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spirit animals in disguise and etc created by tyson tan
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Alley in My Memory

This picture was created based on my memory of the alley in front of my childhood house. The alley was a located in the old Guancheng town of Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. There was an old longan tree growing inside the yard of the house, which is the one in this picture that blocks the sky. The alley was demolished in 2003 when the city decided to build a new CBD in the area.

Although the art skills used in this picture was unremarkable, it successfully captured the atmosphere of the location. We didn’t have any photo for the alley, so this picture became the only reference of the place when my relatives tried to remember it.

At the time, I thought about expanding the idea into an urban fantasy project. My hometown had a long history going all the way back to the Neo Paleolithic times. It would be a fitting setting for a project like that. It would be called “Feng Lai Alley (The Phoenix Alley)”, which was an actual alley that gave the area its name. The demolished area was once a small hill, most houses were built on its slopes. The alleys connected to each other like a maze. The According to local folklore, a phoenix once stayed on the hill for a while. The hill once had a Taoist temple with a stone tower to take advantage of the phoenix legend. The old town uses a phoenix as its symbol and built a stainless phoenix statue on the location of the now demolished temple.

However, if I decided to use a real location, I had to draw human characters. I could not do that at the time, and I was still trying to escape in anthropomorphic animals and robots. On top of that, I was unable to create an enticing concept. The Chinese urban fantasy genre had been milked dry already at the time, and my life experience was too little to bring new things to the table. So the idea was shelved. In 2024, the idea got revamp into Spirit Animals in Disguise.

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记忆中的小巷

这张图是我对童年时期所住的房子门口小巷的回忆。这是一条原本位于广东东莞莞城老城区的小巷，我家的小院里长有一棵老龙眼树，就是画面中遮盖了小巷天空的这一棵。这条小巷于 2003 年旧城区改建时被拆除。当时没有留下照片，所以我这张图就成了许多亲戚回忆往事的唯一凭据了。

当时我曾经想过以东莞的这种岭南旧街巷配合都市神怪传说的方式打造一个系列作品，叫做“凤来里”——因为这个被拆除的地块原本有一条叫做凤来里的小巷，传说凤凰曾在此栖息，现有大型不锈钢凤凰塑像，是莞城的象征之一。这个地块原本还有一座叫做道家山的后山，曾建有一座道观和塔，还有过一个叫做凤台诗社的地方。在被夷平之前，这个街区的地形错综复杂，新旧建筑物交错着依山而建，地基高低差明显，还存在一些直接跨越街道的建筑物，是画这种旧街神怪题材的理想场所。

不过这个想法当时没有成事，因为当时我不太会画人类，光顾着在机器人和兽人的题材里逃避了。而且修仙神怪类的题材格局太小，我自己也提不起兴趣来。不过 2024 年这个概念以“千变灵兽”的形式重生了。

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    PikaKing

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    WonderfulDistraction said:
    Typed a random post number and expected nightmare fuel, but this is beautiful.

    Faith in this website restored.
    Almost.

    Same here same here

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    Critical Stiban

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    Such a beautiful picture. Well deserving of the example thumbnail for d-text. Props to the artist for the detail is extraordinary.

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    Volphied

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    Routganan said:
    Such a beautiful picture. Well deserving of the example thumbnail for d-text.

    Funnily enough, it was chosen not due to excellent art but because of it being image number 12345.

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    MiloMinderbinder

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    Volphied said:
    Funnily enough, it was chosen not due to excellent art but because of it being image number 12345.

    Numbers have innate power indeed. Who knew a rational set of digits that are pleasant to behold in its natural ennumerative order would be the 'prime' candidate for d-text?

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    shikariw

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    Always love Tyson's drawing, especially his selection in color... It's always in a good harmony!

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    abadbird

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    A special request was made to the upper staff. I believe the database was edited. I would say "try not to let this happen again"...? But it's not like this'll happen again lol.

    Yes, replacements preserve the original post ID and the comments, score, etc. Posting a clearly superior post as a new post ensures that we'll delete the old post once we notice it. Because of how this happened, this post's old favorites might be lost. I have informed our head admin about that.

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    Rainbow Dash

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    abadbird said:
    A special request was made to the upper staff. I believe the database was edited. I would say "try not to let this happen again"...? But it's not like this'll happen again lol.

    Yes, replacements preserve the original post ID and the comments, score, etc. Posting a clearly superior post as a new post ensures that we'll delete the old post once we notice it. Because of how this happened, this post's old favorites might be lost. I have informed our head admin about that.

    Whoever posted the new one was a turbo idiot for making a new post rather than replacing the old one.

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    icyspider

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    thatoneguyoverthere said:
    YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!
    DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLL!!

    Sorry, I was the one who blew it up.
    I'm glad we managed to fix the damage caused by my stupidity.
    I read the introduction before hand,
    but somehow I completely misunderstood how things work.

    I didn't expect to see a fellow DF player here, so...
    WELCOME TO BOATMURDERED!
    Hope you like miasma!
    XD

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    Capet

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    icyspider said:
    I didn't expect to see a fellow DF player here, so...

    Although the issue has been resolved, we couldn't help but fall into trauma, triggering a Strange Mood. Now, either prepare the materials... or prepare the Slab...

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