Term 1
These were the first ones off the board that I made using watercolor pencils and they are meant to show the past in my theme with artists using paint and brush most of the time instead of graphite. These were all in the first few weeks and so that is where the entire board began to blossom into something Epic.
This Dragon is the very first that I drew which sprang into a motif that is repeated a lot through this artboard so buckle up. It is supposed to be a drawing that reflects humanity always referring to nature when drawing creatures and the Dragon is no exception because I used a crocodile as a reference image and so this is where the dragon motif began.
If you are into tabletop role-playing games then you know it is the DND ampersand logo an is meant to be that over time, the monsters that kept you up all night millennia ago are now just a thing in pop culture with Dungeons & Dragons being such a pioneer in that minus the satanic panic of the 1980s. Just because a game has demons as an enemy does not mean that the game is practicing satanism general public of the ’80s.
But you get the idea.
This was the first of the starships that I have on this board with it representing the future portion of my theme because if we are going to go interstellar then we need something to get there. It is also a machine of war as you can tell by the guns on the front because humanity has a tendency to go to war over very small things and that is inevitably gonna happen in our space-age when we get there.
Term 2
This little doodle page was something that cam out of me experimenting into the doodle art category in my personal sketchbook and I thought that it looked like something that I could fit into the board. I did that because it would represent artist’s imaginations from all walks of life because I think this would be in the minds of every artist with a lot of ideas all confined into the space no bigger than a small box that we call a brain.
This was the next dragon to enter the ranks of the artboard and is one of my favorite pieces and I experimented with a new technique in order to give it the look of energy seeping from the cracks in its armor. The technique was super simple but man it is really damn effective when done right. I also had some doodles thrown in there because it shows in a visual way, many ideas coming together to form one which is what happens whenever you get a bunch of visionaries in on the same idea, they will suggest more until you get a final product.
This ship is actually an older design that I did in my personal sketchbook a while back which I decided to redraw because we sometimes like to look to the past in order to look into the future and with this starfighter being an older design being revamped, it fits perfectly with what I just said.
This is another one the old ship designs that I decided to resurrect but I decided to tweak a few of the design elements from the original because that is what happens over time as one thing gets transformed into another as time goes on. It also made a classmate of mine think of an old show that had numbered starships and we could not think of what it was until we struck thunderbirds which was not intentional at all but just happened naturally like a lot of things in life.
This is really the only other drawing that is in the present from a timeline perspective on this side of the entire folio and is a gamer playing on his PC and next to him is his Avatar. I actually got the idea from the YouTuber Jazza who did this long before me and I got the spark to do this from him. That is like a thing in the art world with artists inspiring other artists which happens everywhere all throughout history and even to this day.
This is another one of my favorites and is part of the future and trails from the inspiration thing I said from the Gamer piece and the whole idea is that we have had myths of Dragons for centuries and they could also spread into the space-age aswell. I also decided to go with a more cosmic color scheme because it fits with space and is visually pleasing to look at and maybe this is how people of the future will see Dragons-Who knows?.
Term 3
This was the first Dragon for this side of the board and it is basically how you would see someone draw a modern dragon and when I say that I mean artistically. The way the dragon is meant to be is a beast with a lot of detail placed into it which is what we tend to do in art these days unless you are a minimalist but it is the modern-day interpretation of a Dragon in my mind.
This was another Dragon that is meant to be a counterpart to the Dragon up above as it is a medieval interpretation with it being very simple with not a lot of detail. Another thing about it is using body parts from other animals which is most prominent in the legs which are bird legs which makes sense when you think about it. It also a period in time when Dragons would have received their signature features which are still recognized to this day.
This simply did not have any placement on the timeline other than the present as it was just my signature made from doodles which is an artistic way of doing words which a lot of companies do a bunch these days in logos. It also says who the artist is because you see the art style used in that artist’s work which is a thing that all artists do.
This was the final starship that I had and I went for something different and that was giving it a background which I am lacking throughout the entire board so I decided to do that here. It only really connects to the future section because it is a starship and what other era are you gonna find one of those in ?. It also has more detail than the others because starships have a lot of detail in them a good amount of the time. 
This one is supposed to be a variety of time periods which you can see most prominently in the border which is a multitude of time periods along with an ouroboros as one of them which represents time. I also made it look like it is centuries old by doing the wet Tea Bag trick in order to give it that parchment look and it turned out great which I am happy with plus this map is going to be part of my next DND campaign so might as well make it look good.
This was one of my favorite works as it just came out really good and I thought of doing a Phoenix mostly because of the fact that they represent time and renewal which with a theme like mine, how could I not do a Phoenix. I also had it so that it was crossing the board connecting the two boards in a visually pleasing way
This is supposed to be the end part of a visual story that correlates with the theme of past present future. this is the future section of the story and I worked backwards because I tend to make story's better like that and this is no exception. If you cannot put the story together, it is basically humanity has fallen to it's greatest enemy of dragons as you can see on the top of the cliff. This was the first idea that I had for the story and so that is why it was the first to be made.
This is a zodiac sign or more specifically my zodiac sign of capricorn and I decided to do it because of its correlation to time, more specifically certain times through out the year and so that is why i did this stylized version of it.Term 4
These two were done together on the same page because I was running out of space on the board itself but regardless, it still worked well.the top one is set at the beginning during the end of the last ice age with a Dracolich rising from the ice and battling all those who dare come near. The one on the bottom is set during the medieval period and is the reverse of the humanity extinction which is essentially a nice parallel because we only rise to fall.
Anyway this is what the entire board looks like as a whole
Okay so longest post ever. So I hope you guys enjoyed me rant about each artwork for 1500 words and please share with your family and friends and I will see you all next time bye bye
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