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Published: 2011-05-29 23:53:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 4415; Favourites: 134; Downloads: 45
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Jasha and Vladik Fleeing from witch called Baba Yaga...run boys, run; if she'll get you SHE'LL EAT YOU! >8D
seriously...she eats children. :I
Anyhow...
A background/ scene practise from my story for Jasha and his brother Vladik.
Jasha is on the left and Vladik is on the right. :3
In young age Vladik and his brother Jasha got orphans (in 1920's).
They tried to survive in Petrograd's (St.Petersburg) streets by stealing. They hoped to find a new start somewhere else, so they decided to leave their home country.
They sneaked into a train and tried to get as far as they could...but they were noticed and thrown out from a moving train into snowy Russian woods.
Boys didn't know excatly where they were, or how to survive there, but they still managed to keep themselves alive by eating whatever they could find eatable.
One day they settled upon a strange hut in the woods. It had wooden legs, similiar with chickens and around it was a fench made of human bones.
Boys had heard from their mother about Baba Yaga, and knew she was wicked old witch who ate little children.
Jasha and Vladik didn't know what to do...they were really hungry and cold and the only place where's warm was inside Baba Yaga's cottage.
They were scared of the witch, so they waited if they could see her leave...and some time later she came out and vanished into the woods.
Boys sneaked to the hut. They didn't know how to get up into the warm cottage. Suddently it spinned around and came down...
the door opened and the cottage kept strange noices...Jasha and Vladik were really scared but the smell of delicious stew were too irresistible, so they entered the hut.
They ate as much as they could, as fast as they could. After eating they started to look around. There was all kinds of of magical stuff around the cottage.
Potions, skulls, books and amulets. Jasha found a book lying on the sidetable. It was very old and had a pentagram on the cover.
He opened the book, which was full of different kinds of spells. A sudden wind alarmed the boys...Baba Yaga was coming back. Jasha snatched the book and they escaped the hut.
Baba Yaga noticed immediately that someone had been inside her hut. She was really angry at the hut itself. it had let starngers in without her permission!
The book what was on the table were taken... Angry as a bear woken from its hibernation Baba Yaga went after the little thiefs.
I'm not going to reveal more about what's going to happen. ;3
Sorry about my poopy english...It's almost 3 am here. x'D
I will probably make more drawings of these two and their story in near future. I've had this 'Vladik & Jasha-mood' up for a while now...
JHHGHYTTXZ...LOL...snow. xD
Haha, when I made this I accidently put the background layers together too soon. So it's made on one layer before I tried to add some gradient shadows in it.
Never again! x'D I need to be careful with layers....
Ok...I really need to go to bed now... -u-
Thank you for looking! <3
Vladik & Jasha Kozlov and all about them ©me
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Comments: 40
I don't know why I feel do much warm although it's full of snow > u < ))
Maybe that they hold hand and escape together!
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ahh. that's a russian story 8D
lol.
the art is amazing O3O
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boys with grimoir.... My OCs need to use cat-alarm!!
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this is awesome!
when i was a kid i was sooo afraid of her, because of all those fairytales!
she's scary! XD
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It's cool! I like.. everything about the picture! and their story!
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Whoa!! A glorious image, and a interesting and amazing storyline...
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Thank you very much! 
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Tulee aikas mieleen että tää vois olla ihan hyvinkin kohtaus animaatioelokuvasta. Lumoavat maisemat, Baba Yagan siluetti näyttäytyy sopivan uhkaavana.
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Aww, kiitos!
Vielä täytyy harjoitella noita taustoja, mutta hyvä kuulla että näyttää hyvältä jo nyt. x3
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YAYA more of the story! <333 Now you need to finish that Jackie carrying them pic <3333 Mostly because I find it adorable, even if Jackie and Spine would punch me for saying so hahaha. Anyways, awesome job on this pic, I think that the smaller boys make the forest seem more vast and imposing. I don't really know the story of Baba Yaga, my friend did a painting of her hut one time though, and it seemed pretty damn awesome. I might have to look it up to read it. I like how you use her in your story though, and with her big ol shadow there in the back makes it kinda scary. Lovely job with the bg as well, with all the logs and trees, and making the snow look so deep and thick 
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Yes, I tought that when I uploaded this. x3 'ok now I have even better reason to finish the Jackie pic too'
....besides I don't remember when I've drawn Jackie last time?... o3o Dang...I just realized that need to make a pic just for him because I miss him! x'D
Haha, when I get more pics of my OC's done there's gonna be lots of connecting link in descriptions...and peeps are gonna get so confused. xD
I need to do chronological timeline for them... but that's faaar in the future~
Haha, yes Jasha was a blondino before he drank shapeshift potion and all those mixed ones together... then he slowly turned fully green
(first he just had huge green splotches in his body... xD)and his hair grew dark green.
