mermay from yesterdays update :) + extra sketches :P poseidon is not impressed xD
i didnt post it here so hey! a pretty fish!
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! ✨
Here my last draw, Ludociel from Nanatsu no Taizai <3
“Però qualcuno ha giurato fedeltà al grande nemico indomo!”
If you have no idea what that is… well, that’s a line from the Italian opening for the Hades Chapter that has been stuck in my head since this morning. Click on it if you want to hear how it sounds! Onto the Resurrected Saints!
Also, Shion’s name in Italian is Shin? It’s… so random.
Overall score (character, not looks): 10/10
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here’s a short one ;D poor Hades XD
Powerful sassy guys~
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.
ROYAL DEMON ROSE
... Ἥρη δὲ κραιπνῶς προσεβήσετο Γάργαρον ἄκρον Ἴδης ὑψηλῆς· ἴδε δὲ νεφεληγερέτα Ζεύς. ὡς δ' ἴδεν, ὥς μιν ἔρως πυκινὰς φρένας ἀμφεκάλυψεν, οἷον ὅτε πρῶτόν περ ἐμισγέσθην φιλότητι εἰς εὐνὴν φοιτῶντε, φίλους λήθοντε τοκῆας.....
---Hera reached quickly the top of Mount Gargano on the high Ida, and she saw Zeus gathering the clouds, and when he saw, passion (ἔρως) invaded his wise soul, as when for the first time they bonded in love and went to the bed, unknown to his parents----
(Illiad - XIV, 293-295)
Once Zeus took his power, decided to take to wife and noticed the beauty, worthy to became the Gods' Queen, in his sister Hera, who lived isolated in Eubea's Island, along with her nurse Makris, in the house of Thetis. Since it was very difficult getting close to her, because she watched assiduously over the nurse 'cause of her early age, in a cold winter day, when Hera were by chance alone and lost in a country roead, Zeus used a strategy and in the form of a cuckoo numb and shaking from cold, he leaned of her shoulder. The Goddess took pity and warmed him up with her robe, starting to caressing him. The cuckoo transformed himself in an handsome and attractive boy who made himself known as Zeus, who declared his love to the Goddess and asked her hand. Heca accepted, so the wedding were celebrated on the Olympus at all Gods presence. The wedding between Zeus and Hera is ofter told as an happy marriage even if Zeus had lot of nymphs and mortal women as lovers, whom in the end these unions were symbolics, for example to indicate what the Earth needed rains to be fecundated, or the Moon runs through the vault of heaven from east to west. These adventures sparked the jealousy of Hera and lot of poets attributed this kind of jealousy to heaven events, even it is told that the king and the queen of heaven, with their fights determinated rough hurricanes and cold winters. Despite everything, the divine lovers continued to be perhaps the only durable in the Olympus and from the marriage of Zeus and Hera were born four children: Hebe, Eileithyia, Ares and Hephestus