The wrath of Artemis and the Fate of Aktaion.
A little close up on the two.
An art request made by @artemiz0npawz
I hope i got this right bc this took me so long.
Anyway
Abt the mythology.
The most popular, or well known myth is that Aktaion, while hunting, stumbled upon Artemis bathing with her huntress. The hunter stopped and stared at her naked body, amazed by how beautiful the goddess is. The goddess had seen him, and cursed him of speech. If he tries to talk, he will be turn into a stag (A male deer i think-).
When Aktaion heard the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and huzzah. Became deer. His hunting hounds turn on him as they dont recognized their owner and start tearing him to pieces. He prayed to the gods on Olympus to save him but they didnt care abt his desperation and so Aktaion was torn into pieces.
Anyway
Heres a little info abt my drawing.
I decided to went on a different direction for this work. Inspired by these two coloring styles.
Credit to: @yliade-illustrations
Credit to: Tyler Miles Lockett
Im not sure if the artist has a tumblr so if you do, tag them for me if you will:].
What i was inspired from these two coloring styles are the gradient and textures.
As for composition, i planned for it to look like an angry, wrathful Artemis looking down at Aktaion. I went for a different direction with Artemis in this work. Instead of having a neutral skin tone, i made it look like she's a part of the sky, like yk, non-human. The deer mask hides most of her face bc, she's a goddess. And we will never truly know what she looks like upon our own depictions of her.
As for Aktaion, i drew him in his mid of transformation into a stag, looking up pleadingly at the goddess as the hounds run at him. And in a position almost like he's praying to her.
I added the arrows shooting from the moon bc. Uh. Moon goddess. Hunter become the hunted. Type shit.
Ygwim-
Anywya
Thats abt it:]P.
