Umamusume Cataphract. An uma-phract? It's stupid to criticize the world-building of an anime girl horse racing game, but I also like an excuse to illustrate Eastern Roman stuff. #umamusume #history #rome #cataphract #byzantine #illustration #art

Staging Sumud #lgbtq #blm #ukraine #palestine #art #illustration #america

Happy #PortfolioDay! I mainly focus on historical concept art, but I also dabble in fantasy and depicting current events.

"Gee Peter, this is more confusing than when I had coffee with a friend in Jeddah." #familyguy #masameer #Bluey #marthaspeaks #meme #comic #crossover

Creators, be less tasteful and more indulgent.

"Hope" #gaza #palestine #illustration #art #sumundfloatila #gretathunberg #sea #fishing

Wow! Is that a new chapter of Fairview from my good friend @mrshwoo.bsky.social?! www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/fa...

When Beowulf's blade fails him, only an ancient sword from an era of giants can save him. Despite its destruction in a battle with monsters, it has been re-bladed for the kings of a new age. #beowulf #swordtember #illustrator #art #propdesign #anglosaxon #archeology #mythology #commsopen

Nobody should be killed for their beliefs. Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who celebrated political violence against brown and queer people. He was never going to change his mind, and only served to recruit more ignorant bigots into Trump's fascist cult of death. These are both true.

The most generic warrior with the most average sword I can think of for #swordtember2025. #art #illustration #history #commsopen

Woagh! New Fairview from @mrshwoo.bsky.social! www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/fa...

Cpl. John Noonan of Custer's 7th cavalry and his wife. Mrs. Noonan was a camp laundress cherished by the soldiers and camp followers. When she suddenly died, an autopsy declared her a man. Cpl. Noonan's loss and harassment by his comrades drove him to suicide. #pride #intersex #americanhistory

“Anaya knew there was no hope of returning to her sisterhood once they left Elmina castle. After liberating the Jackdaw with her newfound ally, Oson, they will spend their maritime marronage carving out their own nation on the high seas of the Caribbean.” #assassinscreed #illustration #carribean

Gentle reminder that resistance does not begin at arrest. It starts with what you choose to do in the everyday in spite of their evil. Get tired, take a break, but do not stop.

An Andalusian skirmisher meets a frontier friend in the upper march c. 10th century CE. #spain #españa #portugal #history #cat #illustration #islamichistory

(Some) parts to an 'Abbasid-era chemistry set based on a manuscript from al-Kindi and artifacts from Samarra. Chemistry, among other fields of study, saw many advancements in the Islamic world during the 9th-11th centuries. #chemistry #illustration #history #iraq #islamichistory #islamicgoldenage

Is it too late for a #palestine land day post? #art #illustration

This is not #blackhistory : "The First Muezzin" #islamichistory #islam #illustration

This is not #blackhistory: "The Severan Dynasty" Based on statuary and the Severan tondo. #romanempire #history #illustration #ukhistory

DM to submit a request! #commissionsopen

Two groups of friends walk past each other. Cordoba, c. 10th century CE. #history #alandalus #islamichistory #jewishhistory #spain #illustration #conceptart

This really shouldn't be controversial, but fuck Nazis. They killed over 12 million people (at least 6 million of which were Jews), plunged the world into war, and brought about untold destruction in the name of pure evil. Fuck Trump, fuck Elon Musk, and fuck anyone who supports their regime.

A sahib of the market inspects a merchant's goods before entering the city. Cordoba, c. 10th century CE #history #alandalus #islamichistory #spain #illustration #conceptart

A noblewoman directs her retinue, #Cordoba, c. 10th Century CE. #history #alandalus #vikinghistory #islamichistory #spain #illustration #conceptart

Some concept art I made for a game one of my colleagues was brainstorming. #conceptart #gamedesign #animals #illustration

Will post some filler I have laying around tomorrow. Until then, here's a hint about what my next work will (almost) completely avoid:

Since my last work had a lot of layers of composition, I keep wanting to top it with my next bit of concept art. Need to remember that concept art should sometimes just be a flat, informational image and not the next Da Vinci....

