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Quite some time since I’ve posted anything here really (quite some time is an understatement). (I mostly use my second account wanderingthroughturtlewoods which contains posts of things that I like or inspire me). I was tagged though by @freenarnian​  🌷📖 and one does not pass on the opportunity to babble about books that easily :P A book I want to reread: I’m easily bewitched by the siren call of new books so rereading is not something I usually do (although I would like to). There are actually though quite a few books that I’d like to reread, most old favorites such as: -Crime and Punishment and Demons by Dostoyevsky -The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Both books –nonfiction and a fictional alike- awakened my interest in ww2 history many years ago and I would like to revisit them at some point. -Annihilation is short of a recent favorite; first read was a very strange and fascinating experience and I want to see how I would react to the story and themes now. Any books you reread every two to five years: The Tintin series and some other childhood faves such as Harry Potter, Matilda by Roald Dahl, The Fellowship of the Ring and Le Petit Nichola by Rene Goscinny are books that I have read frequently throughout the years. There are some comics/graphic novels that I flip through regularly as well. Any books you reread once a year: There are films or tv series that I tend to rewatch annually (The Secret Garden, You’ve got mail, Ever After, Chocolat and Emma 2009 are some of them) but I don’t really do that with books. So many new stories out there and so little time! 😩 The book you reread within the shortest turnaround time: I’ve done so with some of Anton Chekhov’s short stories, maybe with Crime and Punishment (?); I remember rereading it a year after I first read it which is quite a short period for me.   I usually do this with picture books/comics/graphic novels where I want to observe the artwork more closely: -The Golden Age by Cyril Pedrosa is one recent instance, the artwork is simply phenomenal! -Blacksad by Guarnido and Juan Diaz Canales, -Petit by Hubert and Gatignol and This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews I have also reread shortly after I finished them. The book you've reread the most times: Quite possibly the Harry Potter series -I reread them regularly as a kid and I’ve read them a few times as an adult as well. Lord of the flies possibly falls into this category -it’s one of my favorite classics and I’d done a project on it years back, so I revisited the story multiple times at the time. The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa, Tintin and the Asterix series I’ve also read countless times in my life! Thank you so much @freenarnian for tagging me! 😊 I tag @annaholak but anyone really is welcome to it! Have fun everyone! 

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You are such a talented artist!! ✨

Oh, thank you for your kind words! 😌 Unfortunately, the last few years have taken a toll creatively-wise hence the inactivity, I’ve been using my secondary account much more. Hopefully they’ll be a few new art posts in the future as I’ve been working on some small fantasy related projects here and there. Thanks again, I really appreciate you talking the time to leave a comment! 

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Hello. I love Professor R J Lupin, a bit too much really. Thank you for drawing him. It’s brilliant love it xx

Thank you, so glad you like it! There’s no such thing as ‘too much love for Lupin’, he deserves all the love! :D I’m planning on including him in the Hogwarts professors/staff series as well whenever I get back to it –hopefully sometime this year. Thanks again for your lovely message! :)

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-You, young man, aye you! You look like someone who’s seen his fair share of trouble, a seasoned warrior no doubt! Would you try your luck and cross blades with any of those brutes? Each and every one of them with a grand, fat bounty on their head! -Maybe you lass? Your hands tell me stories of hard sailing work! You must’ve been on dozen ships haven’t you? Did you happen upon these vermin in any of your seafaring? Pieces of shit the lot of them! You see Sedna here? 300 slaves, 300 I say, she keeps and who knows how many more have been worked to death over those bloodsucking plantations of hers! -Hidden their lairs may be but keep vigilant good people of the Isles! And remember, any bit of information, however small, is crucial! Inform your town’s guard! Clean our seas of pirate scum! -You there! Help bring justice to our shores… Wanted poster made for our most recent dnd campaign.

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I want to make a BIG shout-out to my brother for his upgraded walnut locket! He put a lot of work and effort into perfecting these!  He painstakingly traced lonely, bracken covered trails, famed to be leading to ancient Fae kingdoms where the perfect walnuts for the job seem to grow. He lost his way for what seemed to be a few years in those strange lands -but that I’ve only learned long afterwards, when he recounted his adventures to me- at the time though we never thought of looking for him, and it was as if we were too under some mysterious spell… We were merely under the impression that he shut himself in his workshop, working devotedly over some project or another…   But then he did return, his hands filled with the walnuts gleaming warmly in the morning sun as if they were the jewels of a royal diadem.  Nowadays a very loyal team of squirrels is trained to look for the magical walnuts, for they don’t seem to be affected by the time-bending enchantments of that place and, let’s face it, are much greater finders! ;) ‘It was truly a place of great beauty but I terribly missed my loved ones’, he told me after some time has passed. ‘I was filled with such worry that I might forget their features and I dearly wished to have a small portrait, a picture of their face with me, to remind me of home…’ And thus he made the locket so that whomever wears it can keep his loved ones close to heart! *** If you’re interested you can check it out over his etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/737355450/brass-walnut-locket-handmade-jewelry?ref=shop_home_feat_2 ***

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First post of the year! A heartfelt thanks to all the new followers, those that got to stick around and all of you who liked or reblogged any of my art! Happy new year everyone, we’ve made it into a new decade! So ‘slick your hair and wear your buckle shoes and all that jazz…’ cause it’s the 20s! ‘Here be dragons…’ Some studies (that also serve as a teaser for an upcoming illustration, stay tuned!) ;)

