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EN/ES—23—Classic literature enthusiast & amateur artist, kind of a weeb. Not normal about The Brothers Karamazov.— I am cringe but I am free. — He/Him —SFW.
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I know I barely open this site, but here's a piece of Mitya & Grushenka I finished recently.
"Vile and Good"
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The illustrations shows a man with dark brown hair and facial hair (Mitya) closing his eyes and biting a red apple that rests on the cleavage of a plump woman with dark hair and blue eyes (Grushenka). They both appear to be in 19th century underclothes and in a forest.
August 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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#TheBrothersKaramazov, dmitri karamazov, mitya karamazov, katerina ivanovna, the brothers karamazov
Katerina Ivanovna (young woman in green dress) is kneeling down and proposing to Dmitri Karamazov (brown haired man with a fur lined coat). The image reads "How it feels when the colonel's second daughter proposes". The image is in a tweet by A Contemporary Mother @mmekhokhlakov, captioned: sir you better feel embarrassed.
February 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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More The Eternal Husband (specially Velchaninov)
January 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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I only come back to this site to tell you to read "The Eternal Husband" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky because it's very short and pretty good and after rereading it I've become obsessed
Velchaninov from The Eternal Husband. He's a middle aged man with blonde wavy hair, a long beard and a curled moustache with a worried expression and a hand on the side of his head. The image is all in a greyish colour except for his blue eyes. Top left: Pavel Pavlovich Trusotsky when he was 35 years old. He's a fat man with a round head, round dark eyes and a small nose. He has dark mid length hair and he's balding. Right: Velchaninov at the age of 30. His blonde hair is slicked back and his beard is short. He looks serious and he's elegantly dressed. Bottom left: Velchaninov is tenderly holding Natalya Vassilyevna, a thin woman with a bun and a red dress. Velchaninov is sitting in a dark room holding his head. Sketch of Pavel Pavlocich's hand intertwining its fingers with Velchaninov's and caressing the scar on the palm with the thumb.
December 26, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Pasha Smerdyakov meets his baby brother.

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4 year old Pavel Smerdyakov looks at a cradle in which baby Alyosha is sleeping. In the second panel, Pavel turns towards the viewer and says: "it's ugly".
November 27, 2024 at 11:28 PM
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We moved on too quickly from the butches Karamazov

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It's Ivan and Mitya from The Brothers Karamazov as butches. Mitya is leaning on Ivan and smiling. Ivan wears a modest black dress with a tight waist, and her hair is short. She looks at Mitya with annoyance. Mitya wears a black jacket, an unbuttoned vest, black gloves and a white shirt. The signature moustache is gone. There seems to be some kind of braid in the back of Mitya's head.
November 22, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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I tried to answer in a way that expresses that I have fun drawing despite being a bit of an angst lord, but I got this😭
November 22, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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Show me how you draw/paint women
November 17, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Sopor

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Painting in which Grushenka, a plump white woman in a dark dress with dark hair and blue eyes, is laying in the arms of a man, looking sleepy. The man is Dmitri/Mitya Karamazov, dressed in a jacket, pants and boots, with wavy short brown hair, his face obscured as he's turning away from the viewer and kissing Grushenka's face. He's sitting and gently touching Grushenka's face while holding her waist. The background is golden.
November 14, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 5.2- 5.5
(Smerdyakov's hair colour was changed Book V onward)
(REPOSTED IT BECAUSE OF TYPOS)
#TheBrothersKaramazov, #MSPaintKaramazov, alyosha, ivan, pavel smerdyakov, The Grand Inquisitor
Chapter: Smerdyakov with a Guitar. Smerdyakov sits on a green bench playing a guitar while Marya watches. Alyosha is spying behind the bushes. Chapter: The Brothers Get Acquainted. Ivan looks longingly through the window. Alyosha looks at Ivan with a content smile. Chapter: Rebellion. Alyosha and Ivan are at the foreground leaning towards each other to talk, while in the background many human tragedies unfold in a hellish scene. Chapter: The Grand Inquisitor. Inside a cage, The Grand Inquisitor stands over Jesus, sitting on the ground with a scarred back.
November 12, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapter 12.14 and epilogues.
Epilogue 2 has been retouched.
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Chapter: The Peasants Stand Firm. Mitya stands before the jury in an icon- like scene. Chapter: Plans for Mitya's Escape. Katerina cries in distress while Ivan lies unconscious on the bed, looking feverish. Alyosha watches, concerned. Chapter: For a Moment, The Lie Becomes the Truth. In the foreground, Grushenka looks at Katerina defiantly. Further away, Mitya is sitting on the bed, with a surprised and naive expression on his face. Chapter: Ilyushechka's Funeral. The Speech at the Stone. Alyosha stands in a snowy landscape, surrounded by children in a wholesome scene near the stone. The church is seen from the distance, as well as some houses. The sky is blue and clear. The tree is bare, but the new blades of grass emerge from the cold. Sometimes, the world is a good place. Hurrah for Karamazov!
November 12, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 12.10- 12.13
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Chapter: The Speech for the Defence. A Double Edged Sword. A ray of light separates a scene of Mitya looking anxiously at Fetyukovich and a scene of Mitya wiping Grigory's blood after he struck him in the garden. Chapter: There was no Money. There was no Robbery. The background is all rubles. Grushenka's face emerges in one corner, Mitya stands on another place looking distressed, and a Fyodor with hollow eyes is seen through a window in the ruble "wall" that shows the night. Chapter: And There Was No Murder Either. The foreground shows the view from Fyodor's room, facing him. The background shows the view outside his room, with his dead body seen through the window. Upside down, the scene shows Mitya running through the garden. The composition looks like an eye. Chapter: Adulterer of Thought. A giant Fyodor is trying to eat a distressed Mitya in his military uniform.
November 12, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 12.6- 12.9

