#wise old man

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[wyraine]

Greetings everyone! For Day 12, I'm skipping over my monster challenge to share one of my most precious characters. This OC is my interpretation of the god, Anansi. Anansi is an African-Diaspora mythic figure, trickster, and folktale hero (also the God of Wisdom). His presence in the world is in the public domain as a concept, but this particular rendition of him is mine alone!

He was initially designed for a defunct setting, but I've successfully revised and retrofitted him for my purposes. I would love to like, draw some comics with him as a presiding force, but one thing at a time.

He's distinctly Afrocentric, but if you couldn't tell by his appearance and vibe, he's generally not perceived as any kind of nobility, and is inspired more by his duplicitous nature as a trickster. Maybe I'll share more about him later. This post features art and sketches from throughout the years!

Some more work and sketches of him are beneath the cut!

Look, see! He's even in my meet the artists from previous years!

Anansi takes after an archetype of characters I really like designing (crazy old men). He's not a bad dude, but I hope it's clear that he's much more of a rogue than he is a dignified representation of who he may be regularly perceived as.

I'm posting him today, the 12th day of October, because 12 is also the numbered place of 'The Hanged Man' in Major Arcana. While that 100% is not Anansi's de facto tarot card, it is one of my personal favorites and I think it was fitting to upload him. I originally finished the first piece towards the end of October in 2022!

I have like, a veritable cavalcade of OC's inspired (directly and otherwise) by mythology and folktale. Maybe I'll talk more about them later, but I'm not pressed! I might work on some of these pieces now that I've remembered they existed haha, but we'll see.

[ryunumber]

Does the Wise old Man from RuneScape have a Ryu number?

Dionysius a.k.a. the Wise Old Man has a Ryu Number of 2.

[xelasrecords]

I opened LADS to play a game not to be slapped by reality and forced to rethink about my life decisions excuse me

[multihiperfocusartist-10]

HAPPY DAISHUUGOU RELEASE!!! (it was yesterday but i forgot to post somenthing here... Sorry 😞)

I love goemon he's my top 1 favorite ninja (The second place is joe musashi btw)

[kb11rd]

my bugs♥️

my bugs' frames..........

[hexcii]

I believe this is a bearded seal!! Bearded seals are named after their thick and numerous whiskers— which are the most sensitive in the entire animal kingdom! They use these whiskers to easily find prey in the water, and for bearded seals specifically: finding prey across the ocean floor :DD

[wiseandoldman]

Bruce Springsteen If He Was A Great Ape

Oh honey, chimps like us

Baby, we were born to run

Come on with me, chimps like us

Baby, we were born to run