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⛔ gothic/grim/weird/horror themes

🎃 KATABAY! You can also call me Kay! • 30 • he/him • my interests are all over the place, there is no dedicated theme, I am curating nothing • instant coffee aficionado, weird shit enthusiast

I DON’T TAKE ART REQUESTS • do not reupload without permission (icons are fine w/ credit-- no need to ask for that)

⭐️ TAGS DIRECTORY (fan art is tagged with the main title of a work!): comics (general tag) • robin hood • bad governance • arthuriana • generic medieval tag (original work featuring knights and monks, for the most part) • all the world’s a stage

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katabay

🕶️🌸heihua time🌸🕶️

#day after srb

🕶️🌸heihua time🌸🕶️

#LMAO i never know what to caption most of my heihua art with. it's like (points) “them!”#or (points) “im devastated thinking about them. 10/10” and there's only so many ways to convey that sentiment #dmbj #heihua #anyway. dmbj i missed you.

katabay

a couple of gals, who used to be best friends in highschool before a catastrophic falling out broke them up, reunite years later to kill a guy

#day after srb

a couple of gals, who used to be best friends in highschool before a catastrophic falling out broke them up, reunite years later to kill a guy

#tbh i just wanted to fuck around with fashion choices but i was also thinking about the mechanics of a kabitserye/mistress drama #this is. not quite that. but also not-not that. because the woman on the right wants to kill her husband for having an affairrrrrr #which is dramatic comedy because she seduced him from a third mutual ex friend who will. uhh. show up later?#idk there's a general 'all kontrabidas' sort of energy to this non existent cast #these two probably hook up and it makes them worse lol #maybe. hmm. they'd hook up after killing the husband and then try to kill each other because of corporate business drama #ANYWAY hi hello it's been a week how is everyone. i have been in the PITS just an absolute funk (derogatory)#i got fucked over on two jobs last month and i have been handling it Badly because there are also no Not Art jobs hiring #RIP i hate it here. oh well!#original tag

🙌 hands 🙌

#yehaw

balinsasayao

been thinking about ang panday a lot lately. specifically the comics, steve gan drew a beautiful mop of hair

#srb #the 2017 movie pissed me off so bad that i decided to try and watch every single movie/show/etc iteration of ang panday #which has stalled out because the TV5 iteration w/ the guy from the iron heart is basically lost media except for 3 crunchy eps #that someone uploaded to facebook. RIP. anyway 👍#ive been Depressed depressed and every time i draw i feel like im relearning the process from scratch. ugh.#i gotta shake off the ring rust (so to speak) and draw trashy fan art of tv shows or something low stakes so my brain stops freaking out

revisiting a scene

#komiks tag #knights knights knights!#kay every day: NO #perceval in reply every time: and i took that as a challenge #also. guinevere is here with extreme reluctance and a moderate amount of hostility to keep it fun. she is here nevertheless

His speech and the maiden's laughter on a self-same thread were wrought... (Parzival, Wolfram / trans. Jessie L. Weston)

cunneware & antanor :) god I think about these two so much. I've been all over the place as I figured out the main bones of a story, but these two have been a load bearing weight since day one because they're such essential fixtures for perceval and also for what I find most interesting about arthur and his court (and who is in the margins of that court) and how various systems interlock and fall to violence. finally. at long last. character designs.

Parzival, Wolfram trans. A.T. Hatto

Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey

#you might remember cunneware from the stuff ive posted about kay. i feel like one of those posts addresses this incident #anyway in my own draft notes i have cunneware and antanor jokingly summarized as kay's Number One Haters (But Its Complicated)#which is a surprise tool that will help us complicate perceval later and explore knighthood as an identity that demands violence #especially because in parzival (etc) we cannot forget the perceval's own violence. or even like. the failure of people to guide him #because the whole thing interlocks in a way where the only result can be. uh. you get it.#knights knights knights!

balinsasayao

I've reading philippine metrical romances (awits & corridos) & became fascinated by how mars is portrayed in these narratives, esp compared to like. imperial roman latin literature

anyway, a design for mars in these romances (for a stage adaption, or perhaps comics)! I mixed together some good old fashioned hollywood epic costume flair, the ksour essef curiass, regional festival costume inspiration + regional textile history, & the sleeve detailing is based on details from saint statues because one of these romances connects mars and venus to st anthony of padua and that's something that'll rattle around in my head for the foreseeable future.

anyway, here's the moment my brain latched onto the topic of mars' portrayal in these narratives (something about mars turning away from a battlefield in horror/disgust in statius' thebaid vs the surprise/delight at the battlefield here. given enough time and coffee, I Can And Will Connect These Dots)

Buhay na Pinagdaanan nang Principe Orontis at nang Reina Talestris sa Caharian nang Temesita

