Hello! I want to show you my new drawing. It's something awesome, it's a plague doctor, it looks scary.I drew his handles with liners, a conventional shroud.It was not difficult.

For those who do not know, I'll tell you who it is.

Plague doctor - actually a doctor born in the Middle Ages, differing in its infernal appearance. 

The image of the costume was taken on the basis of one of the variants of the reason for what is happening - the belief that the disease was carried by birds. Accordingly, dressed like a bird doctor took the infection from the patient to himself.The doctor breathed through the material "beak", for this "beak" actually did - to increase the surface filtration. At the same time, the long "beak" did not give the doctor, who was bending over the body of the patient during the examination (or his corpse at the autopsy), to approach too closely the direct source of the airborne infection. Since the streets wildly stank both alive and not very people, the "beak" crammed with strongly smelling herbs, plus special sponges infused with incense and placed in the nose and ears, after which the doctor gasped and died. The Doctor's cloak was soaked with wax or camphor, so he was not co-mated with fleas who preferred the smell of unwashed bodies. The hat (like the shoulder straps of the military) was a sign of the doctor's distinction.From the inventory, the doctor had a pointed piece of iron or wand, which he could poke the body. If it still moved, then the patient was more likely alive. Then they took off their clothes to open the buboes. As medical measures, burns were burned with red-hot iron, burning corpses and plagued houses, driving roundabouts around the ashes and even putting frogs on buboes. Also, the wand helped to drive away particularly annoying patients.It was believed that these actions, coupled with the destruction of unclean creatures - cats, should prevent the spread of the "spirit of the plague", which, it was believed, only spread through the air. Later, however, it turned out that the rats were mostly rats, and it was not worth it to destroy the cats, but ...

As always, I start drawing with a pencil sketch, it's very simple, I found a similar mask of a plague doctor on the Internet, and just drew something similar, added my details, it's crows, with the word "pain", because in those times, people moved very a lot of pain and suffering, so I think this word is the most suitable for this gloomy sketch.

I put a pen on the contour, and I just start to shade the crow, and then continue the same way.

I do the same with the mask of a plague doctor, it's simple, I do hatching by eye, I guess I put shadows on my eyes that the picture does not look just black.

And now the picture is ready, it's pretty simple, but still it took a little effort to do this.

I hope you appreciate my work!