Adventures in Sketchtopia Part 35: Almost Archetypes

Hero with a Half-drawn Face.

An interesting bunch of drawings for you today. A lot of them are supposed to be symbolic or abstract. Not quite archetypical, but within the same metaphorical ballpark.

Impediments: Disintegration (far left), Rage (near left), Tragic Choice (center), Fleeting Time (lower right), Weight of Battle (upper right)

Facing the Unknown: Locked Potential on a Golden Stag (left), Battered Resolve before the Abyss (right)

Swell of Chaos: Hero (left), Composite Form of Chaos Regurgitating Failure (right)

Webs and Shadows: Hero (bottom center), Myriad Forms of Lurking Danger (above and right)

Filling the Center: Sub-personalities working to continuously replenish an unsealed center of being

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