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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #PortfolioDay! I mainly focus on historical concept art, but I also dabble in fantasy and depicting current events.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 4d

"Gee Peter, this is more confusing than when I had coffee with a friend in Jeddah."

#familyguy #masameer #Bluey #marthaspeaks #meme #comic #crossover

Brian from Family Guy has coffee with Trad from Masameer, Bluey, and Martha from Martha Speaks. "Do you have any idea what he just said?" "شلونك يا بنت؟"

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 4d

As someone who always lived close to the ocean, keeping Palestinians from to making a livelihood on, or even just seeing the waves is one of the points of apartheid that upset me the most. Loved drawing the sea in this; I see it as its own character in this.

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DannyAraya @dannyaraya.bsky.social · 7d

Creators, be less tasteful and more indulgent.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 4d

You underestimate my fear of slop 😩

Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 5d

The Mikeno's crew also cast floating aid packages off the starboard side, but it is unconfirmed if any of these reached Gaza.

Regardless, the strongest military in the region with the backing of several nuclear powers was beaten without a single shot fired.

Gaza was fed. Palestine will be free.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 5d

On the morning of October 2nd, the Mikeno was spotted off the coast of Gaza. As the Israeli Navy scrambled to capture the ship, Palestinians took advantage of the distraction to launch their fishing boats and cast their nets.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 5d

Marines stormed onboard the ships with guns drawn to kidnap unarmed activists while the navy rammed ships and blasted water on anyone exposed. During this chaos, the Mikeno, piloted by Muhammad Kuchuktigin, outmaneuvered the Israelis, and evaded capture by turning their transponder on and off.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 5d

On the night of October 1st, a flotilla of over 40 ships carrying humanitarian activists and aid was intercepted in International waters by the Israeli navy for attempting to break the genocidal siege on Gaza.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 5d

"Hope"

#gaza #palestine #illustration #art #sumundfloatila #gretathunberg #sea #fishing

Palestinian fishermen rush to launch their fishing boats as the Sumund flotilla ship, the Mikeno, crests over the horizon.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 16d

Wow! Is that a new chapter of Fairview from my good friend @mrshwoo.bsky.social?!

www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/fa...

Fairview - Episode 9: Night Drive

After making a deal with Barnerok, an ancient demon of fear, Jenny Fairview was given the ability to manipulate the dreams of those around her. With these powers, she haunts those who've gone unpunish...

www.webtoons.com

Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 16d

Much of the sword's design was based specifically on details from Seamus Heaney's 2001 translation of Beowulf. The sword being refurbished is totally my invention.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 16d

Inspired by how Mycenaean ruins were said to have built built by cyclopses in ancient Greece, I based the blade's unique design on swords recovered from Rørby, Denmark. I like to imagine this sword was designed to never kill, and the bent blade was meant to reflect that. Not that Beowulf cares!

On top, a double-edged bronze sword with a circular crossguard. On the bottom, a bronze sword with a curved blade and no crossguard.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 16d

When Beowulf's blade fails him, only an ancient sword from an era of giants can save him. Despite its destruction in a battle with monsters, it has been re-bladed for the kings of a new age.

#beowulf #swordtember #illustrator #art #propdesign #anglosaxon #archeology #mythology #commsopen

From right to left, a sword with a bent tip based on artifacts from the Nordic Bronze Age, the same sword with its blade melting into goo, and the surviving hilt refurbished with silver and a straight, Viking-style, double-edged blade.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 26d

I do not condone Charlie's assassination. But, if you hold his death as inherently more reverant and noteworthy than the brown and the queer who were already being killed, I think that is a massive condemnation of your character.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 26d

On the same day, an avowed Nazi shot up a school in Colorado, and hundreds of Gazans were starved and bombed. In the following weeks, Demartraviaon "Trey" Reed and Cory Zukatis were lynched in Mississippi.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 26d

Nobody should be killed for their beliefs.

Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who celebrated political violence against brown and queer people. He was never going to change his mind, and only served to recruit more ignorant bigots into Trump's fascist cult of death.

These are both true.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 28d

NO! CYAN LOOK OUT! THERE'S AN IMPOSTOR AMOGUS!!!!

Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 28d

Migraines are one of the worst things to get. I often end up having to lose the rest of my day to passing out from the pain. Them lasting for more than a day or being more frequent than once every few months is not normal, though. Hope everything's going well!

Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 28d

I spent less than 3 hours on this, and this is my most liked post so far 💀

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 28d

The most generic warrior with the most average sword I can think of for #swordtember2025.

#art #illustration #history #commsopen

A brown-skinned man with short hair and a moustache holds a spear while wearing basic cloth armor and a helmet. To his side is a one-handed, single-edged, straight, medium-length sword in a basic scabbard.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · Jul 31

Woagh! New Fairview from @mrshwoo.bsky.social!

www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/fa...

Fairview - Episode 8: The Dreamer

After making a deal with Barnerok, an ancient demon of fear, Jenny Fairview was given the ability to manipulate the dreams of those around her. With these powers, she haunts those who've gone unpunish...

www.webtoons.com

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · Jun 27

Cpl. Noonan took his life by discharging his firearm into his heart. Mrs Noonan donated a significant sum of cash to the Catholic church upon her death. The couple were trying for a child. Materials covering their lives from the BLM's website were deleted by the Trump administration.

Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · Jun 27

Cpl. John Noonan of Custer's 7th cavalry and his wife. Mrs. Noonan was a camp laundress cherished by the soldiers and camp followers. When she suddenly died, an autopsy declared her a man. Cpl. Noonan's loss and harassment by his comrades drove him to suicide.

#pride #intersex #americanhistory

Corporal John Noonan and Mrs. Noonan embrace each other.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · May 16

Inspired by accounts of maritime marronage in the Black Atlantic, I replaced the protagonist from Black Flag with two characters that give the pirate genre new life. Anaya is a Hausa woman that leads by example for everyone to see. Oson, the Yoruba, choses a more nimble and stealthy approach.