#caitlynkurilich

[siribunbun]

IT’S FINALLY HERE, THE FINAL CON OF THE YEAR-

Hi hi friends, I’ll be tabling at Los Angeles Comic Con with my friend @evasartblog - we’ll be next to another friend @caitlynkurilich. Come over to Artist Alley E41 and E38, check out our stuff, or say hi! I’m really excited since it’ll be the final reprint and run of According to Georgia, and I have some limited stuff for it such as prints and stickers. And bonus to the Genshin fandom, there will be limited free stickers as well as a guest appearance from a certain yaksha. Maybe? Who knows! See y’all tomorrow!!

#Los Angeles Comic Con #shameless self promo #my only regret is that the childe book was not done in time #due to back to back cons fjdlaksfjdla #but if y'all are reading this #feel free to come chat about it with me and i might show you some exclusive comics that won't be posted #hehehehehe eue

[caitlynkurilich]

Daily Sketch, Sept. 9th, 2020.

A saucy, no-good, ‘fortunetelling’ rake of tiefling. (Don’t trust him.)

#illustration #dnd #art #character #daily sketch #sketch #moon #caitlyn kurilich #caitlynkurilich #tiefling

[we-are-knight]

#Memento Mori #art #CaitlynKurilich #lady knight #knight #plate armour #long hair #sword #impalement #angst #chivalry

[uncannyfantastic]

A pair of Tiger Queens beats a #tigerking ... art by Caitlyn Kurilich @caitlynkurilich for #1001knights project. (Actual title is “The Princess and the Palace Guard.”) Have a safe and happy Saturday #caturday people. . #tiger #caitlynkurilich #tigerqueen #tigerking #princess #fantasyart #catsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B_avpizFYF3/?igshid=2w1f2k7m4zal

#tigerking #1001knights #caturday #tiger #caitlynkurilich #tigerqueen #princess #fantasyart #catsofinstagram

[thepursuitoffancy-blog]

Carousel, Digital Media, Sept. 2020. For Liminality Magazine.

Gotta keep drawing, even if it’s only a little here and there. ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

#carousel #liminality #liminality poetry #caitlynkurilich #illustration #art #artists on tumblr #caitlyn kurilich #horse #looff

[elizabethhollowswriting-blog]

Lady Knights - Tale 1

I recently discovered @caitlynkurilich‘s amazing art and specifically this post of her “Lady Knights”. I couldn’t resist writing something about the ladies she created, and after gaining her permission, I put fingers to keys. 

I hope to write little ficlets for all five women, but this story is meant to be about the first Lady Knight.

Please be warned, there are some brief but graphic depictions of violence.

Lady Katherine Ashmore was an unusual woman.

She dressed in the red, gold and blue ceremonial garb worn by The Knights of the Crown; modified slightly for her smaller, womanly build. She carried a sword and a pistol and she walked the streets of London, turning heads and causing whispers wherever she went.

Her brunet locks were artfully tied under her fashionable hat. Her boots were well made and allowed her to run unimpeded through the streets. Her eyes were as cold as flint and there were rumours she had cut off the hand of a man who had dared to tell her she was unworthy of her stance as a knight.

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Lady Katherine was the only child of Lord Vernon Ashmore and therefore, was the heir to his title and his duty. The Knights of the Crown had sworn an oath to serve Queen and country and when not reporting to Queen Victoria herself, they assisted Scotland Yard with their protection of the people.

Scotland Yard, however, refused to listen to or ask the help of Lady Katherine. It left her with little choice but to demand their case files and seek criminals on her own. When she provided them tied up and squirming under the heel of her boot, they had little choice but to arrest the captured villains.

Lady Katherine, unlike many of The Knights of the Crown and other aristocrats, had the respect and assistance of the poor. They would offer her honesty words and advice in exchange for her coin. They knew she was always good on her word and that she had helped many a child or woman in need.

Lady Katherine did not just cut down a criminal but she tended to the ill and abused, finding them better shelter and donating her money and her time. Where The Knights of the Crown took pleasure and comfort in their status, she took pleasure and success in her duty. Lady Katherine would walk a hundred filthy streets to protect the poor rather than dance at a dozen lavish parties where her gun and sword were little more than golden ornaments.

