in ancient Slavic mythology, there are a lot of creatures that live side by side with the man.It brownies, yard and frights.Yes, those frights, which is also called swamp.What is this "chudy, St. Jude," as they might look like, what they do - all this we will now discuss.And even try to portray them on paper.
Who's Who
This female character a few names.Slavs clicked their shishimorami, Maras, susedkami.In each form of the name expresses the essence of a particular property.The first root "Kiki" indicates that there is a hunchback, crumpled.The second - "maras" - associated with the word "death", "Mortifier."Shishami Slavs called devils in general, evil spirits.It is clear that for this category, and are shishimory.How to draw Kikimora through this?In a crooked creature, perhaps with a tail like devils in elongated snout nose and crooked toes and hands."Susedki" sleeping person can sit on the chest, causing suffocation.But more often they rattle the dishes at night, sheburshat corners and very confused like a thread, yarn, knitting.Unruly, pakostnichanie - the second, the difference between this kind of evil forces.How to draw Kikimora with such a character?Little old lady round with tenacious paws like a chicken, a big mouth and reddish unkind eyes.
Looks
you remember the famous old woman Shapoklyak tales of Eduard Uspensky?In it something very like our shishimora.The same vicious and nasty!Although it is sometimes portrayed Slavs stout hostess apron with tongs and pots at the stove.She washes dishes, bakes bread, looking after children, caring for the cattle home.How to draw Kikimora good?Plump woman in a headscarf, with a pleasant smile.Yes, but we have forgotten the definition of "swamp"!The fact that people come to these analogs brownies out of the woods, of the most godforsaken, uninhabited swampland.By the way, in the house of her presence is detected by the smell of damp and wet trail of slime.And look, this "lady", respectively: a long, wet, matted hair of indeterminate color, which hammered the blades of grass.Dress-to-toe, gray or green.Pale skin, the dark eyes and a long hooked nose.Here's how to draw Kikimora - neighbor water and frogs!
are working on a way
get to work.As a basis we take the character, the average between the forest and the wickedness of the heroine stories about Gena and Cheburashka.Iedepict old woman with a crutch, as if she had just walked out of the forest primeval jungle.How to draw Kikimora stages?First, we do a sketch, a schematic outlining the head, torso, arms and legs.The simplest element of the picture - a snag on which our heroine is based.First, treat it: show bends, knotty.Now the head and face.Probably the most difficult thing is how to draw a pencil Kikimora - is to give it both eerie and lovely views.Her face wrinkled, his eyes sly, toothless smile with lukavinkoy.Hair carelessly scattered by the wind in different directions.Now the figure.Kikimora bent, and therefore relies on the crutch.Dress her dirty-green, marsh color.On his feet - peasant sandals.Around draw grass, bushes, a couple of trees.Add chiaroscuro shading, volume.All drawing is ready!Is not it a lovely old lady turned out?
