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My brain works in strange ways.

When I was a kid (about three to five) I was a hardcore astronomy geek. I also had an audio cassette (Yes I grew up in the nineties) of an album called "the Planets". I can't quite remember the artist, but each of the weird electronic/instrumental songs was inspired in a planet, or at least their esoteric "essence". I loved that album, and I used to imagine the wonders of each world while I listened.

Fast forward a few years, when I was about 8 or 9 my dad bought the album "Mutter" by Rammstein, and I saw again the mental pictures of the planets, with the additional benefit that, by that age, I was -sort of- capable of expressing them through drawings. Each song corresponded to a planet, and it took me various repeats of the album to draw them all. I retrospective those drawings are LAME... I still have them somewhere... but at the time, that ability to form and draw mental pictures from what I listened became quite the discovery for me. Succesive albums by Rammstein corresponded so well with what I imagined that it became a sport for me every time a new album appeared in my house. After a few years I did succesively Sehnsucht, Reise Reise and Rosenrot... each spawned like three or four iterations of my mental pictures on the planets, that evolved from simple glyph-like doodles, to semi-mechanical creatures and fantastic spherical aliens inspired in the information I had on the appearence and characteristics of the entities in the solar system, as well as the tone and feel of the songs.

My last iteration on these "spirits" was made almost 10 years ago, and I found it a few month ago while I was skimming trough my old drawings in the attic. I figured that after so much time and all the new things that I've learned since 2005 it would be cool to revisit these concepts and improve them. Last night I did some sketches based this time not in music, but in the physical, astronomical and occult characteristics of the Planets.

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05 - JUPITER
· the Dragon ·

Jupiter is fundamentaly the Big Brother of the Solar System, the second largest object and an essential part of things as we know them here on Earth. It's a monster of a planet, the vaccuum cleaner of all things rogue. I visualised its spirit like a sort of high-ranking warrior, a sluggish giant in command of an elite legion. I wasn't sure which archetype corresponded better with what I had in mind, It has some properties of the "warrior" archetypes, but as its namesake, Jupiter/Zeus, it's kind of amoral. I guess it could either be a Champion or a Dragon archetype, but I went with the latter because it implies more beastlyness, which is what defines Jupiter in my mind.

Designwise, my sketch described a bulky, rounded, red gaseous monster, but during the research process I found an awesome photo of Jupiter's Aurora and I knew I had to include some of that in my depiction. The aurora became a crown of flames, and the super magnetic field of the planet translated into a bluish aura and sigil protection on its "shield"

I loved how this one turned out! lots of little things, details and coincidences coming together to make a strong symbollic design... and of course, I've got to make a portrait of Jupiter's "court"... starring the spirits of the Galilean Moons

Description
My brain works in strange ways.

When I was a kid (about three to five) I was a hardcore astronomy geek. I also had an audio cassette (Yes I grew up in the nineties) of an album called "the Planets". I can't quite remember the artist, but each of the weird electronic/instrumental songs was inspired in a planet, or at least their esoteric "essence". I loved that album, and I used to imagine the wonders of each world while I listened.

Fast forward a few years, when I was about 8 or 9 my dad bought the album "Mutter" by Rammstein, and I saw again the mental pictures of the planets, with the additional benefit that, by that age, I was -sort of- capable of expressing them through drawings. Each song corresponded to a planet, and it took me various repeats of the album to draw them all. I retrospective those drawings are LAME... I still have them somewhere... but at the time, that ability to form and draw mental pictures from what I listened became quite the discovery for me. Succesive albums by Rammstein corresponded so well with what I imagined that it became a sport for me every time a new album appeared in my house. After a few years I did succesively Sehnsucht, Reise Reise and Rosenrot... each spawned like three or four iterations of my mental pictures on the planets, that evolved from simple glyph-like doodles, to semi-mechanical creatures and fantastic spherical aliens inspired in the information I had on the appearence and characteristics of the entities in the solar system, as well as the tone and feel of the songs.

My last iteration on these "spirits" was made almost 10 years ago, and I found it a few month ago while I was skimming trough my old drawings in the attic. I figured that after so much time and all the new things that I've learned since 2005 it would be cool to revisit these concepts and improve them. Last night I did some sketches based this time not in music, but in the physical, astronomical and occult characteristics of the Planets.

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05 - JUPITER
· the Dragon ·

Jupiter is fundamentaly the Big Brother of the Solar System, the second largest object and an essential part of things as we know them here on Earth. It's a monster of a planet, the vaccuum cleaner of all things rogue. I visualised its spirit like a sort of high-ranking warrior, a sluggish giant in command of an elite legion. I wasn't sure which archetype corresponded better with what I had in mind, It has some properties of the "warrior" archetypes, but as its namesake, Jupiter/Zeus, it's kind of amoral. I guess it could either be a Champion or a Dragon archetype, but I went with the latter because it implies more beastlyness, which is what defines Jupiter in my mind.

Designwise, my sketch described a bulky, rounded, red gaseous monster, but during the research process I found an awesome photo of Jupiter's Aurora and I knew I had to include some of that in my depiction. The aurora became a crown of flames, and the super magnetic field of the planet translated into a bluish aura and sigil protection on its "shield"

I loved how this one turned out! lots of little things, details and coincidences coming together to make a strong symbollic design... and of course, I've got to make a portrait of Jupiter's "court"... starring the spirits of the Galilean Moons