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#1: The reference for this was some freaky, cool looking old woman from a third world country... it ended up turning into some sort of native elder or something, haha. Gouache is fun.
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#2: This is based on a character of mine, Mijune, who is the reincarnation of a Shinto dragon god in my story Isle of Skye.