dusty3llipsis

hi! i'm tulip and i draw sometimes | currently obsessed with epic the musical, plus books: the iliad, the odyssey, and circe | 23

[dusty3llipsis]

Would You Fall in Love with Me Again

this is my first drawing done in clip studio paint!!! i've been overwhelmed with all the fancy options but it's been a blast finally having a tablet to draw on.

These designs for Ody and Penny aren't 100% concrete for my personal interpretations, but I'm testing the waters with what the app can do and I wanted something simple to start out with anyway!

To be completely honest, the only concrete plans I have for their designs that will absolutely stay going forward is Odysseus' hair being long when he arrives back to Ithaca, and Penelope's hair being continuously cut shorter as the years go by while she waits for him. Also I want Penny to have a very yellow & gold design, but I think this portrayal has too much gold for my liking, so I would probably scale it back one way or another in the future.

Thank you so much for coming by! 🫒🏹💘

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i'm so busy but i WILL find the time to draw something for the ithaca saga. i'm in TEARS okay do you understand this is all i care about

[two-bees-poetry]

twenty years across the sea

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athena design ! i tried to incorporate a lot in here !!

cropped pics & design explanation below >>

Some things I wanted to point out:

Athena's spear has an owl face (look at spearhead upsidedown), her eyebrows are sorta,, owl eyebrow shaped, gorgon pendant thing on both Athena and Odysseus (in my mind, she gave one to him. and he'll throw it away after 'My Goodbye'), horse on her shield, owl feather skirt, the sharp points on her helmet are very lowkey meant to represent boar tusks, and of course she has some muscle to her! (bonus odysseus design idea: on his arm is polites' ribbon, which he keeps attached to him until 'Different Beast' when he uses it to detain a siren)

Also the blue under her eyes is symbolic for the pain war brings. like tears I guess - but since she's a goddess of war, she's wearing it pridefully (or maybe a better way to put it is "dutifully")

And of course, the snake !! The only reason I hadn't done an Athena design yet was because I knew I wanted to do something special with the crest but I couldn't figure it out — until now of course! I like to think that it reacts along with her own emotions (see while she's yelling at Ody, it's hissing)

While this is my own design, I always take a little inspo from the musical/Jorge/common fan themes/etc. So of course she's got a lot of blue, and also has the red hair.

Thanks for sticking around! 🩵🪶🐍

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i think i finally have my hermes design down!!

[douknowanoah]

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!!!

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else give him red/auburn hair, it makes him seem closer to Athena which is neat since he might be one of the only other gods on Ody’s side

[dusty3llipsis]

yes !!! ah gosh thank you sm.

to be fair my first thought was simply "there needs to be another redhead" but yes! there was some fic or drabble i had seen once that made athena and hermes very close with each other and i cannot get that out of my head!! just a little symbolism for that

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i think i finally have my hermes design down!!

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🏝️🐚 Bow down now to the immortal Calypso 🦪💕✨

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there are other ways 🌸🌈🗡️✨

(no vines or flowers version below)