Harry Shapiro Art

Comic Artist and Cartoonist.

[digitalbrushes]

7라인 브러시 세트 (7lineブラシセット) : https://assets.clip-studio.com/ko-kr/detail?id=2226655

부드러운 구아슈 (무료 한정 기간) (soft gouache (free limited time)): https://assets.clip-studio.com/ko-kr/detail?id=2226447

부드러운 분필 연필 <3 (soft chalk pencil <3): https://assets.clip-studio.com/ko-kr/detail?id=1851426

7LB(7's 라인 브러시) (7LB (7's LINE BRUSH)): https://assets.clip-studio.com/ko-kr/detail?id=2220027

(24시간 이후 10 CP) 선 브러시 Lines Brush: https://assets.clip-studio.com/ko-kr/detail?id=2178006

시노 펜슬 브러쉬 (シノザキ鉛筆ブラシ) : https://assets.clip-studio.com/ko-kr/detail?id=1977268

아날로그 풍수 마커 (アナログ風水彩マーカー) : https://assets.clip-studio.com/ko-kr/detail?id=2097029

숯 연필 2개 (2 Charcoal pencils): https://assets.clip-studio.com/ko-kr/detail?id=2204745

[cursed-and-haunted]

Whenever I see an Ivan Aivazovski painting the sea monster in me goes absolutely feral

[cursed-and-haunted]

I see this and I've never wanted to sink a ship so much in my life I'm biting through wood as we speak

[cursed-and-haunted]

God if I saw this in person I'd straight up start slithering. Start writhing

[ataehone]

The way he just *clenches fist* makes water light up from the inside. Ugh, I once zoned out in front of one of his larger paintings in a gallery and came to, like, twenty minutes later, smelling saltwater and tasting driftwood.

This is his largest painting ever. It is 2,8×4,2 meters large. That is about 9'3"×14'1". It took him ten days to paint. This is a guy who painted normal-sized paintings in an hour, two, tops, according to contemporaries.

He was utterly unique.

[harryshapiroart]

Girls Make Games Charity Hootenanny - Whispers in the West

Ya like cool charities? Do you like western mysteries? Then do I have the combo for you! TOMORROW My friends and I are doing a charity stream to raise funds for Girls Make Games! Featuring the upcoming co-op murder mystery game Whispers in the West by Team Dissonant!

We'll be going live on twitch at 7:00pm EST, 5:00 MT, tomorrow on Monday June 5th! Don't miss it!

Twitch 🔗 https://www.twitch.tv/harry_monster

And if you wanna get the ball rolling early, you can donate to the charity campaign here!

🔗 https://tiltify.com/@harry-monster/girls-make-games-whispers-in-the-west

[harryshapiroart]

Girls Make Games Charity Hootenanny - Whispers in the West

Ya like cool charities? Do you like western mysteries? Then do I have the combo for you! TOMORROW My friends and I are doing a charity stream to raise funds for Girls Make Games! Featuring the upcoming co-op murder mystery game Whispers in the West by Team Dissonant!

We'll be going live on twitch at 7:00pm EST, 5:00 MT, tomorrow on Monday June 5th! Don't miss it!

Twitch 🔗 https://www.twitch.tv/harry_monster

And if you wanna get the ball rolling early, you can donate to the charity campaign here!

🔗 https://tiltify.com/@harry-monster/girls-make-games-whispers-in-the-west

[harryshapiroart]

Some custom art I made for my Curse of Strahd Campaign! Mostly art for the player characters, and some wild and wacky NPCs. You can watch us play the game live over on my twitch channel!

[harryshapiroart]

Working on revitalizing this art tumblr and getting it back up and running. So hello again!

[autisticexpression]

Hollywood has no concept of what 5th century Romans looked like. If I'm watching a movie about the final days of the Western Roman Empire, I should be seeing zero togas. It's like if you made a movie about the Trump administration, you wouldn't have people dressed like the founding fathers. That's how wrong it is.

This is what 5th century Romans looked like:

I think the problem is that pop culture has this theme park version of history that treats time periods like distinct worlds with no fluidity between them. In Roman Times, people dressed like this vs Medieval Times when people dressed like that. But that is obviously not how time works. The end of the Western Roman Empire led directly into and overlapped with the Middle Ages, and the aesthetics we associate with medieval Europe were already long established.

On a related note, the "barbarians" didn't dress like you think they did either. Less of this:

More of this:

(Art by Angus McBride)

Again, the end of the Western Roman Empire was the beginning of medieval Europe, and it already looked like it.

The notable exception was the Franks, who apparently really did dress like that:

There really is an exception to everything, and it's usually the French.

[memories-of-ancients]

Vikings/Norse in media ...

What they really looked like...

[dresshistorynerd]

The woman in the "what Old Norse people really looked like" -section of the last addition is dressed in an Iron Age Latvian dress. Old Norse women didn't use the chiton style dress many Baltic and Baltic Finnic people used, they used what's called apron dress. Here's couple of reenactors dressed in Old Norse style apron dresses. (I don't think these are like reconstructed by professional historians but they are pretty accurate to museum reconstructions. Except for the hair of course.)

