I wanted to draw again in the Hades style but maybe develop and render it a bit more. I had already started sketching out this medusa piece, so I figured she’d make a good test subject, and I’m so glad I did!!!! I’m super happy with how she came out! This style is always so fun to work with.
Now I do realize that there is already a medusa character in the game and I have no idea how after the hundred odd hours I have in this game I had completely forgotten about Dusa until I had already completed the sketch and color test… so consider this a medusa-remains-intact-after-death AU.
I decided to use the Hydra as style reference for the snakes rather than the snakes on Dusa because I wanted them to feel s bit more like characters in their own right, and the snakes that Dusa have weren’t exactly giving me what I was looking for, so Hydra is was! I did end up looking a lot at Dusa’s snakes for color placement and linework style, so she was still a great help.
Here are the original sketch and color test, along with an alternate version. Originally, I had thought she would have stone eyes, because I thought it would be interesting with her whole turning people to stone thing, but then I was testing out colors and I put some eyes on her and I really liked them. I feel like the stone eyes give her a really, almost prophetic look, very ethereal and hazy, whereas the yellow eyes really humanize her (although she’s not human, but you catch my drift). I really was torn between giving her colored eyes or stone eyes, so I figured I’d just keep both!
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