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Uphaz
"I have no idea what's going on. But Stekkar is my best fren. I'm just here for moral support. And also to clean up the mess, I guess." - Uphaz, The Cleaner --- Tiny Puter Pals (Tiny PP) is a collection of small character and creature designs by aintnoking.
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Awakening: Soul Freedom
"Also known as Awakening Utility as its release title. Break from the Hypnotic exchange. Become your Utility. It's your own path. Choose it. Don't give in to what they say or think that the rules that apply to their idea of creativity are your own. You don't need to sell your soul to make your art. Just do it. Whatever colors you choose to use to express yourself. Whatever path you choose, do not let others choose for you. Do not listen to the monsters that want you to make what they want. Whatever shape you are. Wield your medium and soul by facing the world and tell all those fakers to take a hike. Pastel 61cm by 45cm Ink and Charcoal"
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Joseon Ladies : SAGE
This special series features beautiful girls in various kind of Korean traditional oversized hairstyles from the Joseon Dynasty. Each of them in traditional hanbok. These kinds of hairstyle carry their own symbolism like as protection from evil influences and also to portray marital and wealth status. The artwork is an experimental attempt by the artist to combine both traditional (hand drawn inking) as preliminary drawing stage and post-produced with digital rendering. The flowers included are to emphasize the elegance and femininity exudes by the ladies. Immense level of details is put in both the flowers and the portraits. These 5 portraits also are part of artist’s personal 100 heads challenge, they are heads number 85-90 out of 100.
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Seize the Dream
"I always have told to do things I never wanted to for myself since I was young. This.. also one of them that I've been forced to do so. I have plans for myself since I graduated from high school, but mom never agree with that. She wants me get a Bachelor degree, just because she never get a chance to finish college. So she want me to be the one who finish it. Just a blink of my eyes and all my own dream disappear just for my mother's sake. It's all because I'm too scared to say what I need. Too scare to walk on my own path because everyone says it will never go well. This is my story. A story of a child who have grown up to be an adult that she never wanting to be." 4140 x 3392 px [PNG]
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lightning.
Based on Serbian folk tradition, we can see that there was a widespread belief in dragons (ЗМАЈ), mythical creatures that are imagined differently in various places and occasions. Not to be confused with Ala or Aždaja, those were completely different beings. According to beliefs about appearance and some characteristics, we can divide them into three groups: dragons that identify with meteorites, dragon-men, and dragon-serpents. What they all have in common is that they are not evil beings, although there are exceptions, and they are not that rare. The appearance of the dragon was shaped by the popular imagination in different ways, connecting it with traditions and giving it certain attributes, so sometimes it's hard to even imagine what they looked like. Sometimes they change shape, sometimes they share common elements from all three mentioned groups, while sometimes they are talked about without any details at all. Yet we can list a few examples. In eastern Serbia, it was believed that the dragon was some kind of bird with a ram's head and a snake's tail which flies at night and lightens up the sky like a shooting star. There is also a belief that the dragon is born from a carp (fish), when it reaches forty years of age, because that's when it gets legs and wings. Sometimes, again, the dragon is imagined as an eagle fighting with Alas and Aždajas, which then creates stormy clouds and lightning. At last, a dragon can also have a human appearance. In eastern Serbia, certain people were believed to be dragons. They defend their village and region from the elements. For many figures from our folklore, it's been said that they were dragons or to have been born from a dragon and a fairy, or an ordinary human woman. It was believed that there are ordinary people who are dragons, and when disaster strikes, they die and seem to fall asleep, and from their bodies then a spirit (or a duplicate) comes out, which goes to fight with the thunderclouds. According to this belief, dragons could be both male and female. Likewise, it was believed that the dragon was stronger younger, it was even thought that the strongest dragon would be the newborn baby that hadn't even been nursed yet. It is clear from the whole description that the dragon from our folk mythology is a greatly anthropomorphized being, having the same characteristics as a human. He thinks and works like an ordinary man, he just has other certain characteristics, he can fly, he has enormous strength, he has the ability to shape-shift from one form to another (from a man he can become an eagle and vice versa; or he can leave the body in the form of a spirit and go fight with other demons) etc. To a large extent , the dragon represents our exceptionality, because of his uniqueness and differences in relation to the mythologies of other Slavic peoples.