Author's Comic "The Dawn"

Student: Shaposhnikova Polina

Educational Programme: Design (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2020

Since one of the main characters of my diploma is a witch, I decided to devote a visual study to this mystical image. The goal was: to find in cartoons of Russia and the CIS at least one external detail of the witch, which unites all the sorceresses. As the study will show further, such an attribute is absent, but there is still some pattern: often in the russian animation there such a famous character as Baba Yaga or copy the image from a book that is cartoon is based on.

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