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madcat-world · 2 months

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The Unseen Rider - AnatoFinnstark

#the Unseen Rider #AnatoFinnstark #skeletons #fire #undead #riders #dark fantasy #digital art

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tsrmarina · 2 months

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Finally finished the new piece, this one’s a little more detailed 🥲

Warlike Prince Astarion ✨🩸⚔️

The light is red due to the sunlight being dimmed by some special creatures (sketching them right now😅). Vampire army, heavy riders, dragon-spawn and other details I hope you'll enjoy.

I'm so glad that Larian Studios and the phenomenally talented cast and team of Baldur's Gate 3 have been nominated for a BAFTA Games Awards 👏 Not only the best game and team, but such a great community of gamers and this is really special ❤️ If you're a UK citizen you can vote to support BG3 here: BaftagamesUK

Print is available here: https://www.inprnt.com/profile/marinatsareva

I post sketches and stuff on my IG, would be happy if you give me a follow: https://www.instagram.com/marina.tsareva.art

I’m also on Twitter: @tsrmarina

I have nooo idea how to properly reply to your reblogs, guys 😭 but I do read them all and love you so much for all your support and comments 🫂 thank you soooo much! ❤️

🎶My music inspiration for this artwork:

Some close-ups with the details:

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theartingace · 3 months

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Hello! I’ve seen your work over the years and every time I see it I always get a kick over it. I have a sociological question to ask you about centaurs. How do humans or other races fit into their lives? Both in a general sense of life, platonically, and romantically? Sorry if you’ve answered this before.

Thank you! It always blows my mind that I've been puttering away in my little corner of the internet with my horse people for this long!

I've covered a couple different specific situations in my cultures; re platonic and romantic? but for the most part is it boils down to that romantic would probably be rare and boil down to individual choices for how they approach it? But for platonic I have sort of covered a lot of platonic relationships just from the standpoint that basically all my centaur cultures have a deep societal tie to another race. At first it was a lot of convenience- a way to get around the difficulties of centaur bodies getting in the way of certain ways of life, but at this point I just do it cause it's lovely to me!

Like the merchants build their cities with the dwarves and they both benefit from the dwarves engineering and centaur's strength and mobility re:trade. The centaurs easily manage huge farms, trade networks, and logging infrastructure on their strength and speed but benefit from dwarves (and a small portion of other bipeds) being better set up for building (try to imagine a centaur making a roof, it's vexed me for a year now..) and generally engineering wizzes so it's a mutually beneficial relationship to entwine their cultures in the main Merchant City

Obviously my Riders are wholly entwined with their biped family as I've talked extensively about in.. too many posts probably haha

but then my very lightly covered Mountain folk have a different, almost religious relationship with the Forest Giants in which the relationship between their two cultures is separate other than the spiritual importance they hold with each other. The giants live approximately 300 years but are very slow, sedate creatures who prize a life of peace and telling stories over all else. So the centaurs almost view them as minor deities and the giants keep and love the stories their fiery little companions entrust to them.

As you can tell, I really love building all these races and cultures and then mashing them together and see what comes out! I find it makes the world feel more real and lived in when I'm not only thinking about how a culture would work and operate, but also how they interact with their neighbors! What's their main export and how does that shape their life and relations?? These are the questions I get LOST in so thank you for asking :D

#asked and answered #centaurs #riders #mountain folk #merchants #I REALLY NEED TO COME UP WITH NAMES #but I have commitment problems #man I can't even get into the other merchant connections #they also work with my version of elves #in their logging operations #and their network of mail delivery taurs have a whole seperate thing with harpies #I LOVE CONNECTING CULTURES #in ways that aren't fighting!

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illustratus · 1 month

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