#awka

"The story of a young Huemul on a small mission that got out of hand, when she gets in trouble with people bigger than herself."

xenofiction webcomic fanart

left to right, top to bottom klick on the title to go to the comic sahara and silver from tofauti sawa by TheCynicalHound  Tadaka from city of trees by SanjanaIndica  adana from tofauti sawa ata from roar howl run by Songdogx  laurel from what's your damage? by FrostedCanid  awka from awka by Nothofagus-obliqua  babble from repeat fen from doe of deadwood Kasko from golden shrike by doeprince  Ina from the golden rule by IParamanos 

"And the sky embraces us" (2012)

A quick painting I made back in the day. I can't remember what inspired it, but there was some emotional weight, most likely Winter depression, but perhaps something else. A little scene, at a high mountain patch of woods.

Not much to say, a simple one, but i like the colors.

And yes, I remain distanced from social media, but it's what I need, and what's best for me at the moment.

Agaba mask, north-central Igbo area, possibly Achalla near Awka, 1946. 

"Pride Gals" (2022)

In my patient (but slower than I'd like..) cathegorizing of what pictures I've yet to upload to this blog, and well in tune with the month, have two Lesbian gals. Awka and Acol!

Because I like including some trivia to my uploads, "Acol" means "The one that leads to the lake". Remember her desicion, as a newcomer, to accompany Awka to cross the lake behind the Ñirantal (now Chaura's herd territory), into the Icefield. Acol is also the name of one of my favourite mountains in this region. It's a harsh one, with unmarked trails, streams where filling your bottle and shadow become scarce there in Summer- not a mountain for begginers or unprepared people. It also has two beautiful crater-lakes at the summit, which I also reflected in the comic's landscappery.

Acol also, as a character, has some influence from Tomoyo (from Card Captors Sakura), and her "square-ish" marking patterns reflect the character's haircut to a very loose degree (I was never a fan of animal markings resembling human haircuts too accurately, they always end up looking kind of weird, haha). I also picture her voice to sound alot like Tomoyo's latin american voice, except more adult-sounding (still soft and a bit high-pitched).

"Now that was amazing!" (2018)

Not a very old one, but wanted to archive one of the pieces featuring my two main twerps. Still fighting off a certain awkwardness towards Deviantart in general. I can't talk about it much while avoiding specific details, I just wanted to mention that getting to write long descriptions here in Tumblr is such a sweet feeling. Because deviantArt has hidden descriptions, they are way too Community friendly for the site I guess.

It's almost like one is interested in what an artist has to say, what they experimented while drawing, what they inspired them; and compare it all with our personal interpretations. Why hide it?