Malicious-Monkey

Hi watchers,As you may have noticed I have been less active on this site lately. My core membership has ended and I don't feel like buying a new one, nor do I want to deal with deviantart's poorly-policed ad networks. I will still post major artworks here, respond to comments and notes, and participate in metroid-club contests, but there are better places to go if you want to keep up with my progress.sunriseonilion.wordpress.com - if I make anything Ilion-related, it will go here without fail. supermalmoart.tumblr.com - this is purely an art tumblr, with means no shitposts, reblogs, fandom trash, and the like. If you want the above, you ca...

If you are a worldbuilder or mapmaker working at a global scale, it can be helpful to have an actual globe to guide you. If your world is an alternate Earth, then you are in luck. You can go to Amazon or troll the thrift stores and garage sales for a cheap globe of the Earth. All done.For the rest of us, the globe we need cannot be found in any thrift store. So we make our own.The above is an 8 inch desktop decorative globe I bought at a furniture store. Globes run for about $15-$30 at stores, or cheaper if you can find them used. What you want is a sturdily built globe with no raised relief.Accuracy is not important. Any out-of-date borde...

Here's the final result of my glacial ice effect experiment. Since I've got multiple pics and don't feel like making a montage, I decided to just make a journal instead.Looks kinda "meh" from aboveBut put some light behind it and...Yeah, I like this.Time to go buy 10 pounds of wax.