Welcome, I'm Faye

I'm a 24 year old artist, my pronouns are she/he/they and I have hopes of becoming a storyboard artist in the future. I'm also working on my own graphic novel. https://linktr.ee/Witchycakez?utm_source=linktree_admin_share

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Sea breeze tropical cocktail by the sea sounds like the most perfect afternoon. Funny enough I was working on this instead of my final animatic lol. It was meant to be a 15 minute break but I just got so sucked in. Gonna take a walk and try to finish my animatic tonight

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For today I was gonna do a goldfish mermaid in one of those plastic baggies for prizes but when I was looking for a type of goldfish to draw I saw those fat Chinese goldfish and I was immediately like "I have to make a cute chubby goldfish mermaid lady" so we now have a serene lotus pond scene instead :3

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Its May 1st so you all know what that means, another year of me attempting to do Mermay. Fingers crossed I get it all done in one month lol.

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Fuck Ice. Nuf said. Call your reps. Join the protests. No work, no school, no shopping. Nationwide shut down.

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So I've been toying with my magical girls recently and I completely redesigned them and rewrote their story lol. More to some in the future in the meantime enjoy their magical outfits

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Spot Illustration I did for class, the theme was spring and obviously I had to go with my goddess and her mother. Persephone and Demeter are the first thing I think about when it comes to spring.

There is another version with feedback fixes that I may or may not post later we'll see lol.

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Leshy is a creature from Slavic folklore they're a type of forest spirit that inspired the Bishop Leshy from cult of the lamb. Leshys are believed to be related to the god Porewit and are believed to help hunters during hunting seasons. There's usually only one Leshy per forest and their appearance and behavior changes with the seasons becoming moody in the fall and hibernating in the winter

They can shapesift, typically being shown as a very tall old man but they can also take on animal forms, usually wolves or bears as well as plants. They're a mischievous spirit that likes to play pranks on people who wander into their woods often by misleading travelers telling them to go deeper into the woods to their certain death or using mimicry to confuse travelers making them get more lost with a familiar voice and they're not above just straight kidnapping people.

Now there are two main ways to avoid being killed by a Leshy, you can bring offerings and respect basically just don't fuck with the forest and bring Leshy some good food and they'll make sure you dont get lost or you can make it laugh and it will let you go because you're funny. Come back tomorrow for the Huaka'i pō

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Hansel and Gretel is a pretty popular story but is WAY older than you would think it is before the brothers Grimm tale we all know and Love it was told via oral tradition as early as the 1200 and was first written down in the 1500s and has gone through a myriad of different versions.

The most common one is two siblings are abandoned in the woods by their farther because a famine is plaguing the land and their family is too poor to take care of them. They're forced to wander the woods until they find a giant gingerbread house that they start eating only to find out a witch lives there. The witch invites them in pretending to be nice but soon learn that she's just trying to fatten them up to eat them Gretel out smarts the witch and pushes her in the oven saving her brother the siblings take the witches wealth back to their parents and they live happily ever after.

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The jeosung saja aka what the Saja Boys from Kpop demon hunters are. Funnily enough these guys are far less evil than the kpop band is in the movie. Their name translates to "underworld (and/or death) messanger" and they act as guides to souls who have just entered the afterlife they bring you to the King of the underworld, King Yeomna, to face judgement that determines whether you will be reborn...or punished for all eternity.

They symbolise duty, authority, balance, and the natural transition between life and death. The myths provide a comfort that once we die we won't have to face the underworld or judgement alone and will have someone standing by our side along the journey which is nice to think of. Return tomorrow for Hansel and Gretel

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Already behind on day one lol :D in all seriousness the reason I'm behind was because part of my preparation was researching the different folklore that is on this year's loretober list and well...I got distracted, but I shall put this information to good use here in the descriptions..twitter and bluesky will be getting this stuff in quotes lol.

Anyway we start this loretober off with Papa Legba, a very important spirit from Haitian Voodoo. He is the gatekeeper of the spirit world and acts as a messenger between the living and the spirits, also known as the Loa. Now with this role you can safely assume he is super harmless often portrayed and seen as a grandfather type figure. He walks with a limp because one of his feet is always in one world and he is often seen with one or two dogs. All around a pretty chill guy.

Unfortunately because he's from the Haitian Voodoo religion western portrayals of him have him act as more a malevolent harbinger of death, who kills people to bring them down to be tortured in hell. Because apparently Voodoo is the same thing as devil worship to Hollywood. Which is really dumb cause he's literally just everyone's granddad. But that's Papa Legba for you all and next are the Jeosung Saja.

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And finally we end this very belated Mermay with serenity this was fun Im really glad I decided to finish it late instead of just dropping it like usual lol. Now to get ready for inktober lol

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I got really nervous with the prompt exoskeleton cause I didn't wanna draw essentially lobsters and crabs but then I remembered snails shells are exoskeletons and everything was alright lol

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I decided to do a siren because I really didn't want to do something related to the Wicked musical which was super popular in May. I just felt it was too predictable...plus I've only seen the stage musical version not the movie yet.

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Gemini, had to last minute put bikini tops on them because Instagram and Twitter are being weird about bare breasts. It is CLEARLY artistic nudity but nooooooooo

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For the Oasis prompt I decided to go with a vintage postcard vibe you know like the ones that say "come to our island oasis" ngl I'm not super happy with the foliage in the background, the flowers were last minute cause there were too many greens right on top of each other lol

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Memories of running through the forest with your childhood mermaid friend very nostalgic

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned