Slavic Folk Tales

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Character Sheet

by Meraence

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Well truly to say I don't planed to submit this picture but as I already made it I try to explain who shown on it.
It's actually request for the one person which ask to draw picture with heroes (good or evil ~ on my own decision) of Slavic folk tales.
This Fables include a lot of characters so as I had a free choice I decided to draw :
~ Fox ~ (wings of fire symbolize - Trick it is some kind of proof that fox always can escape from trouble situations)
~ Wolf ~ (in the most of tales he was nearby Fox so when he get into troubles it's was always by the Fox's fault. I think that teeth symbolize him because while Fox is get out of the water dry he always punched his way by force)
(poor wolf)
~ Тhree-headed Dragon ~ (Known as - Zmey Gorynych. In tales and in old movies he was always an evil character which always should be defeated by some kind of good and brave hero... i don't like this part. Really this is the one thing that I don't like in Slavic folk tales... Dragons are considered as evil characters. Why? Probably because of some religion's principles? Anyway I do not support them and such attitude to dragons like this.
Regarding how they looks like I do not mistaken I remember an old movie where Тhree-headed Dragon was separate on 3 elements.
- Fire
- Water
- Wind
So that's why I decide to make such appearance

About funny things... this is my first attempt of drawing fur so wolf looks very fluffy and same things regarding fox... (if you do not pay attention to her appearance... It similar to situation that looks like she come from hell. I really tried to make fox a bit creepy but now she looks too much
If truth to say I don't like how wolf came out... and not to mention to Dragon's view. I don't know how about you but just one question comes into my mind - (What Dragons thinking about when they watching like this ?)

In any case if I am not mistaken as Socrates said: Evil does not come without a cause so maybe it's even not dragon's fault that some people determine them as Evil... especially if you look into the past and seen how popular was for knights to kill dragons in a middle ages.

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