I gaze into my fractured window

Lies

Without trust I can only see that my future holds a burning world.

Lies

Beware the words of a corrupt harbinger

Lies

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I came up with this poem and it was designed to have a bunch of little extra bits of meaning where with how I put stuff in places and even how hard some of the lines are to make out. So, the big square in the middle says “I gaze into my fractured window”

The three circles going up the top connected with the line of fine print says “without trust I can only see that my future holds a burning world.” The "I” and “see” and “my future holds a burning world” are the big circles that are easy to read and stand out, and the fine print of “without trust” and “can only” and "that" connect them.

The circles going up the right side, kinda in the background, say “beware the words of a corrupt harbinger” and they are split up in a way that if you don’t notice other parts or the sentence, it still makes sense, like “beware” standing alone makes senses. And “a corrupt harbinger” also makes sense….

Lastly, hidden in each of the three section is the word “lies” done very faintly in the background… so the lies are hard to see. There is one by the word “window”, one by “see” and, and one by “corrupt”

Hi, just starting to learn Gallifreyan for fun using Sherman's script.

In the instructions it mentions that if a consonant has the same root, you can overlap them (reading thin to thick). Is there any rule about what order those consonants have to go in? Like could I put the thickest in the middle and the medium/thin letters either side in a 3 consonant build? Or is there a consensus that its basically always out to in?

i want to paint something (on paper in gallifreyan) and put it on my door but i dont know what to write. the “go away humans“ sign comes to mind but that would include me in the set so i cant do that any ideas?

I checked the FAQ and I dont think this breaks the rules, I've been using inkscape and after the initial struggles Ive been loving it.

(I didnt at first but thats because I was overlapping tons of circles and then using shape builder, I watched SWC Jedi-Family Cantina's tutorial and its so much more pleasant now)

Theres a few things that weren't covered that I'd really like to know so any tutorials you know of or advice from people here that cover similar things would be really helpful.

Specifically I'd really like to know how to apply shadows to strokes, to give the words the impression they're floating (Ive seen this kinda thing in several posts here).

I'd also really like to know more detail about colours and fill, e.g. In the picture above I'd used pattern fill to make the wavy background (sorry its only a segment I didnt really wanna put my full name on the internet) but I wasnt able to zoom in the pattern without changing its thickess.

Learning how to create my own patterns (a marble line/crack pattern could look nice), using gradients and colour in a better way, and importing images if I really need something too difficult to make myself (like ocean/waves or the time vortex etc..)

Any help would be really appreciated, this community is amazing and really kind, really looking forward to sharing things I'll make in the future!

Reposting my latest shermans project with the some typos corrected.

i'm back!!! with a shorter piece for a friend this time, quoted from the song Bones in the Ocean by The Longest Johns:

"Now that I'm staring down at the darkest abyss,

I'm not sure what I want, but I don't think it's this.

As my comrades call to stand fast and forge on,

I make sail for the dawn 'til the darkness is gone."

note that this is written in chrono (my slightly different gallifreyan subdialect which is read clockwise, starting from the noon/one/first clockwise mark per circle -- each line of this piece is read top to bottom!)

thanks to oleksiy yeshtokyn on pexels for the background shot! full piece also available on deviantart where i actually post stuff hhhh

I've been doing some work in desmos geometry for a while, but I'm noticing that it doesn't appear here. Is inkscape a significantly better program (worth starting from zero experience)? I specifically like getting things to line up with ways for post-tweakability (like adjusting point sizes, line curvatures, ect.).

I took some artistic liberty on the sentence structure of this design. With the four words and the four start markers, I set it up to change the orientation with each section/word. basically, each of the four sides are four separate "bottoms" with the four separate start markers.

It says:

Matter how tiny my share
Time how short my allotment
Fate how small my roll to play
Self all that can be mastered

"Art disturbs the comforted, and comforts the disturbed"

"Sometimes, to make sense of the world, you have got to be just a little bit INSANE"

Hi friends! I’m getting a tattoo this Friday and this is my design. (I made it myself, please be nice!) I want to make sure it’s accurate!
Bonus points if you can read this! Otherwise, the quote is in the comments.

