I am Medea (an adult), and this is where I will be posting some of my art.
Contents and tags:
My artwork will very often feature death-related themes. The tag for this is is "medea-typical death mysticism"; feel free to block that if you want.
The tag for any pictures I post that don't have overt death-related themes is "the gardens of harmless frolicking".
The tag "general ominousness" is for pictures that aren't obviously, overtly death-related, but really can't be called harmless.
If you just want to avoid random thoughts and reblogs, all my artposts are tagged "art" and everything else is tagged "not an artpost".
Commissions:
Commissions are open, cautiously; at the moment they are available mainly to those I already know. Commissions are arranged through PayPal unless you live close to me.
Other:
If you need me to tag something that I missed, if you think I wasn't clear in my phrasing at any point, or want to ask me questions for any other reason, feel free to do so. Please be kind, and I will be kind in return.
Also this is my pixiv account. Everything that is in there is also here, it's just for safety.
I had the pleasure and privilege to make this commission for @porcelainseashore for her story of the same title, which you can read on her blog, right here. I'm sure this is probably not surprising, but I really enjoy drawing cemeteries. And I love getting to illustrate Wynter's eventful unlife. She's horrible and wonderful.
The telling off (originally: Ejnye!)
2025
Ink on paper
"It's not my fault if the window stood in the way!"
I made this for Rattober, the 9th prompt: Brat (I'm not going in order). I was away today, so it took me a while to actually get back and upload it, but now here it is, still today (at least by my time zone it is).
The title is actually untranslatable. It's an interjection one uses for expressing disapproval, but not a terribly serious kind of disapproval (one wouldn't use it if one sees the enemy sacking one's country etc.), rather the kind of disapproval that one would express toward a naughtly child. So I did as best I could to give it a title that at least expresses it even if it doesn't translate it as such.
Good morning, neighbour (originally: Jó reggelt, szomszéd úr)
2025
Acrylic on paper
I painted this for Rattober. Specifically this one is for the prompts 10: hello rat, and 22: the rat next door.
I wanted to do something more realistic this time. I was limited by the size of the paper (which was small), so I could only put a certain amount of detail. You might ask, but Medea, you can put a larger picture in the scanner, why did you not do that? And to that, my answer is that I wanted it to be dry today, and I felt I could do this picture justice in this size, and I do like how it came out in the end.
Rat poem (originally: Patkányvers)
2025
Ink on paper
I made this for Rattober prompt number 1, friend-shaped rat. (I'm not going in order.)
I have always wanted to write concrete poetry ever since I was maybe six and first encountered the phenomenon; but I was just never inspired to any specific concrete poem. Finally, the time has come. This poem came to my mind as I was falling asleep, and I quickly scribbled it down (to be written into shape later), and now here it is.
In case it's not legible:
This is rat: very sweet
Little hands & little feet
It can climb, it can play,
It can have a happy day!
It might not be too deep, but the sight or thought of cute animals elicits such poems from me, and so this was my best attempt at expressing the cuteness of rats.
Blueberry rat (originally: Áfonyapatkány)
2025
Acrylic on paper
I made this painting for the 24th prompt of Rattober (I'm not going in order), which, just like the title of the painting, is blueberry rat. I was so worried that it wouldn't dry in time to upload today, but here it is now!
Don't worry, the little rat will run away if anyone mistakenly tries to eat it.
Repulsive (originally: Visszataszító)
2025
Ink on paper
I made this for Rattober: for prompt 5. stinky rat. Yes, I made emotional art even during rattober. And I will do it again.
Existing wrong is the original sin that one cannot help, that one can't get rid of, that one is taught to be ashamed of and regret, that one is told one needs to atone for, that one is taught one needs to try to erase and make oneself as small as possible; even then, one will never be acceptable: for as long as one exists, one will be surrounded by an invisible stench of wrong, one's existence will always be unpalatable, because once a rat, one can never be anything else than a rat, and for some reason that's bad and also one's own fault, at least so one is told.
(This is about a multitude of things.)
I signed on the station name sign because that's where one expects writing to be, but now that I think about it, it feels accurate too.
Exit from the rat tunnel (originally: Kijárat a patkányalagútból)
2025
Digital
This is my 6th day of Rattober. I made this for the prompts 2. accu-rat and 29. puzzle rat. I knew from the beginning that what I was desiring to make for these two (assuming I connect the prompts) is a rat-shaped tiling. But I wanted to put the tiling on something, preferably a curved surface, so that it could better be seen. And this is what I came up with. I built the scene in blender. HDRI and concrete texture are from polyhaven.
And here you may see the tiling itself without being put on anything. I drew it with vectors.
And the sketch for the tiling, when I designed it yesterday on grid paper:
Gaze of the kirin (originally: A kirin tekintete)
2026
Ink on paper
I drew this with my portable water-filled brushes, during a visit to my brother, as rest from larger things. The colour of the eye was inspired by the iridescence of a lead crystal suncatcher bead that he has.
Varicoloured shape (originally: Színes forma)
2025
Watercolour and ink on paper
This is my entry for Rattober, for the prompts 13. curly rat and 20. abstract rat. This, in fact, was the picture that decided in my mind that I will indeed join together the prompts that want to be joined up, because it was so clear in my mind and I really wanted to do it and it was so much both curly and abstract that I had to.
Disco rat (originally: Diszkópatkány)
2025
Watercolour and ink on paper
I made this for my 4th day of Rattober, but I'm skipping around in the prompts, so this is for the 16th prompt retro rat. I went with an anthro design this time.
