Creative Corner

[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/vRhNtu9.png[/img][/center] The Lucanidae Clan has long been interested in lettering, calligraphy, mark-making and inscriptions of almost any kind! [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/38388580]Meridia[/url], the clans eldest and wisest dragon, who teaches many of the young, has spent countless years doing field research all over Sornieth and she has scroll case upon scroll case of academic texts, some of which point towards this topic. She has been a great help to the clan leaders in identifying and translating strange symbols and sigils - an interest that the Matriarch of Lucanidae, [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/38786280]Kynareth[/url], has long held and has inspired in many other clan members during their time with her. [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/50568673]Vapula[/url], while studying and training to compose her [i]Songs of the Shrieking Wilds[/i], accrued a large collection of sheet music and idiosyncratic visual scores (often written, or drawn, in nearly illegible glyphs) from all over Sornieth - with the help of her father [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/40204501]Moloch[/url]. While her brother, [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/49572904]Murmur[/url], was the first long-term successful student of calligraphy under the tutelage of a clan member who would come to be defined by this role ... [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/47481150]Ammitai[/url] [rule] [columns] [size=4][font=Helvetica] "Well, I suppose I could show you some of my earliest work, since you asked so kindly. Be aware, this is not calligraphy as such, this is the skimming of stones. The first minute, tremulous reverberations towards the Art... it would not be for a long time after making these that I truly turned my hand to the craft. But I am happy that you are interested in the beginning of my journey - it is always the best place to look, especially for those only just beginning theirs..." [/size][/font] [nextcol] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/47481150][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/474812/47481150.png[/img][/url] [center][size=2][font=Helvetica][b]The Calligrapher[/b][/font][/size][/center] [/columns] [rule] Welcome to Lucanidae Lettering! Here I will be showcasing some lettering I have made (and, as you may have noticed, some accompanying lore) - I hope you like it. Some day in the future I may try and make a shop or just take commissions privately or perhaps do a fundraiser art event for Nature Dominance - but for now I am starting this humble home base just as a means to further my clan lore and provide some visual aids to it and to share that here with you all. I would love to hear any feedback and criticism that you have.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/5ghAiA3.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/fOwEkxV.png[/img]

[size=6][center][b]The Obsidian Eidos[/b][/center][/size] [center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/lair/361118/810354][img]https://i.imgur.com/hKz2lca.png[/img][/url][/center] [center][size=3][font=Helvetica] The Obsidian Eidos are dragons of all Flights who are drawn together by their involvement in dark, ritual magic. Many of them worship The Shade and other off-world entities that have long been perceived as against the dragon life of Sornieth - while some argue this is a misinterpretation others readily embrace this fatalistic thinking. This sub-sect of the Clan first arrived in The Second Age. [/size][/font][/center]

[center][b]The Wildclaw Protectors[/b][/center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/IXf4PKQ.png[/img] [center][b]Emblem of the Protector[/b][/center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/4Mq0yh8.png[/img]

[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/lair/361118/1414043?name=&type=undefined][center][b]The Blood Wraiths[/b][/center] [/url] [img]https://i.imgur.com/l8L25WX.png[/img] [center][size=3][font=Helvetica] The Blood Wraiths are bound to the Shrieking Wilds by a mysterious magical artefact known as The Heart of Viridia. They employ Plague as well as Nature magic, they often use similar form-alterations to The Obsidian Eidos but turn into red smoke or mist instead of black. This sub-sect of the Clan predate the clan and are site-specific to the clan's second canonical lair space of the Shrieking Wilds.[/font][/size][/center] [center][b]Blood Wraith Baubles[/b][/center] [center][size=3][font=Helvetica]The Blood Wraith Baubles are Christmas babies of the Blood Wraith faction. You can find some [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/2954211]here[/url].[/font][/size][/center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/APoJ36z.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/ypcmEaL.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/on9iewv.png[/img]

[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/lair/361118/1503721?name=&type=undefined][center][b]The Aeon Incarnate[/b][/center][/url] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/lair/361118/1503721][img]https://i.imgur.com/C8nUACP.png[/img][/url] [center][size=3][font=Helvetica] The Aeon are distinguished by their Primal eye types. They are found wondering the Shrieking Wilds by the clan one by one - they are mortal dragons who have become possessed with the immortal spirits of the Gladekeeper's First Children (the Aeon). They arrive in the clan from The Third Age onward. [/font][/size][/center]

It would appear there is an unintentional fine line border to some of the larger images. Have I made them too large for forum threads? Any help preventing this happening again in the future would be greatly appreciated.

PS - I am subbed to this thread so there's no need to ping me - but you can still ping if you'd like to.

Hey there! I really like this charmingly-wobbled effect your lettering has, it's both whimsical and eerie!

About the grey borders--my guess is they're part of the image file itself (rather than a product of the images' interaction with the post format). If you haven't already, you could try cropping one of the grey-bordered images a tad and see if that makes the grey go away?

Thank you @Snowshinobi - that means a lot coming from you!

I will try that. I think you're right, I'm really not sure how it happened in the image editing process though, I'm so bamboozled by it.

@Snowshinobi

I finally did as you said and cropped them and it worked like a charm, so thank you so much! I'm hoping to revamp this thread and add a whole lot more to it this year.