Where there was a crime to be solved and murderer to capture, Lady Katherine made it her business to be involved.

When she first overheard talk of a murder occurring in Whitechapel Lady Katherine was at Scotland Yard. There were other Knights of the Crown heading to view the body and she had followed them. She could only grit her teeth and clench her sword at the sight that she had seen. The woman’s throat was severed by two cuts, and the lower part of the abdomen was partly ripped open. They were told that there were other incisions on the abdomen that were made by the same attacker.

Scotland Yard were searching for witnesses and she and her two fellow knights were quick to join them in Whitechapel. The victim was a lady of the night, but no one had any information on her attacker. The trail quickly ran cold and many of the knights and police turned their attention from the case to other business, but Lady Katherine was not dissuaded. The brutality of the attack had her worried it was not an attack of passion or familiarity, but opportunity.

Her fears were only confirmed when, just over a week later, another woman was found mutilated. It was someone Lady Katherine had seen mere days before. It infuriated and disgusted her. Lady Katherine became determined to protect these helpless women from a madman.

She began to walk the streets each day and night, becoming as familiar with each cobblestone as she was the rooms in her own house. Lady Katherine learned the names of many of the people who lived there. She saw their fear and she saw the women of the night continue to earn their trade despite knowing their next gentleman caller could be a killer.

Lady Katherine barely slept, hardly ate, she stalked the Whitechapel streets as a silent phantom; her gold finery glinting in the lights of the streetlamps, her gun held firm in one hand while a lantern was carried in the other.

It was in the earlier hours of Sunday morning over three weeks later that Lady Katherine finally found her man. She had heard a muffled cry and pleading off the street she was on and rushed to the scene. She found a woman tearfully begging as a man raised a bloody knife to her throat. Lady Katherine aimed her gun and fired without mercy; killing the man with dark and deadly precision. 

The woman let out a fearful shriek but Lady Katherine ignored her as she slowly stepped forward, her gun still pointed at the man’s still form. The closer she came, the more she was able to observe; he was most certainly dead. He was also shabbily dressed but in clothing that still indicated he was from a different, more upper class part of London.

When she felt a trembling hand grip her arm, Lady Katherine turned back to the terrified woman who was frantically gasping out her gratitude, tears running down her face.

Lowering her gun back to her side now that she was assured of the man’s death, Lady Katherine took the woman from the alley and hailed the first person she saw, demanding they call Scotland Yard and the Knights of the Crown. 

The body, when it was identified some time later, belonged to a doctor and when his home was investigated they found a uterus in a jar, something that had been taken from the second victim. It made Lady Katherine certain she had found and stopped her madman.

The young woman who had been saved found Lady Katherine in Scotland Yard, clutching her hands and thanking her profusely once again. Lady Katherine had merely patted her arm and sent her on her way. She had done her duty as a Knight of the Crown, and she could rest easy tonight, knowing that no more women would be harmed by this murderer.

The head of the Knights however, was not impressed by her actions.

He called on her the following day, her servants leading him to her parlour where she was cleaning her blade and her gun on the table. He took a seat and eyed her shrewdly as he chastised her for the actions she had taken by walking Whitechapel streets without another knight and with no regard for the appearance of the order. Lady Katherine had listened with a half-ear as she continued to clean her sword, long used to such remarks.

“You are a lady, and should act accordingly,” he reprimanded her.

Lady Katherine’s lips thinned and she finally looked at him. “Elizabeth Stride is grateful I was nearby to aid her, Lord Kenward; were I being more demure, she would be one more body in our morgue.”

He stiffened in his seat, glaring at her. “You should not be unaccompanied, had you failed you would have disgraced our order with your death.”

“When the knights don’t defend the innocent and allow them to die,” she told him; the sound of her blade being resheathed loud and sharp in the quiet of the room. “That is a day when our order is disgraced.” She stood and it forced the Lord to do the same for the sake of propriety. She just eyed him coldly. “Mary Ann Nichols and Annie Chapman are dead, but Elizabeth Stride lives; today, I live up to my oath.”

