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-☀️🔥Trndez & Vardavar🌊🌙-

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-☀ (A piece from February!!) Arev the Sun Prince and Arax the River Princess 🌊celebrating Trndez [Տրնդեզ]🔥 Where couples and newlyweds jump over a sacred flame for luck, prosperity, and fertility -🌱Happy Trndez everyone!!-

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-🏺🌊Vardavar! The celebration and blessing of water where Armenia has a nation wide water fight! An illustration featuring Tsovik the Apricot Princess and Lusin the Moon Prince: from my Graphic novel ‘The Pomegranate Princess’🌊🏺

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❤💙🧡I am so excited to announce the release of our digital Armenian charity zine, Split Pomegranate - Sacred Seeds! 175 pages, 93 amazing artists and writers, and so much more, 100% of the profits of this digital book will be donated to All for Armenia It is such a privilege to showcase so so many beautiful pieces from Armenians and non Armenians alike, all representing the beauty and depth and resilience of Armenians. All supporters also automatically enter into a raffle to win amazing prizes, and the first three people to find the hidden links in the zine win a sticker bundle!! Thank you! ❤💙🧡

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-🍊❄️Berkahavak - Harvest❄️🍊-

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-The Pomegranate Princess Interactive Preview is now Available!!! (Choose your own price) (Compatible on PC with GoogleChrome/Microsoft Edge) -

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-I am so so excited to announce that I will be releasing an interactive online flipbook preview of 'The Pomegranate Princess,' at a 'choose your own price,' basis!!! This story will take a long time for me to fully complete and develop, so I thought it was the right time to allow people to see the fully colored preview- but not just as a regular pdf. This flipbook has music and secret links hidden throughout the whole book- that take you to articles, images, and songs relating to Armenian history, poetry, mythology, and more!! The Flipbook will be released December 20th!-

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- 12/06/23 Sketched 192 pages, and have finally reached the ending of chapter 3, which is such a special chapter to me!! 🥺-

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-Arax and Tsovik prints! They came out so cute, can’t wait to add them to the shop after all my art selling events-

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-180 pages sketched 11/14/23 !-

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-🌹Adore how this Nareh print came out!🌹-

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-🎃Halloween Nareh and Tsovik~ Tsovik doesn't know what a jack o lantern is so she made you khapama!!🎃-

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-Hi everyone- I know this isn't like my usual posts, and I know I also haven't been posting a lot lately either. The truth is that emotionally this has been a pretty difficult time for me. Being Armenian and simply watching the destruction of my people and their indigenous lands, the way the international community and governments have all the power and ability to help but simply do not care enough. It becomes extremely evident in the cases of Ukraine and Israel, how the world can respond in 24 hours- makes it even more painful when the people of Artsakh were in a blockade for 9 months, and begged for help for 9 months. This sense that our little country, our people simply were never important enough and still are not important enough brings me grief. The monastery where our alphabet was written, the ancient burials and beautiful memorials, the orchards passed down through generations, have now all been taken. But despite the fact that many times I have no energy, that I want to sit and stew in this grief, my action is needed, and I hope as well that you can share this project and help.

There are over 100,000 Armenian refugees that were displaced from Artsakh into Armenia. 100,000, and they need help. They need food and housing and aid, and many Armenian fundraisers and organizations are working around the clock to help these people. Organizations like All for Armenia are one of many. I have started a digital zine project, Split Pomegranate: Sacred Seeds with the goal of 100% of proceeds to be donated and provide aid. I am currently taking artists and writers and already have 80 contributors! Though I am mainly taking Armenian artists I will take anyone who truly cares enough to wish to contribute to this project- You can read more about the logistics here on the website:

Signups close on Oct 14th- thank you kindly, and wishing you strength

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-09/08/23 Reached 160 sketched pages today!!!-

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-❤Hi There!! Not many of you know this because I mainly post crafts and photos on this blog- but this project is extremely important to me so I wanted to make a quick post about it here! I am working on a webcomic/Graphic novel @the-pomegranate-princess that means the world to me! It follows Nareh the Pomegranate Princess, the daughter of two deities, The Mother of Land and The Father of Stars, on a journey learning how to be a proper leader. Living in a land untouched by the idea of war and conquering, her focus must shift from simply being a good leader, to becoming a warrior, after learning that the changing of rule opens up an opportunity for warlords who have been eyeing the land. This story is completely immersed with themes, folktales, and mythological creatures from my Armenian culture. It surrounds ideas of culture, community, sacrifice, war, love, loss, assimilation, survival, and is, in every sense of the word, a love letter to Armenia. I would greatly appreciate anyone who would like to follow my page as I proceed on this journey! The full first book has been written, 150 pages have been sketched, and there are many many more to go!! But this is a genuine passion project of mine that I hope can touch people's hearts, Thanks for reading!!!❤-

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-🌾Nareh’s mother, the Mother of Land or ‘Mother Nature’ made up of stone, wheat, and wood, she has used her powers to provide the kingdoms and lands with fertility and crops, sustaining life with her magic tears. As she ages her soul merges with the earth more and more, and her connection with her daughters weakens🌾-

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-💫Nareh’s father, the Father of Stars, a lonesome man of the cosmos who can only contact his children through dreams and omens. He considers Nareh his favorite, as he relates to her loneliness and is very invested in her making Allies and friends💫-