#sanskart (mythos)

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Ariadne explaining how to navigate the labyrinth (and after) to Theseus. It’s important, she’s committing treason for you Theseus, don’t look at her like that.

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“My hair is Holy,

I grow it for the god.”

- Bacchae, Euripedes

Hair in the Bacchae is like a really minor thing but I was plagued by this vision the whole afternoon!! I need to banish these scenes from my head and work on my actual research subjects or I’ll go insane fr

Early on in the play Penthus roughly grabs Dionysus’ hair and cuts it, and later he is given a long wig and has a loose lock of hair gently fixed by Dionysus when he dresses up as a maenad. Isn’t that something? Violence juxtaposed against tenderness and how Pentheus slowly forgets his self clothed like a follower of the very god he opposes. I coloured the ends of the wig purple because making the wig from the hair Pentheus cut is hilarious and probably something Dionysus would do ngl

Anyway I can already tell the proportions/hands/quality is fried but idc I needed to draw this and yell at the void a little, y’all can enjoy it too I guess <3

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Dreaming

As a princess Ariadne knows she’ll likely be married off for gold or politics, but that doesn’t mean she can’t daydream about meeting and falling in love with a beautiful stranger :)

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“I love all characters I draw equally!” :)

The art: