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redbootsindoriath · 2 months ago

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A cast of characters I put together for fun over the course of like a week. The setting is supposed to be some kind of generic medieval fantasy. I tried to be as historical as I could with the clothes and armor, but didn't hold myself to a strict time period or location and instead went with a vague "European middle ages".

While I personally am fond of the whole grimdark fantasy thing, I love how colorful the real middle ages could be and I wanted to be sure I was sticking to that as closely as I could manage.

#the world isn't in your books and maps #my trash #past tarva speaks #/end classification tags #i would have added more characters to the lineup but i ran out of layers on my drawing app #the top two pictures are obviously royalty and knights (and one squire)#the third is a hermit magician and an astronomer and an alchemist #the fourth is a jewelsmith and an earl's son and a jester (obviously) and a bard #i had to do so much googling for the outfits oh my word it took DAYS #like 15 years ago i was introduced to arthurian legend and for this longish stretch of time all i drew was knights #and then i kind of set it aside for a while and drew knights a normal amount #and then last year i came up with these characters and was like oh shoot i don't know how to draw armor anymore #but that meant i got to do even more RESEARCH hooRAY #(i'm not being sarcastic about that by the way)#(i do actually enjoy research)#(especially if it's stuff like armor)#also side note but i ended up having a ton of color descriptions in the image alt text which i know is kind of silly #but really the characters are just standing there doing basically nothing so there's not much else to say about them

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