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Character design time! Spreading mayhem over the high seas and every port they sail their ships to, these brutish and unyielding chieftains of the Pirate Nation were two of the campaign’s main antagonists. You can check the illustration of the Pirate Nation’s floating stronghold here: https://petitemarianna.tumblr.com/day/2019/12/12

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‘Most that have seen the great floating stronghold of the Pirate Nation are no longer of this earth, and as they say, dead men tell no tales. But those few who have survived try not to tell tales either. Sometimes though, silence gets to be more powerful a story than the most elaborate tale… You’ve noticed that all the survivors have a very particular look in common; it’s almost as if they were sharing a face. It’s that deep stare of trying so hard to forget but at the same time, not being able to recall – like parts of their memory have been snatched away as violently as their living hood and loved ones. That will tell you all you need to know about the Pirate citadel of a thousand shipwrecks and the destruction it leaves at its wake. Pray hard that you never, ever, share the fate of seeing it approach your shores’. - This was one of the most laborious illustrations I’ve done. It took me months to finish and I swear I was seeing ship parts float around in my sleep long afterwards. This piece was truly a learning process and my skills got challenged on each step of the way. So, even though it’s been quite some time now since I finished this, and there are lots of things that I would probably do differently if I were to make it now, I must say I’m very proud of myself for this work. :)

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Pure white with light grey tips on its wings

I find Nikola Tesla to be one of the most intriguing people that lived in the last century. I’ve read several things about him and i could rant for hours about the injustice that he suffered many a time during his life (numerous patents of his were stolen), his difficulties in personal relationships, his stigmatization as a madman and his great contribution in science overall… but, you don’t need any of my fangirl blabbering when you could read about him on your own:)

Tesla died alone and forgotten in his room of the New Yorker Hotel in 1943. Over the last years of his life he used to feed the pigeons and if he would find one injured he’d bring it in his room and look after it till it got better. Based on his own statements there was one particular pigeon -one ‘pure white, with light grey tips on its wings’- he dearly loved.

So here’s a little, quick sketch…

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Throwback sketch! Re- Reblogging this one for Tesla’s birthday! Happy 162 birthday to this amazing and inspirational man!  

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Hello!!! I absolutely LOVE your Nikola Tesla art!!! <3 Have a beautiful day! ^^

Thank you so very much for your kind and lovely comment, I really appreciate it! Have a wonderful day as well! :)

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The old monastery 'Sailors speak of the desolation that befell the monastery when terrible diseases stroke the nuns many, many years ago. Only ruins and folk tales, fit to be told by the hearth, to scare young, inexperienced travelers is what remains of the place now. The true stories though, those of sadness and weariness, of faith and devout loyalty, of lost hope and how truly alone someone is in death… those were lost as if the tide washed them all away…'

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Continuing the theme of the Orthodox icon/medieval illuminations inspired imagery.

I’ve enjoyed immensely working on this from conception to making every little detail (and let me tell you, drawing all the flowers, vines and stars one by one turned out to be quite meditational!).

 So, along the lines of the 3 fantasy ‘saints’ I made a while back (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) here’s an illustration of the human incarnations of two deities –the god of justice and fair punishment in the form of a young, solemn rider in black and his sister, the goddess of protection, disguised as a traveling old woman seeking shelter –depicted in the process of passing judgment (both part of the same lore the triptych of saints belong to).  

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So, I haven’t got anything flagged (yet) but in case everything goes downhill, for anyone who’s interested you can also find me on deviantart.  Although I’ve been using tumblr more regularly I’ve been keeping deviantart updated as well and my profile there contains all of my recent work.  I’m also planning on having an Instagram in the following months but we’ll see about that -until then, I’ll be staying here as well till this ship goes down I guess. Hopefully I’ll be seeing you! Cheers!

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Time for Slytherin’s Head of the House, Severus Snape! I guess you either like or dislike Snape in the Hp fandom, there’s not really in between is there? And while we can debate again and again about what sort of person Snape really was, there’s no arguing that the impact he has on Harry’s life and the story in general (and consequentially on ourselves as a reader) makes him one of the most important and memorable characters throughout the series -the books would not be the same without him for sure. Now then... Turn to page 394.

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Where do I even start with ‘poor, stuttering professor’ Quirrell? Even though we barely get to know him he is the one of all the hp villains-antagonists who gave me actual nightmares, because wtf Quirinus, who willingly goes around with another’s face attached to the back of his head (let alone you-know-who’s)? He may have been completely incompetent but he sure set the creepiness bar extremely high, so I guess well done you? … this guy had serious issues…

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Next up, Magical Me!..ehm, I mean Gilderoy Lockhart! Being completely useless as a teacher won’t change the fact that his classes would be the talk of the school. Cause let’s face it, every student could hardly wait for him to step into the classroom, either to start making fun of Lockhart’s new flashy outfit and ridiculous accounts of his accomplishments or to swoon over his extreme handsomeness (hey, we’re not judging here, totally understandable). And if you happen to be one of those obnoxious people who doesn’t like him it’s probably because you’re jealous of his wonderful golden locks or his amazingly straight shiny teeth  -really now guys, be honest with yourself!

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Next up; Firenze! He should probably have been included in the previous bunch among the most underrated characters/professors since we only get a glimpse of him teaching but in all honesty I forgot -then again, ‘trivial hurts, tiny human accidents…’... So here he is, burning sage and talking about the hidden signs and secrets of bright and distant stars, the fragile balance of the cosmos and all that has been foretold… although, you know, don’t put too much faith in such things… :)