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Last call!

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The second printing of my dream journal zine, "Large Birds Try Their Luck", is up in my shop now: milesdavitt.bigcartel.com.

A few other things in there too, including a couple riso prints.

Shop closes on the 21st of December. I post internationally from New Zealand. Tell your mates.

#zine #my art

#deer #my art

Scene from Wake in Fright (1971)

For Issue Five of Rat World Magazine.

They ended up printing this one as a fold-out poster!

A closer look at some of the details:

#wake in fright #pencil #rat world #poster #furry art #furry #my art #australian cinema

Commission for my friend Kurt

#pencil #furry #furry art #commission #cycling #coyote

Mana Island

For Hellavision Television's "Earth" episode.

#my art #animation #pencil #rotoscope

I haven't posted here in yonks because I've been v busy working up in the mountains of California. Having an absolute blast tbh. I've been seeing so many amazing natural places and animals, and I've also gotten to meet a kind of staggering number of my online friends IRL. A true joy.

#personal

pierog

C E R B E R U S

pierog

scrapped lady version

niedopalek

Canyon

Last week I dreamed about a goose trying to eat another goose and dying in the process.

#sketchbook #dream journal #goose #my art

Hippopotamus, Egyptian faience (Middle Kingdom)

#sketchbook #pencil #hippo #my art

ladillados

kontrollsysteme

we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme

Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:

petermorwood

The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.

In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->

brightwanderer

Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.