I was designing myself a tattoo and got a little carried away vectorizing and re-drawing monks' illustrations from old manuscripts. This poster is the full version, and I'm getting 5" stickers printed of each one, individually. Some of them just look dumb, and others make you wonder what the hell the description was that the artists were going off of. I love how little they knew about aquatic animals, and how many of them just got feet because they didn't know what was going on underwater. Others clearly have human faces because animal faces are hard. Some are understandable because European monks probably didn't have access to a hippo, but others like a cat, owl or fish surely were around. They got human faces anyway.
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It took me a while to convert each one of these to black while preserving the vibe. Almost all of each one was essentially completely redrawn.
It's interesting how some mythical medieval animals are clearly fanciful but other artists based their art on what they'd seen. I edited my comment and I added a black thread / whitish background of an embroidery is of a pard. Whoever made that definitely used housecats as a model to start from.