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People From Classic Paintings Inserted Into Modern City Life

Handmade Swords: Dagfinnr – Day Finder — Dragon Slayer’s Sword

Maker: Jake Powning

Medium: hilt – bronze, blackwood; blade - pattern welded 1075/8670m; scabbard – quilted maple wood lined with sheered sheep fleece, bronze

Measurements: overall length 113cm / 44.5 inches, width at the strong 5cm / 2 inches; blade length 93cm / 36.6 inches; hilt length 20cm / 7.9 inches; weight 1548g / 3.4lbs

This is a dragon slayer’s sword, it represents years of research into myth and Germanic material culture and is the culmination of a 20 year career as a swordsmith. The blade is constructed from two nine layer twisted strands in the core and an edge of over 600 layer forlded steel.

Source: Copyright © 2016 Jake Powning

Mermaid/Merman Tail chart by Xelgot

Fantastic hands references by the website Hong14cafe.

Hong14cafe: Facebook | Forum

some of my favorite vintage dresses         ↳  green

An adequate fuck-ton of hood-like references.

[From various sources]

How to Dragon, Tumblr Edition, part 1.

Dragon tutorial, tumblr edition, part 3.

Dragon tutorial, tumblr edition, part 2

芥子记/Jieziji’s Hanfu (han chinese clothing) and Hair Ornament collection. The model is wearing Tang Dynasty-style chest-high ruqun/襦裙. 

Couple Poses by modelfactory

Concepts by, Jerad S. Marantz

Leatherwork by Paolo Manzini [DeviantArt / Etsy / Facebook]

You can see and download these in bigger resolution HERE.  Take them apart, study, EDUCATE YOURSELF \ o /  And be sure to check out the project that is MastersOfAnatomy!

AllPose Book 16, Sword Guy Poses B - Buy it here!

Captain Blood Chronicles

54 Ideas

My favourite character designs from Monster Hunter Illustrations Vol. 2 (2013), a 400 page art book featuring a crap-load of creature, character, armour and weapon designs. The armour designs are so detailed and varied in cultural influences. Non-stop inspiration in this book.

Mahiro Maeda’s (前田 真宏) design sketches for Samurai Champloo. Mugen’s sword. Fuu’s tanto. Jin’s sword. The mechanical designer of the series.

From top to bottom:

LeMat Revolver

Volcanic Repeating Pistol

“Artillery” Luger

All beautifully engraved and adorned in an ornate, Art Deco style. I’m unsure who the engraver is or was. 

NICOLAS JEBRAN Couture Fall 2013

ASHI STUDIO Couture Fall/Winter 2015

Halberd of the Guard of the Electors of Saxony

Dated: circa 1620

Geography: Saxony

Culture: Saxon

Medium: steel, wood, gold, textile, metallic thread

Dimensions: L. 8 ft. 8 ½ in. (265.4 cm); L. of head 50 ½ in. (128.3 cm); W. 11 ½ in. (29.2 cm); Wt. 7 lbs. 2.2 oz. (3237.5 g)

Source: Copyright © 2015 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

If you're an artist looking to diversify your faces:

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draw whomever you get

don’t worry about making it super-accurate, just focus on the characteristic parts of the face and have fun

the outcome might not look like the ref, but it will be different and more varied than faces you draw out of your head, an dprobably pretty rad on its own right!

feel free to reblog with your drawing, if you want!

Medieval Weapon Concepts 

Great Reference , a good hand how to draw is always needed ^_^  But, the thing is I MUST draw it for real :/

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Eary Fantasies by Azizla

Short sword with Scabbard

Dated: circa 1753

Culture: Southeastern European

Medium: steel, wood and silver niello work

Measurements: blade length 53.9 cm

Source: Copyright © 2015 The Wallace Collection