#upyr

[den-with-6-ns]

A collection of Ivans over the year (2025)

I wanted to post these because he’s very much my muse at times. My biggest weakness is drawing historical garments or making my own historical themed garments. It turns out ya girl Tatiana knows the most about Russian garments specifically.

This one was kinda silly because it’s a sneaker piece for my indie project. Ivan was re-imagined in the culture of the main country. The main country being an amalgamation post apocalypse of Kazakhstan, Russia, Hungary, Ukraine, Mongolia, Tibet, Siberia, and north Caucasus, It was a silly exercise and a bit self indulgent to draw characters I like in the garments of this post apocalypse world.

I brainstormed a FrUk AU in this world one time but got too EMBARASSED and chickened out, AU Ivan is all that exists.

These ones are kinda old and I did them a while ago but were fun exercises to once again draw historical garments

Then there was the time I drew him in the castlevania artstyle because I was trying to spread my Upyr and oprichnik propaganda

And the cringe self indulgent art, because as I was reading this comic, called Katusha, it was pointed out, I look startlingly like the main character, Ekaterina, and so I drew over her love interest with Ivan so I could be like “omg me.”

[miasmat]

if i had a nickel for every menace-to-the-society-fictional-man with a strange companion in their head no one can see i'd have two nickels which- english version and close-ups under the cuttt

[ktallo]

The Thaumaturge (2024)

Upyr | Bukavac | Lelek | Veles

[vyvilha]

fun facts about ukrainian vampires (opyr)

• opyri can be of two origins: born and made. made opyri are made by witches, who can smear a baby with blood of a man who went to sleep without praying, thus making the child an opyr.

• opyri have two souls. when opyr dies, only one soul goes to the otherworld. this is why they continue living after death. they aren't immortal though, and only live post-death for seven years. you can presume the person who died was an opyr and will return later if right after their death was a great storm.

• they are very merry fellas and are known to sing, dance and play musical instruments. you can see them partying if you go to the village border at midnight. they also can be spotted smoking a pipe while laying in their coffin.

• opyr can turn into variety of different things: a child, a white or a black dog, a cat, a wolf, a horseman.

• if someone sneezes and you don't respond with "bless you" such person can become an easy target for opyr.

• to get rid of the opyr, you must take them into your arms and carry them across the town or village three times. classical stake to the heart works too.

[macabreaesthetics]

[powjapas]

[fujimomozane]

A crimson promise

[buteobi]

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