Whispering Leviathan
Tags: Feferi's lusus, Horrorterrors y Alternia
Por Kanishka (
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Carátula por Circlejourney (
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Lanzado el 17/2/2019.
Duración: 4:24.
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Pistas que Whispering Leviathan referencia:
- Fear of the Heavens por Secret of Mana y Hiroki Kikuta
- Silencio por OFF y Alias Conrad Coldwood
- The Vast Glub por Kris Flacke
- Penumbra Phantasm por Toby Fox
- Keepers por Toby Fox
Comentario del artista:
Kanishka:
angry tentacle noises
Circlejourney:
Listening to Whispering Leviathan always made me feel like I was hearing it in a submarine environment - perfectly appropriate to the subject of Gl'bgolyb. The scene in which Gl'bgolyb was revealed was, to me, one of the several "holy shit" moments of Homestuck, and instead of trying to depict the vastness of Feferi's lusus, I went for a sense of mystery and foreboding more closely matching the tone of the music, by revealing nothing but its tentacles in silhouette.
Finding the right balance between silhouette and rendering proved one of the primary challenges of completing this piece. Too much light meant the image lost its spooky, foreboding tone; too little made it look flat. In the end I came out with something that roughly strikes that balance, though I still feel that it loses some of the spookiness of the sketch. Thanks @ the good people at the Homestuck Artist discord for the tips!