It's #Portfolioday!
I'm StinaMarie, and I make creepy and not-so-creepy art with traditional mediums. I have created book covers & book illustrations, commissions, and sell prints & originals.

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The Fables of Erlking Wood

Goats Flying Press is an independent comic book #Publisher located in Brooklyn, NY.
#Folkore #GraphicNovel #Artist #Comic #ComicArt #Comicbook #JuniBa #Art #BookIllustrator #BookIllustration #GoatsFlyingPress #ComicBookPublisher

https://www.goatsflyingpress.com/

Why #Ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude

In 1863 #GeorgeCruikshank, the #Caricaturist and #BookIllustrator of #CharlesDickens’s #Novels, announced:

"That anyone has ever thought of the gross absurdity and impossibility of there being such things as ghosts of wearing apparel … Ghosts cannot, must not, dare not, for decency’s sake, appear without clothes; and as there can be no such thing as ghosts or spirits of clothes, why then, it appears that ghosts never did appear and never can appear."

Stories of naked or clothesless ghosts, especially outside #Folklore, are exceedingly rare

Note: #Ghost in white sheet (Funeral Shroud)

#Victorian #VictorianBritain #VictorianSocialClass #Mid19thCentury #Spiritualism #PsychicalResearch #GhostStories #VictorianLiterature #Paranormal #AndrewLang

https://theconversation.com/why-ghosts-wear-clothes-or-white-sheets-instead-of-appearing-in-the-nude-241948

Atupele finds "The Key".

Mid February this year, I decided to put together a book illustration portfolio. I enlisted the help of ChatGPT and came up with the story of a young girl who finds a key that unlocks a realm to a mystical world. I've continued to flesh that out over the past 2 months. At this point it's "loosely" based on Yao mythology. The Yao tribe is my heritage, and I'd love to explore the lore there.

#visdev #characterdesign #bookillustraion #bookillustrator #digitalpainting

Hide-and-Seek 🌳🌿🌻

#MastoArt #kidlit #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #gouache #springvibes #springillustration #editorial #bookillustration #forestillustration #bookillustrator #chillvibes

Miškolin 🐾
Children's picture book cover design.

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Destiny (c. 1885-86) by Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854-1931). English painter and book illustrator loosely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

'It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.' ― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage.

#Victorian #VictorianArt #Destiny #ThomasCooperGotch #Englishpainter #bookillustrator #PreRaphaelite #Fate #1800s

@Curator An illustration I did a while ago but I still think it's worth posting it here! I really loved working on this one, although it was challenging at times. I also hate watermelons but I like painting them xD

I also do commissions and book illustrations. Let me know if you're interested! :)

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