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Modern "fantasy" mostly uses creatures which are essentially demonized native European ancestral or nature spirits.
The Ogre and Orc are both derived from Orcus, the Etruscan and Roman deity of the underworld. The English Goblin was the same as the Nisse and Domovoy.
🇷🇸 In the Serbian epic song The marriage of King Vukašin, the duke Momčilo, mortally wounded by Vukašin, asks him to marry his sister who "will give birth to a hero like me". He took his sister, who gave birth to two sons, Marko and Andrew...
Finished another painting of these guys - Drvan the priest and forest dweller. He is mostly in charge of the sacrifices and libations related to chthonic deities and the ancestors.
Acrylic, A3 format.
Illustrations for "True Steel" from the book "The Sorcerous Spring", 2020.
Unpopular opinion: Making useless and unrealistic equipment in fantasy art results in an unattractive and boring product. I do not get the OBSESSION with making fantasy equipment so unrealistic. It's fantasy, i get it, but physics and the rules of battle still work the same way.
Sketch (2017-2018) vs final (2021).
I don't really have a title for this one, just getting back in shape :-)
#illustration #acrylic #mythology
Not knowing what one wants in life, what one's purpose is, can be one's greatest tragedy. Most people don't know this, and many don't know what they are capable of, which also brings misfortune.
Happiness & fulfilment don't lie in consumerism, but in moderation.
Be content.
Most of us are familiar with the eagles of Middle Earth which come to the rescue of our heroes when they are in peril.
But does this motif appear in European myths? Let's find out!