#nihang

[divinum-pacis]

February 2024: A Nihang - a Sikh warrior - rests on a makeshift barricade of sandbags at a protest site during the march towards New Delhi to push for better crop prices promised to them in 2021, at the Shambhu barrier, the border between Punjab and Haryana states, India. [Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

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A Nihang Sikh in the 1860s with a characteristically elaborate turban

Captain W.W. Hooper & Surgeon G. Western - Albumen print, Victoria and Albert Museum no. 0932:5 [1]

[indianmartialartsresearchgroup]

A battle-hardened Nihang Singh (traditional Sikh warrior) with a dastaar bunga (tower turban) adorning a gajga (a martial iron ornament) and traditional body armour. He seems in better shape than the younger and modern Sikh soldiers surrounding him

[indophilia]

A Nihang, Hyderabad circa 1865

[jatindersinghdurhailay]

I offer what I hold dearest 25x18.5cm Natural stone pigment heightened with gold on handmade wasli paper

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nihang, mark hartman

[inyujidraws]

I’m going to try and see through the end of Inktober this year. This time: no fanart. I hope to make an Inktober sketchbook at the end of this year.

Prompts respectively from left to right: 1) Ring   2) Mindless  3) Bait  4) Freeze  5) Build  6) Husky If you want deets on each prompt, keep reading below.

1) Ring : For this prompt, I eventually decided on something to do with Chakram Ring blades. So I made my own Nihang warrior with a sentient turban that slings and spits chakrams.I like this character ^^ Well, I like his hat. The character concept has merit. 

2) Mindless : Wanted to do a Victorian Steampunk horror theme for this piece. It's October, the month of spooky Halloween, so this fits right in.

3) Bait : I was going to do something simple, until I found myself in a pretty bad situation last week.I've become a recent victim of the "Google Hangout Job Interview" Scam. And now find myself in debt, and lost practically all the money and savings I've made in my entire life.It's so scary how easily I fell for it, and how truly dangerous and predatory this world is. All because I thought "that's never going to happen, I'm better than that."No, these thieves have hacked Linkedin years ago, and impersonate professional companies and post fake jobs. Because I had actually applied thru Linkedn, I didn't think twice to confirm the legitimacy of the follow up email that started this entire mess.PLEASE PLEASE Do not fall for these scams. What's worse? There are phone scams that are good at manipulating people through fear and panic, impersonating police or IRS.Stay safe everyone.Also, if you guys are interested in helping me pay off my debt, I've set up a Gofundme campaign https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-got-scammed-help-me-clear-my-bank-debt?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet

4) Freeze : This one was a morbid concept. A very vain aristocrat wished to preserve her beauty forever, hating the idea of dying old and ugly. So she had a freezing machine to keep her beautiful forever.Then my brother threw in a better idea. The machine FAILED. The cryo-freezing process started to affect her skin negatively. If she is ever unfrozen, she would die, all because something in the process had messed up her body.

5) Build : I struggled a lot with this. Tried to challenge myself, with sort of faking the weird upward perspective. Just the creation of a pink Cat Mecha

6) Husky : So it was supposed to be a husky Husky, but I guess I didn't beef him up enough.

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Kodak Portra 400