#removed the process cause it seemed like tumblr had somehow shadowbanned this blog because of it????

[hikaruchen]

Guidance.

Ughhhhh art block is killing me. It took me WEEKS to finish this one, 16 hours in total. Not the one I worked on for the longest hours but there are so many times I was just basically gawking at my canva and went Ok, I can’t draw shit and then turned procreate off. I’ve never been into situations like this before and it is, really, PAINFUL. And in the end I still don’t find me feel content with the result :( nevertheless it’s not good enough but I hope people who see this would like it tho!!

And here are some rants from a history geek:

Though it might not be very visible, but the color palette of this piece is actually a lowkey tribute to the Alfred jewel :)

This is a commission from Alfred to a goldsmith - we can see that through the texts on the side which wrote “AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN (Alfred ordered me to be made)” Alfred, as a man who loved wisdom, ordered to translate many books from latin into old english, and those manuscripts were distributed throughout Wessex and accompanied by pointers, and archeologists suggest this is probably one of them.

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Below is a short piece I wrote but I don’t feel I am capable of turning it into a fic that has full plots so I just decided to put it here. Enjoy :)