LilArtifex

'Allo! I'm just your small artist/animator/writer from Down Under. I have commissions open for anyone who's interested and you can also find me on DeviantArt and Youtube.

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Commissions!

I have commissions open to help pay for my Uni studies and gain some personal experience.

If you're interested, you can check out my prices below! Please make sure you read through my Terms and Conditions prior to ordering with a Commission Form, and don't be afraid to send me a quick ask if you're unsure about something :D

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Le gasp!

What is this? I live?

Despite my university's best attempts, I do indeed still cling to this mortal realm and I'm determined to be a little more invested in Artfight this year.

Does this mean that this account will be a little more active again? Yes.

Do I make promises? No.

Does this mean it will stay that way? Hopefully.

Anyway, come and attack meh!

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My art tutor the other day told us that anyone who chooses to draw a blackberry or strawberry for their art project is a glutton for punishment and my life drawing instructor said that drawing the back of a human skeleton is its own special kind of hell and I'm still thinking about it

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Not gonna lie, I didn't even realise I'd posted this instead of saving it as a draft until today but I dare not unpost it for fear of accidently pressing 'delete blog' or something

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My art tutor the other day told us that anyone who chooses to draw a blackberry or strawberry for their art project is a glutton for punishment and my life drawing instructor said that drawing the back of a human skeleton is its own special kind of hell and I'm still thinking about it

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Just a bunch of characters I learnt to draw last year

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Guess who's poking her head out for the first time in five months to wish everyone a very belated happy new year!

Here's to either a better year than the last, or another round of 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'.

In all seriousness, though, hope everyone has a great 2026! To celebrate, I ended up putting four of my 6+ year old OCs together for the first time. Meet Losia (orange hair), Brook (elf), Leon (flying creature) and Archie (satyr). They share a single brain cell and it's usually used by the elf :D

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I forgot Archie's glasses. The year's starting off great, it healed his chronic far-sightedness

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Guess who's poking her head out for the first time in five months to wish everyone a very belated happy new year!

Here's to either a better year than the last, or another round of 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'.

In all seriousness, though, hope everyone has a great 2026! To celebrate, I ended up putting four of my 6+ year old OCs together for the first time. Meet Losia (orange hair), Brook (elf), Leon (flying creature) and Archie (satyr). They share a single brain cell and it's usually used by the elf :D

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One Sir Lancelot whenever someone (read: Gawain) tries to learn his name.

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At least one of them's always yapping.

Haven't had time to do anything more elaborate, but I love listening to these guys on the bus to Uni :D

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Got another few concepts from this!

I remember reading fairytales about Tom Thumb as a kid and I had abolutely no idea that the 'nice King and Queen' were supposed to be Arthur and Guinevere!

In this version, he doesn't speak and all the knights love him and his sass - except for that one noble who has never seen him and thinks the entire court is playing some joke about 'the tiny Tom Thumb boy'.

Also, yes, Merlin's child form is indeed based on Merlin from the BBC show, sue me.

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Ayyyee, I'm not dead!

To say that this month has been a stressful one is an understatement and to top it off, I got sick right as Uni started back :D

So have this little sketch of Sherlock and John because I decided to re-watch the entire Sherlock series in four days.

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@queer-ragnelle suggested that I added more ladies to my designs so here ya go XD

(Also had to add Silence, even if she's not technically a typical Arthurian knight, simply because she's one of my favourites)

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Back for Artfight this year! :D

Hopefully I'll be able to do the full month this time

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"Some people interpret the questing beast as a description of the medieval mythological view on giraffes [...] Evidence of this is shown in the Arthuriana paper, showing that the beast comes from a mistranslation of the Arabic word Zaraffa." (Wikipedia)

I've seen this theory so many times and it will never not be the funniest possible origin for a mythical beast to me.

Either a giraffe somehow got loose in the British Isles at a point in history, and nobody knew what it was, or someone back then thought giraffes were the spawn of the devil.

In case you couldn't tell, my entire goal with this design is to make people as scared of cartoon giraffes as possible :)

You can find some more stuff here!

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Fake Project

Thanks to good ol' Merlin, I dug out my, very, very abridged children's copy of Arthurian tales and realised that I am now an adult with free will and can read the actual, adult-y versions of the legends.

Coincidentally, I also decided to start making stuff that could go in a portfolio.

So, I've given myself a fake project to work on in between my Uni stuff for practice :D

If anyone has any questions or suggestions, my inbox is open!

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In Arthurian Mythology, Sir Tristan had a 'tiny, beautiful, brightly coloured dog' called Petitcreiu who wore a little bell around its neck that brought happiness to whomever heard it. It was a beloved companion pet of Tristran's sweetheart, Isolde, who tore the bell off it.

Now, this thing could not move anything except its head.

It did not sleep.

It did not eat.

It is exclusively referred to as 'it'.

It's heavily implied to be immortal.

I'm also starting to see why it wore that bell.

(There is some serious debate about whether Petitcreiu was an actual living creature (probably a fae-thing) or a statue/toy, but it's Arthurian so an immortal fae dog would absolutely track)

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I feel bad for Lancelot cause who tf though that was a good name at the time. That's like naming your child swordlot or gumlot

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Literally the only reason I loved my little King Arthur book so much as a child.

His name cracked eight-year-old me up every. Single. Time.