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that au where Gwaine & Gwen had to pretend as Arthur & Morgana x

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My art for @merlinfantasyau fest!

Idea is that Gwen is a young bachelorette who moves into a cabin at the edge of an old manor belonging to an eccentric Baron Arthur Pendragon and his gardener Merlin, which is haunted by a ghost!Morgana. In this scene, Gwen hears a noise in the woods and ventures out, finding an old tomb and a ghost deep within the forest. To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of the final product. I wish I had given myself time to change up the way I lit and shaded everything because it feels kinda weird. Hopefully, I'll be able to fix it up in the future!

Thanks to the fest mods for the opportunity to brainstorm and share this idea, because it is one I would definitely like to write about or draw more for later!

(Sketch dump for the AU under the cut)

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Queens :)

My rtge gift for @magicalmischel, posted originally to the AO3 collection!

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A sketch concept for an AU idea I'm forming. Éowyn is a witch living in the plains of Rohan, and Faramir searches her out for a cure to a curse that has befallen Minas Tirith.

I liked the idea of a Rohirrim witch wearing a hat/mask in the shape of a horse skull-- it is fun vibes.

Might do some more sketches for the AU later (ie draw my best boy Faramir), but really I want to write a fic so who knows?

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Here is also a link for @aueth's OOMaB artbook, ft. the art, more concept sketches and heraldry!!!

Go check it out!

Of Oaths Made and Broken

words by Zorbo_Jorks, art by aueth Summary: 

Kilgwan just smiled— a gleeful presentation of far too many jagged teeth. He leaned forward on his throne and sang, “When the five of you I last did see, five promises you made to me! Three promises are broken now— one yet to test and one still sound.” 

Arthur growled, and Morgana made a similar noise beside him. 

“Are you serious?” she asked, “That was years ago!”

“A word given is a word to keep,” the creature sang back, ignoring the table’s shouts of dismay, “You sow lost words— dark gifts you reap.”

-------------- As children, Arthur, Morgana, Gwen, Elyan, and Leon made vows to a creature named Kilgwan in the catacombs of Camelot. 

Years later, on the even of Arthur's prospective betrothal, they are whisked away to make ammends for breaking them. Merlin and Gwaine must make up for the prince's sudden absence  by disguising the latter as Arthur to court Princesses Mithian, Vivian, and Elena in his place, all while Merlin tries to find Arthur and his friends before any ill befalls them. 

Amid this, Morgause schemes to kill the Pendragons and Merlin pines for his prince, convinced his love cannot be. 

It takes very little for the delicate web of problems to fall into chaos.

Click HERE for the story and art!

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More face practice= more Marstons I don't make the rules

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Trying to get better at faces and shading so here's my favorite shitty tween.

Is the partially-blurred and partially sharp shading good or weird? I can’t decide.

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Another dumb silly bc I care the Marstons.

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Oh, my heart is a Blueridge Mountain, And my head’s an overflowin’ fountain. My heart is a Blueridge Mountain, But I never never knew, never knew~’

-Blueridge Mountain, Hooray for the Riffraff

Haven’t posted a drawing in a little bit, so I finished up a more involved piece to post! Might fix it up more later (Ie the colors)

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Anachronism and ‘Red Dead 2′- Pt. 2: Penelope Braithwaite

Yay! Pt. 2! I was honestly so blown away that people reacted so well to the first post, and I’m still chugging through drawings right now so it seems appropriate to post about dresses I like again. So as not to put all of my Mary discourse at the front of this series, I will now talk about a more (I think) well-known anachronistic design choice...

This dress (displayed in a 2012 exhibit at the Kent State University Museum), dated to ca.1865:

(Photo 2 courtesy of Ilse Gregor Costume Design on Pinterest, original source not provided)

[Red Dead talk below the break! Possible spoiler territory, be warned!]

I think most people will recognize this dress as the one worn by Penelope Braithwaite in the early chapters of “The Course of True Love” (photo 1 from the Red Dead Wiki):

Now, seeing the date of the Kent State dress, it’s already pretty obvious that this is anachronistic; Victorian women’s fashion went through at least five distinct eras between 1860 and 1899 (off the top of my head: Antebellum, Early Bustle, Natural Form, Late Bustle, and Belle Epoch).

That said, like with the black dress in Pt. 1, this is an incredibly deliberate (and important) instance of anachronism, for the thematic material of the Rhodes plot line, and for Penelope’s character arc as well. 

Of course, there are a few differences between the dresses. Penelope’s skirt has some blue lace detailing along the bottom of each layer, and the fabric (probably for animation-sake) looks considerably heavier than the thin-woven cotton of the Kent State dress. As well, Penelope’s skirts look considerably deflated, which tells me that she is not wearing crinolines (Antebellum hoopskirts), and is likely wearing 1890′s undergarments, with the older dress overtop. 

Be that as it may, the light, ruffly, and low-shouldered silhouette of Penelope’s dress is pretty archetypical of the “Southern Belle” character: the Scarlett O’Hara type of white, (formerly) slaveholding woman that is pretty romanticized in older media, a more sterilized version of her being still stubbornly looked upon as a fixture of wealthy, white, Southern culture (I am saying this objectively; I am from Alabama). 

