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I have been thinking about @linearao3 ‘s Delft blue ceramics (or “Gezhelt” in this case!) inspired dress Inej wears in their fic Served Me Well FOR MONTHS. Such a fun fic and concept, I just had to draw it!!! Her pose here is based on The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche which I think fits Inej’s quite well. (Just imagine the handmaidens in the painting are there as the Ravkan elite, I didn’t wanna distract from Inej 😅) Reference under the cut!

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Merlin the Prophet and Wizard

Merlin is one of those complicated tricksters characters I just can’t help but love. Like any character from the Arthurian Cycle, he’s an amalgamation of so many distinct ancient and slightly less ancient figures, mores, and cultural views. Whether he’s a mad half demon, a wise prophet, a wizard and the symbol of the dying druids, or a young magician in a bbc show, he’ll always have a hand in bringing the future to pass.

There are so many little fun wizard things in this piece potions, scrolls, a raven, feathers, a fire salamander, a mini lady in the lake bottle, nature inspired motifs for the Druid interpretation, a scarab beetles, some Celtic inspired checkered fabric, gilded illuminated manuscript edges, etc.

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I SAID I WAS GONNA DO IT

The drawing of Leia is actually from 2022. I always intended to draw Han with her but had trouble getting his features right, hence the study from this morning!

Anyways modern au or at least clothing where Leia wears a knitted turtle neck and mom jeans and Han’s in a Henley, a denim vest, and adidas track pants. I don’t make the rules

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Scruffy looking

Just a sketch I like won’t finish but like anyways

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And here’s the close ups!

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Undine, marry her and stay true or be drowned on dry land

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No mourners. No funerals.

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Gargoyle or grotesque he doesn’t quite care what you call him

I’ve always had such a fondness for gargoyles. Viollet-Le-Duc may have entirely rebuilt Notre Dame according to his view of the medieval period but I will always support his liberal use of gargoyles.

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You guys wanna see the dumbest thing I’ve ever drawn? Six of Crows except it’s set in the Dutch Golden Age.

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And even though I couldn’t get him done in time, here is Entry 5 for #WinASignedSetofTheQueensThief2024 ! A mercurial thief on the roof by the orange tree with his wine… hopefully neither of them fall…

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“‘I would come for you, he said,’ and when he saw the wary look she shot him, he said it again. ‘I would come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together—knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.’”

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“She wanted a storm—thunder, wind, a deluge. She wanted it to crash through Ketterdam’s pleasure houses, lifting roofs and tearing doors off their hinges. She wanted to raise the sea, take hold of every slaving ship, shatter their masts, and smash their hulls against unforgiving shores. I want to call that storm.”

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Zoom up on Kaz in the Slat fight!

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And finally (for now!) entry four for #WinASignedSetofTheQueensThief2024

The first sketches of Gen I ever made 2019 vs my most recent piece of him 2023

I love this character so much. I don’t have words to describe how much he means to me, I just have a lot of hours spent trying to do him justice.

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Entry three for #WinASignedSetofTheQueensThief2024 !

Scene of Gen and Costis on the roof from the King of Attolia 2020 vs the matching Gen portrait (unfinished) 2022