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Finished my cute widdle Polyphemus concept art! He’s totally a cuddlebug and wouldn’t eat you at all! 🥰

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A cute little Polyphemus concept WIP!! 🥰

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Odysseus from books 1-5 of the odyssey for one of my classes :3 everything from composition to colour to design was inspired by Ancient Greek pottery + mosaics. Also seed of fire mention 🔥🔥🔥

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Last time I ever cooked with my fucking Odysseus design. He looks so good in this where did it go.

Redraw of an older Odysseus artwork I did back in November of 2022. Really like how this one turned out! The bird flying next to him is a hooded crow.

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Haha let’s do that!… hahahahha just kidding just kidding…

Unless…?

What if we both ate the lotus and lost sight of the return to our homelands haha

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Bruh how did I get into Homeric poetry art I don’t even like drawing humans

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Just a rather stupid practice doodle of Odysseus and Poseidon I finished a few hours ago from a pose reference I found on Pinterest.

What exactly is Odysseus (a typically rational, intelligent and pious man) yelling at Poseidon about that is apparently worth the risk of getting smote for blasphemy over? I’ll leave that up to you. Even better if it’s unrelated to Polyphemus / Odysseus’ homecoming issues.

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AWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I'm so happy you liked it!!!

“Kill Me”

Is that Odysseus being happy? Not on my watch!

(-Poseidon, probably)

Just a relatively simple piece of Odysseus crying on Ogygia, heavily inspired by my friend @katerinaaqu’s extra chapter in her fanfic “Survivor’s Guilt & Survivor’s Duty”, from the last scene where Odysseus runs out to the beach during a storm, begging the gods to kill him.

Been a while since I’ve drawn a beach scene, I absolutely love drawing backgrounds and especially water, so it was nice to render one again. I also redid the shading 2-3 times because I just couldn’t get it right (particularly with the subsurface scattering) but I finally did make something I liked. Also I finally remembered to add his braids, since in my own headcanons he doesn’t cut it short until he gets back home, but since his ref sheet is post-Odyssey I tend to forget to add them. Also gave him more facial hair and added some extra strands of hair, just to make him look more disheveled.

Anyway my man needs a hug. Can someone please give him a hug?

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“Kill Me”

Is that Odysseus being happy? Not on my watch!

(-Poseidon, probably)

Just a relatively simple piece of Odysseus crying on Ogygia, heavily inspired by my friend @katerinaaqu’s extra chapter in her fanfic “Survivor’s Guilt & Survivor’s Duty”, from the last scene where Odysseus runs out to the beach during a storm, begging the gods to kill him.

Been a while since I’ve drawn a beach scene, I absolutely love drawing backgrounds and especially water, so it was nice to render one again. I also redid the shading 2-3 times because I just couldn’t get it right (particularly with the subsurface scattering) but I finally did make something I liked. Also I finally remembered to add his braids, since in my own headcanons he doesn’t cut it short until he gets back home, but since his ref sheet is post-Odyssey I tend to forget to add them. Also gave him more facial hair and added some extra strands of hair, just to make him look more disheveled.

Anyway my man needs a hug. Can someone please give him a hug?

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Modern Media Agamemnon: The only absolute asshole in the team. Chilling in his tent wearing flamboyant clothing. Barely fighting and when he does he always has someone do the fight for him. Always speaking about women and sex not respecting anything and anyone. Being the greedy embarrassment of his team. Gladly would offer his own mother if that would mean his victory. Always compared to the worst type of scoundrels. One-sided persona.

Actual Ancient Agamemnon: Strong powerful leader who wears his armor and always fights to the front line of battle encouraging (or daresay provoking) others do the same. Respected by his peers and always managing to turn the public to hear him. Performs many mistakes due to abuse of power but always tries to rectify them. He would do anything for his family. He respects his enemies. Speaks a lot about his concubines but ironically he shows respect for some of them (he defends Cassandra's heritage to his wife). Always compared to the gods. Complicated persona.

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“The Lioness of Mycenae”

Impulsive companion piece to my Agamemnon one! A bit less happy with how this one turned out but I still think it looks okay. Also almost threw my graphics tablet out the window while trying to finish this because the screen wouldn’t turn on. The audacity.

And here’s the pieces together:

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It is always Odysseus time in my book! Look at the guy 🥰 my favorite guy

The best part of the odyssey is when he said IT'S ODYSSEUS TIME and odysseyd all over those guys

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What’s a food from your culture that u HATE #hatersonly

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Screw divine retribution. Assert dominance.

I think Odysseus should make the most of that big L and add "cyclops blinder" to his epithets

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Damn just let Odysseus show off his fine thighs in peace

Someone: The perfect casting for Odysseus doesn't exi-

Michael Cacoyannis: Hold my beer!

Christos Tsagas my beloved! ❤️

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I’m very much queer but I will ALWAYS chose the well-developed straight m/f ship over the slapped together, utterly ridiculous m/m ship ANY day of the week. The EPIC fandom has caused irreversible damage to the original sources, like WHY would Odysseus and Poseidon have a relationship??? The whole plot of The Odyssey is based on their conflict! They’ve never even met in person! People really just use Greek mythology as some kind of “fandom” media they can do whatever they like with while blissfully ignoring the fact that it holds significant importance to Greek culture and then have the AUDACITY to get mad at any Greek who speaks out about it.

Penelope and Odysseus have so much chemistry between them and reasons that they work as a married couple, hell, they literally coined the term “homophrosyne”. I have not seen a single other Odysseus ship that gives that kind of characterization. They are meant to be together. I swear, I really hate this thing of making the most random gay ship known to man just to avoid engaging with women in media.

Some of y’all would ship Odysseus with anybody except his fucking wife whom he went to hell and back to return to.

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“The Lion of Mycenae”

Another Agamemnon! I know hubris is a sin and the gods can strike me down if they wish but I am SO HAPPY with how this turned out!! It’s been some time since I made an art piece and looked at it and said “wow. I made that.” I tried out a different lineart, color and shading style with varying the line weight far more than I usually do, rendering some of the color (such as texturing the fur and hair) before shading and then using very soft shadows to shade and a hard highlight. Overall I think it turned out really well!!! Also been a while since I’ve drawn lions, my art style is kind of a blend of semi-realism and cartoon, but I actually really enjoy drawing full realism and doing studies, so it was nice to be able to do that again! I hope you all like it as much as I do!!!