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Chapter: The Prosecutor's Speech. Sketches of Character. Mitya is in the center with blood over his face and his hands. He looks up with his eyes closed. Alyosha embraces him, clutching his rosary, and on the other side Ivan is clutching his own forehead. Chapter: A Historical Survey. Mitya stands outside of the door of the cavern and looks at a shadowy inhuman figure in the place of his own shadow. Chapter: A Treatise on Smerdyakov. Smerdyakov sits outside the house at dusk holding a basket. He looks contemplative. Chapter: Psychology at Full Steam. The Galloping Troika. The End of the Prosecutor's Speech. Ippolit Kirillovich is talking in the foreground. The background shows a representation of a chained Mitya and a troika with wheels connected to his chains.
November 12, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 12.2- 12.5

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Chapter: Dangerous Witnesses. Fetyukovich looks smugly at Grigory. Chapter: A Medical Report and a Pound of Nuts. Dr Herzenstube has given a small bag with nuts in it to a 3yo Mitya. He's pointing up with his finger, and Mitenka looks at him with a smile. Chapter: Fortune Smiles on Mitya. Grushenka and Katerina stand in front of a painting in which Katerina holds an unconscious Mitya as Mary did with dead Jesus. Chapter: A Sudden Catastrophe. Ivan's face is distorted in horror at the witness' stand and he's surrounded by inhuman faces.
November 12, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 11.8- 12.1

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Chapter: The Third and Last Visit to Smerdyakov. Ivan stares in horror at Smerdyakov. Chapter: Ivan's Nightmare. The Devil. The Devil, a shadowy red and black figure, looms over a feverish Ivan, with an abstract background. Chapter: "It Was He Who Said That!" Alyosha holds Ivan, who looks feverish, sitting on the couch. Chapter: The Fatal Day. The jury stares at Mitya in the defendant's place in a courtroom.
November 12, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 11.4- 11.7
11.4 has been retouched.
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Chapter: A Hymn and a Secret. Alyosha puts a hand on the shoulder of his crying brother, Mitya, who is in a praying position under the light. Chapter: "Not You, Not You!". Alyosha says these words to Ivan under the street lamp. It snows around them. Chapter: The First Visit To Smerdyakov. Smerdyakov is having a seizure in the foreground, with thorns symbolizing his pain. The background has Smerdyakov in the present with Ivan and a figure (Smerdyakov) standing before the stairs. Chapter: The Second Visit to Smerdyakov. Ivan looks in shock as Katerina shows him a letter.
November 12, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 10.7- 11.3
#TheBrothersKaramazov, #MSPaintKaramazov, kolya krassotkin, alyosha, grushenka, lise
Chapter: Ilyusha. Ilyusha cries as he's embraced by his father and Kolya. Chapter: At Grushenka's. Alyosha crosses his fingers as he looks at a grumpy- looking Grushenka. A shadowy Mitya is in the background, as they're talking about him. Maximov is in the corner. Chapter: The Injured Foot. Shoujo- esque scene imagined by Madame K featuring Rakitin, Mitya, Perkhotin and Ivan. Chapter: An Imp. Surrealist scene in which many demons come out of Lise's mouth, which is stained with pineapple compote.
November 12, 2024 at 9:49 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 10.3- 10.6

