My Bluebell

Beena my love as a Celtic Queen, she loves Magpies (two for joy) and bluebells.

Work work work

I'm currently looking for work like a crazy person, so if you or anyone you know wants a commision or anything art related Im the man.

On a slightly different note, here's me holding a kubotan I made for fun. Carved from a branch of a pine tree that was cut down near Beena's house. I did the whole thing with my swiss army knife, including sawing the branch off. Versatile little tool. The design was then burned on with a pyrography tool.

 

Forgive my sticking out tongue, that happens when I concentrate.

Traditional Cúchullain

Done again.

Oisín the poet

 

Oisín (pronounced ush - een, for those non Irish amongst ye) was the son of Fionn, I drew him already remember. Oisín's story is the saddest of all of them, a sorry end to a great warrior poet. If you want to know more about him you may as well buy a few books and get to reading because there are a lot of different versions of what happened to him, my personal preference is in Lady Gregory's Irish Mythology, my bible. But if you dont want to go to any trouble, check him out on wikipedia link Now they say on there that his son Osgar or Oscar was born and raised on Tir na nÓg, but in most stories he grew up in Ireland and was a member of the Fianna, so I dont know. Its all very confusing

Cúchullain again

The greatest warrior of all time, Cúchullain, the hound of Ulster.
He was never a King in life, but in the tale of his death a prophecy is made that on that day 3 kings would die, it is explained to Queen Mebd the three kings were Cúchullain, the king of warriors, Laeg his friend and the king of charioteers and Macha the grey, Cúchullain's horse, the king of horses who went on to kill another hundred or so warriors even after Cúchullain died. I shall do them two next.
After giving Fionn in the previous piece a big giant sword, I thought the savage Cúchullain would be better shown with just bloody fists.
In all the books on Irish myth that I'v read, there has never been a very accurate description of what Cú looks like, even though everyone else is described in great detail. But of the fleeting descriptions, they normally say he was small and of a grim countenance with dark hair.

Celtic Knot

I was reminded of this the other day, my father taught me to draw it when I was little and I added the knotwork aspect to it later on myself.

I think Ill do a tutorial on how to do it for Islander next Tuesday, simply because I want to and it's a bit different