Apr 23
Today's snail: Phorcus lineatus | Lined Top Shell
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Today's snail: Phorcus lineatus | Lined Top Shell
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This has nothing to do with the holidays.
Two sketches stitched together: the first is based off of a Roman mosaic of a buncha sea creatures and deities. Phorkys is portrayed as an ichthyocentaur in shape, with crab forelimbs, and red spiky skin. It's weird, but a cool creature design. Meanwhile, Keto is completely humanoid and sitting on his tail. While drawing it, I had the idea that, of all the divine family tree, Pontus' branch is the most loving of each other. We all know about Zeus' infidelity, and Rhea helped her children kill her husband, but we never hear about the marital troubles of Phorkys and Keto, or Ekhidna and Typhoeus.
Proteus, meanwhile, is taken from both Ovid's Fasti and the Odyssey. In the latter he's a shepherd of seals, so he has a bit of seal-ish whiskers and a slightly pointed face. Ovid describes him as having azure hair, which is dripping. (ᵇˡᵘᵉ ʰᵃᶦʳ, ᶦ ᵇᵉᵗ ʰᵉ ʰᵃˢ ᵖʳᵒⁿᵒᵘⁿˢ ᵗᵒᵒ...). Interestingly, the sea nymph that helps Menelaus capture Proteus says 'he is my father, or so they say'.
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