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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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🌟The Magician🌟

(yes, we have apparently become pretentious enough to title our paintings)

I thought I might do something magic-related for Halloween, so here you go.

It's been several months since I picked up watercolours, due to this parts of this illustration are a bit rough, but I am low key kinda proud of the composition.

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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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Achilles is quite annoying until that big character development in book 24 of the Iliad, but that kinda makes him interesting to paint.

This originally started out as a lighting study, hence the composition and colour scheme being a bit sparse. Also couldn't find that many depictions of male Mycenaean clothing, so most of what he's wearing is just guesswork.

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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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I'm not entirely sure about the colours, but quite like the composition. I originally wanted to create illuminated-manuscript-style illustrations on the cape, but I ran out of patience halfway through colouring, so I decided to go for a much simpler pattern. I'm also trying to implement slightly more elaborate backgrounds in my traditional illustrations instead of just letting the central character hover in a vaguely defined 'white void'.