In ancient Slavic mythology there are many such creatures that live side by side with man. These are house, yard and kikimory. Yes, yes, those same kikimors, which are also called marsh. What kind of "miracle-yudas" are, how they can 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. Slavs clicked their shishimors, maras, saddles. In each form of the name, this or that property of the essence was expressed. The first root of the "kiki" indicated that the creature was hunchbacked, crooked. The second - "mara" - was associated with the word "death", "death". Shishas Slavs called devils in general, evil spirit. It is clear that the same category includes shishimors. How to draw a kikimora, considering this? In the form of a hunched creature, perhaps with a tail like a devil, stretched in a patch of nose and hooked toes and hands. "Crows" can sit down on a man's sleeping chest, causing suffocation. But more often they clatter at night with dishes, whispers in the corners and are very fond of confusing thread, yarn, knitting. Shkodlivost, pokostnichanie - the second, what distinguishes this kind of evil spirit. How to draw a kikimora with such a character? A small round old woman with tenacious paws like chicken, a big mouth and reddish, unkind eyes.
External Data
Do you remember the famous old woman Shapoklyak from the tales of Eduard Uspensky? It is something very similar to ours shishimora. The same malignant and unpleasant! Although sometimes its Slavs portrayed a burly mistress in an apron, with a stitch and pots by the stove. She washes the dishes, bakes bread, looks after the children, looks after the domestic cattle. How to draw a kikimore good? A plump woman in a kerchief, with an affectionate smile. Yes, but we forgot about the definition of "marsh"! The fact is that these analogues of brownies come from people from the forest, from the most destructive, poorly marshy places. By the way, in the house its presence is revealed by the smell of dampness, mud and wet footprints. And this "lady" looks like: long, wet, tangled hair of indeterminate color, where the grass stalks have hammered. Dress to the heels, gray or green. Pale skin, dark eyes and a long hooked nose. Here's how to draw a kikimora - a neighbor of water and frogs!
Working on the image
Let's get to work. As a basis, let's take a character, the middle one between forest dishonesty and the heroine of stories about Gen and Cheburashka. Those. Depict an old woman with a stick, as if she had just come out of the forest dense woods. How to draw a kikimora in stages? First we make a sketch, schematically outlining the head, trunk, arms and legs. The simplest element of the picture is a snag on which our heroine relies. First, treat it: show bends, knots. Now head and face. Probably the most difficult thing about how to draw a kikimora with a pencil is to give it a creepy and cute look. Her face is wrinkled, her eyes are cunning, her smile is toothless, with a shitty little thing. Hair sloppily scattered by the wind in different directions. Now the figure. Kikimora humpback, that's why he leans on the stick. Her dress is dirty-green, marshy. On the feet - peasant bast shoes. Around draw a grass, bushes, a couple of trees. Hatching add light and shade, volume. Everything, the drawing is ready! Is not it true, dear, did the old lady turn out?