#typhoeus

Zeus and Typhon.

I'm still not sure how exactly to integrate the mythological aspect on Cosmos and Chaos, I might just ditch the "mortal names" of the main cast...

Maybe.

I need retellings where primordial deities from the dawn of time are presented as awe inspiring, terrifying, unknowable, immeasurable entities whose mere pondering on inspires dread. The Iliad already started this trend when it says that even Zeus dreads causing Nyx displeasure, or the Homeric Hymns when Hera calls on ancient powers to concieve the writhing nest of serpents that is Typhon. The horror is explicit.

Also from June of 2021.

Here you can see I was planning my sketches for what would become the Greek Dragons illustration, with Typhoeus and a Hydra head in detail.

I was also experimenting with some stylized designs for Paracelsus' elementals. While I've drawn plenty of sylphs, gnomes, and salamanders, I hadn't done very much with undines. Though she got a larger design at the bottom, I actually liked the smaller version at the top right with a single eye and no limbs.

During this time I was also reading @tyrantisterror 's novel No Sympathies, so I drew two of the main characters Pug and Alichino (which I misspelled). As I've said before when I drew the four protagonists of The Lost World, I like to doodle the character designs, or what I think they look like, while I read. In this case the characters already had established illustrations, so it was more like drawing them in my style.