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• University art student • • Crazy Borzoi Lady • • Ciderpunk Enthusiast • 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇵🇸🇷🇸 @Reynedeer_ on Instagram/Twitter

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"In the spring of 1915, some months after Russia's declaration of war against Turkey, a band of twelfth-century Crusaders, covered from head to foot in rusty chain armour and carrying shields and broad-swords came riding on horseback down the main avenue of Tiflis [Tbilisi]. People's eyes almost popped out of their heads. Obviously this was no cinema company going on location. These were Crusaders - or their ghosts.

The incredible troop clanked up to the governor's palace. 'Where's the war?' They asked. 'We hear there's a war'.

(Quote from: "Seven League Boots" By Richard Halliburton, 1935)

First illustration of the summer, had to pick one of my favourite niche bits of history of course.

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2022 Viking Re-enactment - Old photos that I've edited to be more in line with my current stuff!

Really strange to look back at that year, it was before I had any real ideas on where I want to go with my practice, before I had really tried to experiment with different mediums, and most notably before I found most of the various historical niches that I adore now! (Though I did start to discover them soon enough, it must have been a seriously boring time without all the research and obsession..)

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Surrender Scarecrow left in the field at Virton, Belgium found in December 2, 1918, almost a month after the end of the Armistice.

Trying to blend together the illustration styles of Sergio Toppi and Jeffery Alan Love at the moment, with my more normal drawing mixed with printing methods. It's an interesting experiment!

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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep. And miles to go before I sleep." - Robert Frost, 1923

A collection of my photography - I haven't made a lot of traditional art lately due to end of year assesment preparation, but I'm looking forward to having more freedom to create over the summer months :)

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Maybe, Sire, Maybe. Because this is my Forest." -Ogoniok, First Published in 1992 (Collected Toppi: The Eastern Path)

I'm really feeling monochromatic stuff at the moment. Cooking up lots of ideas for small comics, and a horror-y one is looking increasingly likely. Anyone who knows me will know I've been looking into the Baltics recently, and I'm not particularly fond of a certain order of knights, hmm..

Inked a sketch I posted a while ago! I'm really getting into the grove with illustration, shame about the painting supplies I've recently bought, but I'll use them one day.

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My favourite photograph, which I took in the last weeks of summer. I used it for cyanotype printing, I'm very happy with the result, especially compared to my absolute failure with traditional SLR photography 😅

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Just some Historical sketches! :) (apologies for bad quality)

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All artists (digital and traditional) should get some prints of their work! It's very rewarding and it makes me feel like a proper artist 😋

(Instagram repost #1)

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I've been gone for a while!! I recently started University, and I've been more focused on posting to Instagram, but to be honest it sucks! So I'll be posting more on Tumblr :)

Hoping to do some more Asoiaf related art, but I'm focused a lot more on general historical things. I can feel the urges to draw some 1400s-ish things! Maybe some halloween-y things (even if October is nearly over)

Have a Roose Bolton offering to make up for my absence ☝️🙂‍↕️

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Reposting from my Instagram, one of my beloved asoiaf original characters! Bayard Peake, you and your fabulous facial hair will always be dearly hated by your peers. He was inspired by an old Crusader Kings 2: AGoT play through, focused on reclaiming the Peake lands, and the Manderly's Reach titles. Very fun, definitely recommend stirring up trouble in the Reach. Somehow after all the evil deeds, murder, coercion warfare, etc. the young Lord Tyrell still wanted him on his council to my amusement 😁 (although that is absolutely not how my oc's story will be headed in the end, something about a lord Tarly...)

I'm really rushing through the designs for my wicked evil Ocs, summer should be for my lovely characters instead!! ☝️🙂‍↕️

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• The Leech Lord •

I simply adore the Boltons, and particularly Roose. They're villainous, vampiric, a bit magic(?) just perfect for me. When I was reading the Asoiaf books, I always pictured this sort of Slavic aesthetic for the Northern houses, rather than the whole grey Scottish/generic fantasy thing they've got going on in the shows , but the descriptions of the Bolton armour instantly made me think of Cuman/Turkic aesthetics, and it stuck in my mind! It just means abandoning "realism", as so much is just unknown from the periods I draw influence from. :(

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Been gone for a fair bit on here, but I'm back :)

I will be starting university soon, very excited, and I'm a little frustrated with Instagram, tumblr is cozy and nice, and I will be posting here more often, fingers crossed.

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○"Is this my reward for defending God's church? I renounce God! I shall rise from my own death to avenge hers with all the powers of darkness!"○

Rewatched Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) coincidentally in time for me to go and see Nosferatu tomorrow 😆

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●"So many ifs, ser... had any one come out differently, it could all have turned t’other way. Then we would called be the loyalists, and the red dragons would be remembered as men who fought to keep the usurper, Daeron the Falseborn, upon his stolen throne, and failed."●

Ser Eustace Osgrey has got to be one of my absolute favourite historical asoiaf characters, one of those characters that helps cement the entire point and the themes of the story as a whole. Of course, he also appeals to the historical "fashion" nerd in me, I always picture him wearing this ostentatious and garish armour when he rides beside Dunk to Coldmoat.

Been trying out this style of drawing and watercolour/gouache wash recently. Not entirely sure if it looks any good, but I enjoy it :)

●"I will never forget the way the sun looked when it set upon the Redgrass Field . . . ten thousand men had died, and the air was thick with moans and lamentations, but above us the sky turned gold and red and orange, so beautiful it made me weep to know that my sons would never see it." He sighed."●

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• "I pray for a glimpse of Azor Ahai, and R'hllor shows me only Snow." •

Perfect quote as the first snows of 2025 begin :) very different style to my usual, but I enjoyed it and definitely want to try more! (Apologies for the lack of posts, been rather busy recently, but I have a lot in the works.)

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WiP - Elinor Costayne, 1/3 Black Brides of Maegor the Cruel

Surprise!! I've been gone a while... My tablet is quickly going downhill, and I've been busy with personal stuff, but hopefully I'll be able to make more art soon! Playing around with blending overlays so my work feels slightly more traditional, hope its working, even if I'm not too proud of this piece so far... 😅

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"Next to Rhaegar, even her beautiful Jamie had seemed no more than a callow boy. The Prince is going to be my husband, she had thought, giddy with excitement, and when the old king dies I’ll be the queen."

Calling this finished (for now) I'm not that happy with the hair, but I'm pleased with the rest :>