Did a bit more portrait practice. Decided after the viktor incident I would just lean into the arcane stuff.
Heres my reference photo! I think i got surprisingly close to the real thing. Wasn't expecting that.
Also, he needs chapstick so bad. Those lips are incredibly crusty
“Those poor boys”
“She deserves to be punished too.”
“I’m not saying I support rape, but-”
“Sorry to say - she deserved it.”
“She put herself in harm’s way”
“But if she was fingered, then that’s not rape.”
“She ruined their lives.”
Made with love, a random pencil, and a dollar store calligraphy pen.
Its.. it's just a stickbug samurai that my sibling wanted me to draw from their weird critter universe.
he looks like he's in a manga panel, and I love him dearly.
Edit: I added Japanese maple leaves to the background.
He really calls himself an athiest and then does all this stuff that's symbolic to things from the Bible.
He tells his bud to take care of his mom and sister because he probably won't be seeing them again, paralleling Christ telling John to take care of his mom when he was hanging on the cross.
He kisses Sonia's foot similar to Jesus washing the feet of his apostles.
He harrases Sonia into reading the story of Lazarus (seriously, he barged in and started putting her down, the jerk, then wouldn't leave till she read to him). While Lazarus died physically and was sepreated from his loved ones, Raskolnikov and Sonia have expierenced a spiritual death beacause of their sins. This point is accentuated when after she finishes reading, the book makes a comment about the harlot and the murderer, referring to Sofia and Raskolnikov. Then later they become seperated from their siblings when they go to Siberia like Lazarus was seperated from Mary and Martha.
There's probably more that I missed but those three really stuck out to me. He goes on about being an atheist and wanting to be in the same class as Napoleon but bro is acting like he's a martyr or something if he confesses to murdering 2 people who were minding their own business. Delusions of grandeur, indeed.
Who are these people…
raskolnikov just lying in bed for a week from anxiety and guilt and depression is the most relatable thing i've ever read. he would make a killing on depressed tiktok. bedrotting pioneer. this is before he's inevitably exposed for being a temperamental asshole and also a murderer lol
sunrise / sunset
WAR IS OVER WAR IS OVER
RAAAAHHHH WAR IS OVER 🔥🔥🔥
I think I cooked on that test hbu? :3
how do you do, fellow Creatives™