This dress represents everything the Braithwaites were, and it is remarkable that Penelope wears the dress, while her mother Catherine wears a more contemporary design. It clashes with Penny’s blatantly progressive character, and the visual introduction of her in the white gazebo wearing the dress (very Lost Cause romanticist) contrasts quite impactfully with her in the dress at a suffragettes’ rally later. 

The practical reasoning for this could be, like Mary, that it is all her family can afford to dress her in, and Penelope is just gritting her teeth and bearing it until she and Beau can leave Lemoyne. However, I feel like this takes away from the thematic strength of the dress as a key into Catherine Brathwaite’s idealization of the “Old South,” and the fact that she has her progressive daughter in the dress implies that she is still trying to force Penelope to accept her family’s ideals (while, in wearing a newer dress, Catherine asserts herself as the more powerful of the two women, in touch with modernity though she is oxymoronically stuck in the past). 

I will save my comparison of Penelope’s second dress to the Kent State design for another post, but yeah: 

In Short: The deliberate anachronism of Penelope’s first dress thematically introduces and illustrates her family’s stubborn, clenching hold on a romanticized past, and their will to maintain this ideology, even though it brings about their ultimate ruin. 

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Re-posting for this reply! Thanks for adding your insights, I like your points about Mary’s family’s money trouble!

I think a friendship between Abby and Mary is fascinating, too, and it’s sth I would not have picked up on (I’m a big thematic/ metaphor girlie, as you may tell lol)!

Anachronism and ‘Red Dead 2′- Pt. 1: That Black Dress

So, this is typically an art blog, but I want to start a little series about my thoughts on some creative anachronisms in Red Dead Redemption 2, specifically concerning the historical clothing used for some of their characters, since historical fashion is a particular interest of mine. 

For part 1, I’m looking at this dress, dated approx. to 1897 (from @fripperiesandfobs​):

… which is actually used for two different characters in the game! (read more below the cut, but be warned of plot spoilers!!)

Keep reading

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Anachronism and ‘Red Dead 2′- Pt. 1: That Black Dress

So, this is typically an art blog, but I want to start a little series about my thoughts on some creative anachronisms in Red Dead Redemption 2, specifically concerning the historical clothing used for some of their characters, since historical fashion is a particular interest of mine. 

For part 1, I’m looking at this dress, dated approx. to 1897 (from @fripperiesandfobs​):

... which is actually used for two different characters in the game! (read more below the cut, but be warned of plot spoilers!!)

I LOVE this dress-- it’s a very gorgeous example of that late-Victorian, early-Edwardian figure, and it’s dating is of particular interest here, becuase of who wears this dress in-game, and when they wear it. 

Character 1, is (to possibly some of yall’s surprise) Abigail Roberts. Here is her character model in the dress:

To the best of my knowledge, she was modeled with this dress during the bank heist in “Banking: the Old American Art,” as she and Hosea were posing as well-to-do Saint Denis citizens while they created the diversion for Arthur, Dutch and company to carry out the robbery. 

This is not anachronistic for Rockstar, since the dress’ dating puts it as being made, presumably, according to the fashion trends of the late 1890s, when the game is set. (In other words, they know that this look was considered normal and fashionable in a city at that period, and designed Abigail accordingly).

Where the anachronism comes in (and gets interesting) is with the second character they dress in this outfit:

Mary Gillis Linton, presumably during the epilogue in 1907, pictured briefly in the dress during the credits (pictures from the Red Dead Wiki):

Here, she wears the dress as a mourning dress as she visits Arthur’s grave. The addition the devs make to Mary’s outfit is her mother’s broach pinned to her collar, which being a side-quest item, makes sense to add. The hat, as well, looks like it’s made of a gray felt or silk, rather than Abigail’s straw, and the ribbon ends with a low bow on the back, rather than whatever the fuck is going on with Abby’s in the front.

Be that as it may, the dresses are the same, and are both clearly modeled from the ca. 1897 dress pictured first. 

I think it’s interesting that they would dress Mary, a canonically “high society” character in a deliberately out-of-date dress (they do this quite a lot with her actually, but that for another post). 

To me, this anachronism links back to her relationship with Arthur, and the encounters with her in-game always being linked to both of their attachments to the others’ pasts. I mean, to visit a grave is to be inherently visiting bygone memories, right?

(There is always the possibility that this vignette is supposed to be before 1907, but because it is sandwiched by other vignettes from that year I am going with it being contemporary).

So, the anachronism of Mary’s wearing this dress, to me, works as a thematic anchor to her character’s emotional function within Arthur’s story, and even if it is historically-innacurate, I think it’s very amply deliberate, and interesting to see here. 

Tell me what y’all think! I love talking about this stuff!

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POV character randomizer #2: Arya! I loved her little acorn dress moment in A Storm of Swords :)

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I randomized a list of POV characters from ASoIaF, and it appears that the first character hails from the exact opposite end of Westeros than I’ve previously drawn lol 

She’s fun it sucks they ditched her arc in the show. (Plz ignore that I misspelled Martell I was thinking of Charles Martel lol)

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Mary Linton bc I care her a lil bit (a lot)

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Low-res sketch of some guys I drew yesterday that I liked :))

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Kinda shitty little landscape thing I may do a bit more with later IDK the colors are a vibe