Did this drawing last night, in one marathon sitting. I'm pretty slow (and deer legs are wicked hard to get right -- they still look pretty stiff to me). It was midnight when I finished. I'd been reading
Russian Fairy Tales illustrated by the remarkable
Ivan Bilibin all day, and re-reading
The Master and Margarita, so maybe that's why it's so... um.... whimsical? macabre? Whimsico-macabre. I promised my girlfriend that I'd design a tattoo for her, to finish her sleeve which already has a Japanese folk tale wound up in it. So I figured this would fit in. It will be mostly green with some red for the blood and fungi, and the deer will be fawn-colored. If she accepts it, that is. If not, I don't blame her. It's weird-lookin.
