Art Practice - 2023, 16

I couldn't tell you whether or not I spent a lot of time with fairytales in my younger years. I remember going through a fantasy-book phase, but that one was more dragon-dominated and relatively sparse on fairies. As such, the prompt conjures images that are relatively recent to me, such as the time I took a short foray into Celtic mythology, and took away a bunch of tangential descriptions for the faeries and their courts. It's an aesthetic that falls in line with all those ancient green religions, which I find at least intriguing.

Ah, back to my own designs. It certainly makes things easier on the aesthetic side. I took the design elements from more contemporary interpretations of the fae-creatures, and fitting smoke into the picture isn't too difficult either. There is, if I remember correctly, some connection with mist and smoke either way, so it won't be thematically incoherent.

I did the inks in the break of a DnD session, so some of the lines are a little hastily drawn. It's coming together nicely though. If I can get some larger black areas in here, then the silhouette is probably going to pop nicely.

Exactly this way. I thought the tattoos might just give nice texture to the torso, but this way it reads more like shadows. I like that a lot as well though, even if it turns things a little bit sinister in tone.

From heavy mist, a whisper

beckons the weary to rest.

Sweet sing-songs from the river

gently weigh the lids.

Don't listen to the voices,

the stirring in your chest,

they are nothing but noises

of wood's malignant bids.