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contagious

Illustration Friday topic
An account of a contagious sleep at the Court of Frederick Barbarossa who fell asleep with his gallant knights around him. Some people suspected a dark intrigue, others thought the fairies were involved. "Frederick Barbarossa is still asleep. In the crypt beneath a ruined castle, in the midst of a dense forest, he is seated before a table round which his beard has twisted seven times. He will awake to drive away the crows which croak around the mountain."

parade

Illustration Friday topic Every state holiday, the most important members of the Party would climb to the roof of the Mausoleum - a marble tomb next to the Red Castle - to watch a military parade.

hierarchy

Illustration Friday topic

Chewdo-Youdo Ryba-Kit

after Ershov' The Humpbacked Pony (Konek-Gorbunok)
"Ivan and the pony started their search for the ring at the ocean shore, where they encountered Chewdo-Youdo, a huge monster whale who had been beached there for ten years. Poor Chewdo-Youdo was barely alive. Holes and scars ravaged his body. A growth of trees had sprouted on his tail. There was even a small peasant village on his back."

Theatre

Illustration Friday Topic
This Little Piggy ends the series of piglet inspired imagery. Ran out of piglets, or to be more specific - running low on magenta

impossibility

drawing after King and Kirby' panels, sincere apologies if something...

Illustration Friday topic

Talisman

Illustration Friday Topic
When piglet was young and beautiful, climbing the tree always meant a good start of the day. There were two trees growing in front of her house, so she would usually start with climbing one of the trees, and seat there for a while afterwards, observing the street with people passing by only a few feet away from her, not knowing about piglet being so close to them. She was an invisible piglet. After she took a look at the beautiful surroundings from one tree piglet was climbing another one in order to check the view from a different perspective.
Once piglet grew older, not wiser, she adopted the Flower, which she put on the sunniest spot in her apartment.
The main purpose of the Flower is to be beautiful and to serve as a Talisman. Disciplined Piglet would climb every morning and water the Flower, trying to have a polite conversation.
But the Flower would make no reply, holding to the very same thought he always has – how gloriously beautiful he is – and starring at the sun through designer sunglasses. So piglet would go on facebook or something.