Oh...I'm in love with my newest mask design. Ouroboros.
This is the first one I did. I wanted it to be snakelike only in color, so I initially chose to pattern it like a diamondback rattlesnake. The design, though, is a bit less snake-like and a tad more dragon-like. Also I added the fins to give the whole design a triskele shape (traditional Celtic symbol). I was happy...but I had to keep playing...
...so I did this one, with the pattern of a Southern Copperhead (which is funny since![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rumdiculous was just saying how pretty those snakes are!). I just loved the pale neutral browns against that black mask, but I wanted to keep playing so I did this...
...which I just finished today. It's a false water viper...I have NO idea where they're from but they sure do have pretty patterns. The monochromatic blue-grays really grabbed me. This was a whim but now I really like it...it's growing on me.
The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. It has been used to represent many things over the ages, but it most generally symbolizes ideas of cyclicality and primordial unity. I have more related ideas...one which has the serpent coiled into the symbol for "infinity" (which isn't technically an Ouroboros anymore but it'd still be pretty neat)...but that one's still in the works.
Okay...back to work!
This is the first one I did. I wanted it to be snakelike only in color, so I initially chose to pattern it like a diamondback rattlesnake. The design, though, is a bit less snake-like and a tad more dragon-like. Also I added the fins to give the whole design a triskele shape (traditional Celtic symbol). I was happy...but I had to keep playing...
...so I did this one, with the pattern of a Southern Copperhead (which is funny since
rumdiculous was just saying how pretty those snakes are!). I just loved the pale neutral browns against that black mask, but I wanted to keep playing so I did this......which I just finished today. It's a false water viper...I have NO idea where they're from but they sure do have pretty patterns. The monochromatic blue-grays really grabbed me. This was a whim but now I really like it...it's growing on me.
The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. It has been used to represent many things over the ages, but it most generally symbolizes ideas of cyclicality and primordial unity. I have more related ideas...one which has the serpent coiled into the symbol for "infinity" (which isn't technically an Ouroboros anymore but it'd still be pretty neat)...but that one's still in the works.
Okay...back to work!
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