this is something i made for a challenge with a group of friends — we wanted to combine the design of some majokkos with the clothing of a randomly generated historical period and i got the middle ages, so i tried (with many artistic liberties) to adapt the gothic fashion to mew mint
i wanted to draw a dbh character and I still don’t understand why i choose carl
redraw! 2019 vs 2017
let markus love everyone
I created a color palette challenge. Feel free to use it!
Have fun drawing :)
@something-indecent-and-dramatic okay I see now that I responded very quickly so I will elaborate a bit more here even in case someone else has the same doubt!
The drawing is inspired by the moment in the fourth episode of the Bacchae in which Pentheus enters the stage dressed as a woman and the first thing he says is:
(i’m using a translation of T. A. Buckley that I found on the internet here)
about this I want to clarify that the Dionysus=bull one is not an isolated association that only Pentheus makes in a moment of hallucination, but that it is an image that keeps recurring in the whole tragedy (ex. when the bacchae refer to dionysus as to the “bull-horned god” or when Pentheus wants to imprison Dionysus but finds himself trying to imprison a bull) and in general also in some invocations linked to the dionysian cult outside the context of Euripides’ play
overall in the drawing i wanted to depict Dionysus in a moment in which he reveals himself to Pentheus who has finally accepted his divinity, and in this sense in my mind the bull conveys Dionysus’ powers (or at least his powers as we see them at the end of this tragedy) in a better way than a human form does.
i hope this answer has cleared up my choices a bit!! also thank you for the question <3
Pentheus and Dionysus, again 🐍🐂
necessary reblog for the birthday boy
Sixfanarts challenge (4/6) - Our beloved Virgil 🐝
(he’s reading the aeneid to augustus…)
gaia · she/her · 27 yo · ita - eng i occasionally draw artistic nudity (tagged as such). i am currently not avaiable for commissions
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