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Polly Barrow and her hollow men + some others (ignore the botfly it was just hanging out)

#just some sketches from a couple weeks ago #ogoa #old gods of appalachia #fanart #Polly Barrow #Henricus Crain #Johann Churchman #Jonah Hellbender

Sketch book pages mostly dedicated to figuring out Jack’s appearance and what I was doing with the other two art pieces I was working on. Featuring lots of creatures.

#incapable of drawing something without bugs #ogoa #old gods of appalachia #fanart #jack of the woods #JT Fields III #Tommy Adkins #Ginny Estep #ogoa spoilers #old gods of Appalachia spoilers #just in case with the reference to build mama a coffin and the end of season 3 #there’s a lot of other characters I plan to draw #I just needed to get Jack out of my head first #and we’ll see where I go from here

Jack of the Wood, of the Green, of the Tales, of Many Names.

I wanted to lean a bit into the whole “aura of summer” he has going on occasionally and got a bit self indulgent. All the species depicted (except one) are found within the Appalachian mountain range.

#old gods of Appalachia #ogoa #fanart #jack of the woods #JT Fields #most of my experience in art is with landscape painting and scientific illustration #so if I’m going to draw a guy there’s also going to be a lot of nature involved #I chose to include species for various reasons #some due to meaning or personal jokes or references (field cricket jackrabbit coyote goldenrod spider webs/the orb weaver)#others due the vibe specifically what is described when people are interpreting him and what do I associate with mid/late summer #so cicadas katydids copperheads poison ivy fireflies crawdads and mayflies #some as specific references to location like the pawpaw American chestnut pokeweed kudzu eastern lubber #and others just cause I felt like it (most of the wildflowers)#also all the aquatic macroinvertebrates around the border were a mix of self indulgence and leaning into the whole old creeks/muddy rivers #schtick he has going sometimes

Listening to Old Gods of Appalachia and decided to try my hand at digital art for the first time in A Long while. Wanted to figure out my visualization of Jack and got a bit caught in the weeds.

Close up of the mantle under the cut:

#I love drawing items #the creatures or ‘beasts from myth’ carved into the mantle from left to right: jackalope hugag squonk hodag billdad and unicorn #old gods of appalachia #ogoa #fanart #JT Fields III #Jack of the wood #some of the items here are not things actually described in the podcast #they’re things that I misheard or couldn’t remember or I just liked the idea of #the knife was cause I couldn’t remember if it was a knife or a comb so I drew both #the landscape painting is cause I somehow didn’t hear that it was a Mantle the first time so I had to go back and add that #the rabbits foot was me being self indulgent #you can tell the order I drew the items based on the quality 😅

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