Isis

Been too long since I've drawn on paper! I love the feel of pencil on paper, computers are great, but you just can't beat the tactile feel and feedback of good old analog drawing!

I was doodling and did this one:













I liked her and decided to do some good old character designing. Grabbed some Egyptian books and good Old Illustrated Mythology book for reference.



















The sun and the scarab are sacred symbols for the Egyptians and there's a great story of how the dung beetle(scarab) pushing a ball of dung was like RA rotating the earth.




















Being a big fan of Dieties and Demigods, my Isis had to be bare chested, plus all the paintings I referenced had her that way, so I'll use that as my defense.
































Her corset was too reminscent of the armour from the Bram Stoker Dracula movie, which I didn't mind, but I wanted to it be more Egyptian.



















Back to references so I used a reed pattern to link the Nile to the character.




















But what about her back?



















A little homage to Masamune Shirow




















Some design notes, her head dress has a sun on it and on that sun is a scarab. Her head dress does not touch her and neither do her wings, they hover just in front and behind her. The white lines on her hair are the horizontal bar on the ankh which appears on the back of her hair.














I still need to do more work especially on her gauntlets which are very Witchblade like I confess, but I was leaning more toward Staragate Goa'uld technology.