just-another-weird-artist
Italian med student with an obsession for painting. Also a mythology and history nerd. Give me a book and I'll give you my heart.
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Fingolfin’s Challenge - 14 year redraw edition
This drawing, and this moment, mean so much to me. I first drew this scene 14 years ago, and when I uncovered the old drawing a few months ago, I knew I had to redraw it. Old drawing and close ups are under the cut:
When I was 12 this was the best drawing I had ever done. The original concept was to have the map behind him because I don’t like doing landscapes and never have. For the new drawing, I decided against writing out the place names over the mountains for fear that it would be too cluttered. I also decided to change the shield design to a more Norman style incorporating his heraldry and I replaced the greaves with boots for purely aesthetic reasons. I KNOW he should be wearing a helm and it’s in the text I literally transcribed, but I do not care because seeing his hair is important to me. I *might* draw him in a helm in the future. If the universe wills it so.
More close-ups of the new drawing:
Dimensions are 18x24” and the media are watercolor, india ink, fineliner and gel pen. Writing the whole passage took over two hours and I got *so* emotional. fjggjgghkvhk *clawing at the bars of my enclosure*
I have no idea how many hours I spent on it in total but I have been tinkering on it for 3 months.
I was really afraid that I made him look too old by trying to render his facial expression. I am also concerned that I haven’t captured the full depth of his emotion. But I tried my fucking bestest and that’s all that one can do. If I am still a fingolfucker in another 14 years I will draw him again and it will be even better <3
Is it me or the content for adults policy in tumblr now is weird? Like a drawing of a guy in a bathrobe is suddenly "adult content'. Like have you ever been at the beach?
Wanderin the hall of the reed keep and dreamin of ice demons! The picture of mental health and stability! Our glorious king of bathrobe and underwear!
Poor bastard, I think that if we take Viserys ' way of going from decent and lovely brother to full on crazy murderous bitch as a blueprint I'm justified in feeling kinda sad about Aerys, despite the absolute monster he became later.
Enjoy this unserious little thing
Mindless ASOIAF doodles. 15yo sadboy Rhaegar, Aerys Targaryen wandering the halls in nightclothes because evil prophetic dreams tm are driving him insane (literally), a very uninpressed 15yo Arthur Dayne as a squire (sometimes I headcanon him as Barristan s squire. If only to make so that sadboy R. had a friend before 20). I think I'll do some fun illustration with these three as soon as I choose the definitive design.
Rumors of his death were much exagerated. 1hr sketch. May finish it decently in the future
Ósviðr maðr vakir um allar nætr ok hyggr at hvívetna. Þá er móðr er at morni kömr, allt er víl sem var.
'A foolish man lies awake all night and worries over everything. He is tired when the morning comes, yet all his problems remain.'
Hávamál 23 Norse text by Crawford.
blood oaths and portends (x)
My eldest begotten is besotted with you, The Weeping. I see why. Who are you? TWILIGHT OF THE GODS — Now Hear Of… (Episode 6) written by Eric Carrasco & Caitlin Parrish directed by Dave Hartman & Andrew Tamandl ››› John Noble as Odin ››› Sylvia Hoeks as Sigrid
Quiet evening and city lights
“My name is Elsa Sánchez de Oesterheld, and I am the wife of Héctor Germán Oesterheld, world-famous for writing the comic strip El Eternauta. During this country’s tragic era, my four daughters, my husband, my two sons-in-law, another son-in-law I never met, and two unborn grandchildren disappeared. Ten people disappeared in my family. But I prefer to remember the years when I was happy.”
Elsa Sánchez de Oesterheld - "Los Oesterheld" (2016) A Biography.
In the picture, the four Oesterheld daughters, ages between 14 and 19 years old. They were part of the "Unión de estudiantes secundarios" (High school students union).
Argentina's last civic-military dictatorship that took place from 1976 to 1983, supported and financed by the C.I.A. from the United States through the so-called "Operation Condor"; kidnapped thousands of people, took them to clandestine camps, tortured them mercilessly, stole their children and disappeared them by extrajudicial executions disposing their bodies secretly.
people in here, if you like apocaliptic alien sci-fi shit you can watch The Eternaut on Netflix, an argentinian show based on a comic book from 1957 whose creator (Héctor Germán Oesterheld) and his family were abducted by one of the many military dictatorships in my country
the story happens in Buenos Aires and explores the ideas of community and strenght against the opressors, and also contains lots of Argentina dope amazing references and insults
its motto is "no one survives alone", a really necessary message in our times
you may know its main actor, Ricardo Darin, from The Secret in Their Eyes (Best Foreign Film 2010, winner), Wild Tales (Best Foreign Film 2015, nominated) and Argentina, 1985 (Best Foreign Film 2023, nominated)
The Eternaut comic book is considered as one of the most important latin-american sci-fi works ever, and it's culturally respected because it's the product of a really dark time in our history (the Netflix adaptation is set today tho)
Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.
