Photomanipulation/Illustration.
Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
9000 x 12000 px (30" x 40" @ 300 dpi)

A photo-manipulation based on this photo. The full resolution version of this is 9,000 x 12,000 pixels ( 30" x 40" @ 300 dpi ) and prints are available through deviantART.

I've just completed this slightly lunatic endeavour, a hypothetical extension of the "T-O" map tradition. T-O maps were an abstracted map style used around the time of the Crusades to symbolically represent the relationship of the then three known continents of Europe, Africa and Asia. The detail below shows a typical T-O map. The centre of these maps is Jerusalem, the head of the T is the Aegean, Bosporus, Black Sea to the left, Nile and Red Sea to the right, and the column of the T is the Mediterranean. The O is the Ocean encircling all the land. Later T-O maps began to cram more information about geographic realities into the format, but eventually this tradition was entirely replaced by the much more practical nautical chart-making tradition that all modern maps are descended from.

The notes around the map explain things like what source maps were used, how it possible to get from North America to Asia over the Ocean on a flat earth without sailing off (divine portals represented by the knotted tunnels around the map), and why the Pacific Rim is prone to earthquakes and volcanoes (because, of course, these lands are furthest from the Holy Land in this format).

Here is the Cybergoth illustration redone in the style I originally had in mind for the series.

And as a bonus, here is a short video of the drawing in progress:

I've started to finish off the Cybergoth illustration as I originally envisioned it.

Almost a year has gone by since I was asked to do this project originally. The film still isn't out. I guess I shouldn't have sweated the deadline as much as I did.

Tonight I finished the version of the punks illustration in the style I originally intended to do the whole series. The full resolution image is quite large, 45 megapixels, while the "more cartoony" one is just 3 megapixels, yet this one didn't take much longer to do at all.

O.K., maybe I am glad I didn't use this style for the illustrations. This is taking much longer to colour.

Revisiting the "not cartoony enough" version of the punks drawing for Dark Canada, just for fun. I'll be colouring this in digitally later. This is the style I originally wanted to do the series that was vetoed by the client. Once I've done this one I'll go back and finish off the other unfinished illustration in this style, cybergoth.

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Dark Metal

Based on a photo of theemrdark and Mew.

BDSM

Based loosely on this photo of kitsune_13 and langsuir from the Fallen II fashion show three years ago.

Only two more illustrations left in this project: "Dark Metal" which I already have drawn and just need to do the Photoshop trickery to, and "Noise Punk" which I don't as yet have a clue how I will illustrate.

Gothabilly

Based heavily on Scareoline and bigjohnbates.

Death-Rockers

This is based very heavily on this old photo of valerian.

Übergoth

Are you getting sick of these yet? I hope not because there are several more to come.

Wiccan

Thanks again to sheilamarie for the nudge past my block on this one. Also I think a little kambriel snuck into this character.

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?

Graver

Inspiration from ladyvermath, sciencequeen, mediavictim, lilitha, and sleeplessknight.