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arttsuka · 5 months ago

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I need you to stick with me here but Jedtavius as Patroclus and Achilles

Sorry I’ve been reading The Song of Achilles and it’s getting to me

Oh... so who's who? In my drawing Achilles is Octavius and Patroclus is Jedediah

I basically redrew that one statue (I know it's not both of them but I liked the pose ok? Forgive me). Also I took my chance to draw Jed's funny underpants to lighten up the mood a bit.

Sorry if this doesn't meet your vision :(

That was a weird amalgamation of 2 different photos in an attempt to fix the original (I literally cropped it, fixed some mistakes digitally and then took another picture of a blank paper to use as background. The things I do as a traditional artist). Here's the picture before I fixed the mistakes .

Usually I am more careful and don't make that many mistakes. But also, I work on bigger drawings like this for at least a week, so yeah...

I wanted to draw the iconic red figure pottery art of them but I felt like that would take me way too long :/

#is the song of achilles good? I've been wanting to buy a copy to read but I'm very hesitant...#and if i do. should I get it in English? I mean it is the language it was written in but I hate the English-ification of the names #I was reading the Wikipedia entry and saw 'homer' and i was like “Homer? who's that? Homer Simpson?”#yes that bad #saying the names out loud help me understand who we're talking about but I'm not gonna start reading the book like that. I'm not a maniac #but I fear the translation will be. stiff? they usually are. English has such a specific way of writing #that's why I try to read these books in their original language...#god don't make me go back into mythology now. wait until I'm done with my exams #song of achilles #ask #anonymous #answered #night at the museum #natm #natm jedediah #natm octavius #jedediah smith #jedediah #gaius octavius #octavius #jedediah and octavius #jedtavius #art #fanart #traditional art #cw partial nudity

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