The Lion Art Academy

This facility is used for LHS‘s art classes, but also as a separate university for guests with a passion for things such as painting, sculpting, and graphic design.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. A Lofty and Prominent Foundation:  Design & Layout
  2. Concepts of Design and Layout
  3. Reverence to our Revered
  4. The Inisfreean Educational System
  5. Curricula
  6. 2022 Update:  Capacity
  7. 2022 Update:  Students
  8. Novels Excerpt
  9. Overall (Images Begin)
  10. Design
  11. Inspiration
  12. Posters Inside
  13. Tools; Art-class Equipment
  14. Art Examples by Category
  15. 2023 Update:  2022 Scale-model in Minecraft
  16. 2024 March/+

 

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A Lofty and Prominent Foundation:  Design & Layout

Perched on the central mountain’s slope (a full 1.75 miles above ground level), this Titan-sized, lion-shaped building is the home to all aspiring arts-and-crafts students studying in Inisfree. Boasting one of the most jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring fields of view across all of Inisfree, this lion-shaped art academy (L.A.A. for short), provides art students, faculty, and esteemed guest artists with the freshest and most aromatic alpine mountain breezes as they study, profess, work, and share their many talents and gifts.

  • Height:  ~363′ (front paws; lower on the slope of the mountain – up to the top of the head/mane); ~36-stories
  • ‘Length’ (Depth – nose to hind):  ~231′
  • Full ‘Length’ (nose to end of tail):  ~462′
  • Width (shoulder to shoulder):  ~66′ (this part being below the almost-touching wings surfaces)
  • Wingspan:  ~1,056 (each wing is ~528′ from shoulder to wingtip, and they ‘meet’ over the ‘spine’)

As of 2023 October, this art academy doubles as Inisfree’s art museum and exhibits hall.

 

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Concepts of Design and Layout:

Instead of classrooms with flat walls, art students of Inisfree practice their trade-crafts here amidst marble tiles, grooved temple columns with Corinthian capstones, and the open-air environments so treasured and standardized by the wise people and tenants of Inisfree.

Instead of halls, wings, and corridors, this academy boasts actual wings; all artists here have their classrooms in the open-air, Greco-Roman temples ​​situated at even intervals across the expansive topside surface of each of this massive lion-shaped building’s stone-feathered wings. To get to class or courtyard, artists here do not walk down narrow, enclosed, rectangular-prism hallways as was once done in schools of the Outlands; instead, here, they much more proudly stride out over the gigantic stone wings –whose wingspan is more than hundreds of feet!

Height from paws/foundation to the top of the head/mane:  ~363′; room for ~30 stories inside the body.

 

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Reverence to our Revered:

The visionary pioneer who proposed and helped fashion this heavenly construct, Sir Gabriel Tiberius of New Valhalla, has recently been recognized and honored for his prolific and profound contributions to the Inisfreean empire.  His life-size statue, molded and chiseled in his commanding likeness, is situated at the main entrance to the classrooms and faculty courtyards beginning atop this lion-building’s back, just before its pelvic vertebrae area begins.  Sir Tiberius’s statue here, displaying his armor-plated form, full Arabian king’s beard, and super-hero’s cape fluttering in the Inisfreean breeze behind him, is perched atop the remainder of this statue in salute to his many efforts in support of Inisfree and the Inisfreean people; the remainder of this statue for him being his trusty steed and mount, one of the worgs of ancient Norse legend, portrayed in the film The Hobbit, which dwarfs even that sizable frame of the dire wolves.

Every ​​day and night in which our students and fellow artists approach and pass into or out from this, our Lion Art Academy, they see and marvel at this tall statue of its inspiration and founder, Sir Gabriel Tiberius –who is now in worthy command of his own heavenly city-kingdom; the well-named New Valhalla.

 

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The Inisfreean Educational System:

All Inisfreean students attending classes at Liberty High School fly or teleport out here to the LAA nearly every day for their art-class periods.  Some of those who graduate choose to begin high-end careers in the various fields of creative and graphic design.  A few even get to work at the very studio which produces all of Inisfree’s many movies, shows, and games; WMKM.

 

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Curricula:

Art Syllabus

  1. Grade 1:  coloring, outlining, sketching, inking
  2. Grade 2:  freeform drawing, shading
  3. Grade 3:  painting; water-colors, oil-on-canvas, finger-painting, body-painting, etc.
  4. Grade 4:  comic books
  5. Grade 5:  illustrated novels
  6. Grade 6:  lifelike portraits
  7. Grade 7:  lifelike scenes
  8. Grade 8:  framing; selecting a picture/painting frame, etc.
  9. Grade 9:  placement; determining which pieces of art will fit best in different settings/spots
  10. Grade 10:  clay sculpting / pottery, then papier-mâché (around wire-frames)
  11. Grade 11:  stone sculpting, then sand-art
  12. Grade 12:  preservation/curating; ways to maintain mint-condition for different materials/types of art (plus art-restoration methods)
  13. Grade 13:  optional; writing (such as journal-keeping) during your off-campus survival-training/application/exodus
  14. Grade 14:  computer-aided design (CAD); ‘shaping’ (forming) humanoid bodies, automobiles, and other complex structures in artistic ways (including some digital/virtual 3D glow-painting –and even introducing ways to develop art software/technology of your own)
  15. Grade 15:  art-gallery visits and designing/planning/improving (drafting proposals to upgrade a gallery)
  16. Grade 16:  senior art project (largely up to the student) –and interior design

 

Beauty Syllabus

  1. Grade 1:  Main Concepts; proportions, symmetry, compatibility, familiarity, healthiness, etc.
  2. Grade 2:  physique/musculature/fitness beauty
  3. Grade 3:  skin/complexion beauty
  4. Grade 4:  face beauty
  5. Grade 5:  nature-scenes beauty
  6. Grade 6:  many of the thousands of places where true beauty has been found/confirmed
  7. Grade 7:  why some Outlands realms have only non-human/oid beauty
  8. Grade 8:  the philosophy and manifestations of having fully-beautiful things (healing/calming effect, etc.)
  9. Grade 9:  mindsets that typically result from individuals who focus only / too much on beauty
  10. Grade 10:  what preserves beauty, vs. what warps/decays/ends it –and where beauty has naturally occurred
  11. Grade 11:  restoring things of beauty (cellular and mindset treatments, etc.)
  12. Grade 12:  proactively shielding and concealing beauty in the Outlands (from the insecure/hostile beings)
  13. Grade 13:  optional; creating something beautiful during your off-campus survival-training/application/exodus
  14. Grade 14:  shortcomings and wrongdoings of beauty pageants in the Outlands
  15. Grade 15:  beauty pageants of normal/appropriate societies/civilizations
  16. Grade 16:  senior beauty project (largely up to the student)

 

Fashion Syllabus

  1. Grade 1:  Main Concepts; vocabulary, style/fashion do’s & don’ts, etc.
  2. Grade 2:  fashions of previous eras/Ages (other than the ones made up by human Outlanders attempting to condescend toward societies/civilizations other than their own)
  3. Grade 3:  kajirae fashions; the easiest (almost no clothing at all)
  4. Grade 4:  hairstyles which we regard as fashionable; feminine for females, masculine for males, etc.
  5. Grade 5:  fashionable swimwear; feminine for females, masculine for males, etc.
  6. Grade 6:  fashionable underwear; feminine for females, masculine for males, etc.
  7. Grade 7:  fashionable sportswear; feminine for females, masculine for males, etc.
  8. Grade 8:  fashionable casualwear (including footwear); feminine for females, masculine for males, etc.
  9. Grade 9:  fashionable business attire (including footwear); feminine for females, masculine for males, etc.
  10. Grade 10:  fashionable formal attire (including footwear); feminine for females, masculine for males, etc.
  11. Grade 11:  fashionable cultural/regional attire (including footwear); feminine for females, masculine for males, etc.
  12. Grade 12:  fashionable permutations; our system for determining if various alterations and combinations of things will be visually attractive
  13. Grade 13:  optional; making something fashionable during your off-campus survival-training/application/exodus
  14. Grade 14:  shortcomings and wrongdoings of fashion shows in the Outlands
  15. Grade 15:  fashion shows of normal/appropriate societies/civilizations
  16. Grade 16:  planning your own fashion show

 

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Class Lengths:

Each of the classes here is the standard 10 minutes; classes in our realm range from 10 to 60 minutes, most being 10, and all being either 10, 15, 30, or 60.  While classes are typically 30 or 60 minutes in Outlands schools, people here learn much faster, don’t need as-detailed explanations or guidance, and attend school year-rounds, so the content can be spread out, making each day/class/period shorter and more manageable.  This also helps with retention; we don’t overload our students each day.

(Even though we don’t assign homework, 10 minutes per class per school-day has still proven to be plenty of time for them to be told about, and get to practice, another element/aspect of whatever subject they are studying.)