So I don't really use Reddit anymore (and idk how zooming in works here, I have a link to my original full-size deviantART post where you can zoom in in case it doesn't work here though) but I saw some of y'all's pieces on here and really really really wanted to add my own!

So here's my first big piece: a transcription of the short poem Invictus, in my in-progress CG subdialect, Chrono*! (Which I'm developing for an original time travel/historical-ish fiction comic, to be drawn many many years from now when I finally get my act together and learn how to draw people consistently. ADHD is a bugger, though, and I sort of have a thesis and a Pokemon fancomic to write in the meantime... we'll see how it goes!)

Full text of the poem included (in the main circles across, left to right) plus title (top-right edge of big circle) and author (bottom-left edge):

Invictus

William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

*Notes:

1. Unlike traditional CG, Chrono is read clockwise from the top -- i.e. starting in the 12 or 1'oclock position, usually, or wherever the first "clockwise" letter appears in each word circle if it's further around.
2. Credit to Jonathan Borba on Pexels for the background stars, amazing photo and an artist's endless gratitude for making it available!!!
3. No AI was used in the making of this; I drew, transcribed, coloured and rendered this all by hand in Clip Studio Paint and would rather perish under the bludgeonings of chance than do otherwise. Bowties are cool. GenAI is not. Womp womp. https://www.patreon.com/atom1cwallflower/posts/invictus-chrono-172279660 Free Patreon post with timelapse as proof!

thank you for coming to my reddit talk, i'm just so excited to have Made a Thing(c) and hope other people will nerd out with me

It’s just that. Just kind.

A canvas I painted as a gift for a Fandom Trumps Hate donor!

This is more of an update to my previous post. I think I got the individual word circles sorted out (if not please tell me) and my next one will likely be putting it all into a sentence circle (or form at least).
I’m only including the words I changed so that I’m not asking for stuff that didn’t need fixed lol

I was unsatisfied how my first attempt looked when I finished it, so i gave it another try.

So I’m trying to learn 2 languages atm (Mando’a and CG) so I figured I’d take a sentence, translate it to Mando’a and then translate that into CG. It’s not my best work but I wanted to make sure I was spelling it all correctly and whatnot.

Any corrections or changes I could make to clear it up or that I need to make for it to be correct?

Been interested for a while but decided to finally give it a go, have i made any mistakes or grammatical errors?

A variety of sized guides and cheat sheets containing relevant details for the 2026 updates to Sherman's circular Gallifreyan. Plus this video tutorial: https://youtu.be/qgGFkWUpBKY?si=QsZGYmGQdFfRC3r2 and the updated PDF written guide: https://shermansplanet.com/gallifreyan/guide.pdf

This was made as a small birthday gift project for my very dear friend who has generously allowed me to share their gift, so I'm posting it here for the joy of everyone sharing the same love for both Star Wars and Doctor Who, but also for the fans of Gallifreyan writing. Guess there are more ways to use gallifreyan and other scripts besides tatoos, huh!

Big shout out to folks on discord server who helped me spellchecking this and especially to the author of both Arcanian Gallifreyan and Project Astra, bush_king, who proofread all of these designs and helped me tremendously while I was learning by just being a very kind and patient mentor. If you ever get a chance -- give both of these scripts a try even if all you have is a notebook and a pencil, they're incredibly fun to learn and! Anyone is welcome both here and on discord to share their results!

Do let me now if you end up using any of these for your own desktops. Anyone who wants to crosspost and share this to any of the actual Doctor Who and Star Wars fan communities are very welcome to do so.

Also if you end up actually using one of these, you can always write a few kind words for my friend -- wish them a late happy birthday and offer some good wishes, or simply say thanks for sharing!

No AI was used in the making of this, all was made by hand and using free human-made resources + screenshots from the movies.

Enjoy!

This is my first time writing something long in this script, so in sorry if it looks a bit more jumbled than it should. Im still working out the kinks.