Curse

Have you ever wondered why your shadow follows you around everywhere you go?

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A demon, beast of shadows. Cursed spirit. Drawing power from fear and all that lives. Infecting its surroundings with darkness. Not entirely alive, yet not dead.

Pay attention to your reflections, if it's not yourself who you see, you are a shadowstalker's prey.

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Done for 's contest, entering the 'plagued forest' category.
As described above, the creature is a shadowstalker, drawing power from the tree and releasing the dark power onto the pillar.
I've never used so many black and grey in one drawing, and making it as dark as I wanted it to be took me around three hours.
At first I wasn't happy with it at all. But somehow, the longer I stare at it, the more I start to like it xD

Art and shadowstalkers © me