For comparison here's another reconstruction of Iron Age Latvian dress and one of Iron Age Finnish dress.

Shapewise the dress is basically the same as antique Greek chiton, but from thick wool and a long sleeved dress under it to make it suitable for colder climate. Iron Age lasted well into Middle Ages in Baltic Sea area, and these dresses are based on finds from the time that Middle Ages was happening in most of Europe. The Finnish dress is dated to 11th century which was High Middle Ages in rest of Europe. I think this highlights the point how much the Antique period and Middle Ages flowed into each other.

I have to note that the dress in the right side of the second picture of the original post is not very accurate depiction of a Medieval dress. Generally I would always caution against trusting these very modern illustrations of historical clothing. Early medieval dress varied greatly geographically. For example the Old Norse apron dress is early Medieval dress. The unifying features were that the garments were loose and often tied with girdles, not fitted like in the illustration.

Here's a reconstruction of a 7th century Saxon dress and an illustration of Anglo-Saxon dress from 10th century.

First fitted medieval dress was 12th century bliaut in French influenced area, which wasn't smoothly fitting still as tailoring wouldn't come along till the 14th century. Here's couple of depictions of bliaut. And bliaut was used by both men and women as was the tailored kirtles of Late Medieval period. So if a woman is depicted in a fitted gown, then the men would be too.

Loose gowns were still used elsewhere, when bliaut was used by french so I guess the French are again the exception.

The point of the original post still stands and I think the way early medieval dress really looked like makes it even stronger. The pop culture's idea of the fitted medieval dress comes really fully in Late Medieval period and it's early version at the end of the High Medieval period. Before that the Medieval dress is very similar to the Late Roman dress, loose simple tunic shapes with a girdle.

[localwarlockunion]

How about a Wizard Staff that is actually a big magical stick bug familiar

[wizardgoblin]

Ooh ooh or a magic amulet that’s really just a butterfly sitting on a string

[marijuwizard-the-high]

Or an orb that is just a big pill bug

[wizardpostsdotorg]

cauldron that is a Big Frog Mouth

[ambrosiafaery]

school of magic: just a lil creacher

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands

Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double

So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him

[volcanokids]

Me, putting a red bracelet on the leg of a male red wing blackbird: ON GOD we gonna get u some pussy bro

[jordisstigander]

I remember reading a study where researchers realized that female birds of a certain species preferred males with a darker breast. So they created what they literally called a “Super-Sexy Male” by catching a male and coloring his chest with a marker. They then ran dna tests on the eggs in the area.

Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.

After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mate’s eggs were 100% his.

This is just insane to me. Just imagine you’re living your bird life when suddenly somebody scribbles on Dave’s chest and the ladies can’t stop throwing themselves at them. It’s stupid that we theoretically can wreck this kind of havoc on an ecosystem.

[kirkspocker]

via @elytrians

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands

Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double

So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him

[volcanokids]

Me, putting a red bracelet on the leg of a male red wing blackbird: ON GOD we gonna get u some pussy bro

[jordisstigander]

I remember reading a study where researchers realized that female birds of a certain species preferred males with a darker breast. So they created what they literally called a “Super-Sexy Male” by catching a male and coloring his chest with a marker. They then ran dna tests on the eggs in the area.

Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.

After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mate’s eggs were 100% his.

This is just insane to me. Just imagine you’re living your bird life when suddenly somebody scribbles on Dave’s chest and the ladies can’t stop throwing themselves at them. It’s stupid that we theoretically can wreck this kind of havoc on an ecosystem.

[kirkspocker]

via @elytrians

[harryshapiroart]

Drew this as gift for my friends last winter! Last year I started up a DnD group with some of my friends and I made this poster of their characters as a holiday gift. I had a rough year, but having wonderful people in your corner makes a world of difference. Things are gonna get better.❤️

[harryshapiroart]

This was a class project to make a Narrative Map of a place, so I choose to do a “supernatural” map of the town of Binghamton, New York and map out some local landmarks and legends.

[harryshapiroart]

Last Summer I worked at a Renaissance Fair running the Axe-Throwing game! It was quite an experience and I could probably make a few journal comics about it, I just need to settle on a style for these.

[harryshapiroart]

History of Frankenstein!

This is a poster design I did for a class, I’m still pretty happy with it, and it was even featured in the 2017 New York Statewide Lakeside Juried Art Exhibition!

[harryshapiroart]

Spot illustration I did for an illustration class. We had to do an illustration that would match a news article, so I based this on the Graffiti Revolt in  São Paulo which you can read about here. https://news.vice.com/story/sao-paulos-graffiti-artists-revolt-after-mayor-attempts-to-paint-the-city-grey

[harryshapiroart]

Some fanart for the new arc of the Adventure Zone! Super fun podcast by the hilarious McElroy family. http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone

I’m kinda experimenting with my coloring so critique and feedback is more than welcome!

[harryshapiroart]

Doctor Helen Montour! She'll break your arm and then fix it for you afterwards, and “Sharptooth” Szrük the fishy boi, a mean blue-green killing machine, created by my dear friend Snides twitter.com/Mr_JDSnyder

One of these days we’ll figure out a story for them