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Haligonian-Londoner character illustrator and medievalist
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Show me how you draw armour! 🛡️
A 1430’s German knight with a rainbow dagged houppelande, and carrying a pride flag banner. A 1390’s German knight with a blue surcoat under his breastplate Lord Farquaad from Shrek, wearing mid 15th century Italian armour Edmure Tully from A Song of Ice and Fire in armour, featuring a scaled breastplate
October 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Meet Hans!
He's a 1580's mercenary Schwarzer Reiter, and he can't stand French gendarmes. Whether he's Catholic or Protestant depends on who's paying him.
Credit for the character concept goes to @bear-man03.bsky.social.
#artsky #history
A German Schwarzer Reiter from the 1580's, in a full body shot and a headshot. He has mid-length hair with a receding hairline, and a waxed moustache. His armour is acid-blackened and he carries a thrusting sword and a wheellock pistol.
September 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Jon Snow
#asoiaf
Jon Snow from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. He wears a mail shirt and chausses, covered by a black leather-covered corrazina, black leather greaves, and jack chains and gauntlets, and a black woollen cloak fastened with a bronze brooch.
August 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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10th century Viking
A 10th century Norseman with shoulder length blond hair and a light brown beard. He has a nasal helm on his head, and carries a spear, shield, knife, and lobe-pommel sword.
July 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Human artists!

Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
A digital illustration of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Gawain wears the armour described in the poem; namely, a mail hauberk with a red surcoat emblazoned with a pentangle. He looks downcast as he holds a bloody axe in his hands. Behind him the Green Knight stands with his hands on Gawain’s shoulders. His severed head, leaking blood, hovers above his still-standing body with a calm expression.
June 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Happy Pride Month!
Given everything going on right now, I think this year's is especially important. Never take your rights for granted. Never rest on "It wouldn't happen here." Love extravagantly, and know no shame.
#pride2025 #art #queerart
A knight in mid-15th century German armour, with a fluted Kastenbrust cuirass and a bicoque helmet. The knight carries a longsword in one hand and a banner of the Inclusion pride flag in the other, and is wearing a rainbow-patterned houppelande with dagged hems underneath the cuirass.
June 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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What if Ezio Auditore was from actual 1490’s Florence? (breakdown in the alt text)
#assassinscreed #art #characterdesign
Ezio Auditore da Firenze from the Assassin’s Creed series, dressed in 1490’s Florentine garb. He wears joined hose patterned in red and yellow, and a patterned slashed doublet over a billowy white shirt. He has a longsword and dagger hanging from his belt. In other configurations, he wears a lucco (a renaissance florentine overgarment) that can function as a cloak and hide armour beneath when he wears it. The armour in question is a brigandine and a short sleeveless mail shirt. His signature white hood can be worn as a chaperon to look less conspicuous.
May 31, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Beowulf!
Beowulf, depicted as a burly man in 6th century Germanic garb. He has long hair and a bushy blond bear, and wears a mail shirt covered by a navy blue wrap coat, hemmed with a tablet-woven trim.
May 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Show me how you draw armour!
May 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Herr Ulrich von Hölzingen in the service of the Order of St. Michael, ca. 1391
#art #knights #dnd
A knight in his armour. He is tall, with chin-length blond hair and a short beard. His armour is typical of a 1390’s German knight; a full plate harness, with a short sleeved coat with dagged hems. He holds a mace in one hand and his helmet, a pig-faced bascinet, in the other. His shield, emblazoned with a white goat on a blue field, hangs from a strap on his shoulder, and a longsword at his side pokes out from behind it. While his kit is knightly but not gaudy, an intricately decorated pair of hourglass gauntlets betray his former wealth before joining the Order of Saint Michael, which involved him giving up his lands granted to him by the Livonian Order, his former employer.
May 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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If you see this, post a knight!
May 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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A shiny guy
May 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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More Bronze Age nord stuff.
May 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I said I was gonna do it, so here’s some Bronze Age Nords from Skyrim
May 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Herr Wennemar Hasenkamp von Brüggeneye (d. 1401), master of the Livonian Order and overarching villain of our DND campaign
April 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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> “inspired by Celtic mythology”
> look inside
> there is sometimes a triskelion on something
April 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Sir Henry FitzWilfred, the now-lycanthropic paladin of the Order of Saint Michael
April 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Knight of Thor
March 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Viking Age work
March 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Live action character design
February 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Knight on his lunch break
February 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Sir Maurice de Berkeley, future 2nd Baron Berkeley, ca. 1320. Based on the effigy of him I saw in St. Augustine's Cathedral in Bristol.
February 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
February 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Some earlier concepts for Bjalfi's design. Ended up combining the first three dudes into one
February 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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QRB with your artwork and share other passions/jobs/hobbies you have!

I draw a lot but I’m also an English teacher and I make instruments
February 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM