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HANSRYWEEK ↳ Day 1: Looks

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This model job is hard

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wip😌🤲I really like this piece

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Mutt life🐕

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Тополя (Poplar Tree) | 1996 | Valentina Kostyleva | Ukraine

Based on the poem by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. A young girl falls in love with a Cossack who goes off to war. She waits faithfully for his return, but as time passes, he does not come back. Heartbroken and despairing, she fears he has died or forgotten her. The villagers pressure her to marry someone else, but she refuses.

In her sorrow, she seeks help from a traditional Ukrainian village witch/folk healer, begging for a way to preserve her love and avoid an unwanted marriage. The witch casts a spell that turns the girl into a poplar — tall, slender, and always reaching toward the distance, as if still looking for her beloved.

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tlou2 crossover

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Mutt, however, always has his own idea...

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Knight of Hearts 🩷

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It took me about two months to do, but I finally finished my embroidery based off @creaits 's amazing herb kcd art! It's such a lovely piece of art that I wanted to honor it by making it into an embroidered piece!

Under the cut are details of my stitches!

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🍃🌼☀️ A festive celebration around the maypole ☀️🌼🍃

I am SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS!! I collaborated with @putrecabra who lent their phenomenal lineart and absolutely lovely designs for this wood burning project!

This piece is meant to celebrate the joy and warmth of summer while keeping the lingering fingers of death at bay--or, hell, inviting it along as you dance with that dearest heart which gives you so much life ❤️‍🔥 ⚔️

Once again, I cannot thank @putrecabra enough for working with me on this; all the energy and heart of this comes from their drawing, I just burnt it onto a slab of wood and died a little as the paint for Hans's pants came out too dark LOL

Some process pics under the cut if you're curious

This piece of wood was pretty large so I had to print the lineart on two sheets & figure out the best way to seamlessly stitch em together. I chose to split it in a point that wouldn't be TOO bad to fill in the gaps myself in case it ended up not lining up in the end but thankfully it ended up working out.

It was also a lot more difficult than I was anticipating to place it, and I pretty much had to do it blind and hope for the best :^) Using the lamp actually helped a lot lol

Once it was taped down SECURELY over a large sheet of carbon paper (made absolutely sure that sucker wouldn't move) I then traced the entire drawing

AND LOOK FOR FORTUITOUS THE PLACEMENT WAS!! I adore the little dots from the wood that exist almost exclusively by Hans & Henry's heads (and the one that stopped perfectly at the line of his forehead), and that the knot in the middle is framed by the negative space between the but doesn't touch their hands at all, and most of all I love the ominous crack that slices across Henry's belly LOL hopefully that isn't a premonition, but I like how it adds to the subtle macabre of this drawing

Then the burning. It's a lot like drawing with ink & also watercolor at the same time, and some times the heat itself just refused to work with me and made sloppy lines, but I shant focus on those parts :'^)

Do I regret adding this much color? MAYBE

Should I have stopped while I was ahead? PERHAPS

But at the end of the day I am still v happy with this!!

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🎶Oh…you make me live🎶

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also some hansry

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i'm back from scouting pribyslavitz sir

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And we'll make it last

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I'm on a roll today so feast