More Designs for the Statues.

After doing the research I pushed on in doing more drawings. I also borrowed two books on Greek sculpture, these have been incredibly helpful in terms of poses and what message the sculptures convey.

The books I borrowed were-

An Introduction to Greek Sculpture. John Barron. (1981) Athlone Press Ltd. London

Greek Sculpture. George Proffer Ltd. London. First printed 1961 by E. Desfosses Neogravure. Paris.

For all of the designs I started off with a silhouette and then added detail. I also used reference photos from my travels (particularly Budapest).

Here are the reference pictures from my holidays:

Other reference pictures I have used:



Here are the drawings (all done in Photoshop).



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This is one of my favourite designs so far. I wanted at least one statue to convey submission/reverance or some form of act of worship for their gods. Especially as a temple is in close proximity to this market place.
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I had a story idea of an animal giving birth to a human or a god in the form of a human. I spoke with fahran about what sort of animals to use as the animal gods and he said I should use big and strong animals. So I chose a hippo with a god coming out of it's mouth.




Concept design to illustrate the war that broke out between the animal gods and Zeus and his group of gods. Here I wanted the bull or minotaur (who leads the animal gods) having Zeus at his mercy. This will be one of the statues that I definitely want to model.