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Rachel
@racheburn.bsky.social
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36. She/Her. 🇮🇪🎨🏳️‍🌈 Autistic, LGBT+, In a Relationship. 🩷 I draw a lot, paint a little, write occasionally ✏️💜
Kofi/Redbubble: https://linktr.ee/racheburn Love Hannibal 🫀 and Bucky Barnes 🦾 (he deserves all the boyfriends!) Don't feed the A/l!
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I am obsessed with Daniel's hair in this movie (and his acting - but he's always brilliant).
Daniel Brühl in Eden (2024). His hair is dishevelled and falls over his face and glasses. Daniel Brühl in Eden (2024). He is silhouetted by light coming from a window. His hair falls over his face and his glasses are rain speckled. Daniel Brühl in Eden (2024). His hair is blown about by the wind. Daniel Brühl in Eden (2024). He is sweaty and dishevelled looking.
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Maybe I made the eyes too big... but he has amazing eyes 💜 #samwilson #drawing #pencil
Pencil drawing on paper of Sam Wilson (Captain America)
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Will Graham: "I’d pack my bags if I were you, Bedelia. Meat’s back on the menu.”
I love this freaking show so much
#hannibal
Captain Picard, from Star Trek The Next Generation, holds a hand to his face and looks like he's going to burst out laughing.
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Oh, and some paper has a front and back side but you can decide what you want for your drawing imo. Sometimes the back is nicer or more interesting at least.
Bucky Barnes with a bold (Irish accent) looking face on him. Drawn with pencil on the back/'wrong' side of a piece of paper.
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I mostly use this paper, Strathmore Bristol (but also Arches when I can afford it). Watch this stuff though, if you look at it funny it gets a smudge... I try lots of paper in my own time and I notice the phrase 'artist quality' usually means not artist quality, so try to avoid 😅
Front of a pad of Strathmore Bristol smooth surface drawing paper.
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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The normal Faber-Castell pencils are easier to work with which kind of means I spend more time enjoying a drawing and filling in detail. But they are lighter too. And I have to be strategic (in drawing and in taking photos of a drawing) to avoid shine on heavily shaded areas.
Faber-Castell pencil drawing of Mads Mikkelsen making a cute pouty face.
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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But I also use regular Faber-Castell pencils with normal graphite for drawings and while there is some shine, they still turn out nicely. This one has a yellow watercolour marker background (Crelando).
Regular graphite pencil drawing of Sebastian Stan with a yellow watercolour marker background.
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Then some cheap paper to place over the page for protection while I work. And they usually turn out nice. If I use the black pencils there is less shine visible on the page and the tones can look deeper and fade less easily. They are trickier to work than regular pencils imo.
Pencil drawing in progress of bearded Daniel Brühl. A piece of squared paper is placed over the drawing to protect it from smudging. A pencil is visible on top of the paper. Finished pencil drawing of bearded Daniel Brühl
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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And I need a couple of sharpeners, at least one blade. (I save the shavings to use later) Some pencil extenders help to make pencils last.
I keep all the tools I am currently using on a plate on my desk so I can move it all easily and keep things relatively clean too.
My sharpeners, including one blade. I keep the pencil shavings to use later in a little tub. My working plate. A ceramic plate (with a chip) that holds my pencils, erasers, sharpeners and a smudger. This is what I use to work on my portraits/commissions.
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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If the client wants to share it themselves, then that is fine. So I will just share my tools here, my pencils are Staedtler Mars Lumograph black and I use three types of erasers. A putty one and a solid one (from Faber-Castell), and tiny mechanical pencil erasers (from a refill pack).
My erasers, one yellow putty, and one solid and white. Also visible are two tiny mechanical pencil erasers and a paper smudger.
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I love being able to do commissions for people but I don't often share them here because the subjects are family members, children, pets, etc. I don't even ask people anymore if they would mind if I shared the piece because I just don't feel it's right myself. It's different drawing actors, etc.
My heavily used pencils. They're all pretty short now.
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I am underwater with commissions at the moment, but here is a pencil Bucky ✏️
I used the back side of the paper this time because it looked nice.