The original title does mean disco rat, but it can also be interpreted to mean an enthusiast of discotheques; it's correct either way, because this fabulous individual is both.
Fluttering (originally: Lobogás)
2025
Ink on paper
I made this for Rattober, for the 7th prompt, Streamer rat, because I'm not going in order. I immediately knew this was how I wanted to approach that prompt. I thought to myself, today I would draw something more on the realistic side, but then, well.
I imagine the rat is internally going "wheeeeee" right now. I think it climbed the spire when there was no wind, and held on to the banderole waiting for the wind to come, and when the wind came, it started fluttering along with it; there is pretty much no other way I can think of that it can have achieved this. My brother saw the picture and described the rat as "doing extreme sports", and I liked that so much I had to put it in the post.
Rat diagram (originally: Patkánydiagram)
2025
Pencil on paper, digital
This is my second day of Rattober. I'm not going in order, so for today I did the 6th prompt: ratio. I hope you can see my vision.
It wasn't even on purpose that I made the same number of white rats and brown rats. I just thought of what I wanted the columns to look like. But in the end I counted and I was very pleased that this is the case.
I know that in the English usage there is a . for the decimal, but in Hungarian there is a comma, which is why I wrote it that way. But, for non-Hungarian viewers, that's meant to be 62.5% and so on.
I also like the drawing just as it is on the grid paper before I coloured it digitally, so here it is.
The dance of rats (originally: Patkánytánc)
2025
Ink on paper
I made this for Rattober, the 23rd prompt, stamp rat (here is the prompt list). It's not required to go in order, so I decided I'm not going in order. It also says I can combine prompts, but I'm not sure yet if I will do that, I do have several picture ideas that can belong to more than one prompt.
(Also, in case you are concerned, it does say it's for human participants, but I did ask if it's still okay for me to do, and it is.)
I made the rat stamp from a potato. I'm pretty proud of how well I managed to line up the hands to hold each other, despite the potato covering that part.
Progress pictures under the cut, please excuse the camera quality. The above photograph was taken by my brother with his phone; my camera is vastly worse.
I made a sketch first.
I selected my potato to be big enough for the sketch. Here it is after cutting in half.
You can't see the cut-off pieces because I was eating them as I went.
Testing the stamp on the paper of the sketch.
I actually liked how the rat stamp instances have different textures, so I kept that.
And then in the end I drew the rest on with black ink and a pen.
Little moth (originally: Pillécske)
2025
Watercolour on paper
I have had this sketch around for a while, and I wanted to finish it before October starts, because October will be spent otherwise (I will be doing Rattober this year, and even if I draw or paint other stuff as well, that will go up after). So, here she is, my cute little moth. She doesn't have a nose on purpose, because that's not how she breathes, and her olfactory organ is her antennae. She's a little shy and she hopes you like her.
This is for the @fourseasonsbingo square Bonfire, which is my first square filled on the second card. Here are all my other prompts and fills so far.
I actually intended something else for that square (a project I will still do, just not for the bingo), but yesterday I was hit with the sudden need to make this comic about Clan Tremere and the way I interpret it, and I realised it actually also fits the prompt. I haven't done any purely ink drawings this month, and I missed it. Well, now I definitely have done some.
An important concept to me is that the way is not straight, but all the detours and all the mistakes were a necessary part of getting here, that was the way that the way led.
I hope my handwriting is legible. If not, the transcript is under the cut.
ALSO sorry about initially uploading with a bad quality for some reason. I hope you didn't see it.
Transcript
[a group of figures surround a bonfire, holding hands]
Since before everything, there was love.
[a hand, as if that of the viewpoint character, reaches out toward a star]
And there was ambition -
[the hand grasps the star; the light seems to be in the process of going out, blood runs down the grasping hand, as if the star was bleeding]
and atrocities -
[the hand opens up to reveal its bloody palm, as if the viewpoint character was observing it]
and regret, sometimes.
[other hands surround and stroke the hand, these are also bloody]
But even then, there was always love.
[A group of figures, barely seen in the merest silhouette, as if outlined by the last embers of a dying fire, huddle together.]
The night is very dark.
What have we done?
[A crescent Moon is visible against a dark sky. Torches are seen under the Moon, in a group, as if being lit from each other.]
But the night has its secret paths,
we are not lost.
[A forest of yew trees is seen. Between the trees, there is a glimpse of the dark sky, with a blood-red crescent Moon in it. Appearing and disappearing among the vegetation is a winding footpath.]
The Great Work goes on forever.
We will pursue it together.
[A group of cloaked figures, still together, but now standing confidently, are seen in silhouette.]
And we will make the mistakes we need to make,
And we will do atrocities,
And we will follow our ambition.
[Below the cloaked figures, without interruption, as the darkness of their silhouettes continues, against the black background the Tremere symbol is drawn in red, surrounded by droplets of blood.]
And there will always be love.
Castle ruins (originally: Várrom)
2026
Watercolour on paper
This is actually part of an animation (that I'll be fiddling with during the drying times of a big project, so I may take a while); which is also why it doesn't have a better title, because I just named each part of the animation for what it is. But I'm uploading it separately in advance still, because when I upload the animation, it's going to get too squashed to see the detail of the castle ruin painting, and I think it is a genuinely good picture by itself.
When I started painting this, and had to let it dry for a while because of all the water I applied to the paper, it looked like so:
and at that point, I jokingly said to my brother: "This picture is about the ruins having been freshly whitewashed."
