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Latest Posts by aodhan-art - Page 3
The Wren Prince V - The Pantry Raid of Crannog
The Wren Prince IV - The Toad Druid
The Wren Prince II - Riding the Salmon of Knowledge
Another current WIP - The Forest Nobles 🌿🌀
The Wren Prince
He's ready for anything... even robins.
Good day to you, human, do you have a moment to talk about Our Lady Epona?
A sketch of a nearby barrow. There is a children’s graveyard associated with it (the small stones you see); since stillborn or unbaptized children could not be buried on hallowed ground, in a proper cemetery, people in Ireland in 18-19 centuries buried their stillborn and unbaptized babies themselves. Such improvised unofficial graveyards were normally located in church ruins, on ring forts or on barrows, that is, in spaces that were vernacularly considered sacred / liminal.
This one has a very peaceful vibe in life. I like to think that whoever lies there looks after these children ‘entrusted’ to them.
I made a comic full of very important knowledge!
Another WIP inspired by @sorrows-hand’s talk on women’s rights and divorce in Medieval Ireland at 2024 IONA conference
Today’s digital coloring practice. This OC of mine is in fact a sentient walking bog body of a sacrificed Irish king, only here he’s in a lifelike glamour (I’ll do the bog body look next, I promise!)
Also he’s got himself a tee saying ‘LAWFUL EVIL’, isn’t he a fashionista!
An illustration many I'm sure can relate to
A study of our local portal tomb 🌀
You might think that this is Maedhros, but this is not Maedhros. This is my OC, Prince Adhnár mac Earnáin of Síd Earnáin (yes, old king Cole Earnán is not exactly famous for his vivid imagination).
Truth be told, this is no Prince Adhnár either, this is Princess Áine. But since her life is hell atm, she is closeted even from herself for the time being (that won’t last forever, I promise).
I rescued a snail today and drew its portrait!
First page of my new sketchbook aka the Ivy King in his natural environment.
I keep doing that presentation, and I'm shamelessly enjoying it.
I needed to do a presentation about why studying memory politics is important, and this escalated quickly.
I needed to do a presentation about why studying memory politics is important, and this escalated quickly.
'Finally, I have found you'
It's only a wip but yes, what we have here is two Tuatha Dé Danann kissing, one of whom is a bog body.
Everyone in this pic is fully sentient, consenting, and of proper adult age at the moment / when sacrificed, just in case. I have a weird idea of belated Beltane romance but it is what it is.
Orbsen mac Allot aka Manannán mac Lir giving a teenage Aengus Óg a much needed lecture on consent
Green and grey on St. Patrick's Day.
Funguary - Stinkhorn
Revisiting Manannán mac Lir in his youth. I suppose if Orbsen mac Allot, aka Manannán mac Lir, was born in our times and in our dimension, he would have collected nerd treasures such as Funko Pops, or vintage comics, or whatnot, like all of us mortals. But when you're a Tuatha Dé Danann prince and a pirate captain (don't take my word on it, check out Sanas Cormaic!), you have to make do with jewelry and elven heads. Sigh.
His majesty King of the Sea is not in the mood for kidding.
Enough graveyards for now, here come the princes of the sidhe!
These are young Bodb and young Orbsen, and they’re absolutely not amused.