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Demeter and Iason
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Published: 2011-05-27 08:19:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 37199; Favourites: 1974; Downloads: 442
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THANK YOU THANK YOU. NO WORDS CAN EXPRESS HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO ME. ;___;Demeter wanted to be her own self and despised the manipulative rule of her brother Zeus. He had told her to have children with their brother Poseidon, but Demeter said, "Brother, I will rather choose a husband for myself." She chose a beautiful mortal man. He was a farmer named Iason.
Zeus was very angry when he saw what she had done. He grabbed a lightning bolt and struck Iason, killing him instantly and impregnating his sister. Months later Demeter gave birth to a daughter. She named her Persephone.
I've always been fond of mythology especially the Greek's. My favorite goddess is Eris. But I've been attracted to draw Demeter's silent love affair. Not much is known about it so I figured, to just draw that moment of deep emotion when Iason was dead and she was left with an accidental lovechild and dread of her lover's death.
So here Demeter and Iason say goodbye for the last time before Hades can bring Demeter's lover into his darkly abode.
I did this in the office. I had to spend more time with my pencils.
Song: This Love - Angela Aki
Medium: 3B, 3H, H Staedtler pencils and 2.0 mm mech. pencil
Muse: Michael Parkes' The Last Peony
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Comments: 107
Beautiful. Love the description too. I had no idea about how Persephone came to be!
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this is so cool and tragic, thank you for your wonderful art!
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It's important to see traditionnal art nowadays ! Thanks to you !
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wow, awesome!
I'd like to tell more, but I'm not aible to it, so I wil...just...shut up and enjoy these piece of art *^*
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a stunning and emotive piece! fantastic use of color and shading.
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mesmerizingly beautiful
and a very very nice rendering of emotions
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This is a very beautiful painting! Talk to the hand. xD
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wow. this is really amazing. I love mythology too, and all the mythical stories..
your drawing is very beautiful and the colours and shading is very well done. I wish I could draw like this...
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well,i'm greek and i must say that i love mythology too and i'm just glad that there are still people who actually care to find oute more about our legends and not just believe whatever they see on TV shows...the art is great,i really like the colour combination and the deep emotional moment you chose to capture here!...i did not know that about demeter's first lover,i'm so embarassed right now!!!
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Where did you get this myth? Is it in Hesiod or someone? Never heard it.
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Sooooooo beautiful, the story and your drawing.
It almost looks like a tattoo. 
Congratulation on the DD...you deserve it!
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wow your drawing is so melancholic and intimate, I love greek mythology and yet I didn't knew this story, so beautiful and sad
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Beautiful. The shading is incredible and the colours too are very well chosen. -Awe- <3
Sucks to be Demeter, huh. :c
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This is very lovely. I love the softness of the strokes, but also the subtlety of the colours. Her expression is gorgeously sad.
Very cool rendition on this Greek myth. :3
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This is so epic! I love the story (which I was chgrined to find I did not know) and the image is searing.
No wonder the fate of Persephone!
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lovely! I like the way you draw, so unique! good job!
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I adore the grainy detail you put into shading this piece, and it is only further brought up with the amazing rainbow of colors.
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Love the transformation of color throughout the picture.
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This really is an amazing piece of how my favorite 'Goddess' (Persephone) came to be. Beautiful art. Beautiful story.
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Cool, I actually didn't know that story despite us learning Mythology back in highschool. Who got Demeter impregnated?
You're a lot better with shading now.
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TSK. You know how to paint now. I envy that. >__< Zeus did. Zeus impregnated Demeter with a thunderbolt, the effing incestuous brother. -___-;
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LOL painting is like painting with poster colors, except you get more freedom with it. xD It's not really hard to use when you're copying ahahahaha.
My original composition painting isn't something I'd brag right now LOL.
Yeah, I was wondering if I just misunderstood the story, but now I know Zeus just likes to impregnate whoever he likes. ._.' Changes my perspective of the Disney Zeus LOL.
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Hahahahahah... poor Disney Zeus. I couldn't imagine him becoming the philandering one the Greeks talk about. -____-;
What I like about the Greek mythology are their heartbreaking love stories. They're obsessed with "love" and "romance" they're as good as the young girls in bookstore reading all these small pocketbook romance stories which I avoid. LOL. But they're also obsessed with "death" which I like reading about -___-...This particular myth has elements of a good story, death and birth in one place.
I like it. The irony of life.
Please do not corrupt big 'ol Disney Zeus, I kinda like him...as well as his scheming brother Hades. His hair is hot and cool at the same time. XDDD
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Yes, Disney Zeus is just so...family man. The big Daddy. Reminds me of Heidi's dad LOL xDDD
Well you already know I'm not an avid fan of books, so any "real" version of Greek Mythologies evade me- I kind of depend on animated movies and comics to form my familiarity with Mythology. xDD But anyway! The point is that I got to read a comic Neil Gaiman wrote, about this...guy (was it Perseus? I forgot,) who tried to retrieve his dead wife's soul from the Underworld. He ended up losing his body and getting disowned by his own father-God.
It would have helped if I remembered the names but I'm lazy that way. >_>'
But I loved the story and yes, it did deal with life, death and LOVE- just really heartbreaking since everybody lusts after each other and ends up getting someone killed LOL.
Disney Hades is amazing. One of the most awesome villains in Disney.
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Hahaha. Yes, Gaiman rewrites so many mythologies.
I read mythologies from our encyclopedia... lol.
We didn't have Internet and so I learned to value the big ol' blue books (Grolier Encyclopedia). That's why when Disney's Hercules was out in theaters, I couldn't wait to watch it because I knew all of Herc's labors.
I always thought Zeus to be a classic DOM...I didn't know anybody at that time (I was 7 or 8) would be able to turn the DOM Zeus image in my head into more or less a happy Santa Claus character like what Disney did. The two personalities are completely opposite to each other. Thank you Disney for instilling good thoughts in my head. XDDD
Hades is my favorite villain after The Witch Dragon in sleeping beauty and Ursula. XDD
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Aww, I didn't have any encyclopedias around when I was a child, so I depended on storybooks and Disney VHS movies LOL. But wow, Grolier~! Ahahaha it's funny imagining you as a 7-year old reading about serious stuff as Mythology. xD
Zeus is still a happy father type in my head. Disney sort of drills the characters they derive from books into our heads as these clean, friendly and role model characters. xD (Have you heard about the real story of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, for one? I didn't expect it to have such an ending.)
Then again, fairy tales and legends originally were not Happily Ever After things.
Oh! Cool! Maleficent the Witch Dragon is also my favorite- second to Frollo, that self-righteous pervert from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Scar is also very cool.
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Yes, can you imagine? A seven year old kid loving The Ugly Duckling as well as the mature mythologies? I mean, I think it really messed with this kid's brain. But even if I've read and seen all types of stories and paintings which depict all the mythical women and men being abducted by someone (The Rape of Ganymede, The Rape of Daphne, the Rape of Echo, The Rape of Persephone, the Rape of Helen... I wish they'd make the rape of the butterfly)... it was always a refreshment for me now that the child-brain that I had understood the difference of culture and didn't have to copy whatever I read in the books. LOL.
The real HotND story is scary. Disney made that story intriguing for me! I wasn't interested in it till it came out as the way Disney portrayed it. I also can relate with Quasimodo being an artist and a recluse. I always felt like that as a child in another way. My friends can't draw well so I always kept to myself. -____-; And I had strict parents which almost embodied Frollo at some point but I'm past that now.
Remember Little Red Riding Hood? If you knew the real Grimm tale, it wasn't good at all. Even the Sleeping Beauty story is worse. Cinderella? A sister has to cut the sole of her feet to fit the shoe (ugh). Disney for me made fairy tales beautiful and friendly, not some gory, perverse, nightmare I don't want to listen to before going to sleep. And did you know, when I first saw Disney, I was already drawing and was so enlightened by the fact that it's very legit to have a flexible style!
Mum taught me that a human nose will always look like what we have in our faces. So I drew that. But when I saw my first Disney, "Beauty and the Beast", I didn't expect to see those noses drawn minimally and still look right (my children books were all illustrated in a realistic way, one way or another)! Disney gave me my imagination to have a style. It's what Disney made me discover; STYLE. The eyes, the small waist, the handsome long haired princes that won't look like girls (i.e. BaB prince)! Anime only came later and taught me more about style like how you can always stretch your imagination to different hairstyles and colors LOL. But Disney is my first influence on style.
FROLLO IS A PERVERT, I ALWAYS THOUGHT SO! And I realized, if you're a Disney villain you have to wear Purple and Black or in Hades' case, Blue, Black and Gray. XDDD Those are a few of my favorite colors...am I a Villain?? XDDD
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Ahahahaha if it were me reading I think it'll just fly over my head. I honestly admit that I am sometimes as innocent as what is possible.
Haha yeah, it was just scary. The characters were all so tragic, just as Greek and Roman mythologies are. Disney sure could remake characters into much likable people ahahaha. I guess I was also a recluse at some extent, but I was more of the stuck-in-the-middle type. I could relate with people, but I wasn't entirely there. I guess I was able to lead double lives? One-half in reality and another half in Fantasy? xDDD Something like that.
Ahahaha yeah, I've heard about Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Also The Little Mermaid. Way to go, Grimm Brothers. 
Wow. I didn't know Disney had that big of an influence on you. I'm actually just starting to truly appreciate Disney- I just rewatched a couple classics this Summer vacation to really grasp all aspects of it I missed understanding as a child. I now appreciate Disney's remarkable animation, so super fluid and on-model and just so amazing. Eye-candy at every point. Then the stories; the rewrites of legends and fairytales are so well-done, people would naturally choose to tell these stories to their kids rather than the original tales. Then the characters. I have found myself loving so many Disney characters now that I actually pay attention to what they have to say and how their personality shines even through nuances in their actions.
And then so much more, like music, movement, philosophies. WOW.
Everything.
And of course, style as well. Just seeing how friendly the Disney designs are makes me want to aim for that level of quality for my characters too. I want them to be amiable and likeable even at first glance. And full of character.
Beauty and the Beast Prince was actually my first Disney semi-crush. He is so BEAUTIFUL. In a handsome, royal way.
Would you believe I only realized that Frollo is a pervert when I rewatched it this month? All those sexual undertones in the movie were censored in my head when I watched it when I was younger. I think it even passed over me when I watched it in my teens. ._.' I love his voice though. Reminds me of Snape. xDDDD
You're sort of a villain! A world-dominating villain. Actually MADA is a team of villains.
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Hahahaha! I understand what you mean, but I was "acquainted" with such things in books too early in my life. LOL. So I immediately knew what not to look for. XDD LOL.
Well, then if we were classmates way back in kindergarten we would be friends in our fantasy world 'cuz I was totally submerged in it. Hahaha. I might not have known reality if nobody told me I wasn't a princess or a powerful witch or somebody who can fly. Hahaha. I thought all my classmates were villains. My bestfriend is a girl who rarely spoke. LOL. And she had the same name as I had. Kristine. Hahahahahaha. My childhood is creepy. -____-;
Oh, you'll see, when you learn to understand Disney, you'll see that the 50 year old formula they've been using for their films is the ULTIMATE formula that could work well with their philosophy; "Make people happy." Each film they did spans around 10-20 years of work too, so these things we see in their movies are quite subtly put but well-thought! Not many people appreciate Disney now since they've become very commercial. To tell the truth, "Tangled" had elements that are actually very good! I remember watching and critiquing it at the same time, the elements and plot devices they use are all within the traditional Disney work but you have to look at the details to appreciate how well they've done it! For example, the rewriting of the Rapunzel story with a song (or is it the original?), also they omitted the original Rapunzel-got-pregnant-so-mother-knows-and-throws-her-out-of-the-window plot and they actually made the witch-villain, somehow two-sided. She's not purely evil, she can nurse, she's a mother but her problem is her obsession with youth which eventually killed her. Even that scene where she falls out of the window while being turned to dust is quite a chilling scene but somehow refreshing to know that Disney can do "chilling" pretty good.
Disney is a gem to the world. Of course, it's eastern counterpart is as remarkable, but for me Disney is the first to make my world happy...really. Disney made fairy tales bearable and something to dream about. And the MUSIC!!! Oh, unforgettable! I remember singing to every letter of the whole Pocahontas album. I even have a copy of the Lion King and Pocahontas here in my laptop!!! I can't part from it! LOL. The music makes you feel. Hans Zimmer, Elton John, Alan Menken, all these BGM household names, just makes it even more incredible!
I also agree about the characterization. I want my characters to have a personality once seen by people. I don;t want my characters to all look aloof at the same time (which happens most of the time). -_____-;
Hahaha, he was my first crush, then I had a big crush on Mufasa for some reason. -___-; weird. I was what, around the same age; 6 when I realized I was in love with big hairy cat.
I think I knew Frollo was a pervert when I was 10? When I saw the scene where he has this one-sided love/hate affair with the Esmeralda flame in that big dark room with one freaking fireplace? I didn't like how he "wanted" her for himself and should she chose another man, condemn her to death. My child-brain was like : FROLLO = DEVIL = PERVERT. There you go.I can't remember his voice though... tsktsktsk XDDD Ursula however had a different formula in my brain; URSULA = FAT = looks like the villainous Doctor in Mum's office = EVIL. Hahaha
We're all villains! Or anti-villains. Vigilantes???? I volunteer to be the evil witch queen!!! Mimi's a dragon and Dana's a wolf. You can be the spying evil Easter bunny. XDDD
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LOL you must have had weird pictures in your head when you were that young, reading Grimms Brothers then. And I think back then I was dreaming of Barbies.
I think so too! I was part-recluse, so instead of being dedicated to crushing and running after boys, I was busy writing my own play about devils and angels at age 8. (TRUE STORY.) And I used my normal communicative skills to manipulate younger and more naive kids than me to do my innocent bidding. (Like, actually act for the said backyard play, give me exam answers, stuff like that.) And also, I waged war against the "Mean Girls" in my elementary school. But all in all, I just had a very good imagination too.
Yes, the Magic of Disney. Just even the research- the amount of detail and culture they incorporate in their work; it's astounding. I want to be as dedicated to my art as they are. I think a lot of people are put-off by Disney because they're convinced that: 1.) They're Commercialized. 2.) They use Commercialism for Brainwashing. 3.) Disney is Illuminati/Free-Mason/Any other cult
I think they're a big empire, and they do insert a joke a frame in a movie here and there, but I don't think they mean any HARM to the world. I mean, I loved what it brought me, it's a lot better than having my kids grow up to Beavis and Butthead or Ren and Stimpy.
Tangled was amazing. 
YES, the MUSIC. My personal favorites are "One Jump Ahead" by Brad Kane (Aladdin), "Out There" by Tom Hulce (Quasimodo)and "Topsy Turvy" by Paul Kandel (Clopin)
Ahahaha let's work on characterization together. xDD
When I saw that scene with Frollo and the fireplace when I was younger, I thought he was just so angry and displeased at how Esmeralda taunted him at the Festival. ._. I didn't know he was already lusting after her ahahaha. I didn't understand the lyrics or pay any attention to them, that was also why. xD
LOL associating real people with Disney villains? I think I did that once with that evil Stepmother in Cinderella and my Science teacher back in 1st grade. xDDDD
...Can I be a snake instead?
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