#soldadera

[citizenzombieproductions]

Catalina Soldadera

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month

Art done in Adobe Illustrator CS5.1 & Adobe Photoshop CS5.1

[benji-media]

Soldadera

[hectic-hector]

Got bored and decided to draw an old OC I co-created with @doctor-chinkano for a series of RPs we used to play. Her name is Petra Nocelotl, a soldadera from the Mexican Revolution. She is based on real-life soldadera Petra Hererra. This is her when she disguised herself as a man named Pedro and joined the army. Eventually she was exposed as a woman, and was was tortured and cast out. She then went on to lead her own all-woman troop and become a war hero. Hector knew Petra briefly when they were both alive, during the war, then met up again in the Land of the Dead and have been friends ever since. Here she is as a skeleton.

[another-mexico-oc]

Mun: Today is the Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution 🇲🇽 And if you have been following me since the beginning, you'll remember I love to draw my Mexico OC in "Adelita" or "Soldadera" outfit, and this time I wanted to share how I imagine her transformation could be. From pink and sweet, to totally badass! 😊

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[traumaticdream]

proud 🇲🇽

[thefrozennomad]

As part of Mexican Independence Day, this woman is dressed in a Soldadera outfit. Maybe not as candid as we usually go for, but we love the composition that Marco Ugarte has used to tell this story.

[icaronycteris]

Playera con el logo de MARCO, 1990 x Lance Wyman

[zerimarclassics]

THE ARCANA MC STORY

First off, I CANNOT DRAW! I make a valiant effort though and - well - failed. So here if a brief little bit on my MC. Well - one of them.  This will soon make sense. (Also she is minus the sombrero and braids, of course. Hair is wild and free baby!!)

Maryssa Craven is based highly off of Soldaderas Mexicana’s of my own culture as a Chicana. 

This image is a good depiction of the Soldadera nature and what they were known for. Being young, wild, and free. The soldiers of the Mexican Revolution would sing songs about how beautiful their women were to distract the enemy and make it look like THEIR troops were weak. So the more beautiful the women sounded, the more vicious the troop. 

This is Maryssa to a T. She will fight for her own and for the people and things she loves the most, but she is actually kind of quiet. She’ll talk and hold conversations with anyone, but she rarely starts them. She has a very expressive face though and hazel eyes, so they can look like any color under the right light. Don’t immediately assume that because she is quiet that she stays that way. She can hold her own if she has to and will speak up if she really has to. Also, if you seem interesting enough, she will come up and talk to you first.  She was also known to be a rather fiery flirt. Very blunt and would dress rather plainly in comparison to the other girls of her culture and yes, she had a band of girls she would get intro trouble with OFTEN, but a bat of those long eyelashes and a flash of those pretty teeth; she managed to make some close friends fast. 

She had hair that’s so black it looks almost dark purple or blue when the sun hits it, but it is indeed black. She wears a faded maroon dress and off-white shirt (like the image above), with a forest green shawl that she wraps around her hair and shoulders but somehow ALWAYS gets lost. Which is another way she ends up meeting friends. 

Maryssa: [to random stranger, who either got wacked with a flying shawl or grabbed it from a high ledge for her] Oh, thanks. That thing flies away all the time. I swear I tied it this time. 

She thinks spiders are cute, but hates grasshoppers. She is a spontaneous hugger, excited hitter, and will happy tackle glomp you if she is excited enough. At the same time, don’t get her mad. If she does this when she is happy, blood floods the streets when she’s mad. My headcanon is that the first time Asra made her mad while she was still nonverbal - oh, he fucking KNEW! She’s a five foot one spit fire, with puppy dog eye syndrome and she HATES it, because she isn’t being cute! She will freaking END you! Or end the world FOR you. It’s entirely up in the air. 

So I’ll ask you - do you think our MCs would get along? How would their first interaction go? And yes, I do roleplay so lemme know. 

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