Steampunk Myths and Legends Entry: Radoslav

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Hi im new here and i just enter the chalange so that's my first very rough skecth of the background of my concept which is about the second chalange of Hercules with Hydra. Im further with my work only now I can't submit the rest so i will do this tomorrow Sorry!!!

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Hi here Im that's my next wip.Here I start wondering how everything will look on the background.

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That's the next one it's rough like the previous and there's a lot of work to be done on it.

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Here I made a net in order to fix the perspective.

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On this wip I focus my attention on the right columns. I will develop them in the next few wips

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This is the next one.

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Now I have some shape of the columns here.They are giving me some image for some of the other parts of the Backgound

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I made some changes on the left now, I put some shape on the columns there and now im wondering about the floor and how it should look.

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So I think im close to the design of the floor that I want, and I made the first sketch of the Hercules and Hydra, very rough

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I decided thi to be the design of the floor now I have to make the view of Hercules and Hydra.

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I have made some view of Hercules and im not so sure about it but for now, it will be this.

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Here are the first lines of the Hydra view

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I hide Hercules and I clear the Hydra to make some structure of the body

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It has now more heads and some very first color

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There it is this will be the foundation from which I will make the final view of Hercules and Hydra.

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This is the concept/ pre-visualization of the second challange of Hercules against Hydra. There's a lot of work from now on over this concept and Im going to sit and dig out the Final Image from this,so i will focus on it for the next couple of weeks.I hope i will do my best.

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Hi everyone Im back with few more wip for the challange that's the first one after concept/pre-visualization image.Im starting here with some of the details of the right head of the hydra.

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On this wip Im going to make some details to the middle head

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This is the third one and I have details on three of the head and some touches over the heads on the back i experiment with the third head on the back.It's a kind of self reconstruction of the head after the attack when Hercules has cutted off.According to the myth there should be two more heads on the place of one lost but here the trick is in the sword of hercules.I haven't finished yet the sword,but after finish through the middle of the blade will flow fire .So Hercules will cut off the heads and burn them in the same time.In the real myth after he cutted off the head on it place grows up two more and his cousin Iolaus help him to burn the wounds after the head is cutted off that helps to prevent two more to grows up from it place, so this sword will safe Iolaus efforts here

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Little progress over the back heads view.

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Here im going to work over the background.

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Im developing the front scene here

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Here Im working over the left and right side of the background i change the shadows on the right columns and give some ditails to the left columns.I put a mosaic on the middle of the floor in front,like the mosaic on the black stripes which surrounds the main scene im trying to imitate some Greek mosaic here.

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Here Im working over the pipes which crossing the the scene on the upper right side.I was doing some works over this pipes in th previous few backgrounds, now here the most of my attnetion is over them.

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Now im back on Hercules & Hydra.Im changing the Hercules figure.I don't like how I made him originaly, and im going to change his view and position a little.

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Im working over Hercules i like how he is going to look

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My priority now is Hercules. I made some shape of his steampunk sword and his shield

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I work here over the right colimns and the statues behind the Hydra Tail, but mainly over Hercules. Im going on and I should submit Final Image at Friday or Saturday that's the most late due whichi set to my self to finish it so Im going to spend the most of the nights working on it and if it's possible to finish even earlier.

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That's my final image about the second labor of Hercules against the Lernean Hydra.Here im depicting this myth in steampunk style .Hydra is a big serpent monster created from metal and living from the fire which is giving its power .According to the myth Hydra has many heads but one is immortal, to kill the creature Hercules has to find this head and cutted off.The problem is that when he cutted off any of the heads on it place grows up two heads .This problem is solved with his special sword. In the real myth his cousin Iolaus help him to prevent doubling of the cutted heads, using fire to burn the wound which is stoping the growing of two new ones on it place. Now his steampunk sword has fire flowing trough the middle of the blade,so the blade is cutting and burnning the wound in the same time, there's no new heads, and there's no needing of Iolaus . On the final image I depict the moment when Hercules is charging against the Hydra, he is naked like some depiction of the ancient Greek warriors , and of him too.There's a lot of versions of this myth in some of them there is a giant crab appering to help Hydra,in some myths Hydra has eight heads ,but in other there are twelve or between eight and twelve,I think is not known exactly, so I made eight including the heads which are cutted off, but I didn't involve the giant crab. About the name of the Lernaen Hydra is that Lerna is a town near the swamp where is the haunt of Hydra and that why Hydra is named Lernean Hydra.The real myth is ending when Hercules chopped off the Immortal head of the Lernean Hydra, buried the head, and for a good mesures he covered it with a heavy rock.So that's just the head line of this myth I didn't mention the details of the battle because there are many versions with diffrent description you can check on lnternet for more details about this myth.

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