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I've always nursed a secret love affair with geometry. This is one of three faces to the Lament Configuration, a puzzle box featured in Clive Barker's Hellraiser stories. Doing it digitally would have been cleaner and easier, but I wanted to create the feeling of something that was hand-crafted in an antique style. Pencil, ruler, ink, with a rust texture painted in Photoshop at the end.

Here's the [link] to the steps involved.
Here's the [link] to Side A

Note: This is not my original design. According to lore, it's the cult-inspired design of French architect Philip LeMarchand. I'm suspect, however, that the whole story is a fabrication derivative of Barker's Hellraiser mythos. I just discovered a gallery in New York that makes museum-quality replicas (and really cool variations) of the forbidden boxes. [link]

Description
I've always nursed a secret love affair with geometry. This is one of three faces to the Lament Configuration, a puzzle box featured in Clive Barker's Hellraiser stories. Doing it digitally would have been cleaner and easier, but I wanted to create the feeling of something that was hand-crafted in an antique style. Pencil, ruler, ink, with a rust texture painted in Photoshop at the end.

Here's the [link] to the steps involved.
Here's the [link] to Side A

Note: This is not my original design. According to lore, it's the cult-inspired design of French architect Philip LeMarchand. I'm suspect, however, that the whole story is a fabrication derivative of Barker's Hellraiser mythos. I just discovered a gallery in New York that makes museum-quality replicas (and really cool variations) of the forbidden boxes. [link]