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My brain works in strange ways.

When I was a kid (about three to five) I was a hardcore astronomy geek. I also had an audio cassette (Yes I grew up in the nineties) of an album called "the Planets". I can't quite remember the artist, but each of the weird electronic/instrumental songs was inspired in a planet, or at least their esoteric "essence". I loved that album, and I used to imagine the wonders of each world while I listened.

Fast forward a few years, when I was about 8 or 9 my dad bought the album "Mutter" by Rammstein, and I saw again the mental pictures of the planets, with the additional benefit that, by that age, I was -sort of- capable of expressing them through drawings. Each song corresponded to a planet, and it took me various repeats of the album to draw them all. I retrospective those drawings are LAME... I still have them somewhere... but at the time, that ability to form and draw mental pictures from what I listened became quite the discovery for me. Succesive albums by Rammstein corresponded so well with what I imagined that it became a sport for me every time a new album appeared in my house. After a few years I did succesively Sehnsucht, Reise Reise and Rosenrot... each spawned like three or four iterations of my mental pictures on the planets, that evolved from simple glyph-like doodles, to semi-mechanical creatures and fantastic spherical aliens inspired in the information I had on the appearence and characteristics of the entities in the solar system, as well as the tone and feel of the songs.

My last iteration on these "spirits" was made almost 10 years ago, and I found it a few months ago while I was skimming trough my old drawings in the attic. I figured that after so much time and all the new things that I've learned since 2005 it would be cool to revisit these concepts and improve them. A while ago I did some sketches based this time not in music, but in the physical, astronomical and occult characteristics of the Planets.

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08 - NEPTUNE
· the Wanderer ·

After a long delay (Mainly because I couldn't decide what to do with the Ice Giants) I present the seventh and eight members of the series. Uranus and Neptune are rather difficult to conceptualize as spirits based on the purely physical characteristics, so their designs ended up being more abstract than most of the other planets. from the start I wanted to play on the "outcast" archetypes, adding a dash of abyssal creatures and trying to create a visual distiction between the two entities.

Wow, this one was cursed or something. Photoshop crashed three times before I could save, and then the power went out and I had to start from the fucking beginning -_- Anyway. As my Venus was a counterpart of Mars , and Jupiter from Saturn , so my version of Neptune is a counterpart to Uranus . They share the same conceptual "Outcastness", but Neptune is much less of a mild character... This world is known for its ultrafast winds, giant storms and enigmatic thermal strenght. If Uranus is blank, cold, clinical, crystalline, Neptune is dinamic, flowing, secretive, dark... I envisioned it as the archetype of a lonely traveler, someone that's either running away from something, or searching for meaning in the infinite

I was not quite sure what conceptual path I wanted to take, my options included nebula, water, and luminiscent jellyfish textures and references, but I ended up loving the way that those smoke tentacles looked and this illustratrion sort of built itself around the smoke/wind theme, of course the Black spot had to be present, and it sort of turned into a black vortex that reminds me al the same time of a black hole and an empty eye socket. Let me know what you think about the Blue bros, and keep an eye out for their Lunar Courts!

Description

My brain works in strange ways.

When I was a kid (about three to five) I was a hardcore astronomy geek. I also had an audio cassette (Yes I grew up in the nineties) of an album called "the Planets". I can't quite remember the artist, but each of the weird electronic/instrumental songs was inspired in a planet, or at least their esoteric "essence". I loved that album, and I used to imagine the wonders of each world while I listened.

Fast forward a few years, when I was about 8 or 9 my dad bought the album "Mutter" by Rammstein, and I saw again the mental pictures of the planets, with the additional benefit that, by that age, I was -sort of- capable of expressing them through drawings. Each song corresponded to a planet, and it took me various repeats of the album to draw them all. I retrospective those drawings are LAME... I still have them somewhere... but at the time, that ability to form and draw mental pictures from what I listened became quite the discovery for me. Succesive albums by Rammstein corresponded so well with what I imagined that it became a sport for me every time a new album appeared in my house. After a few years I did succesively Sehnsucht, Reise Reise and Rosenrot... each spawned like three or four iterations of my mental pictures on the planets, that evolved from simple glyph-like doodles, to semi-mechanical creatures and fantastic spherical aliens inspired in the information I had on the appearence and characteristics of the entities in the solar system, as well as the tone and feel of the songs.

My last iteration on these "spirits" was made almost 10 years ago, and I found it a few months ago while I was skimming trough my old drawings in the attic. I figured that after so much time and all the new things that I've learned since 2005 it would be cool to revisit these concepts and improve them. A while ago I did some sketches based this time not in music, but in the physical, astronomical and occult characteristics of the Planets.

_________________________________________________________________________________

08 - NEPTUNE
· the Wanderer ·

After a long delay (Mainly because I couldn't decide what to do with the Ice Giants) I present the seventh and eight members of the series. Uranus and Neptune are rather difficult to conceptualize as spirits based on the purely physical characteristics, so their designs ended up being more abstract than most of the other planets. from the start I wanted to play on the "outcast" archetypes, adding a dash of abyssal creatures and trying to create a visual distiction between the two entities.

Wow, this one was cursed or something. Photoshop crashed three times before I could save, and then the power went out and I had to start from the fucking beginning -_- Anyway. As my Venus was a counterpart of Mars , and Jupiter from Saturn , so my version of Neptune is a counterpart to Uranus . They share the same conceptual "Outcastness", but Neptune is much less of a mild character... This world is known for its ultrafast winds, giant storms and enigmatic thermal strenght. If Uranus is blank, cold, clinical, crystalline, Neptune is dinamic, flowing, secretive, dark... I envisioned it as the archetype of a lonely traveler, someone that's either running away from something, or searching for meaning in the infinite

I was not quite sure what conceptual path I wanted to take, my options included nebula, water, and luminiscent jellyfish textures and references, but I ended up loving the way that those smoke tentacles looked and this illustratrion sort of built itself around the smoke/wind theme, of course the Black spot had to be present, and it sort of turned into a black vortex that reminds me al the same time of a black hole and an empty eye socket. Let me know what you think about the Blue bros, and keep an eye out for their Lunar Courts!