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gingermintpepper · 2 months

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"Man Ginger, why don't you like doing lineart for things?"

BECAUSE IT TAKES TOO LONG AAA

Art for me is usually more about getting the broad strokes of an idea out so I can more easily visualise it when writing/planning. This, unfortunately, does tend to clash with my innate need to be good at the things that are important to me but I think I've gotten better about embracing the 'messiness' of my style over the years.

That said, LOOK AT THIS HYAPOLLO WIP I'M WORKING ON?? POLLIE'S COMING OUT SO GOOD LIKE??

I usually describe Apollo-as-Agreus (Agreus is the name he takes on while he's mingling with the mortalfolk) as having gold-brown hair both because he born a brunet in my story and because the word 'xanthos' in and of itself implies something that encompasses an entire spectrum from true-blond to auburn? My visual shorthand for this has been to just have Agreus' hair be a duller blond than the sunstreaked cloud colour of Apollo's more divine hair but MAN I was NOT expecting to love properly attempting to represent Agreus' hair this much! Ugh, I'm so excited to finish colouring this set of images!!!

#ginger rambles #ginger draws #apollo #wip #pursuing daybreak posting #I LOVE MY GOLD-BROWN SON #All the gods have various names they take whenever they're vibing with mortals tbh #It's very very VERY bad to call a god by name because that's like annoucing their name over a pa system #Apollo's name when he's with Hyacinth is Agreus but some of his other names throughout the years have been Kouros and Ephebus #combined with Agreus he usually just uses very general names when he's around which is really funny because he is a very abnormal presence #looking for that super pretty man you met at a dance festival and you're like “I'm looking for Kouros!” and everyone is just #“buddy this is a dance festival we're ALL kouros here”#He complains about Hermes' sense of humour but he's just as terrible #Agreus comes from his epithet as Apollo the Hunter btw so essentially his name with Hyacinthus is Hunter #You'll never guess what job he takes while he's hanging about the palace

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