CgTalk Daily Sketch 405 "Greek Gods"

[AnimZiggy]

wohooo i have to do this.. i loved greek mythology as a kid. And I also have done a comic in the past...might have it somewhere....arghh will check it out later.

[jnurp]

Well I decided to represent Hades, god of hells. For me Hades is struck between his own fate and despair. He isn't a bad god, just an employee of a big familiy, and even bad business has to be done

1h40 photoshop CS + open canvas

http://users.skynet.be/fa499477/speed1greekgods.jpg

[Koekebakker]

It's Poseidon; god of the ocean.
(Photoshop, 2 hrs)

http://www.geoffreycramm.nl/public/11_greekgods.jpg

[AnimZiggy]

Koekebakker very well depicted! cool!

[commodore]

Very cool Koekebakker!! It kinda looks like a book illustration.

[vikkie]

nice work Koekebakker. very "alive"http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon13.gif

[paperclip]

GREAT TOPIC!
I'll be busy with this one...oh yes I will......consider this a placeholder!

*placeholder*

Koekbakker, great stuff!

Jnurp, I like it, but I think you need to segregrate the two different lightings more...

[jnurp]

what do you mean?:)

[paperclip]

Well, it looks as if the blue and red light sources are kind of mixed up, esp. around the nose and brow area. Apart from that, I really like your atmosphere. Very ethereal!

[jnurp]

yeah, I see what you mean, I'm going to update it
in fact I did only one source of light first and someone suggested me that there was a lack of contrast so I added the red light from under to suggest hell


UPDATED ^^

[pipichu]

Hello:). First time posting sketch here.

Here's my Poseidon, at a sushi buffet. Took about 2 hours. Photoshop.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a244/pipikon/poseidon_fin.jpg

[JT]

well i chose zeus

around 1h 45 mins ( + 5mins ,updated the lightning) Photoshop,
don't like the mountains but i was to bored of the piece to
go on. :banghead:

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1402/dsggreekgoods3ku.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Elsie]

Ooh this sounds like real fun ^_^ wish me luck in my first entry! I love mythology...

[commodore]

Good one pipichu :D

[RustyNail]

I did Hades well...er a in a weird way but here it is.

Did this real fast in alias sketchbook with mouse. 2min

http://www.duo-county.com/~kaos/hades.jpg

[Jasel]

Hey there! Seems like an eternity since I last posted...
Anyway, here's mine; forgive my lack of originality, but I had to do this.
Photoshop / Wacom / 1 hour 15 minutes (Reference obviously used)

http://img304.imageshack.us/img304/1292/saturn9la.jpg
http://img304.imageshack.us/img304/1292/saturn9la.jpg (http://img304.imageshack.us/img304/1292/saturn9la.jpg)

Haha, pipichu, nice helmet!

[umbrellasky]

*dances* what to do what to do!! I gotta join in on this one!! :D

[Erikoinen]

You left me no choice but to go with Afrodite, the Goddess of love.
Flash + PS, 1h.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/teimo/erikoinen/sketches-2005/greek-gods.jpg

[jecaTatu]

http://www.discoredstudio.com/cg_gal/20050715hestia.jpg
45 min / photoshop + wacom

[Ilikesoup]

jecaTatu - Beautiful lines! Wonder how it would look with a black background -- to the right of the hearth.

[Mirwen]

Grr... I did what I could and the result is worse than I expected. Probably I have to draw more :-)
Pencil - 25 minutes
2 hours wacom tablet + photoshop
http://www.m72.wz.cz/anatomie/7-17.jpg
It's a deadly trio
From left: Ares(war), Artemis(hunt), Palas Athena(wisdom, war)(I have forgotten to make her owl http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

[Vahn]

ps + mouse | 1.5h

http://img208.echo.cx/img208/5629/poseidon31jg.jpg

[rawwad]

Hi, here is mine. Apollon, god of Sun.
It takes me 1h 10min with photoshop and genius tablet.

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/4557/apollonfinal5ca.jpg

[freshvirus]

400pm-441pm/pencil6B/11x14|65lbpaper/ZEUS

first page on my new sketchbook for bobby chui' edmoton subway sketch group and cgtalkdailysketchhttp://www.itswhatwedo.ca/dailysketchA405zeus3.jpg
-ORO

[heavensentdisaster]

so here's my second DSF post. I decided I would do Aphrodite and Hera, the goddesses of love and motherhood/marraige, respectively. They are very different but become very interconnected.