There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves !
Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:
oh ghost bird, where did you go
Scrolling through my old photos I found this relic from 2020, Aramis, aka René d'Herblay aka the bishop of Vannes ecc, as described in the Three musketeers by Dumas.
I downloaded the book Unhumans: The secret history of communist revolutions (and how to stop them) by Jack Posobiec. (Thanks oceanofpdf.) This is the book that the current USA Vice President wrote a blurb for, so I expected it to have its finger on the pulse of the current fascist ideology in USA.
The thesis is like this: Communists, leftists, progressives, and revolutionaries in general are "unhumans:" zombie-like, hollow shells of people with rabies-style senseless violence and hatred toward civilization and order.
The book proposes essentially that leftist ideology is worthless to engage with, because it does not exist. The Left is purely driven by hatred and jealousy of people it characterizes as oppressors, and this manifests in a completely nihilistic urge to kill and destroy.
The book opens with this melodramatic meditation on Darkness and Light, the opposing forces of beauty, truth and goodness versus ugliness, lies and badness. These "good" and "bad" forces are eternal, and the "bad" force is kept in check by "civilization."
"Communism" is a manifestation of the "bad" force. Key to the book's argument is an apparent presumption that human society is meritocratic. Though the book acknowledges that yes, Russian peasants had miserable lives and good reason to be resentful towards the tsar, it seems to show that people who revolt against "oppressors" or the more powerful are acting according to the "bad" force, by seizing power through violence rather than "earning" it.
I don't think the author is saying that all human societies have had merit-based systems of upward social mobility; I think he just thinks that seizing power or property through revolt and societal upheaval is always bad because it isn't "earned," regardless of whether a mechanism to "earn" exists.
Which is where we get to the weird part. Much of the book is a retelling of history, specifically various revolutionary movements including the French, Russian, and Haitian revolutions and the end of apartheid in South Africa.
The author seems to characterize revolutionary movements as generally bad. "Well, how was the American Revolution different?" one wonders. The book doesn't answer this at length. In fact, it doesn't have a chapter or subchapter dedicated to the American Revolution the way it does with other revolutions.
Here is a quote from page 31:
...this ubiquitous belief that no one culture or society is better than another so can’t we all just get along. And yet no country or people on earth lived in such a way naturally for all of history. When mass migration dilutes and unbalances a shared culture, there is one force alone powerful enough to hold it all together: an all-powerful state at the center. Only great empires have maintained multiple ethnic groups living within their borders simultaneously, keeping everyone in line with the overwhelming power of the emperor’s unyielding hand. These were not republics with civil liberties and equal standing for all classes. It is unlikely a republic could exist in such a condition.
From here, he explains that white Americans share a common culture because they all assimilated into an American culture derived from "western civilization", and then swerves into talking about how George Floyd died from a drug overdose actually and bringing in illegal immigrants is a communist plot to tear America apart.
He does not appropriately deal with the shocking meaning of his argument: that a multi-ethnic or multi-cultural nation cannot exist without authoritarian tyranny. This is an amazing departure from the fundamental narrative of the USA's values (whether that narrative is true or not).
By his own admission, either the USA must cease to be a democracy and become an authoritarian autocracy, or the USA must get rid of everyone who isn't a single race, ethnicity and culture, and both of those things are fundamentally contradictory to the Constitution and arguably to the conception of the USA.
The book's proposals for "what to do" to defeat the "unhumans" are pretty anemic and in line with what conservatives are already doing. Unhumans is nothing new in terms of racism and white supremacist ideology; it keeps these things implied in its warped idea of history and the core concept of total dehumanization of anyone and everyone left of hunting the homeless for sport. The book explicitly states that it does not advocate violence, and also explicitly states that this is to prevent "leftists" from using that as a criticism against the book.
