Day 5: Chiron

day 5: Chiron

ITS THE HIM!! i tried doing a sunlight effect but kinda messed up

oh well

here’s what it looks like without sunlight effect:

ANYHOW

HE WAS FUN TO DRAW!! he doesn’t look too old cause, idk he’s immortal so kinda doesn’t age i guess

gave him long hair because. why not ‼️

other design stuff uhh. gave him armor and a hunting cloak!

idk what’s happening in his portrait, but it kinda has the vibe of him going hunting (bow drawn in hand, but lowered) and then encountering an old friend

i’ve been giving kinda like. almost scenes? to the portraits i’m doing, at least in my head. Cassandra’s is meant to be like she’s seeing a prophecy, Medusa’s is like she’s encountered someone attempting to slay her, The Minotaur’s looks like you’re in the Labyrinth and just encountered it, and Lycaon looks like you’re Zeus eating the Human Meat Stew

I HAD A LOT TO SAY

he doesn’t have his legs in the design sketch cause i was too lazy to draw a horse

ANYHOW

ALREADY HAVE MEDEA DESIGNED, SO I SHOULD BE CAUGHT UP SOON!!

just a little saving this for later

Okay, actually, let me do a quick, basic primer for Mycenaean fashion, if anyone would want to try this aesthetic for their Greek myth art since Mycenaean era Greece (1400-1200 is when the majority of the myths happen, and especially the Trojan war). Not claiming to be an expert at all, here, as I've mostly googled shit and screencapped images to use as ref and then read some articles, but, I figure, it might be somewhere to start!

Here's one of the panels from the Hagia triada sarcophagus, from Crete during Mycenaean control/hegemony of the island. The women are painted white, the men dark; artistic aesthetic you see in other cultures for their visual arts of the time, like Ancient Egypt.

I think the fur(?) skirts might be religious wear, but aside from that, you have one woman and one man (specifically, the lyre player, which is probably indicative of some cultural attitudes; the lyre player in the fresco from Pylos is definitely wearing a fringed skirt of some sort, similar to what women wear) wearing a long robe/tunic, and the women are wearing some short jackets on top of that. The jackets might be Cretan or merely "early" style, because here's a fresco fragment from the Greek mainland where the woman appears to wear something similar:

It's probable (but basically impossible to know) that the thing underneath is a long robe/tunic like the women above are wearing, short or sleeve-less.

Another Mycenaean/mainland Greek fresco. In this one you'd have to decide if the top halves of the women's dress is a short (but not cut-away) jacket, plus wrap-around, tiered/fringed skirt, or a long robe/tunic with really deep neckline and, again, a wrap-around tiered/fringed skirt.

Now, you don't need to make things harder for yourself than you have to! Women can wear a simpler style of dress (like what the man in the first fresco panel is wearing), basically the same as the men's, probably just longer:

It's possible these two women are wearing wrap around skirts below the edge of the chariot, but I doubt it. As you can see, their style of dress is the same as the man's above, with a plain, straight collar.

The various lines you see plunging down the sides of both the longer robes/tunics and the shorter ones are down the sides (under the arms and down) and might also/either be down the front, at least on the long dresses with elaborate bottom rim; the woman in saffron above clearly has a decorated line going down her front.

I'll put the rest of this under the cut!

Some nice art with Mycenaean-era dress and armour for some of our Trojan war characters. (Aeneas and Hektor notably wearing Mycenaean wear even if they probably wouldn't be.)

I like this site http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/index.htm for both art and a lot of pictures of artifacts when it comes to armour and weapons from the Mycenaean era.

The men don't just wear those tunics, though; you can get some (short) kilts or skirts;

(In my opinion, I'd say it's basically a given the one/two dudes painted in basically black are meant to be from further south compared to the Greek dude here. Probably not sub-Saharan Africa, however. North Africa/Egyptian might be more reasonable, despite the impossibly dark skin.)

Some examples of the clothes recreated!

This article https://www.jstor.org/stable/20627591 talks about a fresco and its possible reconstructions, and, more importantly, includes photos of some women's clothes, especially the fringed/tiered wrap-around skirts recreated, and some drawing diagrams of said skirts that might be helpful!

Hair-wise, the majority of the men have hair anywhere from around the ears down to the shoulders in mainland Greece. (The exception being, again, the Pylian lyre player.) Minoans, even mycenaean-era Minoans, might have longer hair; one of the panels on the Hagia triada fresco has a flute-player with hair down to his waist in braids (or something like that), for example.

All the women, no matter Cretan/Minoan or Mycenaean/Greek have very long hair, gathered in variously more or less elaborate hairstyles; make your best guess from looking at the frescos is my suggestion!

a WIP i drew, hopefully i’ll finish it

day 4: Lycaon

OK IM BEHIND AS ALL GET OUT (2 days) BUT I DID HIM!! HOPEFULLY ILL GET CHIRON AND MEDEA DONE TOMORROW/IN THE MORNING AND CATCH UP ON ART DEBT

uh. pov you’re Zeus about to eat some tasty soup except the king who made it looks at you like that and for some reason his son is now where to be found

he’s less unsettling than i hoped

ALSO LOOK AT HIS STUPID OUTFIT

day 6: Medea

BACK ON TRACK WOHOOOOOOO

I HAD FUN DOING HER DESIGN!! idc yellow eyes aren’t a thing, she’s a descendant of Helios and i do what i want /j

Medea is. something! i’ve never read the original source material (if there is any), but my first encounter with her myth was through Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero! which i’ve been reading as of recent

gotta say, it was odd seeing her depiction in PJO vs her actual myth. like.. in PJO she’s very clearly antagonistic, someone who shouldn’t be trusted

meanwhile in her myth, while she did intentionally kill her brother in cold blood- that just seems on brand for Greek myth characters

like.. Patroclus killed another kid over a game and Hercules killed his music teacher, and they’re both regarded as heroes

anyhow she’s just the protagonist of a murder ballad /j

don’t have much to say for her design. i think i leaned too heavily into her the Helios-descendant thing (sun earrings, tan skin, and when drawing the portrait gave her freckles) but oh well

i am now a Medea apologist /j

!!YOUR TURN TO DIE CHAPTER 1 SPOILERS BELOW!!

CW: MENTION OF DEATH

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it’s the sillies

the one on the left is Keiji i just thought it’d be funny to give him a trench coat (he’s a detective-kinda, he deserves a funny trench coat) and grown out hair roots cause it’s a nice contrast to the piss yellow hair

the one on the right is Nozomi, an oc of mine! no other comment about her (for now)