(Hera is on the left, Aphrodite is on the right)

http://everyanything.net/aphroandhera.jpg

photoshop, between one and a half and two hours.

[Daolohua CnC]

Greetings All. I did Cronus (http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/cronus.html)

http://www.mattbrowning.com/2d/daily_sketch5.jpg

about 2.5 hours in photoshop
crit plz

[Nebbiestar]

I did Aphrodite, photoshop, 1 1/2 hours.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/nebbie/goddess.jpg

[Skarrow]

Hi all. I did Apollo, whom I've always imagined to be somewhat effeminate in appearance.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/Skarrow/apollo.jpg

Photoshop, 2.5 hours.

[jebas]

This is all I am going to do on this piece. As a delicious piece of irony, as I am working on my rendition of the three fates, my dad calls to let me know that my grandfather has passed away in his sleep. This was not unexpected, he was suffering colon cancer, and was well into his nineties. I guess the scissors have finally snipped his thread.

http://jebas.no-ip.info/%7Ejeff/art/fates.jpg

[Ilikesoup]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/ilikesoup2/Mercury.jpg

About 1 hr. Wacom & ps.
There's been much more emphasis on anatomy lately, eh? Nice work everybody. :thumbsup:

[Koekebakker]

anim_ziggy, commodore, vikkie, paperclip: thanks a lot!
pipichu: cool concept, great design as well.
Daolohua CnC: nice mood and expression on his face- and since you asked for it; (;)) a crit would be that his arm looks a bit flat and not really "behind" his chest.

Condoleances to jebas, btw.

[danielh68]

Dionysus..God of Wine.

Photoshop 1.5hrs.


http://www.blitzdesign.net/dsg/greekGod.jpg

[freshvirus]

820pm-918pm/photoshop[ACCBD9#F1E380#2B8575]/tablet/HERMES/thats it for tonite.. goin to harry potter book release.

http://www.itswhatwedo.ca/dailysketchA405hermes2.jpg
-ORO

[BloodTaster]

Photoshop+Wacom intuos3...about 1h30min :scream:
http://img317.imageshack.us/img317/9639/zeuscopy7hu.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us/)

C&C are welcome :)

[Sagii]

Oooo nice everyone ill post individual comments later

[ahbeejieh]

Here's Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt. My first post in this great forum. Took around 2 hrs in Artrage. Minor reference to the forest.

Tnx for the tip about linking your images Alexandrite, tnx for the nice comments too http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/bouncy.gif

Man, this is a great forum. Trains your speed painting. Great way to relax without having to worry about detailing much.http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/love.gif

Cool drawings everyone!

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/14/artemis6qw.jpg

[Alexandrite]

http://oceloteyes.homestead.com/files/dailysketch405_N.jpg

i couldn't resist this topic :) mythology is one of my favourite subjects to be inspired by, too bad i don't currently have a lot of time to tinker around with it. sigh. but here's what i came up with. Photoshop, an hour or so, photo reference of a statue (a photo that i took, not found, so :P ) except, now that i think about it, it may have been a Roman statue. oops. :D

am gonna try to participate in Daily Sketches more often, i swear! it's a great way to flex those sketching muscles, and prevent them from atrophying due to working my arse off all summer serving coffee, and having nearly no time for art. :(

[monsitj]

photohop approx 1 hour,
http://img305.imageshack.us/img305/2948/cgtalkdailysketch4055ww.jpg

[Alexandrite]

and now for random comment fun!

jnurp, saw your reply first before heading to work some hours ago. came back to see the updated version, i like it more now, with the separation between different-colour lightings rather than confused blending bwetween the two. Good work! he really has dimensions now. :)

koekebakker, great sense of style!!! i absolutely love it. though something about his expression and gestures (and the headband) does remind me a little of a hippie-Poseidon. that's a compliment, though :D

jasel, i think we can forgive the lack of originality, because it's Goya! :) great rendition. I love that painting as well.

jecaTatu, i just have to add my voice to the comments about beautiful linework... very expressive, looking forward to seeing more of your style!

mirwen, oooh! the first image with more than one God! the topic is Gods, after all ;) You sound disappointed with it, but i quite like it. They could be posing for a movie poster!

