🎨 [Inktober 2018] - Day 5 | ✨ 🎃 ✨ Blacksmith Witch ✨ 🎃 ✨ | #Inktober2018 #31Witches #31Witches3 - By Tesmoforia.

This morning I was going through the feed, and I encountered with the update of a very adorable and skilled illustrator who just started her way through traditional, and digital art.

At the end of her note, she wrote about something that made me feel strongly identified (besides the fact she’s right):

And everyone who have been living for a while in the digital world, knows how difficult it really is to accomplish this statement; is a work of, let’s say, 50/50, a half of the circumstances in where we decided to stay (talking about Social Media) are out of our control (what others say, think, the way they express themselves, prejudices and complexes as well), but the other half is completely under our control, how we decide to project and manage ourselves (and not only about the content we generate, also about our inner selves).

Reading this little note at the end of her note comforted me, I want to think that it is a useful sign from the universe to tell us to calm down during those days, where sometimes we put too much pressure on certain activities and works that are supposed to be a safe space to rest both mind and heart.

The first week of October has ended, and I’m stuck on the 5th topic of the 31Witches3 prompt, it has been really difficult for me to create the concept of a Blacksmith Witch!.

Yesterday, I finally found the needed inspiration for her, after 6 failed draft sketches; I finally decided to concentrate in what I know how to draw well to express the following scene.

The flame that my Blacksmith Witch is looking at, is a manifestation of the Goddess Brighde inspiring her.

Known as the "Triple Goddess of Fire", due her three incarnations Bride, Brigit and Brighde (originally known as the Universal Goddess on her aspects of virgin maiden, lover, mother and wise crone, who reigns over the four elements), who symbolize the three kinds of different flames:

Bride, represents the Muse, what we call the Flame of Inspiration, which manifests in the spirit of poetry and art (also, is the Virgin Goddess).

Brigit, represents Home’s Flame, the one which give us warmth, light, and food (by cooking, or the fireplace). It’s the spark of life that is born to break the harsh winter (that’s why, she’s called "Mother Goddess").

Finally Brighde is the Blacksmith Goddess, she’s the one who allows to create beautiful and useful tools by melting metals. She is the "Wise Goddess", and represents the karma transmutation.

She is who my young Witch is looking at, imbuing her spirit in her presence, while trying to understand this unusual phenomenon.

I also found motivation to generate this topic on the Crafting Witch concept, Modern Witches with the skills and ability for crafting who, without wishing it, fill with mystical properties everything they create, even if they don’t have any intention on doing so.

We are doing a test!, @Vanuzza found a different way to make gifs today, and the result excited us so much. She makes all the gifs I use at my posts, and also helps me placing my personal watermark on my photos and collages.

I will do it a little different this time, since we wish to see what kind of reactions we get with this new "preview".

An Eye-catching preview is a vital and strong element to catch the attention of potential readers!, don’t miss this wild card, especially if you participate a lot at forums and communities in Discord.