My workplace is weird sometimes. I just spent almost half an hour being a perch for a corn snake.

10/10. would do again.

An anterior view of a skull from a medical textbook beside a drawing of a skull

#art #drawing #graphite
Medical textbook vs. Amateur: round 2.

Is it better than yesterday? No.
Do I hate it? Also no.
Should I stop using medical textbooks for reference photos? Probably.
Am I glad my camera is incapable of getting a much better shot? Absolutely.

Side by side of a lateral view of a human skull from an anatomy textbook vs. a beginner's attempt at mimicking it.

#art #graphite #drawing

What my I was going for
Vs.
What my beginner ass was able to do with the pencils.

...I mean, I don't hate it at least.

drawing of Cadmus, on the advice of Athena, sewing a dragon's teeth, from which a group of warriors are growing.

#folkyfriday #Mythology #GreekMythology

Not everyone sews seed. For example, Cadmus sewed a dragon's teeth and got a set of warriors that he used to found Thebes.

Art: Peter Paul Rubens

a rainbow skull with the word 'scary' above it and 'But also very gay' below it. 'very gay' is in rainbow colors.

#art #digitalart

"scary, but also very gay". this is just kinda...my personality.

digital art of skulls stacked on top of each other. a different color is coming out of each skull's eye sockets,

#art #DigitalArt #Procreate

I'm not entirely sure why I made this, but I like the way it turned out.

a cartoonish cat in a wizard hat with a purple band and glowing eyes reading a brown book

a cartoonish cat in a wizard hat with a robe and necklace. His eyes are glowing blue

A cartoonish cat in a wizard hat with a gray robe and a simple necklace

#art #DigitalArt #procreate #ProcreateArt

I don't care I'm calling them self-portraits

art: ME!

oil painting of Sisyphus with a large rock on his shoulders, walking up a hill

#WyrdWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology

In a rather literal version of a comeback, Sisyphus tricked Persephone in letting him return to the world of the living to punish his wife for neglecting his burial, a *grave* offense... Didn't last. Hermes dragged him back to the underworld.

art: Titian

oil paining of Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau

#Mythology #Classics #GreekMythology #LegendaryWednesday

Oedipus was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. Abandoned as a baby, unaware of his origins, he later killed the king and married his widow. You can guess the identities of those involved...

art: Gustave Moreau

Glossary of Divine Groups in Greek Mythology - LoreCat(alog) Greek mythology has a lot of deities. Like, seriously, a lot! Many of those are minor or local and, for the sake of classification, the mythology itself tends to group then in various categories. Thes...

#Mythology #GreekMythology

Anemoi, Hesperides, Muses...there are a lot of groups of deities in Greek mythology. As a librarian, this kind of cataloging and classification is exactly how my brain operates.

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An 1800s oil painting showing Heracles challenging the multiheaded hydra, surrounded by rocks

#LegendaryWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology

Everything about the hydra was dangerous, including it's blood. After killing it, Heracles soaked his arrows in the blood and gained a very potent new weapon.

art: Gustave Moreau

a depiction of Typhon on a vase. His lower half is snakes, while his upper body has wings.

#LegendaryWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology

The final challenge before Zeus truly became the cosmic king was against Typhon. In some versions of the myth, he was imprisoned beneath Mount Etna in Sicily, which explains the volcanic activity. In others he was imprisoned in Tartarus.

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two white anemone flowers, viewed slightly from the side.

#WyrdWednesday
in #folklore and #mythology, blood turning into a flower is almost a trope. In #GreekMythology, we see this with Adonis, the mortal lover of Aphrodite. He was gored to death by a boar and his blood mixed with her tears and turned into the anemone.

#mythology #GreekMythology #classics #infographic
We like to try and box the deities in to simple categories and classifications. That doesn't always work. Aphrodite is a great example. She was the goddess of love, yes, but she had other aspects, many of them related to war.

#procreate #animation #art
Am I an animator? No.
But do I understand the basics? Also no.
BUT there was an attempt!

A drawing of a glowing hexagonal sapphire in multiple shades of blue

#folklore #art #digitalart #procreate

During the Middle Ages sapphires were believed to be preferred by necromancers because they aided in controlling spirits

Art: me!

An infographic of titles and epithets for Aphrodite against a parchment background with a heart.

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Classics

Aphrodite was the goddess of love, we all know that, but she had a LOT of other titles, descriptors and epithets. I am certain I missed some.

Digital Resources - LoreCat(alog) The internet is brimming with free resources for the study of mythology, religion, folklore, and anything related. Because of my nature as a librarian, I've collected and categorized useful resources ...

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Classics I moonlight as a magic cat in a wizard hat on the internet, but by day I'm a librarian. It's my nature to gather information, so I've collected and organized a bunch of different useful sites for mythology, among other things.

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a painting of prometheus, wrapped in an orange garment, stealing fire in the form of a torch

#Mythology #GreekMythology #LegendaryWednesday

It wasn't his theft of fire that got Prometheus chained to a rock, but it might be his most famous act. A second-generation titan, Prometheus was the one who sculpted humans and then stole fire from Olympus to give to humanity.

art: Peter Paul Ruebens

#WyrdWednesday #art #DigitalArt #Folklore
'water horse' is basically a category of creature in various folklores. Often malevolent and...horse-shaped (though they sometimes shapeshift in different stories), it tries to drown people. A kelpie is a good example.

art: me!

A chart labeled 'The Erotes' with the english and greek names of the deities in a circle below that. The background is parchment paper with pink hearts.

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Infographic #Classics Aphrodite and Eros are the main love deities, but Greek gods could get very specific, so there was an entourage of sorts known as the Erotes who personified different aspects, like Hedylogos for sweet words or Anteros for requited love.

5 Times Aphrodite Cursed Someone in Greek Mythology - LoreCat(alog) Aphrodite is a lot more powerful than most people think. And I don’t just mean in the love-conquers-all way. I mean in the war-goddess way. She had a number of epithets and titles, one of which could ...

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Classics

It's really not a good idea to piss of Aphrodite...

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5 Love Curses in Greek Mythology - LoreCat(alog) Love is a curse. (Cue emo music). No, but really, think about it. It’s such a powerful, overwhelming emotion that using it as a curse can be devastating. Here are five times someone was hit with a lov...

#Mythology #GreekMythology #Classics

Love could be weaponized like anything else.

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#MythologyMonday #GreekMythology

Orpheus loved his wife Eurydice deeply, to the point where he went to the underworld to get her back. He was allowed to take her out on the condition that he not look back until they were out. He looked too soon and she vanished forever.

🎨: Riamondi, Francia

#Folklore

the words 'groaning cheese' intrigued me so much that I had to look deeper into it!

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Always nice to take part in a time-honored tradition!

...some of those look like they inspired Chewbacca

Trying to learn to draw involves asking yourself a lot of interesting questions. Questions like "wait, how does light work again?" and "am I SURE I know what a lion looks like? I mean, really? Is that even how faces work?"

A drawing of Boreas as depicted on the Tower of the Winds. He is depicted with wings, a bag, and a spiral sea shell.

#WyrdWednesday #Mythology #GreekMythology

Boreas, god of the the north wind, is the most fearsome wind god, bring snow and storms.

🎨:Stuart James & Revett Nicholas

woodcut of Mnemosyne, wearing a peplos, standing on a pedestal bearing her name.

#LegendaryWednesday #mythology #GreekMythology

One of the original titans, Mnemosyne was worshipped as the goddess of memory and played a role in some healing rituals.

🎨: wood engraving from 'Der Olymp oder die Mythologie der Griechen und Römer' by August Heinrich Petiscus