Longer classes are available, first based on seating/reservations of this school’s/building’s classrooms, and then on whether the given student is comfortable learning off-campus; when classrooms here are fully booked/reserved, classes will be limited to their normal 10-minute lengths, but any student can always request an ICV to meet elsewhere in Inisfree to demonstrate/teach art or any other subject.  Technically this means that art classes in Inisfree can be any length at all; students can stay in this building’s classrooms as long as they have an open seat, and this includes overnight, plus ICVs are available at all times, regardless of whether it is during a school-day or the weekend.  In short, you can come here or many other places in Inisfree to practice and master your art style/s anytime there is not a seating conflict.

Through 2022, A.D., art classes at this school typically lasted half an hour to a full hour, as the first students here were often partially, if not wholly, focused on learning art; they did not have to be back for other classes at our main campus (LHS), and because we were nowhere near our maximum students-population capacity.  This allowed us to keep art-classes here spread out throughout each school-day.  Those art classes were usually just a few times a day, too.

 

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2022 Update:  Capacity

Classrooms are temple-like, open-air, ~100′-diameter, single-floor, ~3-story (from floor to dome-top) structures atop the two flat (literal) wings of this building.  Each wing is ~500′ from body to the midpoint of its horizontally-angled outer edge, and ~100′ from front to back.  The classrooms are centered on these two wings such that there is one line of them, and each is separated by dozens of feet from its two adjacent classrooms; there is room for 4 of these classrooms atop each of those wings.

A 100′-diameter classroom has ~7,853.98 square feet (sq.ft.) of floorspace –before subtracting the ‘footprints’ of its support pillars.  Each student is given at least 25 sq.ft. of personal/artist space; there is room for ~300-310 students in each of these classrooms during each of their classes/periods.  The rest of the floorspace is for the teacher and exhibit or model/s.

300 students per classroom x 8 classrooms = 2,400 students here at a time.
School-days are 12 hours long, with 5-minute class-change times; there is enough time per school-day for 54 10-minute classes.
54 classes x 8 classrooms x 300 students = up to 129,600 students here each 12-hour period.

Many more students could also take art classes in the rooms of this building, but the rooms in the body of the lion (i.e. the middle section of this art school) are for supplies, 3D-printers, faculty offices, etc..

The floorspace of the rest of the wings (beyond the ‘footprints’ of the classrooms) is not counted toward available ‘spillover’ room for potentially more art-students; those areas are for foot-traffic between classes/classrooms, and for sightseeing of the Inisfreean terrain/horizon.

 

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2022 Update:  Students

These are the guests and residents of Inisfree, listed on our Character Groups Directory, who have enrolled in at least one class at LHS.

  1. Alanna Richards:  2019 and on
  2. Christie Marie Hayes:  2020-2036 (during her LHS studies)
  3. Dakota Sterling:  2021 and on
  4. Jacqueline Diamonds‘ daughter:  2026-2042 (after which, she will be completing the normal 2 years at TNA, etc.)

 

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Novels Excerpt:

After catching up with a few other friends in that lounge, and making introductions for Lucifera with the others, it was time for them to see one more thing before her sixth day in Inisfree was complete. Just a few hundred feet outside the entrance to that timber-mine lounge, and through the alpine trees, …was a building in the shape of a winged lion, its wings open horizontally like above-ground hotel-sides, and its maned head facing forward out over the descending slope, stories below.

The Lion Art Academy was what they called this building, and it was truly a center for the highest artistic learning. More like a palace or temple than a school, all over the back of this giant stone lion were Greco-Roman columns, archways, fountains, and figurines. The students wore togas or nothing at all, as did their teachers. They prized the healthy human form, as well as those of the Angels and other civilized races, several of which were posing as models for the sketchers and painters to draw.

It was explained that they were not just learning to use pencil, ink, and other mediums to copy down likenesses of what they observed or imagined; they were learning a non-linguistic form of spellcraft anyone could interpret more easily than the characters and other symbols of the modern written tongues, and the art they created could eventually function as manifestation triggers and anchors, helping to further usher in the better and best worlds. This really motivated and captivated many of the students, and the teachers were pleased to see and feel those positive energies coming forth in reply. Their purposeful working across the canvases mounted on their easels and desks continued.

Along both sides of the seated lion that was their art academy, the halves of a split canal-feeding stream flowed. Its water was completely clear, all the smooth stones on its bottom visible as if they were in the open air. A student offered Lucifera a sip from her hands; it was the best-tasting water on Earth.

They dined up there on one of the wings of that giant lion. Between bites, Auz pointed to what was directly ahead and back down on ground-level; the Lion Art Academy was aimed exactly at Inisfree’s zoo. Three miles out in front of them, and a mile and a half below, with the Sea-tanks (drive-through aquarium) at its back, and the airport she’d flown into on day-one across the low mountain range along its left, was where they would drive to, come sun-up.

