Fun fact: Did you know that Rembrandt's birthplace, Leiden, was tied to the Pilgrims, who started the tradition of in the Netherlands.🦃

(Selfportrait of the artist with a bittern, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1639)

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Druid Faiz of Arcadia didn't have a familiar. However, his journey through the Event Horizon was observed by the .

One in particular, decided to follow. Meet Ruby, the ruby-fronted time-traveling bittern, and Faiz's familiar!

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“Where by the marishes boometh the bittern,
Neckar the soulless one sits with his ghittern.
Sits inconsolable, friendless and foeless.
Waiting his destiny, – Neckar the soulless.“

-Sebastian Evans, 1865

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Finished doing a small ref for my mudwing oc , Bittern, to get back into the groove of drawing. Mudwings are honestly the most detailed dragons in terms of linework. The base is linked below.

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Bittern

Full colour sketch of a bittern bird no.1421 © https://t.co/F6U4aayuZg

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