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hnmnmmmdrawing tennis horses soon i guess

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went to the museum just to look at minecraft ores

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dubsie design ideaa i dont know what im doing anymore !!!! but he has funny eyes

tried sketching with a pixel brush for commissions and actually liked it

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Day 27

Welsknight + Illuminated manuscripts

For Welsknight I illustrated a medieval illuminated manuscript page! To learn more about illuminated manuscripts, please continue below the cut.

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Illuminated manuscripts were formally illustrated books from the middle ages that contained decorative elements and gold leaf. Originally, they were made of parchment, but later luxury manuscripts used animal skin vellum. They were often religious texts, but in the High Middle Ages secular manuscripts were produced as well.

A very interesting element of these manuscripts are drawings called marginalia. Marginalia are little doodles made by the illustrators of manuscripts along the margins of the pages. These drawings were often funny and provided an extremely valuable, though sometimes baffling, window into the lives of people in the Middle Ages.

In this piece, I illustrated the page with a tribute to a bizarre trend in medieval European marginalia: snail battles. From 1290 to 1310, doodles of knights fighting giant snails appeared in the margins of dozens of manuscripts across Europe. Eventually, they even started showing up in carvings on cathedrals.

Scholars have no idea what these drawings mean. There are many interpretations, but my favorite theory is that the snail wars were a medieval meme.

For the design of this illustration, I studied the script and decorations from the Gorleston Psalter and marginalia from the Gorleston Psalter and the Smithfield Decretals. The knight vs snail drawings from these manuscripts were collected on this blog post from the British Library.

Fun fact! I drew this piece in a sketchbook I bound myself over ten years ago, so the yellowing on the paper is genuine. Also, I used a metallic gold gel pen for the text and some of the details. Here is a cropped version of the image:

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feeding cats

support the fundraiser

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does anyone actually know anything about biffa or is he just a collective dead anime wife for xisuma to all of us

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hurry home before it rains

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new house!!!! for an undisclosed project

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Xisuma

Made Ren a african wild dog

Which hermit would yall like me to design next feel free to send an ask

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IT'S PORLMOON DAY!!!!!!!!! AWOOOO

HADM Day 12! Pearl is a Borzoi!

Get Doggified AU Masterpost

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treasure hunting with the girls ❌

og designs under the cut!

by @/mochipanco on twitter !

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As a fic writer, one of the best pieces of advice I can give for understanding how a hermit thinks is to observe them in literally any context other than Hermitcraft.

Etho and Beef playing CTM maps with Pause, Wels chilling in his House Flipper series, GIGGS on Phasmophobia.

If you can find them playing a horror game especially, because a lot of fics involve putting the hermits into new or scary situations, so videos of them completely out of their depth really helps in getting their vibe. How well do they handle it? How experienced with it are they?

I genuinely don’t think many things have been as helpful in my understanding of Xisuma than watching him play Lethal Company and bravely volunteer to be teleported into the building (minutes after his first encounter with a bracken), only to practically start sobbing as soon as he was alone.

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lionfish.... gem....

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i like this creature

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yeah man sure

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more yuri ranchers !

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Excellent use of free will