I thought the musketeers ladies challenge thing was a good excuse to try and draw samara – I don’t think i’ve quite got her down yet to be honest but I kind of like the direction this is going in? Also I didnt sign up cause I thought id still be on exams…

Also trying out doing kind of marker washes with pencil lines which is fun

the arabic (hopefully) roughly transliterates as al-adalus, al-maghrib, bayt?

Which vaguely means: what the moors called spain (like 100 years earlier than this but whatever), lit. the west an arabic name for morocco (remaining the only arabic word I actually vaguely know), home?

And I know very little arabic grammer but its also not really meant to be a coherant sentence

bayt I think maybe more commonly used to mean house – but it also means a line in a poem (and can mean home so its meaning home here)