Vahn, the watery translucency must have taken a while! it's a quieter image than others, but definitely grabbed my attention.

Skarrow, your Apollo... is stunning. :) I can see a finished painting resulting from this sketch at some point, maybe?

Danielh68, whoah. you sure it wasn't Painter too? ;) Great brushes and textures, i gotta say. Dionysus keeps fun company :)

BloodTaster, love the linework and style!!

ahbeejieh, welcome!! hope to see more sketches! especially love the way you rendered the forest, i can see the light through each leaf, even though it is a sketch. Artemis looks like someone not to mess with :) And, I think most upload images online somewhere, then link to them. (gotta be one that allows offsite linking, though, and preferably a free one so you don't have to pay for bandwidth used.) try, for example, www.imageshack.us (http://www.imageshack.us/) ?

monsitj, i really like the underwater light-reflections! and his expression :) Poseidon seems like a popular one on this thread tonight! everyone's got a unique take on him, though.

apologies to anyone i missed :(

P.S. ack, i gotta cut down on this emoticon addiction! :) <--- ....see?! AAAGH!

[Norante]

Ah hell, I kept being distracted by Battlestar Galactica. I don't remember the time.

http://www.norante.net/stuff/cgtalk/DS405_zeus.jpg

[daspetey]

my first dsg entry.
demeter, colored pencil on paper. 12 minutes.
http://www.daspetey.com/art/cg_dsg405.jpg

-pete

[Daolohua CnC]

s face- and since you asked for it; (;)) a crit would be that his arm looks a bit flat and not really "behind" his chest.


thanks (must lengthen to 10 chars) ... still thanks

[Amadeus001]

Wow...and I thought I was going to be the only Hermes! :)

jebas - You have my condolences. My mother passed away from colon cancer a few years ago, so I understand totally.

Photoshop/wacom, 2.5 hours

http://www.bbrowning.com/spgm/gal/Personal/Daily_Sketch/07152005.jpg

[keko]

wow really great entry!! good job everyone :thumbsup:


photoshop/2 hrs

http://www.creativespot.org/post/data/500/skcgtalk06.jpg

[erilaz]

I always imagined zeus as a mischievous little kid.
http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/7807/zeus9og.jpg

Quick one... 20 mins openCanvas. (cropping and saving in PS)

[pipichu]

I had a lot of fun drawing mine and looking at what everybody came up with the gods. I'm looking forward to see more in future topics.:)

Jebas, I'm sorry to hear that.

[Gord-MacDonald]

daspetey - welcome!


Gord

[The Vux]

hello

mine here...
It was spposed to be Zeus but...
http://juasa001.thg.se/greekgod2.jpg

PS CS/ wacom / 2h

[commodore]

http://img323.imageshack.us/img323/8549/artemis2mp.jpg
A bit over an hour. Don't know how long did it actually take. Opencanvas this time. It's Artemis the godess of hunt and animals and other stuff :D

[umbrellasky]

Morpheus God of Dreams

http://www.image-bound.com/uploads/2a93eea03d.jpg

About 1-2 hours Photoshop 7

[mybutterflyiris]

alright, not my best, but at least i'm posting something. photoshop & wacom



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v669/mightyevilbunny/dsg405greek.jpg

[Gord-MacDonald]

Great work everyone!

Erikoinen - nice fun image
jecaTatu - lovely drawing/concept - beautiful sensitive linework
Daniel - so sensual - you nailed the mood!
Alexandrite - beautiful drawing!
mybutterflyiris - good job on the horses

jebas - so sorry to hear of your loss

Gord

[Elsie]

Sorry for the late entry! I HATE the face, I had no reference for it so it turned out awful. But I think the rest is okay for just under two hours O_o

http://img316.imageshack.us/img316/7063/aphrodite0nx.jpg

[Her0d]

Late, quick entry:
Morpheus, Neil Gaiman's (Sandman) style:
http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/9834/morpheus7qi.jpg
Photoshop, 50min

[andrewley]

Painter - 1 hour

http://img319.imageshack.us/img319/3569/zeus3hw.jpg

[Vahn]

wow nice one :D

post more often :thumbsup:

[jebas]

I wanted to thank everyone that sent me condolences. I appreciate the thoughts; they did help me feel better. Today I am going to his wake, but I had to stop long enough to say thank you before this thread became dead.

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