IRONWOLF09

"Not All Bunnies Are Cuddly"

Bakasura ( SMITE ) by h0mez

Vulcan (Sentry skin) from the game Smite, by Hi Rez Studios.

Finally got to finish my favorite Pokemon.

You can go here to read the flavor text, as well as see it animated.

Take my creature design class here

Neith, goddess of war and hunting, weaving and baby crocodiles? yeah.

inspired by this EscherGirls post. mostly from a comment containing a video, actually, which has been removed by the guy who made the comment (i’m sure he meant well), that (the video) said it’s okay to sexify a goddess to stupid levels because she was depicted naked in ancient art. except nude =/= sexual imagery, so yeah, no.

some thoughts about this:

after reading the post over at EscherGirls, i thought that you could probably make a design of Neith that was more true to the source material, you know, less see-through tape or whatever it is she’s wearing in SMITE. 

looking things up, i found that Neith is usually(?) displayed in a dress, but i found some where she’s wearing pants, i think, so i thought i’d be clever and make a dress/pants thing, drants if you will… i’m terrible. looking back at it, she was probably wearing a see-through dress, but i think this looks cool and i like to think i’m clever.

i gave her another layer of cloth underneath the dress/pants even though that is typically what men would wear (just that, not underneath anything), but i couldn’t find anything information about any sort of underwear. i’m guessing they didn’t wear any, but SMITE is rated teen, i think, so i feel like she’d have to have some cover there.

her chest is never really covered in ancient art, but in our modern times woman nipples are evil, so i covered them in this V shaped neck line thing, there’s a real word for it, i just don’t know what it is.

Neith is pretty much always depicted with a was sceptre, so i drew inspiration from that to make a bow for her. the bow has the forked bottom and the animal head (which i made a crocodile) like the sceptre. i liked the three strings her bow has in SMITE so i kept that even though it makes little sense and i did it wrong here, but it looks neat. i attached her symbol to the top of her bow, because that way it’s above her head like she’s depicted with, though, it’s on a string, hopefully i’m not being horribly offensive by doing that, it just fit above her head and the bow’s top was right there.

her gloves were honestly phoned in. i got caught up in trying to stay as true as possible to her classic appearance, that i completely forgot she was supposed to fire the bow. she doesn’t have a quiver because i figured conjuring magic glowing arrows to shoot would be awesome.

her head looks huge because she’s wearing a wig, then i remembered she’s a goddess, she’d probably not have a wig and just have ideal hair to begin with, so that was stupid on my part. 

wonky anatomy and perspective aside, i might have gone over board with trying to stay true to her ancient self, seeing as SMITE went with something that looks like futuristic cyber tape. 

MadyNora:

I don’t know whether this has been discussed already, but in an upcoming RPG, Divinity Original Sin, the female protagonist wears riddiculous armor on both the concept art, and the original promo image.

But the developers *ghasp* listened to the players and gave her new, proper armor on the final promo image.

Wow! Happiness grows inside of me whenever I hear that they actually listen and change when they do this. No really! It’s one thing to do a mistake.. it’s another thing to learn from it and to do something about it! Cheers to these developers!

What I imagine playing Ah Muzen Cab is like