Mona Wilder (project Lamia) from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. This drawing was inspired by the character Lamia from Greek mythology. Lamia was a mortal who was having an affair with Zeus. Hera found out and, in spite, forced Lamia to either kill or eat her own children and cursed her to never sleep again so that she should always think of the babies she lost. To dull her grieving, Zeus made it so she could remove her eyes and gave her shape-shifting abilities. Some stories also say that Lamia became a monster or demon. The name is often used as a sort of boogeyman to frighten children. This drawing is based off the ‘grieving mother’ aspect of Lamia. I’ll be doing another based off of the darker side of the tale as well.












