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Ramalina montagnei

Striped Ramalina

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Fantasia 1940

ARCANE | Ambessa Final Battle Keyshots | Aliya Chen

These face paints are truly fascinating and beautiful, I love the example of this head with the striking contrast created by the red paint against the skin and how it complements the color of the lips, it's a lovely piece! The practice of painting suns on specific parts of the face is particularly intriguing, does it represent a connection to celestial themes?

And Helen using her beauty mark as the center of her forehead makeup is such an interesting idea to think about! It’s like she was born for it and is just showing it off to the world! ✨✨

According to Dares the Phrygian Helen has a beauty mark between her brows! What do you know? Greeks possibly considered moles attractive from that time hehe 😜 but now I remember this amazing mycenaean female head from around 1300 BC

And now I imagine Helen when doing her makeup instead of painting the usual sun on her forehead she just draws the dots around her beauty mark instead! 🤔

-Portrait of a Man with a Golden Helmet-

My wife

ARCANE | Various Keyshots | Suheb Zako

If you don't mind, I'd like to ask some other questions regarding the Keyanga clan. 👉👈

How are the men for the harem chosen? Does the queen handpick them, and is there a mutual agreement? Or are there trials to determine whether they are worthy of being consorts?

What did you base this concept on? Is there any record of polyandry in African regions? Or is this something original?

Hello, of course you can ask always! I am just a bit slower to answer, coz this is a project with @yararts and we work on everything together. 💜

The Queen chooses the men she wants in her Harem. However, each man can decide for himself whether to accept the invitation. There is no punishment for refusing the queen's offer. All the men in her harem have chosen the queen and love her in a truly romantic way. Her first husband, with whom she entered into a lifelong bond, has died. She has no bond with the other men in the traditional sense, yet she loves each and every one of them. The men are also NOT in resentment among themselves. They support each other and all help with the children.

In Angola history, where we also drew a lot of inspiration, especially because Yara knows a lot about it because she is Angolan, it was very common for men to live in polygamy with multiple wives. However, since we have a matriarchy in our clan, meaning only women rule, we reversed the positions. It should also be noted that it is not stipulated that it has to be only men. The reigning queen of the Keyanga is free to choose which people she wants to love and therefore have as part of her harem. The Keyanga are also free to have multiple wives or men. Love, loyalty, and peace are very important to the Keyanga. They are a free, peaceful people with a strong leader.

I would also like to point out that even though we are orienting ourselves towards cultures, not everything is 1:1. We want to give ourselves creative freedom to further explore the fact that the Na'vi are an alien species from a sci-fi fantasy universe and to come up with new exciting things. 💜🥰

Pocahontas (1995), dir. Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg

Visual development and story sketches for Tarzan by Paul Felix