In ancient Slavic mythology there are many such creatures that live side by side with man. These are brownies, courtyards and kikimors. Yes, yes, those same kikimors who are also called marsh. What kind of “miracles-yudas” are, how they may look, what they are doing - we’ll talk about all this now. And even try to depict them on paper.
Who is who
This female character has several names. The Slavs clicked them with shishimory, maras, and grapples. In each form of name a particular property of an entity was expressed. The first root of the “kiki” indicated that the creature was hunchbacked, twisted. The second - “Mara” - was associated with the word “death”, “death”. Slavs called devils generally cones,
unclean power. It is clear that shishimory also belong to this category. How to draw kikimore considering this? In the form of a hunched creature, possibly with a tail, like that of a devil, a nose stretched out in a piglet and hooked toes and toes. "Grippers" can sit on a
sleeping person 's chest, causing suffocation. But more often they rattle dishes at night, rustle in the corners and are very fond of confusing threads, yarn, knitting. Shkodlivost, dirty tricks - the second, what distinguishes this variety of evil spirits. How to draw a kikimore with such a character? A small round old woman with tenacious paws like chicken, a large mouth and reddish unkind eyes.
External data
Do you remember the famous old woman Shapoklyak from the tales of
Eduard Uspensky? Our sishimora is very similar to her in something. The same evil and unpleasant! Although sometimes her Slavs were portrayed as a burly mistress in an apron, with a grip and pots near the stove. She is washing dishes, baking bread, looking after children, caring for livestock. How to draw a good kickimore? A chubby woman in a headscarf, with a gentle smile. Yes, but we forgot about the definition of "marsh"! The fact is that these analogues of brownies from the forest, from the most perilous, uninhabited swampy places, come to people. By the way, in the house her presence is detected by the smell of dampness, mud and wet footprints. And such a “lady” looks accordingly: long, wet, tangled hair of an indefinite color, where the stems of grass clogged. Dress to the toes, gray or green.
Pale skin, gloomy eyes and a long, hooked nose. Here's how to draw a kikimore - a neighbor of water and frogs!
Working on the image
Let's get to work. As a basis, let's take a character, an average between forest dishonesty and the heroine of stories about
Gena and Cheburashka. Those. we will portray an old woman with a stick, as if she had just stepped out of a forest dense wilds. How to draw kikimore in stages? First, make a sketch, schematically outlining the head, trunk, arms and legs. The simplest element of the picture is the snag, on which our heroine relies. Process it first: show the bends, knotty. Now the head and face. Probably the hardest part about drawing a kikimore with a pencil is to give it a creepy and pretty look. Her face is wrinkled, her eyes are cunning, her toothless smile, with a cunning. Hair sloppy scattered by the wind in different directions. Now a figure. Kikimora humpback, and therefore relies on a stick. Dress her dirty green, swamp color. On the feet are peasant bast shoes. Around draw grass, bushes, a couple of trees. Hatch, add chiaroscuro, volume. Everything, the drawing is ready! Doesn’t it, my dear turned out to be an old woman?