Amazon warrior

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Inspired by a lecture that explained that historically the Amazons were Greek romanticized interpretations of Scythian warrior women. This design toys with that idea using Scythian colours, materials and patterns in a Greek silhouette.

Dead.

Based on some tales that the amazons would remove one of their breasts to fire a bow better. Likely untrue but an interesting idea nonetheless. Was inspired by some ref photos of masectomies. https://www.patreon.com/mikefranchina

Two page illustration for Flagellum Amazonis 2, a new adventure of The Elephant and Macaw Banner RPG. The Icamiabas are the indigenous female warriors from South America that gave name to the Amazon River during European invasion, in which today we have no reference material. This is, of course, a fictional take on them.