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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴
@newhardillustra.bsky.social
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Illustrator specialising in concept, background, and storyboard art with a focus on historical authenticity.
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I also drew inspiration from Eden's (@museedemakeup on Instagram) recreation of Roman makeup in the Basilica of San Vitale mosaics to add more elements of Roman femininity.
A recreation of Eastern Roman makeup.
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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My first instinct was to try to make a more historically accurate cataphract and just have a woman under the armor, but I thought it would be more interesting to try to anthropomorphize the horse armor instead.
A more accurate illustration of a cataphract by Angus McBride A hipposandal, a style of horseshoe.
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Umamusume Cataphract. An uma-phract? It's stupid to criticize the world-building of an anime girl horse racing game, but I also like an excuse to illustrate Eastern Roman stuff.
#umamusume #history #rome #cataphract #byzantine #illustration #art
An umamusume girl in cataphract armor runs while carrying a lance.
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Staging Sumud

#lgbtq #blm #ukraine #palestine #art #illustration #america
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Happy #PortfolioDay! I mainly focus on historical concept art, but I also dabble in fantasy and depicting current events.
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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"Gee Peter, this is more confusing than when I had coffee with a friend in Jeddah."

#familyguy #masameer #Bluey #marthaspeaks #meme #comic #crossover
Brian from Family Guy has coffee with Trad from Masameer, Bluey, and Martha from Martha Speaks. "Do you have any idea what he just said?" "شلونك يا بنت؟"
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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"Hope"

#gaza #palestine #illustration #art #sumundfloatila #gretathunberg #sea #fishing
Palestinian fishermen rush to launch their fishing boats as the Sumund flotilla ship, the Mikeno, crests over the horizon.
October 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Inspired by how Mycenaean ruins were said to have built built by cyclopses in ancient Greece, I based the blade's unique design on swords recovered from Rørby, Denmark. I like to imagine this sword was designed to never kill, and the bent blade was meant to reflect that. Not that Beowulf cares!
On top, a double-edged bronze sword with a circular crossguard. On the bottom, a bronze sword with a curved blade and no crossguard.
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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When Beowulf's blade fails him, only an ancient sword from an era of giants can save him. Despite its destruction in a battle with monsters, it has been re-bladed for the kings of a new age.

#beowulf #swordtember #illustrator #art #propdesign #anglosaxon #archeology #mythology #commsopen
From right to left, a sword with a bent tip based on artifacts from the Nordic Bronze Age, the same sword with its blade melting into goo, and the surviving hilt refurbished with silver and a straight, Viking-style, double-edged blade.
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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The most generic warrior with the most average sword I can think of for #swordtember2025.

#art #illustration #history #commsopen
A brown-skinned man with short hair and a moustache holds a spear while wearing basic cloth armor and a helmet. To his side is a one-handed, single-edged, straight, medium-length sword in a basic scabbard.
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Cpl. John Noonan of Custer's 7th cavalry and his wife. Mrs. Noonan was a camp laundress cherished by the soldiers and camp followers. When she suddenly died, an autopsy declared her a man. Cpl. Noonan's loss and harassment by his comrades drove him to suicide.

#pride #intersex #americanhistory
Corporal John Noonan and Mrs. Noonan embrace each other.
June 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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“Anaya knew there was no hope of returning to her sisterhood once they left Elmina castle. After liberating the Jackdaw with her newfound ally, Oson, they will spend their maritime marronage carving out their own nation on the high seas of the Caribbean.”

#assassinscreed #illustration #carribean
Anaya interrogates 2 captives from a Spanish warship after a battle. Oson descends from the poupe deck to assist with the interrogation.
May 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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An Andalusian skirmisher meets a frontier friend in the upper march c. 10th century CE.

#spain #españa #portugal #history #cat #illustration #islamichistory
A lightly armed soldier kneels down to pet a cat.
April 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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(Some) parts to an 'Abbasid-era chemistry set based on a manuscript from al-Kindi and artifacts from Samarra. Chemistry, among other fields of study, saw many advancements in the Islamic world during the 9th-11th centuries.

#chemistry #illustration #history #iraq #islamichistory #islamicgoldenage
In the foreground, going left to right, a distillery setup sits on top of a lit anafe next to a selection of perfume bottles and a bowl of ground camphor. In the background is a pitcher next to a bronze mortar and pestle.
April 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Is it too late for a #palestine land day post?

#art #illustration
Two Palestinians are on top of the ruins of a watchtower looking out into a Levantine landscape as a male and female sunbird fly overhead with flowers native to the region. The right two-thirds of the first image. The left two-thirds of the first image.
April 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This is not #blackhistory :
"The First Muezzin"

#islamichistory #islam #illustration
Bilal stands on top of the Ka'aba with its new kiswah as he issues the morning call to prayer.
February 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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This is not #blackhistory:
"The Severan Dynasty"

Based on statuary and the Severan tondo.

#romanempire #history #illustration #ukhistory
From left to right, Julia Domna, Septimus Severus (sitting), Geta, and Caracalla in a legionary camp in Britain. A trophy set of British armor is on their left, and a trophy set of Parthian cataphract armor is to their right. All the men look at Julia Domna as she advises the emperor Septimius Severus.
February 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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January 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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DM to submit a request! #commissionsopen
Jan 2025 Commissions are open!
January 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Two groups of friends walk past each other. Cordoba, c. 10th century CE.

#history #alandalus #islamichistory #jewishhistory #spain #illustration #conceptart
From, left to right, a Jewish woman, a Christian woman, an intoxicated Christian man, and a Muslim man. The Muslim man is taking the lead of the drunk Christian man (who is gesturing towards the women) by holding his hand. The Christian woman reacts to the alcohol on his breath by holding her arm to her nose, while the Jewish woman ushers her along. Both groups are heading in opposite directions.
January 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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This really shouldn't be controversial, but fuck Nazis. They killed over 12 million people (at least 6 million of which were Jews), plunged the world into war, and brought about untold destruction in the name of pure evil. Fuck Trump, fuck Elon Musk, and fuck anyone who supports their regime.
January 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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A sahib of the market inspects a merchant's goods before entering the city. Cordoba, c. 10th century CE

#history #alandalus #islamichistory #spain #illustration #conceptart
A merchant in a red turban and white haik cloak sits on top of a camel loaded with goods. To the right is an Islamic market inspector dressed in a green robe with black tiraaz and a white turban. They are talking to each other as the market inspector tests a basket of grain for a false bottom by plunging a cane into the basket.
January 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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A noblewoman directs her retinue, #Cordoba, c. 10th Century CE.

#history #alandalus #vikinghistory #islamichistory #spain #illustration #conceptart
From right to left: A brown-skinned, bearded man in green cloth armor with a sword at his hip and a turbaned helmet on his head holds the reigns of a light-gray horse adorned with a checker pattern and mounted by a woman in a white dress veiled with blue hijab to help hide her vitiligo. Behind them is a sunburned, sweaty, Norse man in an undyed wool shirt holding a fan for the noblewoman. He has replaced his helmet with a wide-brimmed hat.
January 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Some concept art I made for a game one of my colleagues was brainstorming.

#conceptart #gamedesign #animals #illustration
A series of trashcans lined up next to a character making a side-swiping kick. A cat, a rat, and a possum help to illustrate that kicking these in the game could introduce a chaotic element to gameplay that could negatively affect players if they are too reckless.
January 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Will post some filler I have laying around tomorrow. Until then, here's a hint about what my next work will (almost) completely avoid:
The cover of David Nicolle's Men-at-Arms: The Moors with a composite illustration from Agnus McBride.
January 4, 2025 at 4:34 AM