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Published: 2019-01-15 12:54:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 611; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 0
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Song: Melnitsa - Korolevna (Фан-арт к песне группы Мельница "Королевна")"Korolevna" is an archaism for "queen".
The folk song tells a tale of a traveling bard (or maybe just a knight who also sings) who gets infatuated with a queen of a faraway land, covered in snow. Her eyes are the color of gentian, her dress is embroided with silver and gold feathers, while the fabric is like the sky above.
Falcon is a big yet obscure symbol in the song: it's either the queen can turn into a bird, the knight, both of them, OR the knight/bard simply had a pet falcon as his best friend and then lost him in a snowstorm (which again might mean that it was the queen who died).
All in all, it's a cool song. Check it out ma dudes
P.S. Have no idea how to draw birds honestly, treat my messed up falcon gently please and thank you
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Comments: 10
For some reason this reminds me more of Volga peoples rather than East Slavs. Nevertheless, I get a distinct vibe of an ancient queen
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Thank you, I´m glad I got the vibe at least
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Lovely illustration!
I love the classic and colorful way painted this. It looks like and illustration in a very old manuscript. Especially with all the symbols you used. I also really like these type of old folk tales. <3
There is nothing wrong with the bird, his pose and texture look good, except that what you drew is and eagle and not a falcon. Falcons have much smaller beaks: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
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Well, I will give my opinion after reading the description and seeing this wonderful drawing, well, here goes my opinion.
Since I saw the miniature from the galleries, I knew that this work would be worthwhile and it's good that I'm not mistaken.
Well, first, the colors remind me of the mosaics typical of the Orthodox Christian style, or even a beautiful tapestry of the urals, from my point of view, that detail was very beautiful and especially the composition of all the parts
Maybe the Falcon looks a little strange with the fog, but I like it to combine with the history and the ambience.
Try to investigate the story and the song more thoroughly, but I found almost nothing, but I like the representation you made of the story summarizing it, especially the final part that was very sad, but I really liked the wings of fog and snow , which evoke very well the ability to change skin to a new life
The scenery is very beautiful, especially the beautiful starry sky that is very difficult to do by hand (at least for me), but you managed it, my friend, the mountains are harmonious with the scenery.
In summary, the drawing is beautiful and I wish you luck in the future
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I really like all the detail you put into this one. Though I feel like there's too much detail, but that's most likely just me.
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