#tagging as an update because. if you squint his birthday is and update? technically?

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As some of you may or may not know, today is Tubbo's birthday! As a way to celebrate with the community, as well as serving for the 1,200 follow milestone (and possibly counting for the nearing 1,300 one), we thought it would be awesome to have a fanart competition with all of you!

(Poster made by moderater @azlinne)

Starting today and going until the 1st of February at 23:59 GMT, we will have a form running for any of you to submit your art to the competition! After the form has closed, there will be an assortment of bracket-style polls for you all to vote in, and the winning artwork will be displayed as this blog's header and will be in the pinned post for a month! (other fanart will be displayed after this for a shorter period of time and going down in placement until all works have been displayed!)

If possible, we would love for this competition to include artists who use other platforms besides Tumblr, so if anyone wants to share it around, it would be much appreciated! The only requirement for this would be to have a Tumblr account, which is perfectly fine if it is only made and used for this competition!

For more information, guidelines, and where/how to send a submission, go to this form from now until February 1st!

[shadowshole]

What’s new in ‘Shadow Hole cannot settle on a stupid art style for the life of hers’-land?

My centaur universe update is here!

Initially Morgana was going to be next, but her file on my computer disappeared, nice! So you get Merlin instead! Someone asked me to do him next in the tags, so it seemed only fair.

Like before, I’ll include some of my thoughts below, and here’s the previous post if you are interested.

I again must mention @theartingace , since their work inspired me to make these posts

First of all. I don’t like that face up in the left corner. But who cares, I need to learn to just go with it, so here it is.

An update from last post: I have decided that centaurs prefer to grow their hair longer. Kings, in particular, almost never cut their hair, why is that? When a kingdom loses a war against the other, it is custom for the King (or queen) who won to cut the losing King’s hair. A king with very long hair is a ruler that either managed to keep the peace among its neighbors or one who hasn’t lost any war. A king can choose to keep their hair short on purpose, but it can be seen as cowardice, as no one can cut your hair if it’s already very short. So it’s regarded by many as a preemptive measure of a weak King or Queen. This concept is taken from some actual historic fact that I morphed into this. Betcha can’t wait to see a long hair-ed Uther, uh?

All of this to say: Merlin has longer hair in here. I would like to imagine it being actually quite long at the beginning, but slowly getting shorter as the years go by. If long hair represents peace (even if just for the Kings), it would make sense for Merlin to shorten it after all he goes through. Yeah. Sad boi hours.

LET’S GO BACK TO SOMETHING POSITIVE!

AITHUSA!

If you’ve seen my last post, you’ll know that my dragons are quite different from the ones we see in canon. So here she is in all of her adorable glory. There isn’t much to say about her, tbh, other than the fact that she’s the cutest! But we already knew that.

Shifting onto the dragonlord side of Merlin, since we talked about Aithusa, we gotta address that drawing on the top left. For no reason aside from the fact that it looks cool, dragonlords have dragon scales on their bodies in this universe! That’s why Merlin must always keep his scarf on. Can’t let anyone see! They go from the sides of his neck, down his spine, and they stop right above his pelvis. I actually made a drawing detailing that, but I won’t share ‘cuz I hate it! 

As for what he is wearing aside from the scarf: 

The first thing he has to put on is his shirt, it’s much longer on the front, as it needs to wrap under the horse’s belly to avoid chafing because of the leather harness.

After that he’ll put on this long version of his jacket, but to hold it in place on the front he needs to secure it with something, that’s where the harness comes into play. As you can see from the second drawing, it’s rather simple to put on, it can’t be otherwise in this universe. He can simply hold it in his hands and step in the places where the legs belong, a bit like us when we put on our underwear. He secures it over his back, sliding in a bag (bottom right) or two if he needs them for something, and then he can attach the jacket through those holes you see on the leather band on top. In my mind, they use something like jacket cuffs/ wristbands. You know, these things:

Maybe Arthur can gift him some better ones for his birthday!

One last thing! The sorcerers in this universe technically have the bodies of unicorns, not horses, lucky for them, the only thing that distinguishes horses from unicorns are the horns on their heads! And they don’t have horses’ heads, just plain, human ones! I still hinted at the presence of a horn in the sketch, even if I didn’t go through with it. Still, you can KINDA see that it’s a unicorn and not just a regular horse by its tail. Some people draw them in a way that resembles a lion’s tail, right? There you go, then. If you squint, you’ll see that the hair doesn’t start directly from the body but is entirely attached to the bone. I couldn’t make it too obvious, or anyone in Camelot would go: “Look at that tail! That person is clearly a sorcerer! Get ‘em!!”

The guards are dumb, but not that dumb!!

That’s all I had to say for now! See you in the next update!