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So, I was browsing some images of classical pottery, and I found this adorable picture. And it inspired me to draw a little cartoon.
Prince Asterion of Krete, known to the Athenians as Minotauros.
According to myth, the son of Phaedra, while born with the monstrous features of a bull, was nevertheless loved by his mother and still possessed a gentle nature in his youth. However, he soon grew enormous and developed an insatiable hunger for flesh, so King Minos eventually enlisted the skills of Daidalos to build the Kretan Labyrinth, in whose inscrutable corridors he imprisoned his ravenous stepson. King Minos had conquered Athens and demanded that seven Athenian youths and seven maidens, chosen at random, be sent every ninth year to Knossos, where they would be thrown into the labyrinth to feed the monster. The hero Theseus ultimately killed Minotauros, armed with the sword of Aegeus and the aid of the gods.
But anyway, here's Asterion as a young...erm...Minotaurling? Playing 'hoplite' with a wooden sword and shield. Perhaps he's imagining himself as a hero, slaying a foul monster, driving his sword into its throat and...oh dear, now we're getting metatextual, aren't we?
I don't know, I rather took a liking to the tragic Asterion, who was held in much higher esteem by the Kretans and the Etruscans (the Kretan Bull with whom Phaedra conceived Minotauros was originally Poseidon, who the Kretans associated with the bull, but the myth was seen in a more cynical light by the mainland Greeks).
Which brings me to my point.
I'm going to start a contest of sorts. I'll give you guys a couple of weeks to come up with your best drawing of a Classical monster - in its younger days. It can be any monster - Kerberos, Hydra, Khimaira, Sphinx - as long as its reputation was infamous. Let's see how creative you all can be by casting the scourges of myth in a more positive light. I will not be judging based on drawing skill or talent, but rather on creativity.
The winner will receive:
30,000 Gaia Gold.
A custom avatar image from me (of your avi or one of your choice), featuring any of the clothes displayed in the Greek Fashion Thread in any colour or cut they wish, along with your featured monsterling!
So, Happy sketching!
So, I was browsing some images of classical pottery, and I found this adorable picture. And it inspired me to draw a little cartoon.
Prince Asterion of Krete, known to the Athenians as Minotauros.
According to myth, the son of Phaedra, while born with the monstrous features of a bull, was nevertheless loved by his mother and still possessed a gentle nature in his youth. However, he soon grew enormous and developed an insatiable hunger for flesh, so King Minos eventually enlisted the skills of Daidalos to build the Kretan Labyrinth, in whose inscrutable corridors he imprisoned his ravenous stepson. King Minos had conquered Athens and demanded that seven Athenian youths and seven maidens, chosen at random, be sent every ninth year to Knossos, where they would be thrown into the labyrinth to feed the monster. The hero Theseus ultimately killed Minotauros, armed with the sword of Aegeus and the aid of the gods.
But anyway, here's Asterion as a young...erm...Minotaurling? Playing 'hoplite' with a wooden sword and shield. Perhaps he's imagining himself as a hero, slaying a foul monster, driving his sword into its throat and...oh dear, now we're getting metatextual, aren't we?
I don't know, I rather took a liking to the tragic Asterion, who was held in much higher esteem by the Kretans and the Etruscans (the Kretan Bull with whom Phaedra conceived Minotauros was originally Poseidon, who the Kretans associated with the bull, but the myth was seen in a more cynical light by the mainland Greeks).
Which brings me to my point.
I'm going to start a contest of sorts. I'll give you guys a couple of weeks to come up with your best drawing of a Classical monster - in its younger days. It can be any monster - Kerberos, Hydra, Khimaira, Sphinx - as long as its reputation was infamous. Let's see how creative you all can be by casting the scourges of myth in a more positive light. I will not be judging based on drawing skill or talent, but rather on creativity.
The winner will receive:
30,000 Gaia Gold.
A custom avatar image from me (of your avi or one of your choice), featuring any of the clothes displayed in the Greek Fashion Thread in any colour or cut they wish, along with your featured monsterling!
So, Happy sketching!
