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Pose from a harlequinade ballet bc I thought it was cute

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Some pajama designs for funsies

Bonus:

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inspired by a bunch of gorgeous 1920s cabaret posters

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exhausted first time parents

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Updated refs for Graziella (donatellas sister) and Giacinta (donatellas mom)

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I love vintage circus costumes and I love sideshow posters so. Here we are

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because I’m still in love with you, on this harvest moon

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based off of a photo from a 1930s lingerie ad that i had saved to use as a reference for months now

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Some little studies that I spent too much time on. Moment of silence for tala and queepie and Nona who I gave up trying on

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that’s not coming off

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i tapped into some arcane power and was able to finally draw donatella EXACTLY how i visualize her in my brain.

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Mermaid au or something.

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These have a ton of symbolism in them so card meanings and symbolism under the cut

The empress represents fertility, creativity, nurturing. This works for Donatella in the terms of literal fertility and nurturing with her being a mother but also works for her in the sense of her being the creative mind behind all of the Aquato’s tricks. When reversed, the card represents overbearing, smothering, lack of growth. This equally captures the pitfalls of Donatella’s personality and parenting.

The original Empress card uses nature to represent fertility and abundance but I took it in a more literal sense and decided to represent those concepts with the Aquato’s camp, combining both the nature aspect with a more literal interpretation of fertility with the camp representing her many children. The original card includes a crown of 12 stars for the 12 zodiac signs which I have reinterpreted as stars in Donatella’s hair based on that one color concept where there were flecks of gold in her hair that looked like stars.

The emperor card represents stability, protection, practicality, discipline. As the circus ringleader and a father, these aspects encompass what Augustus wants for his family. When reversed, the card represents domineering, tyranny, rigidity. These are all things that fit the evil Augustus mind construct Raz had, which we can assume came from an amalgamation of fears from Augustus’ parenting. Just like Dona, the reverse covers the flaws in his parenting and personality.

The original emperor card shows a king with his scepter which I have chosen to reinterpret as a ringleader cane. Likewise, the original background of the card which were soaring mountains which represented the ambition for greater heights has been replaced with the towering structure of the Aquatodome, where the family are reaching literal heights.

Overall I think I got lucky in that both the upright and reversed positions of these cards work for these two and I think it’s fun to consider both sides

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Donatella in the Versace safety pin dress

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She thought it was cute they wanted to braid her hair until she realized how long it was going to take to detangle that

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HELLO GRULOKY!!!

just saw the post about your ask box being open and im absolutely THRILLED to see all the art that could potentially come from this.

btw. itd be really cool if you drew frazie again

keep up the great work bud

HELLO THANK YOU!!!!!

Here’s a Frazie in 80s Laura Ashley for you

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Was trying to figure out some casual wear for donatella and I very specifically wanted it to be 70s so I decided a gunne sax style sundress was probably the most likely for her. And then I also put her in a long sleeve gunne sax just for me