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Published: 2007-02-18 00:37:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 2117; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 47
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"This can't be real...this can't be true, that from now and forevermore these writhing serpents will by tresses.This must be a lie, that I may never look upon the face of another, without watching thier warm features disappear into stony masks."
Poor Medusa, I always draw her so tragically....next time I'll have to portray her revelling i her snakiness. I like how this picture turned out, I'm always happy when I go back to pencil, it may not be as smooth, and it looks grainy, but it looks much better than digital for me.
Reference was used, just a picture of myself that I took to get the pose and the fall of the dress right.
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Awh. Poor medusa. 
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wow, you did a great job transforming the hair into snakes!!!
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thanks very much, i thought it'd be interesting to see her mid-transformation
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I love it. It shows a different side of the demon everyone knows.
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thanks! that's what i tend to try go for with medusa
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colour pencil is so nice.... esp when drawing hair and clothes. mm i like your drawings, esp all your coulour pencil ones.... draw more! i experiment with colour pencils too, but it isn't really going well. lol. ^^ anyway great work!
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wow... this is really cool! You certainly did an excellent job capturing the emotion of the moment here! I LOVE how you colored the snakes! All the different patterns in the browns are really nice. You also nailed the dress and the cloth texture.
I actually found a short story in Bruce Coville's "Half Human" about gorgons. It's called "Becoming" by Nancy Springer.
A bit of summary:
Dusie lives a somewhat normal life with her single mother in New York City. (Or at least as normal as it can get with an eccentric artist for a mom) That is, until her hair turns into snakes. Dusie soon discovers her mother is none other than a gorgon, her namesake is that of her mother's deceased sister, Medusa, and there are other creatures like her just trying to scrape a living in New York.
It's definitely a spiffy little short story especially if you're into Greek mythology.
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wow awesome, i'll definately check it out, thanks!!
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its amazing! Your very good at using pencils 
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i've always wondered...what kind of paper do you use to colour? and what kind of pencils. i stink at colouring!
do more soon, kay?
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aw thanks. Um I usually just use standard sketch book paper haha, I really should invest in some better stuff, and i use a mix of Prismacolours and Faber-Castell pencils
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what do you mean by "standard"? there's gotta be tons of different types of sketch paper. oh well. i guess i could start experimenting...
thanks. i love Prismas!
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o sorry, um it's Jasart 110gsm cartridge sketch paer
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gorgeous!
its nice to see you go back to pencil
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Although digital mediums look smooth and polished, there's something about traditional mediums, such as pencil, that have more of a human touch. Her dress came out especially nice. Also, Medusa is always portrayed as a menacing monster, so it's interesting to see her as a more vulnerable, tragic character. Nice work!
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mmmm...your pencilling always looks so good and realistic...
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you did that with pencil???!!! omg thats amazing! i love it!
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at least she has company
I like traditional pencil too 
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I like this portrayal of her very much!
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hehe perfect sense, well I'd better get onto that pic shouldn't I lol?
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indeed you should, by the rest of the comments it looks like other people want to see it too.
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So what is the story of Medusa?
All I know is her hair is made of snakes and she turns people into stone.
Hmmm, I always thought of Medusa as evil.
Your picture is making me rethink my whole concept of her.
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Well there's kinda 2 versions...in both he was very beautiful before changed. In one story she was very vain, and claimed to be more beautiful than the goddess Athena, and so Athena in a jealous rage turned her hair to snakes and made it so she could never look at another without turning them to stone. In the second version she was raped by Poseidon in Athena's temple, and so enraged was Athena that someone had desecrated her temple she changed Medusa in the same way. There's also just the story that she was a hideous Gorgon....I just like picturing her as beautiful.....
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Thank you for the reply...I like your picture better than the stories though
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awww i've never thought of Medusa in that way....
love the dress.x
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dude it looks like you
the face
thats what happens to me when i do all nighters at uni.
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lol, well i used a pic of me for reference so that could be it
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this is SO good Loz!!! u r a star at pencils! and the dress looks so nice :} i am drawing a girl with a dress at the moment and it is sucking!! xox
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ha thanks..woo star! lol as if it's sucking.....oh, and finish ce'nedra!!!
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Gah!! i know i think il put them up tonight or tomorrow- i got so lazy!! and Garion is looking very sucky :}
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yaaaaaay, and as if he'll look any suckier than MY garion.....poor guy always looks so baaaaddd
p.s. come on msn??
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