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perfectly soft hands

that one authors note has gotten a run for its money

Knight of Wands / All That Glitters

The Knight of Wands is a sign to act boldly and decisively despite the risks. Embrace adventure and spontaneous travel plans. An impulsive decision turns out better than expected.

‘Gyro -

How are you? It’s been such a while since we’ve heard from you, but I’ve seen the papers - hope your family’s doing well.

Here’s a sketch of Nick, who’s finally givin’ me a real smile when I draw him instead of just stickin’ his tongue out. You’d get along.

That’s not the main reason I’m writing, though - and this part does concern you, somewhat, but don’t get angry. Elizabeth’s blessed us with another kid, a baby girl. She’s let me do the naming again, angel that she is, and we’re going to call her Julia.

So now both our kids are named after my best friends in the world. What was I gonna do, name them after my father?

Anyhow, Slow Dancer says ‘Hello and How Are You,’ and mighty wishes Valkyrie would get back to her, so we’d all appreciate a word from the both of you, time allowing.

Stay well,

Johnny’

aftermath of sandman fight

Reference "The dream of a knight" 1504 by Rafael Sanzio.

During my art history class, my teacher mentioned that painting and I immediately had this idea. And what I read about the original, it's like the knight's choice between these two sides, or also may be these two things that involve being a knight. What in the original is the woman on the left is the virtue, I thought about the duty and obligations that Gyro has as the oldest son, and for the woman in the right is the pleasure, I thought about the sentimentality.

backdrop photo is ponte st angelo, where some executions did take place in the papal states.

this redesign is in preparation for that little comic i teased last night. i wanted to match the design to a more clerical look. i interact with lots of this type of religious garments weekly and find them very lovely, so i wanted to play around with them on a canonically catholic character. apologies for any inaccuracies, i did this mainly for fun. im not sure how well the pauldron would accommodate a swing of the shoulder but the zeppelis do have them in the original design so i decided to make them look a little more normal.

adding the red was my favorite part as it’s a reference to the real executioner for the pope, giovanni battista bugatti, who was widely feared during his 60-something year career up until 1864. his entire robe was red and super scary.