IT HAPPENED THE MAP IS DONE!!

IT HAPPENED THE MAP IS DONE!!

I finished inking the final version of the Camp Jupiter map!!!! AHAHDHAHAHAHAH >:D I haven’t colored it yet but honestly right now that’s the last of my worries because I WANNA TALK ABOUT IT :3

This is the bland, un-touched (I’ll go in and fix some of those wonky lines probably) of my rendition of the Camp Jupiter map based on a very basic research of Ancient Roman legionary camps, sort-of information from the books, and my own noggin!

You can see that all of it is numbered, and that’s because I am listing out what everything is. Which is right below,

Porta Praetoria; the Porta Praetoria is the gate located on the north wall, connected to the Via Praetoria and would’ve been the main gate (still debating on if that’s true because of the orientation I have for Camp Jupiter and its surroundings)

Porta Principalis Sinistra; left main gate, the one that leads out to the field of mars, temple hill, and New Rome

Porta Principalis dextra; the opposite to the Porta Principalis Sinistra- on the right side of the wall. Faces Calcedott(?) tunnel, the deepest part of the little Tiber, fun stuff.

Porta Decumana; South Gate, opposite to the Porta Praetoria, also connects a road to the temple hill but it’s a longer route.

Via Quintana; separates the Retentura from the Latera Praetorrii(?) doesn’t lead to any gates and I added it in for the organizational aspect of camp.

Via Praetoria/Via decumana; forgot to label Via Decumana but the two combine to be the main vertical road from the Porta Praetoria to the Porta Decumana- each start at their respective gates and end once they hit the Principa.

Via Principalis; the road that connects the Principalis Sinistra and Principalis Dextra gates, separates the Praetentura and Latera Praetorrii.

Cohort One Barracks; like the name, they are the 1st cohort’s barracks, I chose to put them there as their status as the ‘special troops’ inside my headcanon, and this is where the most important cohort and the special troop barracks or whatever would be located

Cohort 2 barracks; similar reasonings to Cohort 1, also just wanted things to look somewhat symmetrical, and it worked to space out all the buildings.

Bathhouses; the Praetentura (this area of Camp) would’ve been where the Bathhouses were in permanent camps so I put them there, and they helped balance out the space. We all know what the bathhouses are- I still have to think about how they operate but for now I’m pushing that to the bottom of my list!

Principa; know that I had 2 full pages of notes on the Principa that was from fort Nijmegen and an article I read on that. But it’s the main center of operations, wasn’t actually located directly where the roads met (from my discoveries and the style of Roman Camp I was deciding to base this off) located in the Latera Praetorrii. It houses where the Praetor’s sleep (makes it a lot simpiler versus whatever was happening in the books because I couldn’t tell you where Rick decided to put them) it housed a great hall, the Aedes- where the standards and legion emblems would’ve been stored. And the Aerarium(treasury room thingy) would’ve been in there. It would’ve had four walls and a courtyard in the center, but I chose to just block out the buildings so for the moment it is not shown.

Cafeteria/dining hall thing; it was mentioned in the books and felt significant enough that I kept it in. During my research I didn’t find any word about a specific building dedicated to eating meals, so I just slapped it next to the Principa and called it a day.

Hospital; alternatively called the the Valitudinarium(?) and it’s as you guessed. A hospital, not much information I could give because we know what Hospitals are- though I’d like to give the hc statistic that the 3rd cohort has the highest number of legionnaires that work as medics.

Armories; they balance out the Latera Praetorrii, would’ve been put there. And I assume at the very least how I depicted them they’d be multistoried(?) or have several floors for the cohorts and the types of weapons and things.

3rd cohort barracks; the barracks for the 3rd cohort, placed in the Retentura(? I don’t want to go back to look at how it’s spelled for the moment) where the more basic common cohorts would’ve been, opposite to the 4th cohorts to balance it out.

4th cohort barracks; same as the 3rd cohort. I’ll go more in detail in a barracks specific post over the interior n stuff but yeah :3

5th cohort barracks; actually swapped places with the 2nd cohort barracks sometimes during the early 90s after Varus and the 5th lost the standard and the legion saw them as the worst cohort (remember it was mentioned that back it in the 80’s they were said to be the best? I like that plot line) but also was the bane of my existence to put somewhere.

Horreum; the food storage area of Camp, probably more than pictured but for the sake of simplicity one is shown. Stores the food used in the Dining hall and stuff.

Also the Horreum, accidentally labeled it as a different building lol.

The Stables; technically they would’ve been inside of the Latera Praetorrii but for space and organization reasons I put it opposite to the 5th barracks, also makes Hazel’s legionnaire story make the most streamlined sense.

Retendura(?); the lowest part of camp, closest to the Porta Decumana, historically housed the other cohorts and the grain storage.

Latera Praetorrii; also called by the Praetorium, it held all the important buildings and things. The more hustle and bustle part of camp Jupiter.

Praetentura; closest to the Porta Praetoria, would’ve housed all of the strongest/important/well-respected legionnaires/cohorts. And the bathhouses :3

Forgot to mention it but there is another road called the Via Sagularis that would’ve been around the walls on the Intervallum (the space between the buildings and the ramparts) I didn’t draw it in because I blanked and forgot about it, when I post the colored version it’ll be there

I left out a couple buildings like the Auguratorium/Auguraculum (saw it referred to by both names. But it’s a place for the Augur to Augur stuff if I remember correctly) and other things. I wanted to get the big buildings down and I’d like to note this is a basic overview map, if I finally break out the big paper and decide on a scale I’ll position all those. But that’s for later Kleos.

