Oh, thanks! XD I'm really looking forward to doing some videos for it soon. :) Secular witchcraft deserves attention and DESPERATELY needs striving-to-be-ethical teachers. I'm hoping to be one of them.
Hedgewitchery is actually straight up a type of secular (non-deity) witchcraft, with a focus on nature and health. It kind of is things like old timey medicine, old rituals for things like rain, holistic health, planting by moon signs, etc.
I hate to compare it to things like Reiki or yoga or...
Basically since Native Americans don't have a lot of "monsters" people just kind of superimposed their own westernish ideas of what a Wendigo must be onto some rumors, kind of like they did with skinwalkers.
The first non-indigenous record of it is a kind of HP lovecraft unspeakable horror...
That's true. Wendigos are the same. In folklore they're evil spirits that possess people and cause them to become cannibals. It usually resulted in exile or trying to banish the spirit so aggressively sometimes you died. It's also used to describe people consumed by greed and destruction. So...
I figured, but I guess it's just important to remember that what we think is spooky isn't what they think is spooky? Like some people are like "ancestor spirits sound an awful lot like GHOOOOOSTS... LINGERING SPIRITS OF THE DEAD...", and it's like..... Not really? There's nothing scary about...
I'm really excited for "carvings". There's SO many directions you could go with it. Did you know that elephants actually carve caves in cliff walls while looking for salt? That could be a cool picture. Or just like.... Straight up just doing a study of David.
I'd be careful to find something that Native Americans feel is spooky rather than we think is spooky about them. There's this while big thing with witchcraft and native practices getting mixed up, giving us a weird perception of native practices that's very inaccurate. But they've got a bunch of...
If you do the inktober stuff, don't tag them. Don't put any sort of label on them. Don't mention that they're inktober related. :T Don't need anyone getting C&D'd.
Edit; You CAN mention the prompt word. The challenge itself/the prompts can't be trademarked or copywritten. Just don't put...
I was going to post my things in here. Keep it consolidated.
I usually push hard on Inktober but after the guy who made it trademarked it and C&D'd a bunch of artists demanding their profits from their own art under the Inktober label, all so he could make a book which plagiarized someone...
October is creeping up. I had previously been doing inktober but won't be any more due to the trademarking and plagiarism issues. Pondering doing Drawtober instead - it's a more relaxed schedule. Anyone else planning on doing an october art challenge?