Rn I am making a fanPrecure seires call Anglic Cheer Precure but the outfits dosen't look right can u help pls how to make precure outfits pls:)
I gotta tag my asks better so ppl can actually find things
here's an old guide that i really wanna redo. Because i dont see certain things as strict now. I got different opinions on "choosing colours" and id love to redo the cohesion part, but not now.
I think you can still learn a thing or too!
Heres where i talk more about how i create key visuals.
Remind to remake this whole guide at some point.
I no longer have to work like this, but in the beginning i approached character design thinking in creating layers step by step.
I talk about this in the guide, but i dislike my old explanatory art so i redid it.
Hi there, dear followers! As I promised, I start a new series of slavic mythology. Mostly Russian, because I'm really not educated in Western Slavic culture. But it will be curious anyway, I promise))
The first creature I want to introduce you, is кикимора [kikimora]. I wasn't quite right at my recent post of кулиги, when I said old Russians believed that distant forest glades were occupied with леший and кикимора. Because кикимора болотная [kikimora bolotnaya], "a swamp kikimora" (see below) is just a later interpretation, the last 2-3 centuries, no more than. And in really old, pagan times kikimora was one of the home spirits, as well as домовой [domovoi]. Today I'll tell you of this original version.
So, kikimora is a female occult being, looking like this:
The first picture by Ivan Bilibin (1876 - 1942), the Russian artist, famous for his illustration to folk tales. Others by modern artists
She has bird feet, also a bird beak or a very long nose. Traditionally she is considered (as any other home spirit) to help some good hosts (in the case - hostesses) and to punish some lazy or spoiled ones. The caption by Ivan Bilibin to his picture above was: "Sleep; kikimora is going to weave instead of you".
Of course, in order to make friends with your own home kikimora, you have to obey some rules. As any other home spirit, kikimora loves treats, so don't forget to leave her some fresh dairy and/or bread; be nice and neat and hard-working; and always pay on your debts. There was documentally confirmed practice: when some masters were occupied to construct a Russian stove (they were called печники, sing. печник [pechnik], a stove-master) and didn't get the reward by the agreement, they had may to "put a kikimora into the stove". For that purpose, they had got a neck of a glass bottle and put it inside a chimney of a stove for no-one to see. So every time when a strong wind blows, all the household hears an infernal howling. So the host and the hostess were thinking a kikimora is angry for them not to pay to the stove-masters; also, after the payment and some schamancraft with the stove, the howling had ended.
For today, Russian people have started to forget, what a kikimora (and any other occult beings of old Russia) is. Now we'd rather meet a "кикимора болотная" (see above) looking like that in a best case, I guess:
So one can call that an unpleasant, scruffy, feisty and ugly woman. By his/her side, the place of this woman is not among people, but among frogs and leeches and other swamp creatures. This is extremely offencive, so keep it on mind! That's how a kind and helpful home spirit turns into something unattractive and creepy.
But anyway. Slavic mythical personalities are still alive as they are (maybe useful for some Wikka and/or Pagan/Neopagan adepts, for I'm one of them :)). Wanna know more of them? Follow my tmblr and discover some more.
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