gaia · she/her · 27 yo · ita - eng i occasionally draw artistic nudity (tagged as such). i am currently not avaiable for commissions
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Latest Posts by tractim - Page 6
sketch for the latest drawing I posted 👁
thank you so much for taking the time to write such a thoughtful description! 🥺💜 it is perfect
Dionysus with the head of Pentheus! I couldn’t decide which version to post, so have both of them 🎭
Dionysus with the head of Pentheus! I couldn’t decide which version to post, so have both of them 🎭
Some saints for you🩸(with no religious purpose)
I keep posting about Dionysus and Pentheus but this time you get the other side of the triad of cursed cousins, and that is Actaeon and Pentheus 🦌🦁
I will always prefer to draw Dionysus with dark hair but for Euripides I can make an exception
Baby satyrs 🐝🎭🐍
sketchy pentheus because sir that’s my emotional support asshole
And finally I completed the challenge ❣️
4/6
That nameless girl from ‘‘Oh Babylon”, you know which one 👩🏼🦱🎂🔪
Cupid from Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 🌹🕊 🏹
[prints avaiable here!]
Sketches for Pentheus ✨
Thank u @tractym for letting me borrow some inspiration from Ur piece 🥺
@something-indecent-and-dramatic okay I see now that I responded very quickly so I will elaborate a bit more here even in case someone else has the same doubt!
The drawing is inspired by the moment in the fourth episode of the Bacchae in which Pentheus enters the stage dressed as a woman and the first thing he says is:
(i’m using a translation of T. A. Buckley that I found on the internet here)
about this I want to clarify that the Dionysus=bull one is not an isolated association that only Pentheus makes in a moment of hallucination, but that it is an image that keeps recurring in the whole tragedy (ex. when the bacchae refer to dionysus as to the “bull-horned god” or when Pentheus wants to imprison Dionysus but finds himself trying to imprison a bull) and in general also in some invocations linked to the dionysian cult outside the context of Euripides’ play
overall in the drawing i wanted to depict Dionysus in a moment in which he reveals himself to Pentheus who has finally accepted his divinity, and in this sense in my mind the bull conveys Dionysus’ powers (or at least his powers as we see them at the end of this tragedy) in a better way than a human form does.
i hope this answer has cleared up my choices a bit!! also thank you for the question <3
Pentheus and Dionysus, again 🐍🐂
Pentheus and Dionysus, again 🐍🐂
Sketches for the latest drawing I posted!
Pentheus and the Stranger from Lydia ☀️🐂☀️
“So the twain bethought them of their dead, and wept; the one for man-slaying Hector wept sore, the while he grovelled at Achilles’ feet, but Achilles wept for his own father, and now again for Patroclus; and the sound of their moaning went up through the house.”
[translation by Augustus Taber Murray]