#srb #mars babyyyy

tbh I just wanted to draw a standalone illustration scene kind of thing, but in the back of my mind I was starting to construct some horrible epic involving a gladiator from thrace and a seer who refused to tell a prince what he wanted to hear and got his eyes stabbed out for it

#are you guys interested in the context behind seers and the foundations of ancient greek city states or whatever you want to call them #(you don't have to answer that because I'll be posting about it. at some point. as i always do. i just have to screw my head back on #and assemble the pdfs lol)#someday i'll post the 'set designs' ive been making for these loosely connected sword and sandal type of stories #that one requires. a scanner though. and that way lies torments beyond my strength. because scanner software is evil #(it refuses to connect and i have to go through my drawer of various cables to find one that will hook up my laptop to it lmao)#original tag

ioannes and michael :)

#tbh just kinda felt like doing a bunch of cross hatching ...( ＿＿)#you ever hit like. a despair threshold and you feel like you forget all the skills you've acquired to accomplish tasks. ive been lingering #around there for like this whole month LMAO it's been bad but we persevere #unfortunately i feel like im re learning how to draw every time i pick up a pencil like oh my god there are comics!!! to draw!!!!! COMICS!!#they aren't going to get drawn until you draw them!!! i have plans for a summer comic (unrelated to spark!lock) and im gonna go bananas #if i dont get it started this year. because ive been wanting to do one for the past three. raghhhhh #original tag #OKAY im done complaining. im locking in (<< making an ill advised cup of coffee)#actually hang on. i spent so much time complaining i forgot to mention. i do spend an amount of time thinking abt these characters #i just got sidetracked for almost a full year from adding to em because i was reading about displays of torture in chinese novels #and eventually the dots connecting these things (eunuchs) will become apparent (when i figure out how to set design this comic)

ANYWAY. anyway. after a million years (due to circumstances) may I finally present: SPARK!LOCK (no set update schedule! I'll be uploading pages as time, the job hunting grind stops for no one 🫠 nevertheless. I will persevere because I want to draw comics anyway)

#i will not be uploading pages to tumblr but i will make update posts every five or so pages uploaded etc #right now it's just the chapter cover because im re adjusting a formatting issue with the first few pages but. AT LONG LAST #original tag

garrett ✨

#i never have a good caption for these. he's just one of my favorite guys :) and i wanted to paint him for a bit #thief game #garrett thief #this month has somehow Gotten Worse thanks to Events and Circumstances BUT. i did find gel refills for my favorite writing pen #so not all hope is lost. and with my favorite writing pen back to writing. im going to. uh. write probably

so I have been having a Very Bad Month BUT I did read the jurassic park novel for the first time in my life and that was amazing. I didn't know you could get jump scared by a graph godddd I love books so much. I also never had a dinosaur phase as a kid, so everything right is new to me, and man, discovering the world of paleo art has been so fun.

anyway, novel fan art! malcolm, hammond (technically), grant, & ellie. I'll probably change up everyone's designs later when I re read it with a pencil in hand haha.

#hammond is the only one with a specific thing in mind im working towards that's not necessarily book based but there's #a turn of phrase they use. what was it. terminal delirium. and something about it made the back of my mind start focusing #on jg ballard's high rise as a narrative point of. not exactly comparison but like. hammond and royal. are pulled from a similar #rib cage. if that makes any kind of sense ghghg #jurassic park novel

WAIT i just saw your art in the george crabtree tag ... hellooooo... one of my favourite artists is a murdoch mysteries fan??? this is so exciting. do you have a favourite character?

YES!!! I started watching back in 2019 and got caught up with it a couple years back so now I'm a weekly watcher ✨

tbh I love an ensemble cast and tend to view the ensemble as it's own character, but after that, it's probably George, Llewellyn, and Violet!

#that's 3 characters but im spinning them around in some kind of plot rotation #my icon is actually one of watt's pumpkin carvings from one of the halloween episodes haha #i was going to change it after october. but it speaks to me #ask tag

man, I didn't know mordred had snake motifs, this is great. for me. terrible for him. RIP mordred, your life is an unending misery. but the snakes are great for me personally. I can do a lot with a snake motif. anyway, an early design for mordred-- for now I've combined an old gawain design with some other thoughts, but it might change when I revisit gawain haha

Mordred, Judith Weiss

#knights knights knights!#yay :)#we are warding off the horrors (looking at my bank account) with a little whimsy (drawing the least whimsical guy ever)#kinda wanna re read kaori yuki's cain saga/godchild #BUT FOR NOW. we're gonna think thoughts. and write a bit. mordred you're gonna be my third act main character #originally it was a 2 act story (kay + perceval) but mordred is the perfect closing act for it. god what a character #anyway gawain is a guy i thought about almost exclusively in the context of the lancelot film and then one other time and then NOTHING #BAFFLING bc because i considered him my favorite of the knights for YEARS. wtf.

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