Lord Kenward gritted his teeth, but he had no way to rebuke her; instead he was forced to praise her with a tight voice, “The Knights of the Crown honour your work.”

Lady Katherine gave a soft incline of her head in appreciation. Lord Kenward nodded back before wishing her clipped good day and leaving her home. Lady Katherine merely waited until he had departed to focus back on her gun.

The streets of London were only temporarily safer, and Lady Katherine would be ready for whatever new threat came to haunt them. She was a Knight of the Crown and whatever dared to attack her people and her city, Lady Katherine would hunt and she would slay.

Thank you for reading! 

Please feel free to like, comment and reblog but please don’t respost/take credit for my prose :)

I really hope you liked what I did with your character @caitlynkurilich and are happy for me to keep playing around with backstories for your other lovely ladies!

And kudos if you got the historical references woven into the story!

If you like my writing and want to support my work please check out my published works and see if anything strikes your fancy :)

#ladyknights #caitlynkurilich #inspired by art #original writing #my writing #ficlet #badass female characters

[kalegiro]

Very awesome and very fun collaboration with cool-cat @caitlynkurilich She designed the character and I colored it. She’s an amazing illustrator and I hope you already know about her, but just in case you don’t I’m going to leave her page right here. (as well as her tumblr)

#CaitlynKurilich #kalegiro #collab #collaboration #illustration #knight #armor #armour #painting #digital art #artist on tumblr #character design #visual development

[lauracritter]

A few years ago I ordered a print from @caitlynkurilich which arrived accompanied by this sketch, which I love.

#caitlynkurilich #warriorwomen #art #illustration #sketch #lagniappe #fierce #sword #armor #bitchface #brave #badass #neverthelessshepersisted

[theartofanimation]

Caitlyn Kurilich  -  https://caitlynkurilich.tumblr.com  -  https://www.behance.net/CaitlynKurilich  -  https://cargocollective.com/caitlynkurilich  -  https://twitter.com/caitlynkurilich?lang=es  -  https://www.instagram.com/caitlynkurilich/?hl=es  -  http://caitlynkurilich.storenvy.com  -  https://www.artstation.com/caitlynkurilich  -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlyn-kurilich-4065a210a

#Art #Illustration #Digital art #Painting #Caitlyn Kurilich

[eri-kawakami]

@caitlynkurilich has a dog that is just teeth in night

#daily doodle #art #illustration #dog #shipeperke #artists on tumblr #digital art #puppy #teeth

[tristemickey]

de @caitlynkurilich

#art #fantasy #candles #caitlyn kurilich #tumblr artist

[brossuno]

The Doll Maker, 2019 by @caitlynkurilich

Patterns, fabric, and scissors to give shape to familiar characters...

#caitlyn kurilich #doll maker #illustration #berthold #avelina #gendarme

[caitlynkurilich]

Daily Sketch, February 20th, 2021.

Quality time with wolf. ❤

#illustration #caitlynkurilich #wolf #caitlyn kurilich #character design #art #animation #animation art #artists on tumblr #sketch

[inner-muse]

Finally posting this AMAZING STUNNING commission I got from @caitlynkurilich!! Lady Inquisitor Kelandris looking fierce and fancy in her shining armor. Such beautiful art, I love the lighting and the details and the bright colors. The artist was a pleasure to work with as well, very accommodating, and I couldn’t be happier with the result.

Thank you again!

#dragon age #commissioned art #kelandris trevelyan #beautiful art #the sash! #The sparkly gold! #The windblown hair! #So proud and regal #I love her #I love this

[bladesandbluebells]

⚔️GUEST SPOTLIGHT🌹

Please welcome our next guest artist, Caitlyn Kurilich, for Blades & Bluebells! 🌹IG: instagram.com/caitlynkurilich

#zine #zines #guest #guests #guest intro #original #dark fantasy

[opaloak]

AC: https://www.instagram.com/caitlynkurilich/?hl=en