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so this is the mynew character (the horned weasel) ahah anyway hope u liek
Weasel OC inspired by Polish traditional costumes
Finally made a new ref sheet for Wispy's best friend and cigar-loving skater dude, Emmett!!
I'm honestly so happy that I drew him again for this, he's a lot of fun to draw!
(Info about him will be under the read more)
Known for frequently hanging out around the giant skate park that Bright Light City has and having a gigantic skateboard collection in his small house that's set up in the grittier part of the city, Emmett is about as loud, crass, obnoxious and wild as his best friend since childhood Wispy
Though Emmett can tend to be a LOT more hyper and high energy (and feral) than Wispy is, so he can be a HANDFUL for a lot of people that know him
He works in a skateboard shop that's located next door to Wispy's place of work, The Millenni-Yum and due to this, they both tend to skip out on their job in the middle of their shifts, just to hang out and goof off together
He is also known for being Wispy's best hype and wing man when it comes to encouraging/enabling Wispy and his actions or even helping him try to finally get a date with Ivy!
Notes:
The skateboard shop Emmett works at is called Grinderz N Wheelz, it is a semi-popular local skateboard shop that's well known for its custom made designs on their boards
Emmett works as the person who creates designs for the boards and then smoothing the board itself out
His left ear had gotten torn up as a result of a skateboarding accident he had when he was around 8-10 years old, he had to go to the hospital to fix it up but he was fine other than that
He has tried multiple times to get into/audition for America Ninja Warrior, but due to pretty much getting pummelled by the course itself the very first round, he's never managed to do so
The only reason he even smokes cigars in the first place is because he believes it makes him "look cool". He fucking hates the taste of them and hates tobacco/nicotine otherwise
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I really hope that you guys enjoy him as much as I do, he was a joy to come back to!
Please enjoy!!
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Weasel villain propaganda
Workin on my sona's new look lol
Ava, barbarian, mother, crone.
I finished watching episode 8 of burrows end today. It was a lot. Ava’s strength and tenacity are admirable, but I never want to be that cold, especially to my family.
Say your ‘I’m sorry’s and ‘I love you’s, they are so important, to you an others.
For what its worth, I listened to the episode in question, and I just assumed it was another one of those weird things that kept coming up in bestiary descriptions (animals ressurecting each other comes up almost as much as animals hating on snakes... this is all religious stuff, isn't it...).
I was also half convinced that this was going to be a cat (as an aside, if we ever do get a cat entry, I'm going to have to post a picture of my kitty 🐈⬛ ).
I feel like @wingedtyger might have something with their suggestion that ferrets or polecats might be the 'house' hreksong (when I was about 6 years old, my neighbour kept ferrets 😆 ), though humans do like to try keeping pretty much anything as pets, and hreksongs are pretty cute and awesome (as well as being fearsome predators - stoats and weasels often take down prey far larger then them!)
Bestiaryposting Results -- Hreksong
Slightly awkward timing on this one: the animal in question happened to come up on a recent episode of our podcast (We literally quoted a line from the Bodley MS 764 entry, because it was relevant to the story we were reading). So any of the artists who listen may have gotten spoilers. (I say "may", but I've already seen one art post that references the episode.) Sorry about that, artists. Kind of a bizarre coincidence, actually -- it's pretty rare that we happen across bestiary material in a narrative text, and the fact that we did so shortly before the relevant entry came up in the rotation... well, the odds are against it.
Anyway, anyone who doesn't know what this is about should check out https://maniculum.tumblr.com/bestiaryposting. You can also check the "maniculum bestiaryposting" tag to see what beast is the current prompt. The entry for this week's drawings can be found here:
Art below the cut, roughly chronological, as always.
@silverhart-makes-art (link to post here) decided that the best interpretation of the information given was that this was a sort of arboreal mongoose that practiced mouthbrooding. If you want to know what the reasoning was there, you should read the linked post -- it all makes sense there. I absolutely love that the one in the picture is opening its mouth to show the baby riding inside. Silverhart indicates that this is a quicker sketch than usual, but frankly their animal-drawing skills are so good that even a quick sketch is impressive from my perspective.
@cheapsweets (link to post here) did separate drawings for the large outdoor version (upper image, carrying its young) and the small indoor version (lower image, stealing someone's food). The linked post, which explains the design in some detail, indicates that CheapSweets was thinking along similar lines as Silverhart -- i.e., what kind of animal is known for hunting snakes? I like the pose in the first image, and I really like the scene depicted in the second one. On one hand, I'm sure having little creatures live in your roof and steal food literally out of your hands is quite frustrating, but on the other hand, it's very funny. Look at that little guy just brazenly stealing some chicken (or whatever type of bird). The idea of them using their back legs to grip rafters for exactly this purpose is excellent.
@strixcattus (link to post here) decided these could be birds, and has drawn these owl-like creatures for us. They look a bit surly, but that could just be the feather pattern on their faces. As always, I strongly recommend checking out that linked post, as Strixcattus writes brilliant interpretations of these entries in the register of a modern naturalist to accompany the illustrations.
@pomrania (link to post here) has noted that cats live in houses and eat mice, and given us this charming domestic scene. They also note the issues with this interpretation in the linked post, which of course you should read. I think the poses of the cats are very well done here; one of those kittens looks like it wants to paw at the monk's belt but can very much not reach.
And now for the Aberdeen Bestiary:
I'm not sure about the head proportions -- I'd suggest that the flattened snout is because the artist ran out of space, if it weren't for the fact that they were fine letting the back foot extend into the border -- but that is recognizably a weasel.
A few things to note from this:
1. Medieval people apparently had not only mice in their homes, but weasels, which I'd never really thought about. I'm not sure what the distinction they're drawing between the type you find in your home and the type you find in the woods is about, though.
2. The weasel's healing magic crops up in multiple texts, including the Lais of Marie de France and Volsungasaga. It's less common than you might think to find overlap between bestiary-weirdness and narrative-weirdness, so that's pretty notable.
3. I have no friggin' idea why anyone thought they gave birth through their ears. Baffling.
weasel studies pt 1.
I didn't realize they were so tiny!! They're about the size of an outstretched human hand, apparently. I thought they were the size of cats.
Also pretty sure at least one of them here is a stoat lol. As with my wolf studies, I'm going to just say ✨ close enough✨ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
✨ weasel studies pt 2 ✨
>> pt 1
Ferrets in hats they're visibly uncomfortable in is my favorite genre of images
I've been waking up at 5am in the morning for the last 4 years, and this certainly is the ferret I resonate with.
Now that it's November 1st, the illustrious ferret in its winter coat.
Floomf.
SPEEENNN!!