#mythological fantasy

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[ART FOR OTHERS]

This week’s Art for Others (the series where I make some free art for others) featuring @axl-ul’s mythic-historical fantasy story called City of False Gods. The summary:

After the failed pilgrimage to the Western Paradise, Sun Wukong was imprisoned by Buddha once again. Now, he is awakened from his cursed slumber to experience the shocking world of 1920s Hong Kong, or rather one of its infamous islands - Dragonfly Island. Under the supervision of Erlang Shen, Sun Wukong must find his Master while being stripped of many of his powers and forced to take up the identity of a simple auto mechanic at the local police station. Despite his ban and various restrictions, the Great Sage finds himself rescuing a poor orphaned boy who witnessed a murder of a prostitute.

Hunted by the local crime lord and his superordinate with new tasks in the workshop or coerced by circumstances to protect little Zhihao and encounter familiar faces from the past, the Monkey King faces a new trial the fate has prepared for him. Shall he prove worthy of restoring the sutras after all and achieve nirvana? Or shall his name be remembered as that of a treacherous demon who never learnt his lesson?

Versions uncrunched by tumblr for you here

Check it out and show them some support! They don’t have a page for this story set up yet but follow them and keep an eye out for it! This one was a little tougher to arrange but I like how it turned out. If you’d like me to make free art for one of your stories all you have to do is be following me and have a titled writing project!

New episode of Art for Others this time next week >>]

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Been very anti three heads on chimera in the past, but I'm trying out something new with this design

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On August 15, 1963, Jason and the Argonauts debuted in the United Kingdom.

[cherriielle]

daphne's blessing 🌿

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I just think medieval snail ladies are neat.

[faithschaffer]

-Medusa-

I've had this sitting around as a sketch for awhile, finally had time to finish it! Hoping to do more mythology illustration this year.

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I know unicorns in modern media are kind of relegated to cutsie, MLP, rainbow plastic toys, or shitting rainbows, 'lets go to candy mountain' but man. I WISH more fantasy media would put them in unironically. There is so much symbolic and narrative potential in a creature that is, depending on your mythology:

A guardian of wild spaces, the embodiment of nature untouched by mankind's industry and greed. Fewer and farther between.

The ideal of "Purity" made manifest, elusive and powerful and hunted for fruitlessly by many a person. To kill. To actually kill. Living symbol of the oh-so-coveted Purity, not treated as a sacred thing to protect, or even predated for food to survive off, but a trophy for knights and lords to boast about.

So absolutely fierce and deadly that no one smart dared to fight it fairly. A gentle maiden had to betray it into resting in her lap so that a man could spear it while its guard was down.

Able to heal any wound no matter how severe - it promised miracles, if you could find one.

A creature who's magic vanished if it was captured or killed. In trying to take control of it, you destroyed it. Some things can only be given by free will, and no amount of personal desire or brute force can change that.

[authorvadhan]

Mythological Fantasy - Author Vadhan

Author Vadhan stands as a luminary in the realm of mythological fantasy, weaving together ancient legends and modern storytelling techniques to craft narratives that resonate with readers on a profound level. Visit- https://www.authorvadhan.com/

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Alexa, play "No Longer You"

Animatic by yours truly An extended version will be uploaded on my YouTube channel

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I hope y’all like greek mythology here…

Anyone else obsessed with EPIC??

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Vargoth, The Vigilant by Calder Moore

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The Bull of Minos wishes for a kinder myth where he can be free

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Needle felt Minotaur, handmade by me. Available for purchase in source link.

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A little sneak peak at some art going into my next 5e homebrew

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On August 18, 2015, Jason and the Argonauts was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia.

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Guinevere's wedding dress and chainmail veil in Excalibur 1981

[entnoot]

a little a Ragnarök, as a treat ☀️🐺