Lakeside acrobatics

Recently I shared a video of someone spinning and doing acrobatics around a pole attached to a tree over a lake (on my story on Instagram), saying it is something I can see Nivan doing around a branch. So I did some gesture drawings of him from the video. He does have the core strength to do something like this.
(The original video is by @/tsarvlad_artist on Instagram.)
I have also shared some other stretching and similar videos within the same theme in regards to him.
To expand on this a little: He suffers from a lot of chronic pain and stiffness which started when he was a child, majorly from intense training and the circumstances of being on the field as a whole, both fighting/wounds wise and sleeping outside. I also reckon the treatment he received from Attarah since childhood did not help much. Later on he starts doing stretches and certain types of yoga/acrobatics on his own time to help alleviate the pain some and move his body in more fluid, comfortable ways. He would either do it alone in his room at the barracks or in the Training room when nobody was present when he could, or in the Forest when with his wolves, either near the barracks as well or when he was deployed elsewhere. Hence why anytime I see some sort of dance/acrobatics/stretching, I think of him, especially if it is nature related given he feels at home there.
In this particular scene, I see it happening when he was away and I also see Leander and his wolves watching him from the shore. He would have taken off the dog tag so it does not fall into the water, I simply felt like drawing it on him to add to the movement and fluidity of the drawings.
I quite like how I do the whipping scarring as well now, makes it appear as though he is holding even more stars on his body.
Later I may do more detailed and finalized art of something like this. However, I do also quite like these fluid, somewhat messier drawings.
Gorgeous being.
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I also included Cruor puddle for your viewing pleasure. A sketch I did a while back after drawing and subsequently gushing about Nivan. People also liked it, so I am placing it here because, it is appropriate.
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DJ 89 - НАРОД (“Narod”) (Which translates to “people”, however, in the sense of the people of a nation, not people as in “humans”.)