Concepts, sketches and Shipping basket

This is a small side blog where I'll doodle ships and friendships for the countryhumans fandom!

(Also countryballs, I like the silly cute balls and Hetalia to draw anime style)

+ sketches and concepts , may ramble about random time periods...

I have just a couple of ships I like myself but I do not mind taking requests of ships that aren't offensive!

I'll also just doodle friendly doodles without ships in them!

The goal of this blog is to exercise on drawing stuff!

Asks are always open and I do take requests , I may take a lot to do requests tho since I'm running two an ask blogs also:

Bronze age ask blog:@sane-human (on hold!!) Pre-ww1 ask blog: @sane-person

Have some early Roman kingdom history drop

"To encourage the growth of the city, Romulus outlawed infanticide, and established an asylum for fugitives on the Capitoline Hill. Here freemen and slaves alike could claim protection and seek Roman citizenship" -wiki

(Pls say yes or else I will have my giant radioactive mutant three eyed deep sea mermaid Marshall Islands, who can swallow battleships whole, swim up your bath drain and take all your shampoo and leave nothing but conditioner.)

No need to exchange , I will share , mermaid Venice just comes from the country ball Venice being an octopus too lol , I just took it from that

Just some doodles done on the bus/break time

random doodles! Rome rebuilding Carthage , based the prosthetic leg on the Capua Leg and the little tag on the Zoninus collar

Been reading about the italics before Rome came about , did a little character sheet side by side thing to get down some ideas

I based the Sicani on Polyphemus, in myths the cyclops are said to be in Sicily so he is blind because some Greek came and poked his eye out and since he was a Shepard I made the other two people that inhabited Sicily be sheep (Elymians and Sicels), Elymians are said to have come from some trojans fleeing after the Trojan war, and Sicels are either indigenous or come from somewhere else

The Iapygians came with the Trans-Adriatic migrations from the Balkans (Illyrians)

I made most of South Italy cows or bulls (Oscans and Umbri) based on the fact that the name "Italy" means "inhabitants of the land of calfs"

The Picenes are tricky to pin point ,but they probably are an off shoot of the Sabines , still the north picenes language is a language isolate for some reason?? I need to get it better still, but he is a woodpeckers because of if being a foundation animal for them

I based the Latins on mostly Albalonga , that was the city leading the latin league , she is a white sow based on the foundation myth :

The etruscans are divided into three since it is said they once ruled over all the peninsula and influenced it a lot , based them on the Etruscan Shrew because I found it funny, small creatures mhuahaha

And the Ligurians have a Celtic/Gaulish influence, so he is of course a deer, because I'll make most celts deers

Here's a little graphic to show more or less what I am going for in terms of family tree stuff , I'm basing it on cultures , history and myths :D

(There is a theory that the Sicani originated on the Iberian Peninsula and were pushed away by the Ligurians , that would be pretty neat for me so I can connect it to the myth of Polyphemus and the nymph Galatea creating Celtus, Galas, and Illyrius , but it is all myths , the bronze/iron ages are very very complicated , but it’s fun to connect things )

Having fun with a book about armors and weapons :D

Close up:

The history definitely left the Christians and later Papal States with some heavy baggage from the Roman Empire, but due to the times being hard after the fall of the Empire (aka general chaos in the middle ages), he never really had time to process it well enough, causing some... how do I even say uh... mental issues ? Heavy metal issues yeah He goes from , for example , fearing fire to burning heretics:

The pope or high ranking bishops would be the ones crowning kings and emperors in the middle ages , so I see him as also getting some of the Roman Empire's Arrogance on him later on :

I present what first came to my mind when I thought about this :

Even in old age , the Huns pester Rome

I'm making the Etruscans be like a mother to Rome , mostly based on this :