#tiecelijn

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Het land van Reynaert (Rik Van Daele, Marcel Ryssen & Herman Heyse, 1993) & (Tiecelijn. Jaargang 19)

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Hadn’t drawn these guys in a while. I’m quite happy with the mix of animal and humanoid anatomy in their designs now.

Tibeert and Tiecelijn are characters originating from Van den vos Reynaerde, a medieval Dutch/Flemish poem which in turn is adapted from a number of older poems, namely French and Latin ones. There’s so many variations and adaptations, it’s crazy. Either way I’ve wanted to make an adaptation-continuation set in either current time or a distopic, slightly futuristic setting for a while now, maybe for my finals. These sketches are of my versions/interpretations of the characters.

Tibeert is a somewhat clever cat who loses his eye when he has to bring in Reynaert the fox but is tricked by him. Tiecelijn is a minor raven character who’s contribution to the story is warning Tibeert, Isengrim the wolf and Bruin the bear of the titular fox having turned the tables on them once they think the king will finally sentence the fox to death. Tibeert is the only one who heeds the raven’s advice, so I thought it would be fun to have them strike up a partnership after the story’s events and have them help each other out and stuff. They’re both thieving characters so it’d make sense. And Tibeert could use an extra pair of eyes since he lost his perception of depth.

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W. Heskes's Reinaart de Vos (circa 1922.)

(via Tiecelijn. Volume 111, Oudejeugdboeken & Hunting Reynard)

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A Reynardian alphabet from the 1988-2002 Tiecelijn Register.

I made an (admittedly janky) font out of it, which you can download here.

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Tiecelijn. Volume 3 (1990)

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