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Today's sketchbook critters.

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The Lord of the Sea

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Was very privileged to do this dreamy ethereal photoshoot with the awesome Rosaline in Barna Woods last week ☺️

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There's an even better sequel to that story where her brothers conjured an invisible venomous walking oak seeping black magic and unleashed it on Munster. As a result, the ex-king's sons cut each other down in an attempt to reach it - why not want to claim a giant walking killer tree, right? to be serious, you kinda needed a giant oak tree to make your kingdom legitimate, but still - and the only one left standing was Áine's son. Hence the Eóganachta.

Actually, what the professor in the comic says is an almost unedited something my husband @sorrows-hand once heard in regard to this very story. Like, why treat r*pe as r*ape when it's all mYtHoLoGiCaL. Idk, regardless of whether the Tuatha Dé Danann were actually treated as gods by the early medieval Irish (I'd say some were, some weren't, and most of the characters we encounter are 12th c. forward regardless mentions-wise, so not much pre-Christian pantheon thing going on there, at least not anymore), r*pe is r*pe, and any person telling / transmitting that story would know what it is, and include it, on purpose, precisely as what it is.

*anthropological mic drop*

It is very fitting that Quare Éire, an art and literature anthology dedicated to queer and feminist readings of Irish mythology, goes live on Lughnasadh, the festival that, according to legend, came to be as a commemoration of a woman.

Here's the contribution made by yours truly, and please check out all the other wonderful pieces of art, poetry, and literature.

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It is very fitting that Quare Éire, an art and literature anthology dedicated to queer and feminist readings of Irish mythology, goes live on Lughnasadh, the festival that, according to legend, came to be as a commemoration of a woman.

Here's the contribution made by yours truly, and please check out all the other wonderful pieces of art, poetry, and literature.

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Memento mori

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A question to fellow artblr: guys, how do you ever get into zines / watch for calls for artists for zines? I'd love to do something dark fantasy / Irish mythology / undead / queer related, but I always see the zines I like after they're being distributed.

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Some more sketchbook critters

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One day I forget traditional art exists, next day is the day of the feathery pine cone creature

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yo aodhán, do you listen to much traditional irish or celtic music? if you do, got any recommendations?

I'm more of a folk metal / punk / Gothic country sort of person, BUT there is one recommendation that I can give whenever - Lankum!

They are a contemporary trad folk band based in Dublin, but with a twist, the twist coming from the fact that their lead Ian Lynch is also a folklorist who accumulated an immense archive of recordings and taught traditional song and music history at UCD. They also did the OST for All You Need Is Death, one of the few horror movies on the topic of faeries and otherworlds that I really liked (the other being Fréwaka), although the man-eating undead Tuatha Dé Danann guy should've gotten much more screen time imo... but I digress. Let me give you a sample I personally like very much:

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A pilgrimage to Raftery's grave

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A short horror story @sorrows-hand wrote and I drew for the Galway ARGH! quarterly comic anthology.

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@days-like-dominoes prompted me to draw Midir and Étaín, and so I did!

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Guess the Early Irish text I'm illustrating right now (aka 'an insufferable himbo harasses a woman across centuries')

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Mermay day 11: Guard

This mermaid isn't prone to sharing her food or, maybe, her love interest. Whatever she needs the drowned prince for.

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Have you ever walked the lonesome hills and heard the curlews cry? Or seen the raven black as night upon a windswept sky? To walk the purple heather and hear the westwind cry To know that's where the rapparee must die... (The Pogues - Young Ned of the Hill)

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Attention ladies, gentlemen, and every wonderful sentient being in between or neither: this artist here got locked tf out of his art insta, and since it's seemingly a prerequisite to have an art insta to communicate with people here in Ireland, I made a new one: right here. Please give me a follow if you don't mind me following you back!