*delicately blows a kiss to all the spirits in my room* please dont knock anything over i live here
was in a giant mood for dullahans earlier and annoyed as fuck that all the art of them is like, saturated with shit tier anime waifus, DO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING MYSELF
anyway headless horse unseelie elf. Still need to work on the design more, these are chronological so you can see the progress–they ended up short in the last one to fit on the sketchbook page but tbh it’s kind of cute
Honestly the biggest disappointment I had researching ABC was that medieval authors did not, in fact, see the creatures they were describing and were trying their best to describe them with their limited knowledge while going “what the fuck… what the fuck…”
Instead all those creatures you know came about from transcription and translation errors from copying Greco-Roman sources (who themselves got them from travelers’ tales from Persia and India - rhino -> unicorn, tiger -> manticore, python -> dragon, and so on).
So unicorns are real
behold… a unicorn
I always thought animals in medieval manuscripts looked like the result of having to draw say. A Tree Kangaroo, but your only source for what it looked like was your friend who heard it from a fellow who knows a man who swears he saw one once, whilst very drunk and lost, and I am SO PLEASED to find out this is, in fact, the case.
Questing Beast
- Neck of a snake
- body of a leopard
- haunches of a lion
- feet off a hart (deer)
So is it
Or….
Marilyn Monroe’s The Girl from The Seven Year Itch, possibly one of cinema’s first on-screen monster-fangirls
Guillermo del Toro: “Uh huh, uh huh….”
