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[arwendeluhtiene]

🎨♀Herstory+Celtic throwback♀🎨 -  Graphite lineart and watercolour painting of the Scottish warrior-trainer Scáthach from Celtic myth for the 2014 FWW Stock Challenge on DeviantArt. I quite like how this painting turned out 😃 ! . . 🎨Media: Watercolours over graphite drawing . 🍀Other references: DeviantArt stock pic for the main pose, photographs of stones and Celtic swords and designs, self-picture for the skirt movement.

I wanted to draw a Celtic warrior-woman from Irish myth, so here is how I imagine Scáthach of Alba, a formidable warrior-woman with druidic skills who trained warriors in her renowned academy in the island of Skye in Alba (Scotland). She trained a lot of famous heroes, Cúchulainn among them. Her sister, Aoife, was also a great warrior-woman, even greater than herself. . .  "If Cúchulainn would go to Scathach, the woman-warrior that lived in the east of Alban, his skill would be more wonderful still, for he could not have perfect knowledge of the feats of a warrior without that." (Lady Gregory's Cúchulainn of Muirthemne).

I wrote Scáthach's name and the names of some other famous warrior-women in Irish myth in the stones using the Celtic tree Ogham alphabet: The left stone includes the names of Nessa, Conchubar's mother, and queen Medb. The stone on the right has "Scáthach banlaoch" (Warrior-woman Scáthach), plus Ogarmach, the invader daughter of the King of Greece, and Macha. . I depicted Scáthach with woad skin-paint, flowing loose hair and a checked sleeveless, ankle-length dress. Although the Celts in Gaul, seemed to favour trousers when fighting, there is evidence that the Insular Celts often preferred dresses and short/long tunics to pants. The warrior-women of this time (c. 1st Century BC) are often described in the mythology as wearing long dresses and cloaks, loose hair, a great number of ornaments, and little to no armour. The same goes for the men (with short/long tunics instead of dresses), as Celts didn't seem to be great fans of wearing armour, preferring to go to battle fully decked in all their (often encumbering) finery and/or with bare chest or directly fully naked xD

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[jessiarts]

Mobile-Friendly Old Art List

Made this to help my Pinned Masterlist pages be accessible on mobile. Placing under cut for now to spare my follower’s dashes lol

My old art. Most from early-mid-2010’s. Some of these were cool for their time. Some are still cute now. All are a reminder of how far I’ve come lol

Traditional Pieces

Puzzle Piece Elephant Sculpture

In Sickness and in Health - Pen and pencil cubist drawing

Banlaoch

Drawlloweens of Years Past

Honorable mentions to that one year (2016) I thought I’d do a year-long drawing challenge and didn’t finish deargodsI'mneverdoingthatagainI'dratherdie

PolyClay

Pizza Slice Earrings

Meme Face Wedding Topper

Skull Earrings

Hermit Crab Pendant | X

Octopus Pendant 1 | Octopus Pendant 1

Steampunk Seahorse

Wee Ghostie

Red Spine Star

>Heart of the Forest: Summer | Fall

Octopus Earrings

Jewelry

Wire Wrap Tree of Life Pendant | X

Wire Wrap Shell

Metalsmithed Rings

Wirewrapped Ring

Random Sketches

Octopus | Apple | Acorn |

Photo Manipulations

Zombie 1 | Zombie 2 | Zombie 3

Corpse Bride Alive

Alien

Spaceship

Jeans on a Dog

Misc Other Stuff

3D Hobbit Scene

IT Restaurant Sign | X

Canada Maple Syrup comic?

(Including only because it’s art I made. However, this blog does not support JKRowlings transphobic views.) > Fall of Dumbledore - light-box style (2018) | Snape in my Boot Comic - silly comic, digital (2018)

Swimming with the Fishes - Mob boss comic (2018)

#old art

[bridgetteirish]

fic writer ask meme: 3 and 10 :)

Here’s a bunch of questions you can ask me about what I’ve written this year. 

3.  Which of your fics was most different from what you usually write?

As of right now, I’d probably have to say Banlaoch, my Medieval AU.  I’ve never written a full-on Alternate Universe fic before.  Not to mention the dialogue, narration, descriptions and syntax are completely different than my normal rhythms.  Everything is heightened, with a hint of melodrama and certainly with different traditions, customs and technology than in a modern world.

As of right now, it’s only a prelude, but I’m making it my personal goal to finish it this year.  I hope to get it to about 100K when all is said and done.

The storyboarding is a mess right now.

10.  What, if anything, are you going to try to do differently in your writing in the new year?

I’d like to work with some more angst and higher stakes.  Not for the sake of angst, but to explore situations in which my characters are forced to make hard split-second decisions.  I want to see them make more mistakes, to fuck up, to handle their missteps (either well or poorly)

I’m such a fluffy romantic that I have trouble putting my characters through pain, and while I do make it a point to get to happy endings eventually, I’d like to explore a longer, harder path to get there.

I’m also planning to work on some original work this year… wish me luck!  

#writing stuff #bridge answers things #writing meme #krystalgoderitch

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A Morning in the Park

banlaoch

Kenshin had worked late the previous night and thus found himself missing the last train back to Paralia- so he stayed in his office overnight. Waking up fairly early the next morning, he decided to visit the local park in Kairos. Though small, especially compared to the vast open spaces of his new hometown, it was quite charming.

As Kenshin took a seat on a bench, smoothing out his trousers, a small bird landed in the birdbath across from him. He smiled gently, watching the little avian wet and clean its feathers of debris. It wasn’t especially striking- but at times even the simple things had a certain beauty to them.

Kenshin then heard someone’s footsteps. He looked up from the bird to the path, noticing a young woman with gray hair walking towards him. He scooted over on the bench preemptively, making space for her to take a seat if she so desired. Then he waved gently at her. “Good morning, miss. Pleasant weather today, isn’t it?”

#llq 001 #banlaoch #hope this is good!

[arwendeluhtiene]

Lá 'le Pádraig shona daoibh! / Happy Saint Patrick's Day! 🍀🇨🇮

Couple of edits of an impromptu 2019 closet reenactment of an Irish warrior woman/sword woman (banlaoch, in Irish). Fun fact, because of my Celtic culture enthusiasm one of my online aliases (in YouTube, for example) is "Sword woman Ríona", Ríona ('queen, noble lady,') being a close-ish version of my first name (Arwende in Quenya xD). Pity the closest Celtic-looking sword I had was a childhood' Roman style' small plastic one lol 😅😂

. ➡️The wool checked cloak/mantle/shawl and brooch I got in Glasgow are also so gorgeous and perfect for Celtic reenactments ❤️

. ➡️Background pic is my own from a 2007 trip to Ireland

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