The Epcot II museum they’d been in was between that zoo and them. Off to the left of that massive sphere was an area full of roller-coasters of every shape and size; it was Inisfree’s amusement park. They’d stop there along the way to the zoo.

 

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Overall:

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Design:

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Inspiration:

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Posters Inside:

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Tools; Art-class Equipment:

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Art Examples by Category

Animation:

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Background/Computer Wallpaper:

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Body-paint:

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Book Covers and Posters:

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CGI; Digital Drawings:

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Chalk:

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Comicbook:

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Decals/Stickers:

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Fashion:

Jackets, non-letter:

Letter-jackets:

Loose Tops:

Midriff and Tubetops:

Shirts – for Girls/Women – Long-sleeve:

Shirts – for Girls/Women – Strappy:

Shirts – for Girls/Women – Swoop-collar:

Shirts – for Girls/Women – Tank-top:

Shirts – for Girls/Women – Text:

Sweaters – for Men:

Vests & Faux Fur for Girls:

Boyshorts & Cheekies:

Pants for Girls/Women – Non-leather:

Rolled:

Shorts – Cut-offs & ‘Ellen Style’:

Skirts:

Women’s/Girls’ Footwear – Boots & High-tops – by Rykä:

Women’s/Girls’ Footwear – Boots – Uggs  – by Rykä:

Women’s/Girls’ Footwear – Miscellaneous – by Rykä:

Women’s/Girls’ Footwear – Thick-soled – by Rykä:

Women’s/Girls’ Platform-boots for Clubbing & Porn – by Rykä:

Women’s/Girls’ (Roller) Skates – by Rykä:

Collars for ‘Pets’ – Slave-collars for Kajirae:

Evening Gloves:

Leashes:

Vambraces; styles for Men and for Girls/Women:

Women’s/Girls’ Accessories – Wrist-watches:

Underwear – for Girls – Lingerie and Panties:

Underwear – for Girls – Long-johns:

Atlantean:

Beach Towels:

Swimwear – Normal:

Backless:

Ballroom Gowns:

Biker – Female:

Black Milk; Non-yoga Spandex:

Dresses – Diaphanous:

Dresses – Hipless:

Dresses (& Tops) – Shoulderless:

Dresses – Sideless:

Leathers – Plant-based – for Girls/Women:

Pajamas:

Sundresses:

Togas – Female:

Togas – Male:

Track Suits; Jogging Outfits:

Women’s/Girls’ Yoga:

Business-attire for Girls; ‘Office-bunnies’:

Crochet:

Drow Fashions:

Egyptian:

Farmwear for the Country-music Club & Saloon:

Fishnet:

Holiday-wear:

India-wear:

Kajira-wear; ‘Slave Silks’:

Lace Outfits:

Lace-up:

Medieval Dresses for the Kathedrom Events:

Native American:

Plaid for Girls/Women:

Teddies – Diaphanous:

Zoot – for Swing-dancing at the X-2 Club:

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Food; Presentations, Etc.:

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Fractals/Balanced:

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Landscapes:

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Light and Shadow:

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Optical Illusions:

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Pen & Pencil; Sketching and Inking:

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Photography:

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Portraits:

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Sculpture and Carvings; Statues and Figurines:

Angelic and Fairytale:

Aztec and Mayan:

Daenerys and Dragons:

Miscellaneous:

Nymph:

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Wall Art:

Banners, Pennants, Posters, Prints, Tapestries:

Metal:

Mirrors:

Paintings:

Stockings:

Wreaths:

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Shower Curtains:

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Space:

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Textures:

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Vehicle Coatings:

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2023 Update:  2022 Scale-model in Minecraft

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2024 March/+:

Interior Design teaches critical home-furnishing concepts such as to choose a bed of size suitable for its room; never squeeze a bed into a room too small for it plus walking space and other furniture.
An Outlander-human claiming to be an interior designer, yet who has a cluttered/hoarder/messy residence, is a fraud –perhaps possessing partial Interior Design training/knowledge, but overall not a true artist/designer, only a person pretending to be.

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April:  Lolicon, since it is based on drawing appropriate female figures (in their primes) having natural heartfelt mutually-agreeable interactions, is of course now taught and mastered at this annex of our main school.

Reasonable snuff-art (not of gross/decayed corpses) will also be taught; comic-book-like drawings of recently deceased-looking females, and sometimes of living females riding rigor-mortis dicks, etc..

 

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