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Talason
Talason is a spirit bound to a certain building (houses, schools, bridges) and serves as it’s protector. When an object is being built a person can offer themselves as a sacrifice in order to become a talason an protect the building or if there are problems with construction. However the person is not actually killed, but instead the workers measure their shadow with a string and then build in those measurements in the foundations of the building. It is believed that the person will then die within a year (or 40 days) and that their spirit will come to the building in which their shadow is trapped and remain there forever thus becoming a talason. Sometimes the builders can “steal” shadow of a passerby unnoticed, which is why it’s considered bad luck to go near construction sites. Talasons are generally benevolent creatures and only become hostile if someone approaches the building with bad intentions. They come out at night and walk around the houses or bridges but can never stray too far and are mostly invisible to people.
Illustrations by Vanja Todoric
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A good first real session on this piece after a lot of eyeing the initial textures and trying to figure out what it would become. Now I’m tearing through this future tinydragon submission with a surprising energy!
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Liran’s Ascent
Photoshop and Painter, 2015
Liran and his dragon Quelatac, from my personal project, Firebloods.
Liran is a divisive figure, and someone who could be called visionary in some of his ideas and approaches– though whether that brings good or bad depends on who you are. Though others have attempted in the past, he’s the first person to successfully ‘tame’ dragons, which he sees as a way to advance how people live and to diminish the importance of national borders, as he is anti-empire, having been a refugee of war at an early age. He might also argue that domesticating dragons is the only way to save them from being hunted by humans. Liran has a penchant for seeing the hidden potential in people who are down and out, and his habit of bringing these individuals into his care has gained him a small band of loyal comrades who believe in his cause.
Still, whether dragons can truly be restrained on a larger scale remains to be seen– and whether Liran’s idea of creating a ‘people unbound by borders’ is humanitarian or anarchistic is yet up for debate as well.
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A year and a half ago, I sanded down and put a white wash down over this piece, having run into some issues with the medium after putting many hours into it. I was fighting it too much and didn’t know how to proceed to correct the piece’s larger issues.
This month, I pulled the piece back down off the shelf and started over on it, finally ready to find out how much I’ve learned since then.
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Inktober Day 1, “Poise”
This year’s Inktober will be mostly figure work, continuing my exploration of capturing the gender embodiment of these figures through their physical expressions. There is a rare beauty in the being of a person shining through and telling you who they are more strongly than their physical features do– there is a unique ownership there which I am still learning to claim and celebrate.
Pilot V5 in red, a waterbrush, and a blend of red fountain pen inks (but mostly J. Herbin Rogue Hematite) in a Kuretake brush pen. 5.5" x 8.5" Moleskine Watercolor paper.
This original is not up on my website yet, but it is available for sale– message me if interested.
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Traditional Drawing with Digital Color commission for Serizel. I loved getting to draw his great avian character design!
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“Blue Banner”, 2.5" x 3.5". The original gesture for this piece is actually many years old (perhaps as many as 6-10, I forget), a marker sketch I found and brushed over with Daniel Smith Watercolor Grouns until it was only a faint ghost… then I painted it anew, pushing the shapes and filling it out with fresh details and flowing lines. It was a therapeutic little piece to work on and that joy shows through in the result, I feel!
This original piece is now available on my website!
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“Riptide”, 2.5" x 3.5" mixed media. There’s something about letting even an imposing figure dissolve into pattern– it connects them to their environment in a way that I feel continually drawn to exploring.
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“Eagle-Eyed”, 5" x 8" watercolor and gouache.
Further playing with the boundary between tighter rendering and letting form dissolve into abstract line and form.
This original piece is now available on my website!
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“World Weaver”, commissioned by Arialth. I found this to be a really enjoyable commission to work on, as I dig the concept of dragons being sentient beings with an interest in creation in the same way humans are, but on a much grander scale.
This piece is now available as a limited edition canvas print on my website!
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‘Stellar Void Heron’, 5" x 8" mixed media. Another one from the marathon stream and something of an inverse of the other heron.
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A mixed media piece measuring 2.5" x 3.5", drawn during my four day trek on the Laugavegur Trail hike in Iceland after being inspired by the richness of the landscapes I was travelling through.
The original piece is now available on my website!
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“Sulfer Spirit” 6′’ x 9′’, mixed media. Inspired by the sulfur pockets and brilliant yellow, orange, and red stones of the Laugavegur hike I did early on in my travels in Iceland.
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