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@eol4242

Comms closed unless stated otherwise. Art of realistic arms&armours informed by historical research. Concept art & military for #ManorLords. HEMA. DMs open.

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Long time no fluted armour

06.03.2026 19:28 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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Medieval winter hunt❄

Collaborative drawing with @eol4242.bsky.social

31.01.2026 13:10 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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French knight, last third 15th c.
(BnF, MSs Fr 24380; Fr 22547)

21.01.2026 18:51 👍 47 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0

Merci :))

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Flemish paviser, last third 15th c.
(BnF, MS Fr 2799)

20.01.2026 16:09 👍 129 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 0
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03.12.2025 22:27 👍 22 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Knight errant, 15th c. France

My recent annotated illustrations are available at my website eol-art.fr/history/

21.10.2025 16:20 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Dragon Slayer

03.10.2025 18:57 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Catalan gentleman, 1395 (inspired by an altarpiece of the Serra workshop in Paris MAD)

18.08.2025 16:38 👍 49 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
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1400 Northern Germans, from the "Chapelle Cardon" portable altarpiece

11.08.2025 16:50 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Gathering little friends

02.08.2025 20:04 👍 70 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
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Collaborative scene by @eol4242.bsky.social @eggman and me

28.07.2025 10:23 👍 42 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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29.04.2025 17:01 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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French knight, 1460s

Based on a statue of Dunois (presumably) as a military saint, from Châteaudun (down below)

29.04.2025 17:01 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Little Big Knight

25.04.2025 19:02 👍 36 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Third quarter 14th century gentleman. Loosely inspired by the effigy of Charles II d'Alençon at St Denis.

04.04.2025 16:50 👍 38 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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Survivors killer

03.03.2025 18:46 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Culveriner
France, Flanders or England, late 15th

02.03.2025 13:21 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Drawing I made with my valentine @eol4242.bsky.social for Valentine’s Day 💗🌹 ✨

Love is beautiful 🤍

14.02.2025 20:25 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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Follow-up of the last: franc archer ("franc arbalétrier" [crossbowman] in this case) in gear, from a rich or generous commune, usually affording brigandines.

Only missing is the hoqueton or livery jacket that would cover the brigandine and display the arms of the company.

13.02.2025 18:12 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Franc archer undressed. Armed, he would put on a brigandine, brigandine guardbraces (shoulder armour), the other elbow guard, and a sallet.

Then of course the belt for dagger and sword; and the belt for arrow/bolt case, or gauntlets if he is a vougier or pikeman.

12.02.2025 20:54 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The same but painted

10.02.2025 18:41 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Not in a hurry to

09.02.2025 23:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Vougier, late 15th

09.02.2025 19:16 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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In practice, they could commonly have a maille gorget and some plate elbows. As infantry legs were unarmoured.

The memorandum wanted jack over supposedly-less-convenient brigandines. That part of the reform didn't hit everywhere, probably following a form of lobbying from communal armourers.

04.02.2025 18:07 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Little doodle of a bowman franc-archer with the ~1466 memorandum specifications.

Asides from the accurately-described jack, of 25 to 30 layers and an optional deerskin; these guys carried bow and arrows in their bag, dagger, a short sword and an optional buckler. Their sallet was to be visorless.

04.02.2025 18:07 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

to anything they want, as long as you have a strap or a lace you can attach it somewhere.

29.01.2025 03:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The knight and his page

28.01.2025 11:21 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0