One of my favorite #muse images and one of the most challenging.
Fantasy photography is a challenge in itself sometimes. It takes time to finesse the vision to life and work with the environmental elements of nature and light, let alone make everything look like it belongs all in a split second of the shutter click. That takes vision, and storytelling skills that goes beyond "pretty girl, pretty nature, and pretty dog"... but this is also no ordinary dog. This is a high content #wolfdog.

As a shelter photographer, I know first hand working with animals can be a lesson in perseverance. Little did I know that it can become doubly so with wolfdogs.
When I met Rogue I knew instantly I was willing to spend the time to get it right.

The result is a beautiful fantasy image that shows the duality of the muse goddess as I see her to be. She is feminine, and delicate. Highly intelligent and keen to protect. Wild and gentle. Beautiful and fierce. The epitome of nature.

#fantasyfriday #fantasyart #fairytale #fantasy #photography #MastoArt #mastodonart #wolf

#FantasyFriday anyone? Check out this amazing work!

A floral fantasy of animals & birds (Waq-waq)
early 1600s
India, Mughal
Gum tempera & gold on paper
37.6x26.6cm

"Derived ultimately from a conflation of medieval Persian & Qur'anic sources, including descriptions of the mythical island of Waq-waq inhabited by half-plant/half-animal creatures, this extraordinary painting depicts a plant that brings forth animal life in multiple forms."
https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.319#
#IndianArt #MughalArt #IslamicArt

#FantasyFriday Anyone use the streaming platform Pandora? I created a station called "Murray Gold Radio" 3 years ago because I love... ❤️ ... sci-fi/fantasy TV/movie soundtracks (especially Doctor Who)... check it out and let me know what you think, or just enjoy! https://pandora.app.link/dOfmEXGUmzb

looking for something good to read or listen to this #fantasyFriday ? If you haven’t ready the #author michael j sullivan oh you have been missing out. Also if you like #audiobooks he has the absolute best reader I have ever come across. While I like his age of myth series myself #ttrpg #dnd folks might like to start with his previous series maybe the book theft of swords review below
#books

https://youtu.be/p9Z5SvA0kWk

looking for something good to read or listen to this #fantasyFriday ? If you haven’t ready the #author michael j sullivan oh you have been missing out. Also if you like #audiobooks he has the absolute best reader I have ever come across. While I like his age of myth series myself #ttrpg #dnd folks might like to start with his previous series maybe the book theft of swords review below

https://youtu.be/p9Z5SvA0kWk

#loking for something good to read or listen to this #fantasyFriday ? If you haven’t ready the #author michael j sullivan oh you have been missing out. Also if you like #audiobooks he has the absolute best reader I have ever come across. While I like his age of myth series myself #ttrpg #dnd folks might like to start with his previous series maybe the book theft of swords review below

https://youtu.be/p9Z5SvA0kWk

Fantasy Friday!

What I really want is for Mercury to go into Tardigrade so I can be indestructible for a bit and get some stuff done.

What do you want?

#fantasyFriday

Conan the Wanderer by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Lin Carter

Lancer second edition, 1971 (first edition 1968). My own copy.

Cover art John Duillo.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoxQqjJNb2B/

#FantasyFriday #RobertEHoward #Conan #JohnDuillo #coverart #pulp #Lancer #fantasy #voidpunk

it's Friday: time to unplug from the mainframe for the weekend and enter party mode

#robot #shirtless #thirsty #android #droid #cyborg #gay #gayman #gayotter #otter #smoothchest #smoothchested #beard #gaybeard #gayart #art #scifi #scifiart #digitalart #robotics #mainframe #download #muscle #muscledaddy #beefcake #photooftheday #artoftheday #unplug #fantasyfriday #fantasy #gaymusclefetish #GayTrim #GayFeed #mastoart #mastoartist #MastoArtStudy

Conan of Cimmeria by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Lin Carter

Sphere variant, 1974, of the 1969 Lancer edition. My own copy.

Cover art Frank Frazetta.

#FantasyFriday #RobertEHoward #Conan #FrankFrazetta #coverart #pulp #Lancer #Ace #fantasy #voidpunk

https://www.instagram.com/p/Coeg0mhLQmt/

Conan by Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, and Lin Carter

Ace reprint, 1977, of the 1967 Lancer edition. My own copy.

Cover art Frank Frazetta.

#FantasyFriday #RobertEHoward #Conan #FrankFrazetta #coverart #pulp #Lancer #Ace #fantasy #voidpunk

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoMrDHXLR7e/

I was planning something else, but having noted that it’s #FridayThe13th my #FantasyFriday #BookRecommendation has to be Katherine Kurtz short story collection, “Crusade of Fire,” in honour of Jacques de Molay, the Templar Grand Master whose arrest on another Friday the 13th is said to have cursed the date, and to have led to our modern superstitions around it. #bookstodon #bookworm

The first #FantasyFriday listing from amongst my #BookRecommendations for 2023 goes to Terry Brooks’ “The Elfstones of Shannara” which I think remains my favourite volume in that long and eminently successful series. #bookstodon

Perhaps these prompts:
#MonsterMonday​ Draw a monster character
#TreeTuesday Draw a tree or other vegetation.
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#ThiccThursday Draw something with thick expressive lines.
#FantasyFriday Draw a fantasy scene or character.
#StudySaturday​ Post your studies and practice work.
#SillySunday Draw something silly and fun.

Suggestions?
#MastoArt​

#FantasyFriday
Is there a particular bit of predicament that you have always wanted to be bound or restrained or trapped in?