Perseus

Psychopomp

Bachelor assignement : create and illustrate a psychopomp. Mine is a horned red lion carrying and escorting a soul through their memories in a journey to attain the afterlife.

Tarot

Research for an illustrated game of tarot. A few major arcana :

01 . Le Fou - The Fool

03 . L'Impératrice - The Empress

04 . L'Empereur - The Emperor

07 . Le Chariot - The Chariot

08 . La Force - Strength

12 . Le Pendu - The Hanged man

16 . La Tour - The Tower

18 . La Lune - The Moon

20 . Le Jugement - Judgement

Dionysos

Bachelor assignment : Illustrate a myth. I chose Dionysos, greek divinity of vine and wine-making, theater, vegetation, festivity, ritual and religious madness, as well as the leader of the Maenads.

All the elements refer to his cult :

• The very top depicts leaves from a fig tree, which was sacred to him. The fruit is on the left of the illustration.
• Two depiction of an older, bearded dionysos, based on archeological findings.
• In the center sits a young Dionysos with his divine wife Arizdne. She is the graddaughter of the Sun Titan Helios and a princess of Crete he married when Theseus left her on Naxos.
• Above them is a stylized pine cone, usually present at the top of his staff (thyrsos) hang grapes and on the sides of the main illustration twin snakes entertwine.
• On the left is a stem of wild fennel, with which the thyrsos (staff) of Dionysos and his follower was made.
• On the bottom two dionysian theater masks frame a pair of panthers and a bull head, refering both the animal associated to Dionysos but also his wife Araidne's half brother, Asterion (the Minotaur).
• Both Dionysos and Ariadne's names are written in greek.

Lamassu

A meeting between a young boy and a Lamassu, a protective mythical being from Mesopotamia with the body of a bull, a pair of wings and the head of a man