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Study of the Apollo of Veii, 510-500 bce. Archaic style is so fun. There is metallic paint on there but it doesn't show up properly here.

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Woodland spirit

A helpful neanderthal ghost gives tips on flint working.

I used some of tom björklund's wonderful neanderthal pieces as references, especially one piece depicting a father teaching his son.

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It is I who am named 'Shining Armour',

Mine is the fierceness that turned on all foes.

It is I who am the prince leading on in darkness.

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Libations for his father

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Y cŵn Annwn | The hounds of Annwn

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Oof I've not posted art for ages - Here's a Kano!

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Where has the horse gone? Where is the rider? Where is the giver of gold? Where is the feasting? Where are the joys of the hall?

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Melian - coloured and metallic inks, watercolour.

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Avari

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And he was as one that returns from the dead

Building on this previous design

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A star in the night and a bearer of hope, he rides into his glorious battle alone...

'Time Stands Still (At the Iron Hill)', Nightfall in Middle Earth, Blind Guardian

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Lionheart - Blind Guardian

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Has anyone else drawn the Maedhros with war moose thing yet?

Edit - inspo post

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When the blood falls: or, the killing of Baldr.

The falling blood nourishes the earth, and, though one life ends and begins Ragnarok, new life grows from it, and the next cycle can begin.

Unfortunately the camera can't capture the shine of the bronze/gold paint :(

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Someone tell this man to take a nap

- decided to play around and give him brown eyes instead of blue and I gotta say I'm enjoying the new look

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messy piece based on a passage in the Kalevala, a collection of poems/songs of Finnish mythology and hero tales compiled by Elias Lonnrot in the 19th century from bardic tradition. 

reference passage:

‘they made a head from a block // antlers from goat willow forks // feet from driftwood, legs // from stakes in a swamp // a back from fence poles // sinews from withered grasses // eyes out of pond lily buds // ears out of pond lily flowers // skin from spruce bark // other flesh from rotten wood. // The Demon advised his elk // to his reindeer spoke by mouth: // “Now run, you elk of demons // foot it, noble deer // to where the reindeer breeds, to // the grounds of Lapland’s children! // Make a man ski till he sweats - // Lemminkainen most of all!”’

[taken from my Oxford classics copy, p150; translation by Keith Bosley]

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A modern merlin outfit that quite literally came to me in a dream

May have been subconsciously influenced by art in the tag but I honestly can't remember