#buckybarnes #drawing #pencil #artpost
Mostly white and black pencil drawing on beige paper. Subject is Bucky Barnes with a bruised face and short hair (from The Falcon and The Winter Soldier). His eyes, lips, ear, nose, and the bruise he is sporting have more colour (mostly pinkish-red).
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.
"The old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (it is sweet and proper to die for one's country).
Owen was killed in the closing days of WWI.
#buckybarnes #wilfredowen
Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes in Captain America The First Avenger. He is on the train, taking cover, out of bullets, and terrified. Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, Bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,– My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
October 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Visually delicious 🫀🦇
The vampire Lucy from Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Zemo 💜
Daniel Brühl as Zemo in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Text box with a pink bow on the side. Text reads: "Everyone is fucking mad at me all the time because I say stuff a little weird and killed a few innocent civilians."
October 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Ah, the old belt vs. suspenders debate...
Daniel Brühl and Jude Law as Heinz Wittmer and Dr. Ritter in Eden (2024). Daniel wears a white shirt with rolled up sleeves and green trousers with a brown belt. Jude wears a white shirt with brown trousers and suspenders. (Not the fun kind, unfortunately)
October 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Maybe we all need a bit of mystery🦇🫀
Daniel Brühl as Laszlo Kriezler in The Alienist. He sits at a dining table wearing a tuxedo and holding a magnifying glass. I have edited to make the image look more weathered and to redden his eyes. Red and black image of a graveyard with trees. White text reads: There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part. This is a quote from Dracula by Bram Stoker.
October 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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When fighting monsters, it's best to team up 🦇🫀
(This goes for the monsters too but they never listen)
Dakota Fanning, Daniel Brühl, and Luke Evans as Sara Howard, Laszlo Kriezler, and John Moore in The Alienist. I've edited the image to make it look moodier, weathered, and to redden their eyes. Red sky with black bats flying through it. White text reads: The world seems full of good men - even if there are monsters in it. This is a quote from Dracula by Bram Stoker.
October 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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I mean... It's not wrong
Black and red background with white text. Text reads: "The girl with big titties."
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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The blood is the life 🦇🫀🍷
Daniel Brühl as Laszlo Kriezler in The Alienist. He wears a robe and sits at a desk with photographs on it. There is a wine glass on the table too. I have edited the image to make it black and white, look more weathered, and to redden the liquid in the glass.
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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You know I love a bit of purple too 🦇🫀💜
Daniel Brühl as Laszlo Kriezler in The Alienist. He sits at his desk wearing a shirt and waistcoat. His hair is a little dishevelled. I have edited the image to drain most colour and to add stains to the shirt and around his mouth. Purple, red, and black image of a sunset seen through the black branches of a tree. White text reads: "To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious." This is a quote from Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
October 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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All the devils at once... 🦇🫀
Daniel Brühl as Laszlo Kriezler in The Alienist. He wears a coat, waistcoat, shirt and tie. There is a horse carriage behind him. I've edited the image to make it black and white and weather it. Also added red eyes. Red and black image of a dark sky with a full moon, partially obscured by clouds. Red text reads: "Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not we fight him all the same." A quote from Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
October 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Daniel Brühl in Eden (2024)
Love a rolled-up sleeves moment, especially when you've got gorgeous freckles going on.
Daniel Brühl as Heinz Wittmer in Eden (2024). He wears a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, green trousers, a brown belt, and thin-framed spectacles.
October 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Dracula's revenge can be interpreted as retribution for British imperialism. The Victorians must have felt karma was coming for them... you know because of all the genocide and colonisation... 🦇🫀
Daniel Brühl as Laszlo Kriezler in The Alienist. He walks down an alley in his hat and coat. I've edited to make the image black and red and to weather it with dust and scratches. White text read: "My revenge is just begun. I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side."
October 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Maybe being angry all the time is a normal response to *gestures all around* this...
Bucky Barnes in a white vest/tank top. I've added sticker snorts to make him look angry (well, angrier).
October 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM