streets the month following Christmas and seeing all the corpses of trees that were invited into peopleās homes, loved briefly, and then tossed out on the curb like so much trash.Ā
I suppose that puts me on the side of artificial, so thereās your answer.
so i heard this one guy is getting his own animated film. gotta admit iām pretty stoked
Ok I feel the need to explain, since this drawing from 2014 resurfaced again for some reason ahahaā¦
When I was studying animation I came across someone who was working with a studio during the preproduction of an animated feature film of the little vampire. The concept arts and storyboards that I saw made me think the filmmakers would make their film more loyal to the original books than the previous TLV adaptations.
This is what became of it. No need to say I am a bit underwhelmed.
Iām not gonna go on about the problems I personally have with the movie, but whatās baffling me the most are the similarities with the 2000 live action film.
Whatās the point making a hella arduous and expensive feature-length animation, when almost identical live action version already exists? Why not write somethingĀ elseāplotwise. There are tons of books to get material from.
Not to mention Tony and Rudolph lacking all the personality traits of Anton and RĆ¼diger that I feel are essential in the books.
Iām just disappointed I guess.
^First off, I really enjoy your character designs for this character, Iād love to see a graphic novel or animated series/film in your style! I havenāt read the original book, only saw the 2000 adaptation withĀ Rollo Weeks as the little vampire, but your art makes me want to read the source material ^_____^
And the fact that you saw preproduction concept art and boards of an animated feature of it that looked like the filmmakers would be faithful to the books!!! And it very much wasnāt!! D: That sucks.
Yep, sometimes adaptations are underwhelming *cough cough* um idk theĀ QUEEN OF THE DAMNED MOVIE *cough cough* It is sometimes really disappointing to see adaptations like that when the source material (and in your case, the concept art and boards!) was so good.
(Iām sure there are ppl out there who likeĀ The Little Vampire 3D (2017) for whatever reason, and I am the first to admit that judgment of adaptations are bound to be subjective (influenced by each individual viewerās emotions, opinions, or personal feelings)… but I feel like artists and writers are more knowledgeable about the practice of their art, so when criticism comes from an artist or writer, it feels more objective, and less about trampling something for the fun of trampling it, at least to me.)
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