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Osiris Blog Entry |
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May 20, 2021, 3:17:34 PM 5/20/21: Okay, so I planned to finish this tomorrow and submit it for Free Draw Friday (I may still--if the Imgur app ever starts working again, it's been saying it won't be long now for like the past half hour 😕 ), but couldn't help but want to see it complete. I'm rather happy with this one. 😁 This of course is the Egyptian god of the dead, Osiris, and considering that I haven't tried drawing him in probably well over a decade, and never in my current "style," I think it turned out rather well. (I may hate it tomorrow.) I've been into Egyptian mythology for most of my life though the interest faded in recent years, and sad to say my recall of my own versions of these guys has gotten rusty. While drawing him, I looked him up on Google Images to make sure I was getting everything right (I forgot his beard 😩 ) and ended up getting sucked down a weird rabbit hole to some sort of manga (sorry--manhwa) called Ennead and now I'm signed up on a site called Tappytoon and may very well end up spending good money to see WTF is going on between Osiris and Set. Completely unrelated, all sorts of ideas (including some naughty ones) about the Egyptian gods are now banging around in my head and I feel almost inspired to work on some writing about them for the first time in years. Almost. Would help if I had readers, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In my fiction Osiris starts out as really compassionate and idealistic, though after being locked and drowned in a sarcophagus, resurrected, then chopped into bits and having your throne usurped by your brother who then tries to murder your son, I imagine you'd have had just about enough, too, thus his facial expression. His eyes are blue because he's dead and they're glowing because he's neteri (divine). And yeah, he's green. Deal with it. EDIT: 5/21/21: r/SketchDaily theme, "Free Draw Friday." I actually finished this yesterday but wanted to share. It's the Egyptian god of the dead, Osiris. I wrote more when I posted him in my blog but I'm tired right now and what can I say, he's the god of the dead. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [Osiris 2021 [Thursday, May 20, 2021, 3:17:34 PM]] |