Charlie’s Creatures

I’m all about legendary creatures and imaginary monsters 🏳️‍🌈 25, they/them. Side blog for reblogging and the bonus of pictures of my cat @inthishouse-welovenugs

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Hello! This is my pinned post!

I am Charlie and I mostly make mythology and creature based art but will sometimes do personal or fan art as my heart desires!

Here are some categories for you:

Mythology Art

Fan Art

Miscellaneous Curiosities

Have a lovely day!

Here's some art to get a feel for what I make!

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Work finally less busy so more time for drawing, easing myself back in with a fave- a rotund chicken!

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Mouse Minotaur

inspired by the “the beautiful ones” from Calhouns mice Utopias, because they always looked like horrific labyrinths to me, and the ever grooming beautiful mice sound so, so stressed out

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Hi! Your artwork of the Afanc from Welsh mythology, (post/702107049711091712/an-aquatic-beast-for-librum-prodigiosum-the) - i like it and think it's cool and I would like to ask if I could use it as my banner picture for my tumblr account? Best wishes LF

Hello! Of course- Thanks for checking and glad you like it !

Have a lovely day!

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A nervous unicorn

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Dove and Hawk

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Sight hound Cerberus

Cerberus is the many headed dog from Ancient Greek mythology who guards the gates of the underworld.

Saw a dog like this (with just the one head) running on the beach and was enamoured, a creature whose shape lends itself to the mythological.

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Gelert, the faithful hound

The legend roughly goes: when heading off for a hunt, the prince Llywelyn’s favourite hound did not respond to his summon, the prince was sad and had to go hunting without Gelert. Upon returning however, the dog was waiting for him with his muzzle coated in blood- Llywelyn’s first thought was of his infant son, so he rushed to the nursery and found a horrible scene. His child’s cradle was upturned and blood coated the floor, angry and grief ridden he took his sword and slew the hound- but as poor Gelert yelped his last, he hear a babe’s cry too. The child was safely hidden underneath the cradle, beside him the body of a wolf- killed by faithful Gelert. It was too late however, the hound was gone. Full of remorse, Llywelyn buried Gelert in a grave where all could see, marked with stones telling the brave hound’s tale and his own shame.

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Young Minotaur in the dark of the maze

Pose reference by @jookpubstock

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Overcast unicorn

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A wild beast or unusual dragon is from a 15th century Swiss tapestry.

Such creatures were used to create a romantic sense of freedom, nature, and pleasures- as the wildness suggested went against more rigid framework of the Christian society.

Been having art block so thought a wild creature would help!

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It’s time to grrrill! (Don’t tell them it’s nearly winter)

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I was being cancelled because apparently it was classist to put feathers on dinosaurs.

Both dream me and irl me were very confused.

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it might have been a dream, but feathered dinosaurs being linked to an ideology isn't that uncommon. Them being viewed as "leftist", "woke" or "gay" has occured several times.

I collect these examples.

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reblog if you like dinosaurs, are gay, or just really like feathers

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Out of spite we started last year the "Jurassic Left" streams, doing all sorts of nasty woke stuff with extinct critters ;)

Spite can be beautiful when you know how to channel it.

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Aaah I remember woke T rex! Throw back to blue feathers and pronouns raptor

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An aquatic feline from Librum Prodigiosum! The Orabou, a legendary fish described in French cosmographers André Thevet’s Cosmographie Universelle in 1575- a work made to describe every part of the known world. This unusual beastie was said to live in the ocean by Mount Marzouan, they were 9 feet long and apparently had foul-tasting flesh which caused kidney stones if ingested!

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A creature of the night from Librum Prodigiosum ! The Mhachkay, from Turkish Mythology! This vampiric beast started as a person born with two hearts and souls, shunned from society, now in the form of an owl sucks blood and devours organs!

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An unusual beastie from Librum Prodigiosum ! The Skeljaskrímsli, A cryptid from Iceland! First sighted in the 18th century, this beast is said to be as large as a hippo, lives near water and uses its claws for purchase during storms!

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A fowl creature from Librum Prodigiosum! The Lidérc, from Hungarian mythology! This spirit is most often described as a chicken-like being which can change its appearance, sometimes in order to seduce people and drink their blood!