Be sure to check out the webcomic my friend and colleague made!

I think Nosferatu 2024 is a good adaptation of the 1922 movie, but its central themes surrounding patriarchy and sexual violence would have been better executed if they were more faithful to the novel.

St Nikolas of Myrna Saves 3 Innocents from Death #gaza

Opened the bird app to see how things are going and was met with a wave of illiterate, white nationalist losers having an unintelligible tantrum all over the trending tab. Consider this a divine sign to stay off Twitter.

Me being a Jeff main in #MarvelRivals is completely unrelated to me having a shark emoji in my bio. I think sharks are unfairly demonized, and they play a vital role in the environment (which is partially why I'm a jeff main). 🦈

Druid king of Tolán, herald of the dawn, feathered serpentine progenitor of mankind, the second sun, the first star, and lord of the Western winds. #quetzalcoatl #mesoamerica #wallpaper #teotihuacan #indigenousamerican

After looking at the Letterboxd reviews, I stand somewhat corrected. The people going to see Gladiator are also expecting to see handsome, muscular men in skirts perform in situations with mildly homoerotic undertones.

The emperors famous for their North African roots and adoption of Gaulic dress being depicted as straight-haired gingers in nondescript robes only reinforces that the Roman empire in popular media is effectively an aesthetic used to reflect the status quo and not real history.

August, 1809. A map was among the assets seized from a church near Cordoba by the armies of France. On the back was written: "From the emir 'Abd alRahman bin Muhammed bin 'Abdullah to the ignabi from the north for the fulfillment of his oath." Where this alleged map went afterward is unknown.

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A fun writing exercise: create some folklore about a mundane practice. A fantasy culture might cook with potatoes because they like them and grow well in their soil, but what traditions surround the potato? Was it handed down from a mythic ancestor? Is there a myth that helps guide cultivation?

@mrshwoo.bsky.social "So Toby Fox was making some Toy Story shitposts after one of his fans spliced 'you have a friend in me' on one of his demo tracks, and of you look at the references to 'a friend within Kris' in chapter 2 of Delta Rune..."

Took the flu and covid vaccine at the same time. Regret... 💀

Top 10 video games to get to know me (in no particular order) 1- Planetside 2 2- Fortnite 3- AC: Unity 4- AC: Mirage 5- Minecraft 6- Warframe 7- Sleeping Dogs 8- Skyrim 9- Fallout: New Vegas 10- If I was a Teenage Exocolonist

The next time someone tells you that magic makes firearms irrelevant in fantasy settings, remind them that iron spears were still a match for guns even in the mid-late 1800s. It's totally viable for a barbarian to keep one on hand so they don't have to deal with "cowardly wizards".

As a bonus for anyone migrating from Twitter, here are some sketches I made during past research sessions

I like grand mosques and palatial complexes as much as the next person, but what architecture did the average person interact with? While by no means comprehensive, here is what a suburban household might have looked like for the average person in 10th-century alAndalus. #conceptart #history #spain

Does #AssassinsCreed neglect important historical figures in its stories? #istanbul #history #conceptart #art

Do protagonists in #AssassinsCreed interact with patriarchy? Should they? If so, how? #conceptart #history #art

How much does the protagonist's gender affect the story of #AssassinsCreed: 2? #art #conceptart #history

Is Assassin's Creed supposed to be historically accurate? At'ta-ir alHaj/Athanasios Proskynitis/الطائر الحاج/Αθανάσιος ο προσκυνητής #AssassinsCreed #art #Syria #history #conceptart

A design from one of my classes. Based on the #keffiyeh , Kufee is a spunkly little guy from "Jordan". I'm not sure what to use this guy for, but think it has some good elements. #characterdesign #illustration #art #OC

Highlights from #swordtember 2023 #conceptart #sword #medieval #art