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The first artwork from my personal project. I have this plan of making a series of portraits of faces from various Indian tribes. The variety of their unique cultures, their appearance and behaviors, rituals and beliefs, everything makes them very interesting to know about and study.

The Gadabas are a designated Scheduled Tribe in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
There are approximately 67,000 Gadabas. They are involved in both slash and burn and plow cultivation. They live in permanent villages.
They are well known for their tribal dance, the Dhimsa.
They practice Shamanistic rituals and still erect menhirs (monoliths) as commemorative symbols for the deceased from the megalithic tradition.
The Gadabas speak Austroasiatic and Dravidian languages.
Since the early 1980s the Gadabas have largely been displaced from their villages by the building of hydro-electric dams and the resulting lakes.

Medium - Photoshop+Wacom Bamboo
Time - 16 hours

Description
The first artwork from my personal project. I have this plan of making a series of portraits of faces from various Indian tribes. The variety of their unique cultures, their appearance and behaviors, rituals and beliefs, everything makes them very interesting to know about and study.

The Gadabas are a designated Scheduled Tribe in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
There are approximately 67,000 Gadabas. They are involved in both slash and burn and plow cultivation. They live in permanent villages.
They are well known for their tribal dance, the Dhimsa.
They practice Shamanistic rituals and still erect menhirs (monoliths) as commemorative symbols for the deceased from the megalithic tradition.
The Gadabas speak Austroasiatic and Dravidian languages.
Since the early 1980s the Gadabas have largely been displaced from their villages by the building of hydro-electric dams and the resulting lakes.

Medium - Photoshop+Wacom Bamboo
Time - 16 hours