Shang-Ti and Dancing Sword of Lightning

Starting on the Chinese Mythos. The Dancing Sword of Lightning is more or less what you would think it would be. Shang-Ti is supreme god of the heavens, god of the sky, and agriculture. He also fulfills the old-guy-with-white-beard-and-staff meme.



The text says, "Well that's another place I didn't expect to find a truck."

"Here's a little story I gotsta tell..."

Seriously...no booze.

"Here's a little story that must be told..."

No more booze for me in '07.

First of the Year

This is the first art of the year. Its a skateboard I painted for the Cherryvale project.
Be thankful you can't see Cruise too clearly because I fucked him up because I can't paint very well. (I'll never hear the end of this.)
I decided to do this because I was trying to think of the kind of board I would like to skate myself.
What does anyone think?

Eaten by Bibles?

So I was thinking...one possibility for a group drawing exercise might be to do a bunch of illustrations (perhaps a chapter?) for the Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible. I've done a bunch of drawings for them, and I think it's a great project. People do look at the site, and there are some fairly big name artists on it, so it seems possible that it might generate some traffic for us. We could create a separate artist account for the drawings so they would show up as being by "Eaten By Ducks" and then direct people to our site on the artist page.

So...enthusiastic affirmation? Counter-offers? Generalized scoffing?

Tlazolteotl

Tlazolteotl is the goddess of vice, and appears as a beautiful woman. In this picture she's being fought over by a couple of suitors. After the last picture (which took me three days and a lot of frustration) I was determined to do this one quickly and drew it in about 15 minutes or maybe less. Which is about how long it looks like I spent on it....



The text says, "Your offering of broccoli has made me cross."

Tomorrow: Chinese Mythos!

Itzamna, Mictlantecuhtli, Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc

Itzamna is the god of medicine (he just looks like a guy with a staff); Mictlantecuhtli is god of death (looks like a skeleton; he/she/it showed up in an issue of the Invisibles, I think); Tezcatlipoca is the sun god (looks like a jaguar); and Tlaloc is the rain god (he looks like an evil frog/lizard thing).

The date on this drawing is several days after the previous one because I had trouble with it, and it took me several days to do. I was happy with the way it turned out though. I think this is the first drawing in which I used some solid black areas (or as solid black as you can get with ballpoint pen, which isn't very.)



The text says, "I am taking my grandma now." I think that's a reference to my mom; my wife's mother is always "Granny."

Luke's suggested we all label our posts with our names; I'm not going to bother at the moment since all my posts are named after obscure deities, and should be able to follow if anyone wants to do so.....

My working space

Okay, here be my own workspace, I just took a picture of exactly how it looked when I saw Aeron's post.
Oh I forgot to post a proper introduction to myself so here it is now:
I love fantasy art and I'm obsessed with painting lord of the rings fan art, generic unicorns and dragons.

Huitzilopochtli

Yet another war god; also, for unclear reasons, a picture of a hawk.



The text says, "Do you know the difference between wanting yogurt and not wanting yogurt?" My suspicion was that he did not.

My workspace is just a dining-room table. There's not even anything interesting on it.

Art Desk ---- A.A

detail of the right side
detail of the left side

Here's an example of the messy space I do a lot of artwork on. It's usually completely free of clutter when I'm drawing the creature features, but I've been doing some painting and that stuff gets everywhere. Ok, I tossed a few of the demon paintings I've been working on across the center. There's a few painting doodles on the left and right, just screwing around with paint. In the upper left you'll see a few toys that keep me company, an Alice In Wonderland related insect, a fire monster and a freshly opened and put together Modulok.

If anyone else can post the areas they do their artwork on, I'd like to see it.

E.B.D ---- L.P

"E.B.D" is an acronymn for "Emotional/Behavioral Disorder", a sham ( completely made-up) diagnosis often given to children who "act-out" in anti-social ways. Then they dope them up via State Pharma and wonder why they end up addicts 15 years later...

Huhueteotl

Huhueteotl is the fire god; he looks like a reptile demon.



The text says "The doggie and the shoggoth can be friends." Siah had a stuffed doggie (called Favorite Doggie) and also a stuffed Shoggoth (yes, from Lovecraft). They were getting along. He still has the doggie; not sure where the shoggoth has gotten to (perhaps it slipped into another, more hideous, dimension?)

The Thing In The WIndow ---- A.A

One of my many projects is a horror anthology based on tales my father told me as a child. Some of the stories involve a blood thirsty ape that transforms out of a knot in a tree, a man made entirely of knuckles who haunts a forrest in search of human victims, a man in search of immortality through a chinese drink that turns out to be through a straw in a hole in a wall which he finds out to be connected to human remains, and other odd tales. It's going to be fun.

Central American Mythos

According to the D&D folks, the Aztek and Mayan gods were similar and so can be grouped together under "Central American". True or not? You decide....

In any case, this page features Quetzalcoatl (god of the air) and a winged snake, which is his symbol.



The text says "Bye bye juice."

Boogaloo Down Broadway

Funky, Funky Broadway

Wild Hunt

This is the Master of the Wild Hunt with his dogs. Anyone who sees the hunt must run along with it, and hunt whatever it hunts "even if it goes against their alignment!" Or so the book says.



The text says, "After I touch it, I sit in it."

Middle-Manager LP

--The black-tentacled boss man .As matter is supreme in this scientistic false-conciousness, an ‘efficient’ manager of human behavior should possess the ubermenschen ability to manipulate , disseminate and re-organize within his bureau at will, re-configuring his control-grid while his loyal underlings chalk-up ( some will make graphs) all apparent changes to the vagaries of a “dynamic” system.
This is his patron demon.

The Old Man Who Had An Alcohol Problem And Began Growing Rapidly

That pretty much sums up this story that's on my table at the moment.

Silvanus, Torc of the Gods, Wild dog

Silvanus is god of the forests and nature (I bet you knew that); the Torc of the Gods allows you to polymorph or shape change others; the thing in the upper right is a dog who wandered away from the Wild Hunt (and now look what's happened to him.)



The text says, "Run through the puddle and after that run through the puddle and after that run through the puddle and after that...."

Morrigan and Nuada

Morrigan's the evilgoddess of war; Nuada's the good god of war. The page also features a disembodied scroll.



The text says, "What have you done with Mommy's shoe?"