Thank you Syd! 
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HEY! This story was really great n_n I especially like this version. You asked for critique so I had a few questions and here they are:
· Isn't Baba Yaga from the movie Spirited Away? I forget but I DID like that movie
·What country are you from? My guess is RUSSIA and if so that is uuber cool (no pun intended...well only sorta!) Plus your English is exceptional!
Okay that's all for now. Hope to hear back soon ^_^
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Thank you so much!
Well, in spirited away there was a witch who was similiar with Baba Yaga.
Still Baba Yaga has been witch in Russian folklore for hundreds of years, so I quess Miyazaki
wanted to make his version from the famous witch. i love that movie too! It's one of my favourites from him. ^^
Here is more about Russian Baba Yaga: [link]
Haha, well I'm from a country next to Russia: Finland. : D
I've always been interested in Russian folklore thou, and the country itself too.
Haha, and I have to say that the Russian language is one of my favourites from all languages. xD
Others are british English (especially with Scottish or Irish accents), Japanese and French.
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Wow thanks for the long reply, I enjoyed reading it so much :3
I've never been to Finland but I hear the language is tough to learn. I admire anyone who knows it !!!
I'm going to read what you linked now, thank yeh for the entertainment :]
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Hehe, no problem. ^^
She's not only in Russian folklore, but in all around Slavic folklore tales too.
And yea, I've heard Finnish is the third harders language to learn. x'3
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Very, very nice pic, i love it!
I like how you draw the guys, they look cute.^^ And the snow is really lovely, you did a great job with shading.
Poor guys, i hope they'll escape.xD
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Thank you very much!
Don't worry; they'll manage to escape!
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No problem!
I'm glad they will.
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I absolutely adore this SO MUCH. The fact that you can get such a sense of the story simply by looking at the image, and then, it's like AWESOME THERE IS A STORY when you scroll down. There's so much tension and fear emanating from the characters, which contrasts so beautifully with the lovely, serene setting. (The snow-covered trees come across as soft and comforting.) Russian folklore always makes me giddy.
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Thank you so much!
I try to get better in story illustrations and get more feeling into them,
so I'm very happy to recieve such an positive feedback! ^^
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Thank you! I'm happy to hear you like it!
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I really love the background, and how soft the snow looks.
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Thank you Jamie! <3
It's my first attempt to paint snow, so I'm happy to hear it looks good to you. ^^
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You defiantly need to do more wintery themed backgrounds.
Ooo maybe sometime we could commission you to draw Myst and Etoh in the snow. ^^
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I should, because it was quite fun. 
I stopped doing backgrounds many years ago and just two years back started to do them again ( slowly, but I started. x3).
before that I almost always made a background for my drawings, especially to big ones. o3o
Aww! That sounds so sweet. x3 <3
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I dunno why you don't do more traditional stuff, your traditional coloring is always so beautiful.
I am not very good at doing like realistic type backgrounds, so I just stick to doing watercolor ones and trying different techniques to get different looks.
Yes, plus I love getting arts from you!!! <333333333
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Well, I don't know either. xD I quess I wanted to learn digital art, but it kinda distracted me from traditional art.
Now I try to draw more traditonally. That's one reason I don't accept digital commissions (only simple chibies) right now.
Some things I have to do digitally if the lineart gets ruined while inking it, etc.
I enjoy traditional colouring so much thou. I've just got too careful what comes to bakcgrounded traditional art. -u-;
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Nice work! If I came across a hut with a bench made of human bones I'd be a little unnerved lol!
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Thank you! <3
Lol, I couldn't go near of it either. x'D
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Glad to hear that! :3
I got really inspired by Ivan Bilibin's illustrations. ^^
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