#ClassicsTober23

[edeluarts]

Get ready with me to build a giant wooden horse

Did I just spend 3 days drawing that eyeliner meme? Yes. Yes, I did.

I'm very late to this year's inktober but nevertheless I'm here))) I decided to combine the official prompt list with the classicstober here, specifically prompt 15 - dagger and prompt 20 - Odysseus. I don't know, if I will draw any other prompts, but this one was fun and I hope you like it :)

The dagger was based on Mycenaean daggers in the national archeological museum in Athens and some Mycenaean dagger reproductions I saw, the scene depicted is Odysseus hunting Athena' boar. I hc this dagger was either a gift from Athena herself or from Autolycus, I haven't decided yet.

#I'm not sure how historically accurate is that background. but it is what it is ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ #odysseus #“my man's not letting this war keep him from feeling gorgeous” (quote by @dannymotta) #“felt cute. might burn a city later” #“grwm for a stealth mission with my best buddy - the king of Argos” #tagamemnon #the iliad #epic the musical #epic the musical fanart #greek mythology #inktober #classicstober #inktober 2023 #classicstober23 #my art tag

[medusaspeach]

Classicstober Day 1: Cassandra 🌿

#ClassicsTober23 #ClassicsTober #greek mythology #greek myth #cassandra #sketch #medusa's peach

[nikoisme]

ClassicsTober Day 5: Chiron

Everyone you raised.

#tHIS ONE IS RUSHED AF. I'M GONNA STUDY NOW. #classicstober23 #classicstober #greek mythology #tagamemnon #chiron #art #digital art

[gigizetz]

Classicstober day 7: Persephone

#think I had a little too much fun drawing her #that's the spring/summer version of her btw #I picture her having a slightly different design during winter/fall #digital art #art #character art #greek myths #persephone #persephone fanart #greek gods #classicstober23

[flaroh]

Classicstober day 9: Achilles ⚔️

#classicstober #tagamemnon #flaroh illustration #classicstober23 #tsoa #tsoa fanart #the iliad #ancient greece #achilles art #patrochilles

[apatura-iris-atelier]

ClassicsTober day 6 : Medea

This took me So. Much. Time. But the process was interesting, I have to admit, I can see I got a bit better since the prior painting of Medusa so let's keep experiment ! :)

#art #digital art #classicstober #classicstober23 #tagamemnon #greek mythology #medea #my art

[marosii]

“And is a monster always evil? Is there ever such a thing as a good monster? Because what happens when a good person becomes a monster?”

— Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

#classicstober #classicstober23 #medusa #greek myth art #marosii art #my art #art #fanart #digital art #greek mythology #stone blind #tagamemnon

[thereinart]

Medea for Classicstober. She has done nothing wrong, ever, in her life.

#Medea #Classicstober #classicstober23 #Myth #greek myths #Aphrodite #Greek gods #illustration #my art

[1taliart]

CLASSICSTOBER DAY 3- ASTERION

Warning for light nudity

You know, this vase painting didn’t need to BREAK MY HEART the way it did.

Mmhhh little baby bull and his mama

#myart #my art #greek mythology #minoan #asterion #the minotaur #minotaur #classicstober #classicstober23 #pasiphae #traditional drawing #cw nudity #cw light nudity

[acetechne]

Classicstober: 10. Asklepios

(It's totally fine and normal to show up over a week late to a challenge)

I really wanted to do this challenge, but my attention has been so scattered by work and family lately that I tried to think of a low commitment version that would teach me something and still brighten up my sketchbook a little. I was thinking about how I used to get a lot of doodles in during art history and archaeology classes back in the day, so I'm trying to return to that with some dollar store pen and highlighter. :) I'm not sure if the entire series will look like this or if I'll just use whatever I have on hand, we will see.

#classicstober #asclepius #asklepios #ink #hapo art #traditional art #classics #tagamemnon #classicstober23

[medusaspeach]

Classicstober Day 17: Atalanta 🐗

Hanging out with Artemis.

#classicstober23 #classicstober #greek mythology #Atalanta #artemis #medusa's peach #drawtober #if you think I’m burnt out now… HAH #you would be correct

[nikoisme]

ClassicsTober23 Day 1: Cassandra!

Not sure if this is my final design for her, but hey - I had loads of fun with this one :D

#cassandra of troy #classicstober23 #classicstober #greek mythology #tagamemnon #the iliad #art #digital art

[gigizetz]

Classicstober day 31: Hecate

Happy (late) Halloween!

#classicstober23 #also now it's scientifically proved that I can't keep up with daily art challenges #digital art #art #greek myths #hecate #hecate goddess #character design #greek mythology

[flaroh]

Classicstober day 17: Atalanta🏹

#tagamemnon #flaroh illustration #classicstober #classicstober23 #Atalanta #ancient history #ancient greece #greek mythology #illustration

[apatura-iris-atelier]

ClassicsTober day 5 : Chiron

#art #digital art #classicstober #classicstober23 #tagamemnon #greek mythology #chiron #my art

[scriptorsapiens]

Classicstober Day 13: Arachne (𐀀𐀨𐀏𐀕)

Arachne was a mortal woman and a weaver beyond compare. She claimed that her skill surpassed even the gods'. An old woman warned her in a cracked voice:

"Be careful what you say, child; the gods loathe hybris."

"I'm not afraid of the gods. Even if Athena, goddess of weaving herself, appeared before me I know I can make a better tapestry than her!"

Arachne clearly had no idea she was living in Bronze Age Greece, because when an elder warns you about the ways of the divine it is ALWAYS a god in disguise.

Long story short, she is the reason spiders can weave so well.

Those of you who know me, and those of you who take the time to read these 'behind the scenes' things know that I do lots of research, but sometimes there just are no resources for me to draw on. Case in point, we know that the Mycenaeans had looms like the one I depict here, but as far as I know no Mycenaean tapestry has been preserved. This is not unexpected, since perishables like cloth can't really survive 3000 years without lots of luck and/or intentional preservation, but it also left me with a question of how Arachne's tapestries might have looked.

While we have some preserved Mycenaean and Minoan frescoes, I decided to not really draw from those for Arachne's tapestry. Her art was supposed to be breathtakingly realistic, so I opted from a more naturalistic, if a mite stylized, rendering of a woman. Perhaps a little anachronistic, but Arachne was a prodigy.

Speaking of which, Arachne is wearing a typical Mycenaean skirt and tunic but this piece finally gave me a good chance to show off Mycenaean makeup. Women, when depicted in Minoan and Mycenaean art, are often very pale and sometimes their faces are decorated with red florets on the forehead and cheeks. Arachne is not royal, but she is incredibly proud. Therefore I decided she would powder her face and rouge her lips, almost making herself look royal. The florets are just dots on her face, but the extras added to her forehead let me evoke the spider eyes she will bear in the near future.

Gods often take the appearance of the elderly (Zeus, Hera, and Athena all come to mind taking this disguise), and for whatever reason I have always had a vivid image of what Athena's mortal guise would look like. I know black was usually a very difficult color to dye, making it reserved for the wealthy, but maybe because of the old women in Portugal I grew up seeing the archetypal Old Woman is wearing black and using a shawl.

I would also like to formally apologize for not including the Linear B name for Athena, which is preserved: 𐀀𐀲𐀙

#classicstober #classicstober23 #classicstober2023 #arachne #tagamemnon #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #mycenaean