Karina Giada

Visual Artist and Illustrator

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“I am no martyr. I am not vengeance. I am Eo's dream”.

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"No matter how you've romanticised him, Kaine Ferron is not a person. He is a monster."

It's such an immense pleasure to paint this as part of my Unbound for Gaza commission. I started with an idea of a menacing Kaine but he always turns into something more tragic. But then I thought, well if he has to be tragic at least make it couture.

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Day to his Night. ❄️

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I loved Ep. 5 so incredibly much and there was something about Ilya out in the cold, breaking down his own defenses and confessing his feelings with the sombre Moscow backdrop. I had to paint a character portrait.

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“I’m not fragile. I am not going to break. Please believe that about me.” - @senlinyuwrites

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"Heroism is something for others to perform for the masses. Intelligence work-our work-is breaking people open by whatever means necessary to reach their secrets. That is what you are a part of now."

"She dressed in civilian clothes that were as nondescript as possible. With her hood pulled up, hiding how dark her hair was, she was hardly memorable. Just a person trying to stay out of the war's path." - @senlinyuwrites

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Them 🥀

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Any guesses to who it is ?

I am living off of crumbs - I read the Cosmopolitan article with @senlinyu yesterday and it had a little treat. | did want to color in her dress but I also couldn't decide on a poison green shade and lost that battle.

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ONE. WEEK. I’ve never been more excited to hold a book in my hands @senlinyu.

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"Someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn't stolen."

CONGRATULATIONS to our lovely @senlinyu for such exciting news yesterday. I'm still in disbelief that maybe one day, we get to experience all our unraveling emotions again but on the big screen. Meanwhile, I beg of you, excuse another sketch. I promise to actually paint these soon in moments that aren't stolen. 🥀

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“Her eyes were dead. There was no fire in them. The spark that she regarded as most intrinsic to who she was had gone out.” A quick sketch just to pour more love into Alchemised. @senlinyuwrites recently took pity on me and allowed me to capture Helena with more accuracy. I usually don’t post my digital sketches on here but I was quite happy with this one - you can see my indecisiveness with some of her features but I think this is closest to how I imagine her.

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"If he's a monster, then I'm his creator." - @senlinyuwrites.

Kaine Ferron, I promise to try not to be wholly obsessed with you but I am already completely enthralled. Can you hear all of our hearts pounding in unison as we enter September?

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Painted exclusively for @senlinyuwrites, this piece titled “Rose in the Graveyard” was my attempt to capture the essence of Sen’s masterful world of Paladia amidst the sombre blues and dying reds.

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“That was the thing about war: every clash, every battle, brought each nearer and nearer to the other.”

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“He looks different, don’t you think? Draco? Almost ill.”

a redraw of my very first dhr drawing I posted to twt 4 years ago, with the same caption. I was snorting dramione from the beginning

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“I always have to choose, and I never get to choose you. I’m so tired of not getting to choose you.” - @senlinyuwrites

As we erode with the passage of war under the ever present shadow of the reaper, what is there that’s left of us in the end?

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Fall of House Malfoy. But let’s be honest, even Azkaban can’t touch these locks.