The Emerald strife

" Musings and ramblings of a disenfranchised Chicago Artist."

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Starting on layout drafts for Vejigante mask. These are drafts of the first two pages https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ZeatdlbVP/?igshid=ljfluq1ajnmz

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Vejigante Mask Redesign/Color Test. https://www.instagram.com/p/B55zxfqF2u5/?igshid=17w8ribkjgdkd

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Finished Dodomeki drawing #inktober https://www.instagram.com/p/B3KmLdfl1IH/?igshid=1kovckn231rp9

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Early linework of the Dodomeki: A yokai often a little girl or woman that has long arms and numerous eyes over their body to serve as punishment for stealing. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Fe5XBlYSu/?igshid=v1jkwtyxcmpg

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Hitotsume-Kozo: A Yokai that resembles a child Cyclops often carrying a lantern or tofu. Generally a harmless spirit. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1b5ARGFl_4/?igshid=y20yik2r35zr

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Trying to figure out the name of this one. All I know is that it was associated as a sleep paralysis monster; possibly Kanashibara, which is a term for sleep paralysis. https://www.instagram.com/p/B09RPclFv94/?igshid=ac2okg2xzha3

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Hahakigama: Animate vroom spirit in Japanese folklore. https://www.instagram.com/p/B09AEjqFYu7/?igshid=1325b8aul71dk

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Sazae-Oni: Yolanda from Japanese folklore. Similar to Sirens. https://www.instagram.com/p/B08_-JlFnFi/?igshid=oy0fquk1vryp

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Final shades of the Grafton monster; cryptid on Grafton Road in the Appalachia’s https://www.instagram.com/p/B08_xXkF577/?igshid=17ry0osift9b3

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Grindlylow: Water goblin from English folklore. https://www.instagram.com/p/B08_o3PlHbi/?igshid=14al7xav68khw

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Batibat: A large witch from Filipino folklore that is said to cause both sleep paralysis and crushing their victims by, well, by sitting on their chests. https://www.instagram.com/p/B08_hvFF7WE/?igshid=4cb9fcnudh93

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Chenoo: a variant of the Wendigo. An ice cannibal giant from Algonquin mythology that have hearts of literal ice. https://www.instagram.com/p/B08-_vuFk8m/?igshid=8vt0ltgtorlt

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Kikimora: a house spirit in Slavic folklore. https://www.instagram.com/p/B08-zdElGdc/?igshid=19l4qwjr4v8pd

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Big Hands: Self-made as the Driller’s partner is unnamed as far as the sources I came across have. Essentially, an Inuit Bogeyman that grabs victims for Driller to drill them. https://www.instagram.com/p/B08-glplZVU/?igshid=xvvsf2zgr6kd

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Driller: An Inuit bogeyman that works in tandem with another monster where one pushes their victim down and Driller, well, drills them. https://www.instagram.com/p/B08-PJPla65/?igshid=1gq1cp18o3rld

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Grootslang: An African chimera monster ( cobra & elephant) equal in power to the biblical monsters Behemoth, Leviathan, and Zyzz; in that its appetite was too great to sustain, so all but one was destroyed that the remaining one remains and is immortal. https://www.instagram.com/p/B08-EC2ltSV/?igshid=7sce7s8nknap

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My attempt at a Thesselhydra; a d&d monster that was the end boss for the Stranger Things d&d module I ran a month back. https://www.instagram.com/p/B089ts0lgvv/?igshid=l4v0jcjk4k5e