I've been a massive fan of pirates and general 17th/18th century nautical stuff literally for as long as I can remember and it all started back when I was a wee bab who loved "Pirates of the Caribbean" and still does. The "Black Pearl" specifically always takes my breath away whenever I look at her.

Your Honour, she is the love of my life, the most magnificent, most elegant and most fierce ship in the seas!

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Fun fact, which I don't see anybody talking about ever: The "Pearl's" rigging changes in-between "Curse of the Black Pearl" and "Dead Man's Chest". And I don't mean her sails getting patched up, I mean that in CotBP she has two square sails on her mizzen mast, a mizzen sail and mizzen topsail, while in DMC, instead of the mizzen sail, she gains a triangular mizzen course sail!

Mattias Gunnarsson Studio work 2020 - 2024

Here's a couple Elden Ring illustrations I've done over the course of the last two months.

Has it really been 81 days since I last posted art? Bollocks...

Anyways, I tried to draw on some new paper which turned out didn't quite handle ink very well, so Melina's face looks kinda fucked among other things... I also tried to do more scenery and backgrounds, experimenting with different linear effects. Some turned out better than others, but I'm mostly pissed off at the smudges and how much my lines were distorted ( don't ask me what the fuck dripped down the Margit pic, I have no idea). I should try and get new paper and better ink maybe...

In the end, I decided to get back into fine liners for the Radahn piece and I'm not gonna lie to you, it felt pretty good.

THE DUO EVER 🗣️🗣️

Slight warning for being suggestive for the last image.

Sunset fireflies!