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University has begun again and I have less time, so here, take another overrendered warm-up doodle

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Sometimes I get a bit too invested in the warm-up doodles I do before working on an actual painting, and I suppose this is the result of it.

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Happy dictator-perforation-day to those who celebrate 🗡️🗡️🗡️

I pulled an all-nighter to get this out on time, because I consistently underestimate the time it takes me to paint, but I am quite pleased with the finished image

As a sidenote, whilst I did skim over the account of the assassination given by Suetonius in his biography of Caesar, I didn’t pay all to much attention to historical accuracy, deciding to prioritise composition instead (Not that my usual artwork is particularly historically accurate, since whilst I do make an effort at research before starting a piece, I still am just some 19-year-old with barely any qualifications in  the relevant fields lol)

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#art #digital art #digital painting #historical art #history #roman history #rome #julius caesar #beware the ides of march #ides of march

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My current main wip is frustrating me somewhat, so I painted this quick, one-layer doodle as a distraction and I might as well post it

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Orestes and Erinys

A bit over a month ago I had to give a short presentation on Aischylos‘ Oresteia as part of my coursework and reading it gave me the idea for this piece.

Specifically, it is referencing lines 1057-1058 of the Libation Bearers, where, for the first time, Orestes is seeing the Furies.

(The text does explicitly describe blood dripping from the Furies’ eyes, but when I noticed this, the idea of a blood-covered face had already developed, and I chose to keep it. Also I didn’t have the time or patience to paint more than two figures, so I suppose you can imagine the rest of the Furies somewhere off-screen or something)

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#the day will come when I will learn how to draw nuanced facial expressions #But today is not that day #art #illustration #digital painting #greek mythology #greek tragedy #tagamemnon #the oresteia #the libation bearers #orestes #house of atreus #Erynis #the furies #cw #blood

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I read that we’re about to get a movie in the coming year, so I decided to rewatch the series, which in turn led to a new bout of fan-brainrot.

Anyway, here’s some fanart of everybody’s favourite Medicine Seller. I also took the opportunity to mess around with the colour choices, as I have recently found my art lacking in that regard. I am not entirely happy with the result, but it looks decent enough to post.

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#I am rather unfamiliar with historical Japanese clothing #so chances are I messed something up there #art #digital art #illustration #digital painting #fanart #mononoke #mononoke 2007 #mononoke fanart #mononoke medicine seller #medicine seller #kusuriuri #モノノ怪 #薬売り

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St. Sebastian and St. Irene of Rome

The motif of Saint Sebastian perforated by arrows is in itself quite common, but I found far less depictions of the scene that followed, involving the widowed Saint Irene and her servant rescuing him from this martyrdom (only for him to be martyred again later lol), so I decided to try my hand at it.

Besides, I wanted to paint something with more anatomical detail, as I have been quite lacking behind in doing actual studies and involving it in an actual painting makes anatomy more interesting to me.

I feel it necessary to note that I myself am not religious, but growing up in a historically somewhat catholic area and having an interest in religions and mythologies must've imbued me with a certain interest in the imagery, I guess.

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All that remains

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#illustration #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital painting #painting #aesthic #aesthetic art #ancient greek aesthetic #snake #ruins #Hunting scenery #More than a year on this website and I still don't know how to tag #my art #greco roman #... I guess #vague aesthetics outside any concrete time period

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Blessed King of Longing

I tried to put a bit more thought into the colours and I must say that I am quite happy with the result.

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#illustration #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital painting #painting #digital fanart #fanart #berserk #berserk manga #berserk fanart #griffith #griffith berserk

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Daphne, the Nymph, amidst her (infamous) transformation into a laurel tree 🌿

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#illustration #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital painting #mythology #mythology art #Daphne #Nymph #The Metamorphoses #tagamemnon

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“Ephemeral Shell”

This painting (especially regarding the flower imagery) is vaguely inspired by the so-called “Schnitterlied”, an originally anonymous (tho later published, revised and quoted by several authors in the following centuries) German poem/song, dealing with fleeting nature of the material compared to the eternal nature of the soul (as appears to be quite common in texts of this era). I came across it when revising for my school finals (which I am still somewhat in the middle of, hence also the recent lack of posts, sorry).

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#art #digital art #digital painting #painting #illustration #artists on tumblr #art on tumblr #historical #baroque #1600s #flowers #skeleton #I really don't know what else to tag #uh.. #early modern #?

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„Oedipus coming upon the dead body of his mother Iocaste” After first watching the 1957 production by Tyrone Guthrie and subsequently reading a translation of the play as written by Sophocles, I felt like painting something related to this story and the scene of Oedipus seeing his mothers corpse (although not outright shown in the actual play, but relayed by a messenger) struck me as particularly affecting.

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#digital art #digital painting #art #painting #tagamemnon #greek mythology #greek mythology art #greek tragedy #oedipus #oedipus rex #sophocles

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Modern Prometheus

Happy (somewhat belated) Halloween!

I originally planned something more elaborate, but in the end I had to settle for this rather quick doodle of Frankenstein, as I am currently a bit short on time. (Hence also the void background and lack of details in this painting)

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#Wretched little science man #What Crimes Will He Commit? #As it turns out Crimes against Nature‚ god and Humanity #halloween #happy halloween #artists on tumblr #digital painting #digital art #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #gothic #horror #gothic horror #illustration #classics #mary shelley #tw #blood #gore #(not sure‚ but better safe than sorry) #art #mary shelly's frankenstein

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☀️Far-Shooting Apollo☀️

The idea for this arose a while (and by while I mean about 4 months) ago, when we were reading the Exposition of the Iliad in class.

I wanted to depict the scene in Book one where Apollo sends a plague to afflict the Acheans by shooting first the mules and dogs, then the men, after Agamemnon denied the release of the priest-daughter Chryseis to her father.

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🌾 Demeter and Persephone 🌾

I guess springtime got me thinking about the two of them, which is kind of ironic since this painting is set just before Persephone's departure into the underworld.

I also thought the mother-daughter relationship and Demeter's grief at her daughter's marriage/ metaphorical "death" (as described in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter) would be interesting to explore artistically.

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#digital art #art #illustration #artists on tumblr #fantasy art #digital painting #greek mythology #greek mythology art #greek goddess #demeter #persephone #tagamemnon

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Just felt like painting a girl in a vyshyvanka (a type of embroidered shirt).

Hello,

It's been a while since I last posted something on here. As someone with close family in Ukraine (although luckily all of them are currently safe) the last month has been rather emotionally taxing on me. Because of that I am afraid that my posts might continue to be quite sparse in the coming weeks. I hope you understand and have a nice day/night 💙💛

#vyshyvanka #ukranian art #slavic #slavic art #illustration #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital painting #Вишиванка

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It may not be Christmas anymore, but I recently finished re-reading Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' and so I present to you this illustration of the Ghost of Christmas Past. My interpretation of the spirit is not entirely faithful to the description written in the book, as some elements were either impossible to really depict artistically or I just couldn't be bothered to paint them.

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#illustration #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #fantasy art #portrait #portraitart #charecterart #christmas #charles dickens #a christmas carol #ghost of christmas past #mystic art