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The Siege of Kolding/Denmark/ was fought on December 25, 1658, between Sweden and the alliance of Poland and Denmark. The Polish and Danish forces were led by Stefan Czarniecki. They won the battle.
Józef Brandt /1841-1915/, “Stefan Czarniecki at Kolding” National Museum, Warsaw, Poland.
PINK FLOYD FANTASY RPG! 🔮 Roger - Dark Elf/Sorcerer Nick - Warrior Syd - Alchemist/Nature Magician Rick - Healer David - Bard I can’t believe I finished this,, I have too much spare time 😂 Was really fun to draw though! I might even make for art and lore for this!
Also, the gifs look really bad on the tumblr app. They’re supposed to be transparent, but instead they get all glitchy and bad quality ): Or maybe it’s just my phone? 😨
Trying new art styles with Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett and Roger Waters for now, the rest of the group will follow :)
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my body, tearfully: when sleep???
me: my dude we just woke up!! It’s time for wakefulness and doing things and Productivity
my body, weeping: but???? when sleep?????
me: okay, finally now is sleep
my body: no. wrong.
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Got the last 2 Goretober prompts done, kinda decided to go with simplicity for these - still liking how they turned out.
First is for “headless” - the Guillotiners are actually intelligent, so hopefully I’d be able to get one as a visitor to one of my forts at some point.
Second is for “bite” - not much to say, its mostly just an aggressive zombie-like thing that eats corpses and living creatures and hunts in small groups.
Still, now that these are done, I’ll definitely be speeding up on the Diablo mod - may have a release out this week!
#goretober #inktober #creaturedesign
Did the creatures for today’s and yesterday’s Goretober prompts.
First is for “sewn together” - will be more of a wild tropical biome creature. Lots of redundant body parts to cut through.
Second is for “eye removal” - I got the idea for it early when I was starting the Goretober prompts - essentially a kind of bogeyman (not in DF’s sense, of course) - would be considered just a tale to dissuade children from misbehaving but they’re very much real and prowling the night - since they’d be rather rare their attacks would probably be attributed to more mundane occurences. They’re also larger than Trolls, so children aren’t the only ones who should be afraid of the Eye Collectors.
#goretober #inktober #creaturedesign
Got today’s and yesterday‘s prompts done.
First is for “nosebleed” - kind of a difficult prompt, wasn’t really sure what to do with it, but I think the result is gross enough.
Second is for “bound/torture” - had an easier time thinking up of it.Will be pretty fun to see them hanging around towns - hopefully with the villain update they’ll see some hiring as mercs by various villains.
#inktober #goretober #creaturedesign
Seraphim and Demon illustrated set.
do you ever think about how little Michelangelo cared
All right, everyone, grab a chair and sit back because I’m going to share with you what I learned about Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel in my Art History Class.
The man NEVER wanted to paint the damn thing. But the pope at the time “forced him to” According to my teacher. Michelangelo hated this man, I MEAN REALLY HATED HIM. So did a majority of people. The pope’s nickname translated literally means “Terrible pope”.
And the working conditions were awful. He had to work on his back with all that paint, which is filled with some toxic shit that gave Michelangelo a limp for the rest of his life. (Also, our teacher made us get on our backs and try drawing with both hands JUST to prove how bad and uncomfortable it is.)
At the time, the ceiling was so high, you could barely see it. You need binoculars to get a good look at what’s up there, by the time people could see the paintings, there was a lot of weird symbolism that Michelangelo hid up there.
This one? The creation of the sun and moon? God is mooning you. And the pope and all others after him prayed under that without knowing.
This one? At the time, dissecting was sacrilegious and everyone found out how behind God was what looked like half a brain. blah blah, science, science, that pissed everyone off.
And also, ALLLLLLL the men and women in the Sistine Chapel are all on fucking steroids. My teacher described the women’s bodies as “Men bodies with boobs slapped on.”
And then there is this:
Now this is the back wall. Michelangelo actually wanted to paint this one after he finished the ceiling. (and there was a different pope too, I believe.) However, originally, EVERYONE in that painting was naked. And they didn’t like it. Adam and Eve naked? That’s cool. But Jesus? Now you crossed the line. So the pope at the time hired someone else to censor it and give the important figures clothes. He worked on it for 6 or 9 months before he died.
And then the symbolism in this one is great. Somewhere in the right, there are homosexuals in heaven. (No matter what, the Vatican will say “Those straight men are happy” I’ll get to that in a second), Michelangelo painted himself near Jesus, and the terrible pope is in hell with a snake biting his balls.
And if you were to point ANY of this out to the Vatican, they will deny all of it and claim Michelangelo was a catholic hero. In fact, when they discovered the symbolism around the 60s or 70s, the guy who told the Vatican was kicked out of the Vatican for life.
TL;DR: Michelangelo hated the pope and made the best “fuck you” of all time.
YO. ALL OF THIS^. Michelangelo was hella grumpy all of the time. It was fantastic.
However, as beautiful as this commentary is, I’m gonna make a little correction. The Pope isn’t the one in hell getting his balls bitten; that guy is actually the Papal Minister of Ceremonies a the time, Biagio de Cesena.
See, when Michelangelo was painting this, as you said, lots of people were uncomfortable with all of the nudity (especially because the Last Judgement [back wall mural] was painted much later when nudity in religious art was even more controversial than before), but the dude who was the angriest was de Cesena.
He was so angry that he reportedly burst in on Michelangelo while he was working (which is already a big no-no because Michelangelo’s requirements for working were mostly “fuck the hell off and leave me alone or else I quit and I will stab you in the eye with my paintbrush/chisel”.). He then proceeds to tell Michelangelo that this fresco is disgusting and obscene and shame on him etc etc. He also referred to it as “i stui di nudi”, which means “A stew of nudes” which is one of the best descriptions of a thing ever, if you ask me.
So Michelangelo, probably on the cusp of homicide is like “Thank you for the notes. Now get the fuck out,” and de Cesena reluctantly does.
Later, he comes to see the finished product and finds that Michelangelo had painted his portrait down in Hell to represent the Minos, King of the Dead. He has the ears of an ass and the above described crotch biting snake:
Upon seeing this and being enraged, de Cesena went to the Pope to demand that it be changed and that Michelangelo be punished. However, the Pope was SO incredibly done dealing with Michelangelo’s snark, tantrums, and general hatred of the world and everyone in it, that he didn’t want to do shit.
The Pope’s response to him was literally to say “As Pope, I have a lot of influence on Earth and up in Heaven, but I have no jurisdiction in Hell. You’re shit out of luck.“
And it stayed.
Michelangelo, grade A artist, snark master, and professional dick.
My art hero right there lol
All of the above reasons are why I love Michelangelo with a passion.
Michelangelo, Patron Saint of Tired Artists
The anecdotes took this from 100% to 1000%. I couldn’t not reblog this.