I think the author genuinely could be against violence, or at least any violence that isn't directly carried out by the state, but he is also overwhelmingly clear that being a "leftist" is essentially rabies: "leftists" have ceased to be human, they hate all that is human and all that is good, and they systematically work toward destruction as an end in itself.
Unhumans has simple ideas and simple writing, almost to the point of being condescending. It reads like children's books written by adults who are out of touch with children's intelligence and ability to think for themselves. Its worship of Elon Musk as one of the "great men" of history leads to some hysterically funny lines. But I'm afraid it would seem like a great book to someone who doesn't read books.
The first chapter, in particular, is perfectly formulated to appear grounded in wisdom, history and fact to someone who hasn't read anything since high school. It uses a lot of famous quotes on government and democracy, and cites Aristotle and other "big names" in Western thought.
But it doesn't want to introduce its readers to new ideas: it repeatedly urges readers to listen to their automatic and instinctive reactions to the text, saying "You're right" or "You're onto something." It reassures readers of what they "already know," telling them that their gut feelings are correct and any information that might have caused them discomfort or dissonance is part of the communist plot.
I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from all of this. I'll have to think about it more.
From sketch to finished illustration, gouache and watercolour on gesso primed paper.
Following: more ramblings on the technique and inspiration
I loved the process, and clear gesso one of the best thing to ever happen to artists because sketching on gessoed surfaces is a pain in the ass.
Also this way I didnt have to worry about over working the paper. That in fact is NOT watercolour paper.
Subject-wise I have been toying with re-starting my struggle with the Russian language and in my Tumblr rotted brain I thought that it would be fun to read some fics in Russian with help from the ever loving Google translate. Then I remembered reading when I was like 11-13 some (way too adult for my age probably) great and creepy urban fantasy set in Moscow.
Long story short I then stumbled on this amazing fic for the ночной дозор fandom, and my inner preteen was so delighted I had to paint something. So here is one of my faves, an old schemer of a Light Magician, part time steppe dweller and simp for his way-cooler partner: the Most Bright Gesar just before he met Olga.
Some of the pages and covers of Percy Shelley’s notebooks (1811-1822) — accessed through the Digital Bodleian Library
Hi tumblr! In case you didn't know, I run a very silly DnD-esq improv mystery show on Drawfee called Drawtectives! Here's the intro that me and @dilfosaur made for it that I'm very proud of. The way that it works is that I write the season / episodes before hand then make all of the main assets before we record, then we run it like a DnD campaign without the dice rolling or skill checks... or skills. The show is in it's 3rd season but you in NO way have to watch the other seasons to jump right in! Just join in and solve a mystery or two with this found family of lovable idiots all played by a... found family of lovable idiots (us the Drawfee team). Episode 1 of Midnight Alley can be found here and the playlist for the season can be found here! New episodes every month unless the baby arrives sooner than anticipated.
I really hope you all enjoy it and if you do, please share it with your friends!
Nadox and the Mekhanite (cw: gore)
“Derdekeas was clever. He was strong, he was durable, he was deadly with blade and flame. He was tenacious and quick and fanatical, and yet most importantly, he was human.”
Nadox and the Mekhanite Tale by UraniumEmpire & Metaphysician
http://www.scpwiki.com/nadox-and-the-mekhanite
the fine folks in my patreon discord did NOT want me to have an easy time drawing this dragon
Took a break from england to listen to the new History of Byzantium and I'm just immensely charmed by the anecdote about how the Niceans very carefully brought Mongol ambassadors to court via the route that required going through as many mountain passes as possible to try and minimize how invadable-by-horse-archers they seemed.
By the way this is a lovely and funny series of video on the matter.
Admiral Pavel Chichagov might be one of my favorite failure of a man ever. It's hilarious. Poor guy was a fish out of water. Literally.
Barclay de Tolly and Bagration in Russian military camp circa 1812
Barclay de Tolly and Bagration in Russian military camp circa 1812
This Is my favorite discovery of the week. It's a delightful horror mockumentary set in a small town in Arizona. 1000% would recommend.
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Recovering from the winter exam season by rereading some good @therealvinelle and @thecarnivorousmuffinmeta fics, in this case this amazing one that inspired me to paint THE most satisfying moment to ever appear offscreen the murder and immolation by fire of the ever annoying Eleazar and poor Carmen, whose main fault is her horrible taste in men. Poor Carmen. Also I love Jasper in this fic.
As per usual the casting is consistent with the muffinelle verse as per this post.