Ogroblin

An ogre plus an undetermined number of goblins... Very-very quick digital sketch just for fun...

(and yes, a little bit of inspiration comes from the Master-Blaster characters from Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome (1985) )

A little mistake of translation

What unspeakable horror can you summon because of a little mistake of translation?

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By the way, this entry means the 200th of this blog! Hurry!

An Undetermined Ogre

And still don't sure if it's an ogre or a troll...

The Harlequinoid

Just a quick sketch of the famous (and still mysterious)  mercenary and hitman known as "The Harlequinoid"...

Sun Wukong, the monkey king

Done in a couple of drawing sessions, here it is, our personal interpretation of the hero character of the popular chinese (and universal) tale "Journey to the West" and others: Sun Wukong, self-proclaimed "Great Sage, Equal of Heaven". Like the trickster he is, Sun Wukong faces and revolutionized consecutively the four Dragon Kings of the sea, the infernal powers (where he erased his name and the name of all the monkeys from the "Book of Life and Death"), and the Jade Emperor of Heaven and the celestial spirits; finally, the Buddha himself intervened and imprisoned the unruly monkey until that Xuanzang, the buddhist monk, claimed for Sun Wukong to help him in the quest for the buddhist sutras (the final target for the journey to the west)...

Gog, from the land of Magog (or vice versa)

Unfortunately, we can not make the large explanation that this entry deserve, because of lack of time; only a few words, no more.

The legendary land of Magog and his king, Gog, are mentioned in the Bible (Old Testament), also in the Quran and in islamic tales, and (the most important) in the Alexander the Great legendarium. 

It is said that Gog was son of Japhet, one of the Noah´s sons whose descendants repopulated the earth after the Deluge; for ancient people, this dark kingdom, Magog (that is, literaly, land of Gog)), was inhabited by all sorts of barbarians who don´t follow the God´s Law - you know: they don´t respect hospitality, practicing canibalism, etc. -, and, for example, Flavius Josephus and other authorities interpreted that the offspring of Magog as the scythian people (nomads, id est, barbarians). Also, the historian Jordanes and the scholar Isidore of Seville connected the people of Magog to the goth people origins - and others found another connections to their own people´s origins...

By the passing of time, the perception of the legendary people of Magog as barbarians changed and saw them like cruel monsters; or saw the land of Magog as the last refuge to the pagan world who gradually dissapeared. In this manner, all the mythological creatures like fauns, cyclops, cynocephaly, blemmies or manticores, for example, could was found in the land of Magog.

The arabian tales narrated that Alexander the Great (or Dhul Qarnayn in other tales), during his years of conquest, arrived to the Magog land frontier, and horrified, he commanded the building of a great wall, in order to contain the monsters inside. It said that the wall will only fall with the coming of the Apocalypse...

Strange Crew

A sample of the space pirate crew...

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By the way, the second character from the left is the same of this entry ...

The Orc Shaman and his Merry Altar Boys

... spreading his chaotic creed everywhere they go!

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Ming the Merciless

His Supreme Intelligence, Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Mongo

A relatively quick sketch of a personal interpretation of the character created in 1934 by Alex Raymond, for his comic strip Flash Gordon... By the way, the inspiration for the pose and composition come from a certain frame of the 1944 Eisenstein´s film, Ivan the Terrible.

The Perils of the Space Pirate

The fearsome space pirate "Spike-Beard", terror of the Seven Constellations!

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The Tentacled Criature Lurks

Not exactly an illithid, but it could pass for an inhabitant of the Plateau of Leng...

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Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto or Rōnin Robot

Back to the ideas through which we travelled, again. This time, another motifs which are very dear to us: Robots and samurai! Yeah!

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Indian elephant warrior

Between intention and execution there is an immense distance; similarly, between outcome and expectation... no more comments, ha ha ha

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The rabbi, the golem and the lilim

Honoring our blog´s name, here we bring an expanded version of an illustration that we upload a few days ago...

By the way, don´t you think that myths and beliefs of judaism have many patriarchal and heteronormative elements?

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The Mark of Fishbone!

Yep, another quick sketch with our friend cat as protagonist...

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Rabbi Eliezer ben Shlomo HaLevi and his Golem

Here, the result of another couple of graphic tablet sessions...

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The Yeti-thing from Outer Space

He is not angry; he is hurt: he has a splinter in his foot...

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Arabic Lich Wizard (again)

Yes, and yes: we like liches and the symbolism of his quest to reach inmortality and the high cost that they must to pay...

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Vengeance! (from Ghost Rider comic)

I. Have. No. Time. For. Everythig.

And here it is Vengeance, from Marvel comics...

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Old Man Winter (among others)

As a celebration of the many and heterogeneous festivities held on the last days of the year, here I leave this unplanned improvisation... Hope you like it!