Adult!Merida sketchbook fluff…  she would had never admitted to it but secretly she was glad her girls liked pretty pretty princess things and how happy it made Elinor.

I wonder why am I suddenly so suckered into this older Merida concept… probably because she was such a believable character I can see her having a real life after the movie.  Also I want to see her as a fierce queen.

k-beryl:

taijavigilia:

I was stuck in the car for about eight hours over the weekend while going to visit the in-laws and my mind was just wandering around.  Part of me ships Merida with MacGuffin but part of me is like.. ehh.. it’s more likely she married some complete outsider or no-one at all.

So in one of the alternate versions I came up with Abderrahim.  The third son of an Iberian nobleman he chose the life of a scholar and was on his way back from drawing complete map of the Baltic Sea when the vessel he was traveling on capsized in an autumn storm and the few survivors floated to shore not far from Castle Dunbroch.  With her father’s health starting to fail Merida took to looking after the injured and before long the adventurous duo were inseparable and Abderrahim’s despair over his lost research forgotten as Merida showed him the Highlands.  Three years later at her coronation Merida announced that they were to marry.  Initially the clansmen disagreed but as Merida’s influence grew and Dunbroch and neighboring clans prospered beyond everyone’s expectations with the new trade routes to south the doubters were silenced.  This picture is Queen Merida and King Abderrahim on the tenth birthday of their firstborn twins, crown prince Fergus and crown princess Jamila. 

Oh there was a load of other stuff as well but another (story)time.

Awesome but how does one end up on the coast of Scotland from the Baltic Sea? Also how did someone from Iberia end up in the Scandanavia/Denmark region? Other than that it’s pretty cool (as I’ve said eslewhere in my tags)

Lots of ways!  There were no shipping lanes to follow.  He would had had to sail north first and done his map drawing and wintered over in some town at least once, if not twice.. probably in Northern Germany since most and sometimes all of Baltic Sea freezes over.  On the way back it’s possible there might have been a war or the English channel might not have been safe for other reasons (there’s no exact date on when “Brave” takes place so take your pick of any of the multiple medieval wars England and France -or what later became the France we know today- had) so they could had tried to go around the British Isles/through the Irish Sea instead or needed to land for supplies or there were no clear skies for a week or two (no stars for navigation) and they got a little lost.  Take your pick really.  In my head there was a war on their way back and they were aiming to go around to avoid any possible confrontation or getting ransacked. 

The map I’m using below is a much later drawing, actual medieval maps like Mappa Mundi and others I’ve come across (both from the 1300s afaik) are fascinating in showing how clueless people still were about what the world looked like but how eager they were to figure it all out.  When they went somewhere in person the precision they had with using the stars and maths to draw the maps out is astounding as well, the accuracy with which the Mediterranean/Black Sea is depicted in the second link is amazing.. and then you get the Baltic and British Isles which is just mostly guesswork by the looks of it, Scotland’s a square lol.  Google maps just makes it all seem so effortless nowadays you forget it used to take months and years to map a little bit of coastline. 

I was stuck in the car for about eight hours over the weekend while going to visit the in-laws and my mind was just wandering around.  Part of me ships Merida with MacGuffin but part of me is like.. ehh.. it’s more likely she married some complete outsider or no-one at all.

So in one of the alternate versions I came up with Abderrahim.  The third son of an Iberian nobleman he chose the life of a scholar and was on his way back from drawing complete map of the Baltic Sea when the vessel he was traveling on capsized in an autumn storm and the few survivors floated to shore not far from Castle Dunbroch.  With her father’s health starting to fail Merida took to looking after the injured and before long the adventurous duo were inseparable and Abderrahim’s despair over his lost research forgotten as Merida showed him the Highlands.  Three years later at her coronation Merida announced that they were to marry.  Initially the clansmen disagreed but as Merida’s influence grew and Dunbroch and neighboring clans prospered beyond everyone’s expectations with the new trade routes to south the doubters were silenced.  This picture is Queen Merida and King Abderrahim on the tenth birthday of their firstborn twins, crown prince Fergus and crown princess Jamila. 

Oh there was a load of other stuff as well but another (story)time.

pianocarnival said: Post ALL THE SKETCHES!

Nope because they look mostly like that… my daughter has a new favourite hobby. It’s to climb onto my lap randomly and point at things and then I have about 10 seconds to draw whatever she points at before she yanks the pen out of my hand and draws over it.  My sketchbook is now full of random bunnies and teddies and her and her brother and stick figures of me and husband etc.  Part of me is so happy that she’s into drawing (because her brother couldn’t care less) and part is like ok this isn’t cute anymore..  I gave you your own paper and colouring book now go draw on that but nope, mommy’s paper is the best.  On the other hand she’ll probably grow out of it in a couple of months and then I’ll miss it so I’m not trying to push her away in a hurry.  I wonder if I could teach her to do clean-up of my sketches by the time she’s ten? >_>’

Super busy with random stuff in life, gawd I haven’t drawn anything properly in weeks and I hate it.  Just a lot of quick sketches I don’t know should I post or not..

wackycactus:

stalcry:

katiewoodger:

DISNEY HAVE STOLEN MY ARTWORK

I don’t know what to do. I am so upset. Can anyone help me?

My painting was created back in 2010, (see it HERE) and since then so many people have expressed their love for it, not just on tumblr, but in many places. At least 9 people had it tattooed on their bodies. It’s one of my favourite images I created at University and I was proud of it in many ways.

Disney have used it on a cosmetics bag HERE (look at the back)
and they have produced a Tshirt HERE with a really similar design clearly modeled from my painting

I’m so mad because I have no chance at getting Disney to do anything about it. I had so much respect for the company and now I am just SO upset and disappointed.

Any help, advice or signal boosting would be amazing. And thank you so much to the kind person who messaged me about this.

This is fucked up.  Though I don’t blame disney as a whole so much as whoeverthefuck is in charge of the merch .  This is not okay.  Signal boosting the hell out of this.

Although I think this is terrible, and no person should ever feel abused because someone stole their artwork, I do have to play the devil’s advocate.  The original author of this post did create an artwork based on Disney’s design of Alice.  Now, if the Alice was the author’s interpretation, Disney could get in a lot more trouble than they are in currently.  Disney owns the rights to the design that is being featured in this beautiful work of art.  Unfortunately, this means that they have the rights to use this artwork.  If I’m wrong, please correct me, but it’s highly unlikely they’ll take it down.

Shit like this makes me think I shouldn’t post things online anymore…

On topic, Alice in Wonderland is kind of a tricky subject.  The Disney animated film is under copyright, the original Lewis Carroll books and their illustrations for the most part are not.  Woodger’s piece is more evocative of the illustrations by John Tenniel than Disney’s Alice.  There’s always a possibility that the Disney consumer products artist making this purse came across Woodger’s image and took it for Tenniel’s in which case it’s not as much intentional art theft as poor researching, making assumptions and failure to use Google.  As far as I can tell Disney would had been perfectly within their rights to use the image on the far right as it’s *their* Alice, but fan art or not, Woodger would still own the rights to her physical work on the piece on the left… you’d need an experienced copyright lawyer to argue about the details alas. 

(via drakebynes)

Happy Easter!

Holiday gouaches.

Holidaying visiting family and we are staying at my parents retirement pad- an old farmhouse. It’s lovely but a little middle of nowhere so not a lot to do. Finally got around to watching Panna a Netvor. Charming film.  I want to be back at my own scanner quickly though, taking photos kills half the gray shades.