Wrath of Achilles
Added 2024-03-11 06:19:02 +0000 UTC"๐๐ด ๐ข ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต - ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ข๐ป๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ - ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ง๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ข๐ช๐ฎรด๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐บ, ๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ."
Not gonna lie, this thing came about in an extremely convoluted way.
When I was hunting for things to read this year, I elected to go for The Song of Achilles, since it had been recommended to me by roughly twenty million people and their dogs. And possibly even the fleas on said dogs. Unfortunately, the book is... okay not gonna beat around the bush here, the book is garbage. I was teased with a thoughtful retelling of the Iliad, and instead I got a subpar yaoi fanfic / purple prose romance with all the horrible tropes one would expect from a 13 year old girl trying to write gay porn. Some of its writing choices were so wild they had me go and skim the Iliad itself, because I was sure I had to be remembering it wrong.
I had actually designed a "furry Achilles" (as well as Patroklos) before for one of the Artifacts in Semper Fidelis โ with the way that story handles hybrids, it embraces some of the wilder mythology takes with open arms and the thing just writes itself. So when I had nothing to do on a stream one day, I just started doodling, and thought I might actually put the proper design to canvas.
It's more of a proof of concept than a proper painting, since it started as a design doodle rather than a full piece. But I put a pin in it for now, perhaps to be remade later. As far as designs go, I'm pretty content. ("Clear" version of the full body without the armor will be up on the Patron discord later.)
In-universe for SF, Achilles was a chimaera. He could almost be mistaken for a mere mortal (meaning non-theos-related, not mortality-wise, he famously sucked at avoiding that pitfall), even if obviously highborn one, but golden eyes, shiny fish-like scales and bright mane betrayed his mother's side of the family.
Oh, and as a bonus, I went back and dug out the Artifact in question, too.
A lot of it is traced from the original kylix (which is why I don't upload these separately, as it just feels iffy), but it's still all hand-drawn, and it was a lot of fun to make back then.
And with that out of the way, I will hop to those poll results, before my computer gets dismantled later this week.