I mentioned the 5th cohorts barracks changing and I’d like to say I think that is a procedure that could occur with Senate approval. Though it’s not a historically accurate/based concept.

Hehehehehe I’m really happy to have it done! Or really close to being done lol. I might draw it out on a bigger piece of paper to show off and put up on a wall, but for now I’m glad to just color this and be proud. I’ll make some posts explaining important buildings and their layouts (Principa, Barracks, etc) and then I’ll work on the… New Rome map. Hhhhhhh. But Powers thing probably won’t be until after Christmas. I’ll probably post later.

Guys. Guys I just liked one post on TBOSBAS(? The ballad of songbirds and snakes I’m frankly too tired to go look at the accepted abbreviation) and now I can’t escape it

I’m not the funny career districts guy I’m the funny Camp Jupiter guy :[

When I get home I’ll probably read it

(There are bets that I’m placing that I’ll walk out of that book going ‘Y’know, Snow was my favorite’ because with all the wild stuff going on in my favorites characters lists I know myself enough to be able to guess that.)

If anyone wants to know Cato, Thresh, or Foxface were my favorites in the 1st hunger games book.

*guys I realized I was accidentally on the for you feed. I am not tumblr savvy and now I have gone back into my Camp Jupiter shaped cave.

I want to draw but the innate urge to scrap my entire art style and try to draw in a way I want to but would have to spend so much time physically re-doing things and digitally is so annoying.

Trying to draw Percy (digitally, I forgot paper to draw traditionally. I might lament and draw Pompey or something) to get into a better mood, he’s the first character I draw ever when considering a new style.

Might just go read the Aeneid to clear my head. But the itch to work on the art is never ending.

I don’t even post my art on here that often lol. But I’d like to say that I need to get my hands on some paper. Drawing digitally is draining my spirit, please-

There. That is all the art I will produce this night. Yes that is my visual representation of me. The art won’t art guys.

But once I get home I’ll get back on the Camp Jupiter map grind. Now I just gotta… work a lot of things out.

*don’t mind the arm far from the camera I forgot a line that makes it look a little less weird but oh well I just scribbled that for the post so no one cares about the stupid shoulder on the character that literally defies all semblance of anatomy and that’s part of the joke*

Octavian and Jason hc design

I haven’t talked about the Jason design as much (I think I offhandedly mentioned that he 100% was African American and Albino) and I’ve obviously talked about Octavian and I’ve shown off the drawings- but I’ve decided to switch around their designs just for my brain,

The left is Jason and the right is Octavian. I’ll say I’m not proud of how I drew them, like I said earlier I’m in a weird drawing stage and I just wanted to get them down. But this is roughly what I wanted.

I tried looking at physical photos of African people with albinism and tried to make Octavian a bit more rosy (though I wish I messed around with it a lot more) but these are generally messy sketches and I hope when I get around to actually thinking of their designs (these are literally just ‘hey guys basic features now let me get my colors down!)

Also I’d like to note that Jason’s shirt is split the middle down just so I could see him in either color. Though I have a concept for doing things when he’s in well-lit areas and whatever.

Also the two of them look pretty basic because I’m re-working their designs.

But whatever I thought the colors looked okay and I hope the next time I draw them it’ll be better able to portray their characters and my designs on how they look.

Okay, because i keep shouting from the rooftops about a daughter of Janus in Camp Jupiter Classified or whatever I’m not grabbing the book to look, being named Janice. And how much that personally annoys me,

First off I have no qualms with her character because I haven’t read about Janice yet. But both names are pronounced the same, Janice is literally just a female version of Janus. It just felt lazy.

Which like- I get names don’t have to be deep about these characters, and a name can be rather surface level. But Janice feels lazy in my opinion and It just really rubs me the wrong way. For a legacy of Janus sure Janice is silly and it’s a little cheeky to reference their lineage. But from a direct descendant? That just ainduejdjdoaodmfn, y’know?

But here are the alternatives I’m thinking over for when I get to talking about hc for Janice and other characters,

January; it’s still a silly little reference to Janus, but it feels a little different- it’s not pronounced the same way and feels more eccentric. And while I haven’t read Camp Jupiter field guide I feel like Janice gives me silly eccentric vibes.

iana; Iana (I spelled it originally with the lowercase because I get confused over lowercase L and uppercase I on my phone) is a Roman Goddess that is associated with the moon and arches- usually considered either a form of Diana (Artemis’s Roman counterpart) or a counterpart to Janus. It feels a little more, interesting- like my mind can go so many story ideas with just naming her Iana, and it’s a much subtler reference.

Okay I wish I said I had more but I generally like the concept of Iana the most from the brief research I did.

But I’ll get inking update out tomorrow!!

Good night :3

IM DRAWING BABY FRESH FACED OCTAVIAN

not like baby-baby but little stick bug 12 year old Octavian,

This was really quick and fast because I just wanted to have fun and HEHEHEH

Octavian is so silly and i guess this qualifies as concept art for baby Octavian

Sorry the shading might look a little weird on some parts I was on a multiply layer and just messing around

Anyway I haven’t posted art in a while but like whatever, it’s my page when have I ever been concistent