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Chapter: The Schoolboy. Kolya and Smurov walk in the marketplace, looking at a grey dog. Chapter: Zhuchka. Kolya is looking serious and standing outside next to Alyosha, in a white hat and blue suit. It's snowy. Forget- me - nots frame the scene. Chapter: By Ilyusha's Bedside. Ilyusha looks happy as the grey dog, Zhuchka, leaps towards him. Chapter: Precocity. Kolya seems excited as he talks with Alyosha.
November 12, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 9.8- 10.2
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Chapter: The Declaration of the Witnesses. The Babe. In a dreamlike snowy place, Mitya looks at a freezing baby in the arms of a corpse- like woman with awe. Chapter: They Take Mitya Away. The sky is cloudy. Mitya sits on the cart and looks at Grushenka on the other side, who is crying. Chapter: Kolya Krassotkin. Kolya looks at us smugly holding an apple. The background shows a train and train tracks. Chapter: Children. Kolya shows two younger children a small copper cannon.
November 12, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 9.4- 9.7

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Chapter: The Second Ordeal. Ippolit Kirillovich examines several of Mitya's reactions. Chapter: The Third Ordeal. Mitya looks desperate. The background shows Fyodor and Grigory bleeding from their heads. Chapter: The Prosecutor Catches Mitya. A naked Mitya is blushing furiously as he covers himself with a red cloth. They take his bloody shirt away. Chapter: Mitya's Great Secret, Met with Hisses. Mitya stands in a posture that expresses shame and defeat, surrounded by people he knows. From his chest the red glow of shame emanates.
November 12, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 8.8- 9.3

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Chapter: Delirium. Mitya and Grushenka kiss passionately against a chaotic wine- coloured background. Chapter: The Beginning of Officer Perkhotin's Career. Perkhotin opens a door in the middle of the scene. On the right side is a shadowy Madame Khokhlakova, on the left a shadowy Fenya. Chapter: The Alarm. Fyodor Pavlovich lays face up on the ground, his head bashed in. Chapter: The Sufferings of a Soul. The First Ordeal. Mitya sits before the judge of instruction Nelyudov and the deputy prosector Ippolit Kirillovich.
November 12, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 8.4- 8.7
8.5 has been retouched.
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Chapter: In the Dark. Mitya watches a drooling Fyodor from between the shadow, his expression one of deep hatred. Chapter: A Sudden Decision. Mitya looks at a bullet in his hand longingly. Perkhotin, who takes a bowl with bloody rags in it, seems concerned. Chapter: "I am Coming, Too!". Mitya stands behind the coachman Andrei and urges him on. Chapter: The Former and Unquestioned One. Mitya looks happy as he holds some small cards in his hands, preparing to gamble with the two Polish gentlemen. Grushenka looks at him. Maximov and Kalganov are in the background.
November 12, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 7.4- 8.3
7.4 and 8.3 have been retouched.
#TheBrothersKaramazov, #MSPaintKaramazov, alyosha, mitya, dmitri
Chapter: Cana of Galilee. Alyosha kneels on a starry background, looking up at the sky. Chapter: Kuzma Samsonov. Mitya gestures nervously. The background shows an ogre- like Kuzma Samsonov. Chapter: Lyagavy. Mitya holds his head, pained, while Lyagavy is sleeping. Chapter: Gold Mines. Mme K is ranting about mines, horses, the ruble economy and Zosima's death while Mitya is standing beside her losing his mind.
November 11, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 6.3- 7.3
7.1 and 7.3 have been retouched.
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Chapter: The Conversations and Teachings of the Elder Zosima. Zosima stands in a golden icon- like background. Chapter: The Breath of Corruption. Alyosha smiles strangely looking at Zosima's corpse. Father Ferapont is screaming. People gather ominously at the door. Chapter: A Critical Moment. Alyosha is face down in the grass. Chapter: An Onion. Grushenka looks at Alyosha crying and smiling. Alyosha looks comforted. Rakitin stands spitefully in the backgrounf with a cup of champagne.
November 11, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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MSPaint covers of chapters of The Brothers Karamazov (started in Juy 2022). Chapters 5.6- 6.2

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Chapter: Very Obscure, For Now. Representation in shadowy figures of Smerdyakov telling Dmitri about the door signals that Fyodor talked to him about. Chapter: "It's always interesting to talk to a smart person". Smerdyakov says these words while smiling to Ivan, looking distressed in the carriage seat. Chapter: Elder Zosima and His Visitors. Alyosha is crying while Zosima caresses his head, surrounded by monks in his cell. Chapter: Notes on the Life of the Deceased Hieromonk Elder Zosima. Many scenes of Zosima's childhood, younger days and monkhood, including a representation of The Book of Job.
November 11, 2024 at 12:07 PM