"Lichqueenlibrarian
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Keywords: Tentacles, oviposition
Main Zine Page
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Includes orange coded bar with tags for the series and topic matter. Lichqueenlibrarian's profile picture is of the Andromeda galaxy that has swirls of orange, red, and yellow over a dark celestial background.
Two sketch images are on the first page, the lefthand image larger and the central focus. The second sketch is above and to the right. On the bottom right is white text. The larger, central image is an in progress sketch of a heavily pregnant Spock, holding his right leg up with his own hand, exposing himself in an ovipositional stance and process. There are eggs emerging from his sheath. Directional/positional lines are also sketched across the page. The second smaller image is five different iterations of eggs in varying sizes and shapes. Two are shaded blue, one is rounder and teal-green, and one is longer and shaded red-orange. One is uncolored and looks to be encased.
"I was trying to make sense of what I wanted for the eggs on this page, along with what I wanted the rest of the body to be doing- I hadn’t figured out that far arm yet at all. I knew what I wanted was to convey a feeling of Spock’s weight, and to show with the hand grasping his thigh that he might not be averse to his predicament.
Looking at the colours I chose compared to the egg colour sketches here is a little funny- I love blues and purples, and was very clearly trying to move away from that by including a red-orange egg option."
"The first image has my feedback from Ric drawn over it- the arm now has a place, and there are finally some tentacles!
This was rough because I knew what I wanted but I wasn’t sure that I was going to be able to make it reality. The leg in the second picture is *so* off, especially in relation to the rest of Spock’s body. The oviposition part stayed the same through most of this process. I have no idea what it says about me that that was the clearest image in my head for this.
I think my original pitch for this zine was more focused on the breeding kink aspect, and at some point it became oviposition/tentacles… oops. "
Two sketch images are shown, one on the top right is smaller. It shows the original sketch from the prior page of Spock and a couple of the egg design experiments to the right of him. There are color coded additions from Ric that include a long violet tentacle that wraps around Spock's left leg, his middle, and around his left arm which is now drawn in red trapped above and behind him while bent. The larger of the two images is underneath it, with white text centered to the left of the image. The second image incorporates the feedback from Ric, anchoring Spock by the new tentacle (that is partially drawn) and his left arm in its new position. His face also has sketched features in blue, with his eyes closed and his brow furrowed. His head is turned to the right.
"Why did I have my heart set on this bright pink?? It’s so pretty in person but it was a real nightmare to photograph accurately. I’m sorry Ric for choosing such a wild pink!
Originally it was going to just be the under painting but I grossly overestimated 1) how much it was going to throw off my colour scheme, and 2) how fun the colour was. I got emotionally attached to it.
You can sort of see the weirdness of the colour palette coming through. The entire painting was made with that vibrant opera pink, magenta, cyan, blue-violet, deep violet, green, and white.
I added some black to my palette but I wound up neutralizing that green with a bit of magenta instead. I was reading James Gurney’s “Color and Light: a guide for the realist painter” and wanted to try a limited palette out. "
Two versions of Lichqueenlibrarian's painting are depicted, one on top of the other on the left of the page. The top version includes a fluorescent magenta background. Spock now has a torn blue science division tunic on his upper body, the tentacle is colored lilac and opera pink, and sketch additions that are uncolored that reveal Spock is now gripping the tentacles. His face is also now turned towards the tentacle holding his arm in place instead of away. The tentacle wrapped around his lower leg has his underwear hooked on the end of it and the eggs have more shading (but are not yet colored). The bottom image shows a more completed version of Spock's coloring which includes some darker violet shading. The tentacles are now partially colored (more than the one around his chest) in shades of pink as well as the underwear/pants in black and the eggs which are shiny dark violet surrounded in pink. His lok and sheath are now colored olive green.
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