Hong-en-ge, Chongqing. Photo By 徐超渊

I hope you'll like my Ariadine. 🖤🥰

Ionic columns of the Academy of Athens, Greece

Trying Alucard

Here is Ludwig von Schlegel. I choose this surname because I made this Saint Seiya original character in the meanwhile I was studying for German Philology exam.

He’s a specter from the two goddess sisters Makarie and Melinoë, both daughters of Hades (in the myth). 

He was born in North Germany from a Greek father and a German mother, and trained in Greece to become silver saint - his name was Vulpecula.  But as he became silver saint, some Athena’s enemies, as revenge, killed his parents - Athena showed no interest in that situation. So, Ludwig started left slowly her side ‘cause of the pain he suffered and the disinterest for his mourning and miasma he was living.

So, he started to live alone near Eleusis, where in the cave where Nameless Gods statues stood, met two old sisters who he chatted for a while with. They talked about mercy, respect and during the months Ludwig lived there, always visited them. The two old women introduced Hades’ daughters as mercy and respectable goddess, towards which Ludwig got more and more close. 

At the end, he would left Athena’s side as silver saint to rebirth as terrestrial mercy star on the side of the two old women, whom will reveal as the two goddess self.

OMG, Japanese ebook sites like Cmoa and Renta started to publish the webtoon Ennead and it’s soooooo good! It’s about the Horus-Seth conflict from Egyptian mythology but with BL (well the original myth also has versions where they became sexual, so…). The art is great and the webtoon is very stylish with great visual ideas. Anyone interested should wait for the English release though, it should be out on Tappytoon, I think, and it will be much cheaper than the Japanese edition. The series will be long as usual, up to 63 chapters currently, so it’s not the same if you pay 66 yen for a chapter or 36 yen (converted).

(Just checked if there’s a book version out already in Korea, and while there’s none, they do have goods! Oh my…)

All of Ayami Kojima’s Alucard art for SotN! There’s more than I expected!

Damn, I never get tired of gazing at his face.

here’s a short one ;D poor Hades XD

‹‹ Ό φίλος άλλος έαυτός ››

‹‹ The friend is another me. ›› said Phytagoras, showing a relationship of deep harmony between two persons, an unbreakable love and woven between the souls that melt inevitably.

Ancient greek world and its language descrive three different faces of love, all of them classifications that, according to Greeks, happen in human world: Ἔρως, Άγάπη, Φιλία (Eros, Agapee, Philia).

Eros means physical and passionable love, where it shows the desire to possess the other one and bases on a continuous give and receive.

Agape is, instead, celestial love, pure, bright that raises humans. A cosmic love that drive to desire the good for others before ours, that pushes to love every person beyond the fact that he/her/h* can deserve our love. It is, then, a love that sublimes, that makes you fly high, that asks for nothing in change because, as Kahlil Gibran said: "Love is enough for love" A disinterested love, trascendent and far from all selfishness. Near to charity, in fact, agape becomes God's love for the men, and from the men to God. It's a model of a relationship lighted by reciprocity, understood as overcoming of selfishness.

At the end, there's Philia, the friendship, brotherly love. A human love made of pure affection, attraction and sympathy, characterised by a feeling of joy that you can feel staying with the other. A love knows how to lull, confort and protect.

Greeks were very wise to distinguish every kind of love in a maniacal way.

here down different types for saying "I love you" in ancient greece.

Ψυχὴ καί Θανατος (psyche kai thanatos) would whisper uninhibited greek women during sex. The translation loses his meaning (You're my soul and my death), but along with aspirates and assonances, they made it a powerful aphrodisiac.

Διαπετομαι, "fly" or, as we say today, "cum". "To make love" can be translated with κατεύδειν.

Σοι φλήγω, "glow of love for you". It's a clue of strong passion, generally led by Eros. Then the fault is Eros': Ἔρως επὴ μοι κατεθεχατο τοχα καί ιὺς, for "Eros sharpened me with arches and arrows), but these are better for poetry than in the bed.

Τιτροσκώ συ πὸθω means "I'm pierced by desire for you". It means the moment of excitement before love.

Ση πειρώ, in military words can mean being pierced from side to side with a sword, then it specialized also in erotc sense, with the meaning of "I'm pierced of love for you".

The Theocritus Χος ιδον ος εμανην "As I saw you, I god mad" like the formula for "since I first saw you".

Μαινόμαι επή σὸι, "I'm crazy for you".

Σιουναρπαζεις, e.g "You stole my soul" express the strenght and the speed of amorous ignition that in an all-encompassing way hit the loved one.

But fortunately Love is not only pain and absolute passion: ιανεις καρδιαν , means "You warm my heart".

Σ'ηρώ is exactly our "I love you": commonly, less recent, more polyvalent: if instead of common feelings, you can say Σ'αγαπώ; in more carnal and heroic way (only Homer and Archilochus used it) you can say Σ'ηραμαι.

Σοι τερπομαι, means "I'm happy when I'm with you", to a friend, a son or a dear, you can name them with Σε φιλώ, e.g "I love you".

Drawing Body Proportions

Because I didn't actually answer anon's question last time, here are some cheat sheets on how I approach body proportions when I draw.

Typical adult body proportion is eight (8) "heads" (but I think anywhere from 7 to 8 is okay). Below chart notes where each "head" ends in terms of body part:

Another proportion method is 1/3 from top of head to natural waist (just above bellybutton), 1/3 from there to top of knees, and last 1/3 to heel of foot:

The "balls" are joints (shoulder, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles) as well as the stomach as a central "joint" for the torso:

Remember that perspective also impacts your drawing! Eg. The figure here has one foot slightly behind the other so her heels don't line up to the bottom guideline.

In my unprofessional and untrained opinion, these are not hard rules, just guidelines as you develop your own style and eye for anatomy (but it's helpful to know what the rules are before you get too cute in "breaking" them).

✨ Happy drawing! ✨

Powerful sassy guys~