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Back to work…
Presenting my most recently completed commission, a scabbard for the Albion Munich. A lot of ‘labor of love’ went into this, which isn’t uncommon for me The client favored trees but left the design up to me, so I came up with a design of abstract representation, to which I think it turned out rather well.
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Long empty silence of late, and for that I apologize. It’s been a busy stretch for me. But here is a in-progress picture of what I’m currently working on.
Presenting my latest scabbard commission for the Albion Tritonia sword. Colored with a black harness, and a dark brown scabbard. This one is mildly aged to give it a distinguished campaign aesthetic, straight from the late 13th century.
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Bronze Tree of Gondor pommel marker, on a blackened pommel.
The next build to be completed.
A recently completed scabbard commission for the Albion Sovereign.
Some Witcher for your Wednesday.
A recently completed sword scabbard for the Albion Brescia Spadona.
My latest, for your viewing pleasure. A scabbard for the Albion Brescia Spadona. Feel free to share, I would appreciate it.
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Our Redbubble store has new merchandise that aren’t sigils now since we are legally allowed to sell them! We have TWO NEW DESIGNS based on the events of ’[S] Arcjec: Enter’ and ’[S] Ellsee: Enter’ respectively! As well as a FULL MAIN CAST PRINT that allows you to not be choosy!
The designs were done by our very own @xamag-ve, with some gracious coloring assistance by @eddieDraws! We know you guys have wanted something like this for a long time, so we hope this scratches your need for VE on your body and in your home like never before!
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ALBION // JANUARY 6
COOL LINE-UP, MAKE SURE YALL COME DOWN!!!! ALWAYS A FUN TIME WITH THE HOMIE @djwilli
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MERLIN
What I love about the disaster trio - Merlin, Arthur and Gwaine - is that they are ready to die for each other in like a split second.
Marlin would die for Arthur. Arthur for Merlin. Gwaine for both of them. Like I can understand that everybody wants to protect the future king but the fact that they are ready to die for a servant (from their perspective he’s not a magician) amazes me.
Also the disaster fourth aka sir Lancelot who went from “ugh self sacrifice” (for Arthur) to “yes self sacrifice” (for Merlin) real quick.
MERLIN
The relationship between Arthur and Merlin at the point of the end of season three is something different.
When Arthur tells Gwaine and Elyan to take Gaius and go to the woods it seems for a moment he completely forgot about Merlin. Only when he turns back to him he’s like “oh yea you’re not my shadow after all, you’re your own person you may wanna go with them” - because let’s face it for most of the time Arthur treats Merlin like some kind of inseparable part of himself (when Arthur goes somewhere alone he’s taking Merlin, which in my interpretation is not alone, but I feel like for them it is - they are two sides of the same coin and that coin is going alone on a quest).
And Merlin is like “nah” because his place is with Arthur. And Arthur seems pleased. Which is funny because Gwaine or even Elyan would be more helpful in a battle (at least from the non magical perspective). But no. Arthur want Merlin and Merlin is okay with that.
Then at the round table when everybody except Merlin devoted themselves to battle and to Arthur, Arthur is like “Merlin get up we’re the same coin you can’t split the coin”. And Merlin is like “I know I just wanted to be asked personally”.
It’s like they are inseparable. But not like at the beginning when Merlin was clinging to Arthur so he can protect him. It’s unanimous now.
Arthur “I’m Arthur and that’s the other part of me - Merlin” Pendragon
And Merlin “even when he goes alone we’re going together” the Young Warlock
MERLIN
What I love about the disaster trio - Merlin, Arthur and Gwaine - is that they are ready to die for each other in like a split second.
Marlin would die for Arthur. Arthur for Merlin. Gwaine for both of them. Like I can understand that everybody wants to protect the future king but the fact that they are ready to die for a servant (from their perspective he’s not a magician) amazes me.
MerlinISMagic. Surely this makes him more than a little different?
I have this Headcannon that because of all his various powers, Merlin is physically quite different to what is usually expected in medical science and Gaius is completely fascinated by absolutely hates it.
I’m talking things like one day he comes stumbling into their chambers with an arrow clean through the left side of his chest, wheezing but somehow Not Dead.It’s because like his dragon kin, Merlin’s heart is on the right side of his body. Gaius swears off everything Merlin related there and then. (He lasts about 30 minutes).
Or how under the concealment charm tied to his neckerchief, Merlin’s eyes are naturaly a blazing gold all the time, fuelled by the magic in his veins. Surprisingly, they also allow him to see quite well in the dark. ‘Like a cat’ Gaius remarks when he finds out about it.
His teeth are a little too pointy? Or at least his canines are. It’s Merlin’s most obvious ‘Medical Mystery’ trait but fortunately nothing that can’t be explained away easily enough. It does however add another point to the creature side of ‘Human vs Magical Being’ tally Gaius has been keeping in his head. For scientific purposes. Of course.
Merlin’s speed and agility are much greater than it has any right to be, even if you take into account the amount of physical labour he does for Arthur; The boy practically flys over the ground. Unfortunately the knights don’t realise this until they bet all their money he couldn’t beat Gwaine in a race.
He can talk to animals too! Mind-speak is easiest but his other method has Gaius tearing out the little hair he has left because his ward Should Not Be Able To Do That. To talk to animals, Merlin simply replicates THEIR language: be that neighing, breying or barking. Laws of Vocal Chords be damned, Merlin can do it.
To top it all off, the Knights aren’t wrong when they banter with Merlin about how little he weighs. Gaius is just glad it shields the boy from anyone thinking too hard about the definitely unnatural fact HE could even lift Merlin with one hand if he so pleased. They’re not sure if it’s an Emrys thing, a hollow-boned dragon thing or if there’s some pixie blood mixed in there but Merlin is secretly quite pleased when his creeping footsteps make much less sound than anyone else’s.
Gaius dreads the day he has to treat Merlin for an illness which isn’t immediately obvious because Dear Albion it could be ANYTHING.
BONUS: for anyone with magic, Merlin can be spotted from a mile away because he literally LEAKS it. Again, Gaius says this is Not Normal and no magic should be coming out of him if he’s not actively wanting it too but the druids spot his unique trait a mile away and it puts other magic users at ease when they’re around him. It’s like a giant warm blanket.
the ADHD urge to spend time on Onward content
Them ♥️
So I almost totally forgot I did one of those “If they have children” concepts with Zii, Ian, and Albion (because a friend and I love them as a polycule)
Ian and Zii had Wilden, Albion and Zii had Aidan, and both Albion and Ian used magic to sort of aid in the pregnancy for Maxine, and used some spells to sort of “mix” all three of their DNA
Anyway designing them was a lot of fun but I’m not sure how often I’d ever draw/write for them.
