I've been reading T.E. Lawrence's translation of Homer's Odyssey and it's got me on a Greek mythology kick again. I'm not sure this meeting between Odysseus (Ulysses) and Poseidon (Neptune) is in the book, since I'm not finished with it. I was influenced really by the movie with Isabella Rossellini and Armand Assante that came out a few years ago. Although they never really showed Poseidon in that adaption. I started making the sea god with white hair, but I don't like Zeus or Poseidon as grandfathers. Proteus and Cronus seem more like gods that would be depicted as aged. Half way thru I considered making the god's skin scaly. But the ancient Greeks saw their gods as being a lot like people. I also wanted him titanic in size to reinforce this man-vs-nature contrast.
Poseidon's Warning
Pencil, Photoshop
May 2013
