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I decided to do Artemis and Hermes this time. But up next after these is the god Momus at the request of a friend.

Artemis’ eye shape is identical to her brother, Apollo’s eyes. She has several crescents in her irises, bow shapes on the other edges of the iris (hidden by eyelids), the moon phases are horizontal to mimic deer pupils, and slit vertical pupils to represent her being a hunter/predator. I wanted her eyes to look like you’d fall suddenly into the night sky by looking at her too long. While she’s not Selene, I still wanted to acknowledge her connection to the night/moon.

Hermes is where I went a bit crazy with the design since I had a lot more ideas off the bat. Strawberry leaves, strawberry seed freckles, snake/bird scales on the forehead, a coin with the caduceus, slit snake pupils, four stars going in the four directions for travel (the North and South stars are covered by the we eyelids), and the “East and West” stars (visible) are moving so fast they caused “dust clouds” to form in his eyes. I have a separate coloring for his eyes that leans more into his psychopomp aspect but I haven’t finished it yet.

I’ll most likely post the fully uncovered irises separately later.

Some details I wanted to note: Artemis and Apollo’s base eyes are identical, Dionysus’ are downturned and droopy, while Hermes’ are upturned and smiling. Without the strawberry leaves, you’d see Hermes’ has crow’s feet at the corners of his eyes. :D

I started to get back into Percy Jackson and can’t get enough of it. This is NOT fanart for Percy Jackson but more of the result of me pondering over the concept of Greek Gods existing in the modern age. And I started playing around with the idea of them being more fluid and inhuman. What would they look like? Would they choose to look like humans when they don’t have to?

It started with Apollo’s eyes. I wanted him to lean into being the god of the sun, truth, knowledge, and prophecy when it came to his eye design. I imagine him looking at people like he *knows* something. He sees it and sees through it too. I’d describe him looking at you like the sun has suddenly hit your face. The scorch of it almost makes you want to flinch back. The heat wafts over you like a freshly opened oven.

Then I pondered over Dionysus a bit more. I just finished it a few minutes after writing this, so I don’t know if I’m settled on it yet. I had several iris designs that I wasn’t happy with that I stitched together and landed on this. I wanted his eyes to look more dialated with his irises being bigger, but purposefully contracted the pupils. He’s looks a bit sleepy and out of it. Dionysus is the god of wine and insanity, so I wanted to blend them together. Mentally, he’s kinda there but not. I wanted him to be a little unstable as the only Olympian to previously be a demigod and potentially hasn’t coped well with immortality.

Thinking about posting more on here

This is a species I made up called Silken Koi. A mix of a snake, beta fish, and koi. I love my silky babies 😌❤️

Just a James Lee sketch 😌