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Cirilla of Cintra ⚔️ Quick fan art of Ciri, based on an old sketch I drew after The Witcher IV announcement.

Also, it’s my birthday tomorrow, and my home city of Kyiv, Ukraine, is still being terrorised on a daily basis. We are bracing for another massive attack, while our energy workers are doing the impossible to help people not freeze to death after our energy grid has been heavily damaged.

We still have emergency blackouts in the capital and very sparse, unpredictable electricity, so this is the first new artwork I managed to complete in January.

Just tired and exhausted from the unfairness and the indifference of the world that lets this kind of evil exist and prosper, and not just that, but constantly whitewashes it and finds ways to celebrate it. ____________

“In Dutch Protestant paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries, meat often referred to ‘the weak flesh.’ In my paintings, the beauty of the flesh is shown, and the ornate frames emphasize the non-Puritanical content. People call the frames ‘over the top’ or excessive. They’re often painted to match the meat. When viewing the paintings, some say they have a gag reflex while thinking at the same time they’re beautiful.”