Monday, December 13, 2010

Blast from the Past! Really old Olympians sketches found!

I was going through some old watercolor pads the other day and came across this page of really old, proto-Olympian sketches-- I think these actually predate my current concept of the series and date back to an earlier idea that thankfully never got past my drawing board. Some of the characters look pretty close to their eventual Olympians, some do not, and almost all are kind of embarrassing in their crumminess. Can you figure out who's who?
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 11:28 AM

    From left to right - Zeus, Athena, Hades?, Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hephaestus, Apollo?, Hermes, Dionysus?

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  2. AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 11:30 AM

    Wait I forgot Aphrodite, She is between Hephaestus and Apollo?

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  3. George O'ConnorDecember 13, 2010 at 11:48 AM

    Good guesses, Anonymous. You left out the woman between Apollo and Hermes, and I'm thinking that the guy you identified as Hades is actually a helmetless Ares. I could be wrong though, I drew this so ling ago I can't honestly recall.

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  4. George O'ConnorDecember 13, 2010 at 11:51 AM

    ling= long, btw. Oy...

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  5. AnonymousDecember 13, 2010 at 12:40 PM

    Between Apollo and Hermes would be Artemis? I always wonder what Ares would look like without his helmet.

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  6. George O'ConnorDecember 13, 2010 at 2:29 PM

    You're right about Artemis.

    I'll tell you this-- when you see Ares without his helmet in Olympians, he won't be looking much like that. In fact, now that I think about it, I believe you have seen a helmetless Ares in Athena: Grey Eyed Goddess.

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  7. dmarcoDecember 14, 2010 at 4:59 PM

    where's auntie Demeter? haha!

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  8. George O'ConnorDecember 14, 2010 at 6:23 PM

    Right? Poor Demeter always seems to get the shaft when it comes to modern depictions of the Olympians. I'm embarrassed that I was part of the problem at this early juncture of the project. Hestia (the other Olympian most often dissed) is also notably missing.

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  9. Jakob DailesDecember 27, 2010 at 8:22 AM

    I like the way Apollon looks in this one. He seems somehow more youthful than he does in his profile.

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  10. George O'ConnorDecember 27, 2010 at 9:38 AM

    Yeah, he does at that. Maybe I'll adapt some of this drawing to his design when I tell the adventures of young Apollo in his own book.

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