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Hi! I'm Rachel, a.k.a. Baru. I live in the UK. This is my art blog with some rambling from time to time. I do original work and fanart for lots of different things! :) Email: [email protected]

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Here's Cinderella, 17th century style! :) This is my second 'historical Disney princess' design. :) It doesn't bear much resemblance to the original design, but I tried to take elements of the original design and imagine how such a gown would look as a 'real' costume. Also, I'm not good at drawing in the Disney style so I didn't even attempt it, LOL.

I chose 1697 as my starting point, as this is when Charles Perrault's version of the tale was published. One reason I like this period is the silhouette, and the 'a la Fontange' hairstyle; it's quite unusual as hairstyles go, and I thought it resembled Disney Cinderella's hair a little bit. :)

As always, thanks so much for looking! :)

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I just realised that I have never posted this here. I think I finished it almost a year ago lol <_ >

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Hi everyone, long time no post. :)

I wanted to take on a fun personal project, as I've been finding it hard to commit to doing personal art in my spare time. I decided to do a 'Historical Disney Princess' series because I love historical fashion, and I want to have some costume design stuff in my portfolio. I picked Disney because many of their films have a historical setting, and adapting an existing design requires less brain power from me LOL. I'm aware that Claire Hummel (and I'm sure a few other artists) did a wonderful 'Historical Disney' series in the past, but I really wanted to have a go as well! Hopefully not stepping on any toes here!

The first one that I've finished is Rapunzel from Tangled. Since her outfit is vaguely medieval, and Aurora is also from the medieval times, I decided I would move Rapunzel to another time period. I chose the 1630's, which was the publication date for an Italian version of 'Rapunzel'. Maybe it's a bit random, but I really like this period of fashion history! I love the huge sleeves, the high waists, the spaniel-y hairstyles! For her hair, I referenced Rubens' paintings of Venus.

Thanks for looking! :)

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This illustration inspired by the 19th century ballet 'The Fairy Doll', which has beautiful music composed by Josef Bayer. In the ballet, a boy who works in a toy shop sees the shop's most beautiful doll, the titular Fairy Doll, come to life at night. She magically brings all of the other dolls in the shop to life, and they all dance together. :) I'm going to be selling this illustration as an A4 print at Hyper Japan 2024 (19th-21st July). I hope you like it!

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Rachel (@baruyon.bsky.social)

Intermediate concept artist and illustrator from the UK 🌞 rachelsaunders.artstation.com

Hi everyone. :) I haven't posted anything online for quite a long time! I was experiencing severe anxiety about posting my art online. However I do want to keep posting my work online because I don't want anxiety to get the best of me, and it's just nice to have somewhere to post it and hopefully meet cool internet people. Anyway I made a Bluesky account, maybe I will see you there. :)

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Why did you delete some of your old posts? Some grand budapest hotel posts are missing rather saddeningly

Hi! I hope you don't mind me answering this publicly. I haven't deleted any art, but have instead made the posts private, so they're not gone forever. :) I believe they might still be visible on other Tumblrs if they had been reblogged prior to my making them private.

I made them private because I think a lot of my old art (and some of my newer art) is not very good and I don't really want to share it any more. Once it's reblogged I can't stop it from being shared over and over, and thus the cringe continues in perpetuity. XD I hope that makes sense! :)

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I did this illustration for my workplace's website, but it ended up not being used. :( But I've done other personal cyberpunk cat drawings since then, because I liked the idea, so it wasn't all in vain lol.

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An illustration of Artemesia Gentileschi that I did for my work's social media during International Women's Day, back in 2021.

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The was my CDC entry from a while ago, for the prompt 'Animal Olympics'. I chose to draw an arctic hare figure skater. :)

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I thought I would try and add some more recent(ish) stuff to my Tumblr, so here is my entry from 2 years ago for the Character Design Challenge based on the prompt 'Thai Dancer'. :3

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These are sketches from earlier this year, of characters I created after a dream I had lol. I just call this project "Drat". :D

The heroine is the ghoul princess Drat, heir to the Kingdom of Osseus, where the undead live. There's also some other sketches of other ghoul characters; Charlotte and her sword Mathilda, and Snizzard the Dark Wizard and his apprentice Barnabus. I hope you like them. :)

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Two medieval gals

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Early Bird, by Zach Sharpe & Federica Angelini, is funding now on Kickstarter!

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Please follow the link and check out this amazingness!! It's such a great original project and is deserving of as much love and attention as possible!! Can't wait read it! :)

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I've been watching Lupin III: Part 1... Fujiko is fun to draw <3

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