Victorians The background of this image has two Lautrec paintings ("Ball im Moulin Rouge" and "Ball im Moulin Rouge (La Goulue uns Valintin-le-Désossé)") meshed with two photographs of Sanctuary at the Red Room this past weekend. Just try and determine where the Moulin Rouge stops and Sanctuary starts. Which of the blurs on the dance-floor lived in the 19th century and which live in the 21st?

In between scanning pictures of drunks I've been working on the Graver cartoon by generating fractals for the background. sciencequeen, I figured you'd like to see it before I blur it and otherwise mangle it for the cartoon:



Damn is it ever easier to make these things now than what I used to go through in the early 1990's. Pardon me while I thumb through my old copy of "Dynamical systems and fractals: Computer graphics experiments in Pascal" by Karl-Heinz Becker and Michael Dörfler... Jeez... I used to actually understand more math than what it takes to do my taxes. These days it's been so long since I've done anything beyond junior-high level arithmetic I'd have to look up how to factor a polynomial. Sad.

Psychobilly/Gothabilly Heh. Behold "Skinny John Bates" - lol The background on this one is mostly going to be smoke and lights.

Retro-goth Based on voodoo__dolly. The background on this one is going to silhouettes simplified from one of my club photos.

Wiccan Thanks to sheilamarie for the suggestion that got me past my block on this one.

I have good ideas for what I am going to do for the faery/pixie/Celt-goth and the electro-punk, but I'm just plain out of time for today. So there are those last two drawings and then the colouring in photoshop. That means I've got about 40 more hours work to finish these all off.

I'm going to be very busy this week finishing these in Photoshop.

Dark Metal There will be a lot more stage smoke added and the hairball throwing up the horns will be blurred. Based on an old picture of Mr. Dark and Mew hamming it up at Sin City.

Victorian The rest of this will be happening in Photoshop, obviously. I plan to use vintage photographs and absinthe posters. And if you think this one looks a little like valerian and I, you're right.

BDSM/Fetish Based on a photo of kitsune_13 and langsuir modelling gear from Mike's Custom Leather at the "Fallen II" fashion show, with an obvious Sin City plug.

Graver The background on this one is going to be a fractal, smoke, and club lights. The glow-sticks will have tracers. This one isn't based on any one photograph, although ladyvermath's wig at evilyn13's Pink 'n' Drink birthday party is a part of the inspiration.

The remaining ones to do today are:

1. retro-goth: I'm most likely going to base this on voodoo__dolly.
2. psychobilly/rockabilly: bigjohnbates and Scare-online without question - I already have the pictures picked out.
3. wiccan: I'm not really sure how to represent this yet. It is going to have to be mostly about what is in the background. I've known too many wiccans (was even married to one) to even begin to come up with a stereotypical representation. Hopefully something will come to me.
4. faery/pixie/Celtic: I have an image of thomasrymour in mind.
5. noise/electro-punk: WTF? Another one I'm not sure how to represent. How do I differentiate this visually from punk and rivet? Maybe something of 9322 will do - but I've no idea what to do for a background.

As you already know from the previous illustrations, 80% of the magic happens in Photoshop...

Old-school Death-rockers

Übergoth