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Khanjar Dagger

Dated: circa 1800

Culture: Indian, Moghul

Measurements: overall length 38.3 cm

The dagger has a lightly-curved, double-edged blade with a slightly strengthened tip. The grip is sculpted in one piece of jade or agate in shades from yellow to beige, provided with a guard. The upper part of the quilt features a gold lion two rubies for the eyes and an emerald on the head. The wooden scabbard is covered in red and gold cloth and silver mounts engraved with floral motifs and partially pierced.

Source: Copyright © 2016 Czerny’s International Auction House S.R.L.

Evening Dress

Patou

1947-1949

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I made this list up to help me out with my OC developing so feel free to use it as well! If you wanna join me just tag your stuff #GTKYOC so I can take a peek : ^ ) (might make a blog later and reblog all the stuff in the tag!!)  Feel free to add onto this or do your own version too! 

I think we can all just agree that dragons are pretty cool… But dragon designs in film and on television are so vanilla. Look! Look at what we could have! 

Dragon Head - by “Veramudis“ 

I’m Fabulous -  by Katarzyna Marcinkowska “Grzanka” (Tumblr) 

Dragon Mounts - by “V4m2c4”

Bluejay Dragon - by “Shinerai“ (tumblr 1) (tumblr 2)

Patterns- by “WhiteRaven” (tumblr) 

Last Ones -  by “WhiteRaven“ (tumblr) 

Classic Tabby Dragon - by Hillary Luetkemeyer “Hibbary“ 

Minty - by by “Shinerai“ (tumblr 1) (tumblr 2)

(Also these are all just incredible artists go shower them with attention.) 

An adequate fuck-ton of hood-like references.

[From various sources]

Sketch-concepts of demons, ‘’Demonslayer’’ comics

Vikings + Costumes | x

Hello! I'm a self taught artist who wants to get better at shading/lighting and backgrounds especially. But whenever I try to do a background study, I can't break it down and it ends up looking terrible. Do you know of anything that would help?

Hi! I would like to talk a little bit of the thought process behind photo study and the importance of simplicity.

It is really important to break down an image to chunks of value rather than seeing the detail  first, which can lead to over-complicated mush of colors with no constructed value.

These are some of the artists that inspired me to get used to breaking down images in the most simplest way possible:

Notice how super simple and straight-on-point his thumbs are? And this is how his colorscript for Moana looks like:

Zero detail. Yet you have all the information you need!

I personally think these thumb studies are super important to train your eyes to break down an image in values and colors and therefore be able to organize and design your painting better.

Jean Paul Gaultier, ss2007, Couture