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No end in sight, these towers keep going and going,
You'll hurt your neck by looking up so long, and maybe trip.
Looking down is not recommended either, vertigo garanteed
What's behind these windows? Better keep walking.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
#art #pencil #tower #impossible #architecture #maze #megastructure #darkalleyways
Eranduil Dungeon, once a magnificent building, lays now in ruins.
Every stone has been thourougly searched and unseamed, any markings eroded beyond recognition, and every last bit of treasure was pillaged a long time ago.
What's left then? Why returning to this forgotten place?
Tranquility, of course.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
#art #pencil #ruins #eranduil #nature #lanscape #forgotten #peace
Sleep, my dear child, sun's down,
Sleep well, time to lay down,
You've been up a long time,
Feel you've been left behind,
Rest your limbs, and lay here,
The world still loves you, dear.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
https://www.deviantart.com/astanael/art/Awakening-1001609250
#art #pencil #treee
The Archmages battles from the Old World left magical scars all around.
Most of the time, it's curse stuff, timey-wibly mazes and eternal lava filled craters.
Sometimes, useful stuff like this gravity bridge: you can walk all around it without falling!
Very easy to maintain, just throw some rocks at it.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
#art #pencil #bridge #magical #fantasy #gravity #magic
- Groundwork they said... more like grindwork !
- Oh please...
- Joke aside, how such a jolly good fellow ends up in these cans?
- Can't tell
- I know, I know... sorry for asking.
- Just...
- ...just what? Come ooon, spill the beans!
- Don't joke about spilling, please! No just... don't buy this brand, ok?
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
#art #pencil #SCP #grinding
Here be Dragons.
Or at least a part of them.
Dragons are so huge, colossal, gigantic! They fill the sky and our mind by their sheer immensity.
So tell me: how I'm supposed to fit one in my tiny sketchbook?
Squeeze them? I don't think they'll like that...
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
#art #pencil #dragon #huge #framed #creature #scales #therewasnotenoughdragonsheresoheresonemore
Wading around these flooded corridors is strenuous, and extremely dangerous. At least you can see plenty up above. Too bad you can't see what's beneath because of the pale glow of whatever this glowing thing is. That's not water. You can float in water, this... has no buoyancy. One misstep and you'll sink to the bottom like a rock, unable to swim out.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
#art #pencil #water #flooded
Deep through the endless caves under Fort Lowth, you may encounter a peculiar preacher...
A sight to behold: eight feet tall, robes flapping to unseen winds, dressed from toe to head with steel, they brandish the spikiest scepter you ever saw!
It's ok to ask them about it, they're not hostile. They will tell you it's a relic. And that may the only coherent answer you'll ever get from them.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
I think I explored all the places I can at my level. My supplies are all depleted... I know there's a way out. There must be.
There's not a lot of options left. I wonder... no echos, nothing when I throw stuff.
Up is out. Left and right ends in circles.
Going down is... complicated
Jumping look simple.
Appealing.
Let's
do
it
!
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
- You... Monster!
- Rghhbladrbul?
- Yes, you! I saw you tiping the bin!
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
#art #pencil #shoggoth #subway #silly #loitering #no #clean
- Espèce de ... Monstre !
- Rghhbladrbul ?
- Oui, vous ! Je vous ai vu renverser cette poubelle !
This city repeats. This place repeats. This phrase repeats.
I'm losing my self and loosing my self inside this recursion inside a loop inside a fractal inside itself.
Help (me?)
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
Cette cité se répète. Cette cité citée se répète. Sept six tesseracts peut-être.
Je m'y perds. Je m'y retrouve. Je m'y retrouve perdu, coincé dans une récursion de boucle de fractal s'enroulant sur elle-même.
Aidez-moi(s).
I'm just. A cubesat in orbit. Sending data.
My old batteries. Are almost. Depleted.
Nowadays. The neigbourhood. Has become. Crowded.
I'm just. An antique cubesat. Sending some data.
Is my data. Still of some use ? I do not know.
One day. I'll do the Plunge. I'll fall. And burn. Brightly.
Until this day comes. I'll do my job. Thoughtfully.
Earth is beautiful. From above. That's all I know.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
Stairs... so many stairs. So many steps. I can't go on... I can't. My knees...
Even going down is too much... I... I think I'll stay here for a while.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
Fichus escaliers, encore et toujours des escaliers. Toutes ces marches ! J'peux plus. J'en peux plus... mes genoux...
Même descendre est au dessus de mes forces. Je... Je crois que je vais rester ici un moment. Un bon moment.
Once again, Big Ear faces impossible odds, and dashingly went to the the most dangerous place of the house: The drrreaded Kitchen Counter Top!
*Gasps!*
May her expedition be fruitful!
*Yaaaay for Big Ear!*
What marvel will she bring back this time from this mythical place?
*Nuts! Sausages! Soap!*
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
#art #pencil #mouse #rope
They are quite angry. We're not sure why.
Maybe we step onto what we shouldn't have? Or maybe we didn't bring what they expect of us? Unless... the larvaes?
Anyway, we better keep climbing. They could start throwing something at us.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
This is a part of the https://www.deviantart.com/astanael/gallery/91891620/trip-to-mushroom-land
A strange place, each lateral corridor leads to the same place.
Finite yet Infinite is the Long Gallery. There's no fog in the distance, it's just ... so far away you can't see through so much air.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
Un drôle d'endroit, chaque corridor latéral mène au même endroit.
Finie et Infinie, telle est la Longue Galerie. Ce n'est pas de la brume au loin, c'est juste... si loin que vous ne pouvez voir à travers tant d'air.
*munch* Though I've solved the issue with my Cheesinator Mk-II which *gulps* was morphing all matter into cheese, including itself. *nom* A brillant solution, if I may: The Mk-III is entirely made from cheese! *nomnomnom* lots of cheese *nom* various *nom* delicious *burp*
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
#art #pencil #mousey #Cheese #Cheesinator #science
- DO NOT BE AFRAID, FOR I AM...
- Oh I'm not. Shoo!
- ...THE ALMIGTHY, THE ETERNAL!
- Not interested, shoo!
- YOU ARE CHOSEN...
- Don't care. Go away.
- BUT..
- No is no. I know your deal and I don't want any of that. I like my little life and I don't want no enlightment. Go bother someone else.
- OK, THEN.
- And leave my sheep alone!
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
Everlasting stimulation, neverending entertainement, and yet... so alone,
Plethoric profusion of engaging content, always new, and yet... so alone.
Social network hyperconnected, real and fake facts superposed, and yet... so alone.
Where's the key to open our closed selves?
Not in paid network I guess.
(c) Astanael - https://www.astanael.com
#art #pencil #sad #lonely #waves #alone #moodpiece