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Cleaned up that sketch of lil Achilles and his mom Thetis!

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Drew Odysseus and Penelope in modern clothing! It's really weird drawing them and seeing them in modern clothing lol

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"I'll see you in the future when we're older

And we are full of stories to be told.

Cross my heart and hope to die,

I'll see you with your laughter lines."

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Some sketches of an Achilles when he was little and his mom Thetis!

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The only complete refs I have for my Iliad retelling "The Golden Thread of Fate" rn is Achilles and Patroclus (and refs of them in their armor as well). But I wanna start working on the other refs soon!! Man I am gonna have to draw SO MUCH ARMOR :,>

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Also I intend to write my Iliad retelling as a full novel as well. But I'm not starting that until I finish writing my odyssey retelling! Besides I'm still in the researching phase of the Iliad retelling anyway.

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Sure! Why not! I'll show y'all some of my doodles of the characters from my Iliad retelling. Why not!!! God knows they're all I can draw rn LMAO

Looking at this again I am not jiving with Diomedes' hairstyle, so that's gonna change.

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So I'm about done designing the characters for my Iliad retelling called "The Golden Thread of Fate" and I finally designed Patroclus. I originally had him with short hair and he ended up looking too much like Paris and I was like "well that can't work!" So I ended up giving him long hair instead. And y'know I actually really like him with long hair! It works pretty well for him!

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I'm so mad I can feel the burnout creeping over the horizon and I just . NO!!! LEMME WRITE MORE OF MY ODYSSEY RETELLING!!!!! LEMME DRAW ODYSSEUS AS MUCH AS I WANT DAMNIT!!!

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I'm now 134 pages into my Odyssey retelling, The Harpy of Ithaca!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Just

Dumps Antinous' rough here.

This is my fifth attempt at drafting a design for him lmao and I'm at least more happy with this than the others! So, that is progress at least!

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Also! Note to self!!! Make sure you get ALL YOUR DUCKS (characters) IN ORDER *first* before you start building the plot of the Iliad retelling when you begin to work on that future me! To save you the trouble of going, "well shoot, I forgot so and so, and now I have to go back and rewrite all this to add them in :/"

I already have the characters I'm using planned but I need to go back, go over them, and make sure that I didn't miss anyone important. I will do that later.

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Suddenly remembered that Antinous exists and I'm now adding him to my retelling LMAO. Thankfully adding him isn't going to like mess anything up egregiously, it will just take a few scene rewrites on my part and rewriting the scene when Odysseus comes back and begins killing the suitors and whatnot. So overall not a BIG change, but a change nonetheless. And simple one at that.

Now I just need to design him and give him a ref. I'll draft his design out later today I think at lunch during work/between projects.

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Finished Scylla's ref! And this marks my first digital art of 2025!

This was tons of fun to work on, and I'm looking forward to drawing her more!!

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And the first art of 2025!! Some doodles to get used to two new oc, Dionysia and Tharros! And then a wip of Scylla's ref! Well an earlier version of her ref, I've added some more things to it since this specific version. And honestly I thought of a few more things to add to it when I'm home tonight.

Scylla was a bit of a challenge to design, but overall I'm pretty happy with her design! Figuring out colors will kick my ass I think lol, but it will be a fun process! Also she can unhinge her jaw, by a large margin.

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Last art of 2024!! And it's Odysseus, no one is surprised lmfao. I experimented a little with this one, and it's...weird seeing him in a different color palette lol.

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I can't stop drawing these two lmao