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A slumbering cryptid, a pale creature in the dark, an artist of characters u shouldn’t like but worryingly do. They/Them No AI/ No NF🫖’s 🍁 www.patreon.com/crossroadart (if u want to feed the lurking shadow) 🍂 bio.link/crossroadart
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Thank you for the art share! And happy Friday 😆 I do have something Halloween themed! Or more Samhain themed, since that will be the night that the Holly King slays the Oak King 🍂🍁

The Oak & Holly King r the gods of the long & short days, who annually kill each other for their half of the reign. Currently, they’r not killing each other, it’s too early. They’r instead strolling & watching the harvest come in; with Holly, the god of the dark days, looking with stoic interest to his right. He’s depicted here as slender, with sharp angular features, narrow antler that resembles a tree in the winter without its leaves & long hair tied back & whipping a the breeze. His garments r of a dark academia fashion. The Oak king has a much boarder frame, with wide antler, a barrel chest, long braided hair, a short beard, the ears of a stag & an ample belly, however not as ample as it once was. Holly’s growing power does dwindle him, but his attitude will not betrayed the fact, he will not give Holly the satisfaction. So he is mischievous in his countenance, wearing an open shirt & whispering some off hand gossip to Holly as he too watches the goings on to their right.
2 gods, The Holly King and The Oak King, twisted around each other, back to back, as they stab both themselves and their opposite through their own chests and on into the back of the other with long swords decorated in a fashion to suit their own symbolism. The Oak King is in a warm palette, with a torc around his neck and bands of decorative leather and gold around his wrists and huge biceps. His hair is long and red, flowing around him under a pair of huge antlers and a coronet of gold oak leaves. The Holly King is in a dark, desaturated, cold palette , with a dark pelt over his shoulders and a silver chain and broaches holding his midnight blue cloak in place. His hair is long & black, his antlers r narrow & sharp. His coronet is made of silver holly leaves. The Oak King is laughing and the Holly King’s lips are parted but he look composed despite the both of them holding the bloody sword tips that are spearing out of their chests.
A sketch of The Holly King, God of the short cold days, with sharp antlers like winter trees and a silver crown of holly leaves. He’s dressed in medieval garb which includes a cloak wrapped around his shoulders, on top of which sits a thick black fur cloak, fastened to his shoulders with a silver holly brooches & chains draping across his chest. Under this he wears a surcoat over a long sleeved tunic which is close fitting on his thin arms and wrist. These 2 garments are collected by a wide belt that cinches his narrow waist, on top of which hangs 2 more leather belts, loose around his hips. The most notable feature of the kings attire is his neck armour, whose metal circles his shoulders from the collar bone to the neck which it corsets around in a firm fit. It’s engraved with sharp spikes of holly leaves & makes his posture tall & austere. The king has a calculating expression as he studies the sharpness of his sword that he holds before him. He is going to kill the Oak King with it.
A sketch of a large, rotund and muscular celtic god. He wears a fur pelt around his hips secured with a belt embossed with oak leaves. He also has a sword belt keeping his sword on his back and a cloak over his shirtless shoulders, held in place by a large gold neck piece with the tree of life engraved in it. A pair of huge antlers come out of a head of long hair adorned with a gold oak leaf crown. He smiles broadly through a short beard at the mass of little birds that cover him, sitting on his antlers and outstretched arms with open palms full of seed. This whole scene is lit with radiant warm sunlight.
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IOindigosaurous.bsky.social

I absolutely love your art style!

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Oekvilion.bsky.social

Happy Friday! Your works are very atmospheric 🧡

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CrossRoad Art-Bear Pettigrew
@crossroadart.bsky.social
A slumbering cryptid, a pale creature in the dark, an artist of characters u shouldn’t like but worryingly do. They/Them No AI/ No NF🫖’s 🍁 www.patreon.com/crossroadart (if u want to feed the lurking shadow) 🍂 bio.link/crossroadart
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