Sprigganby *timswit

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Fantasy

According to Wikipedia, Spriggans were grotesquely ugly creatures found at old ruins and barrows guarding buried treasure, and sometimes they stole away mortal children...so sneaking up on an unsuspecting mourner at a grave site is how I interpreted the legend (Thank god for artistic license).

The color version on the left is the final version for print but, I really liked my original uncolored image, it has an old "Universal Studios monster movie" quality that I love!

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~name-already-chosen Apr 6, 2013

Excellent!

I agree with you that the uncolored image is actually more powerful, not only for the "Universal Studios monster movie" quality but also because it appears to take place during a night so dark that the eyes' color receptors no longer work.

That said, the combined innocence and adulthood of the kneeling woman (who is clearly too old to be a mortal child who might make for a good changeling exchange) makes it look to me more like the spriggan is there to protect her from graveyard monsters since she is honoring the dead rather than graverobbing.