Inktober day 11: #run

The prompt for day 11 was #run. I immediately thought about this strange thing I heard about (thank you Laurent). The Jesus Christ Lizard or plumed basilisk. It got its name because it is able to run on the water for short distances, which it uses to escape from predators!

It was a lot of fun to draw this and I like the splashing water. Unfortunately I got the crest on its back wrong. In fact the line along the body is on the side not on the top. That could still be ok but the crest on the back needs to be in line with the crest on the tail. It looks ambiguous on a lot of photos. I need a real one as a model!

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Inktober day 10: #gigantic

Rübezahl is a folklore mountain spirit of the Riesengebirge or in English the *Giant Mountains*. However if ever you should be near the Giant Mountains you'd better use the name "Lord of the mountains" instead of Rübezahl.
Rübezahl is a mountain spirit and can take on any form he likes. Sometimes he appears as a giant but at other occasions he may appear as a dwarf.
As someone remarked one cannot see in the drawing if he is big or small. Although his cane and pipe appear to be extraordinarily long, they could very well be of normal size and Rübezahl be a dwarf. In fact I did not think so much of him as a giant but of the lord of the giant mountains.
You can find some tales about Rübezahl in English in The Legend of Rubezahl, or Number-Nip.

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