Our local Art Center is having a contest open to local artists (top prize $100... whoo hoo!). The theme this year is Mythological Creatures. So, though I never win these things, I decided to enter something out of a desire to promote the small town art scene.
I decided to do Bastet, the Egyptian cat goddess. I originally intended it to be a larger, full color painting with more scenery and additional servants sitting around. However, I waited too long to start it, so I had to trim elements out and reduce the scope to a drawing. I submitted it today. Let's see if I can win some cash.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Purrrrty
Oh look, the nipples are back Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I quite like the young woman standing on her left. I like your interpretation of her, also. Kitty.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I think we've established that women have nipples. And I doubt the Egyptians had bras. Moving on...
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Sandy.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Nice pussy. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Her first prime is missing the mark of Bastet...
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Is the kitty woman wearing a helmet? I know she is supposed to be a god, but man, I'd hate to have to squeeze that thing over my scalp.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
The priestess is bald. She's not wearing a helmet.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
As I expected from you Aban, fucking great!
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Oh, christ, he's gone furry...
(Also, ancient Egyptians may not have had bras, but they didn't have a lot of cold weather, either.)
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Grrrr.....
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
You mean, mrrrow!
Mark
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I like the columns, architecturally. And I just noticed the the fan(?) in the priestess's hands looks a lot like an ahn-woon Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
It's not a fan. It's some kind of staff weapon... I didn't really come up with a whole Tolkien backstory for everything
But yah, it does kind of look like one.
*begin chirping fight music*
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
When you say 'staff weapon'...like...quarterstaff, or like, pass the liquid naqadah? Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Uh... like something you swing around and slice people open with. I guess.
Posted by emperorkalan (Member # 1821) on :
Geez, doesn't anybody recognize a lirpa when they see one?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Nope, must'a left it leaning against the Nebbie.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I just found out that my entry earned me a whopping "Honorable Mention". Fourth place to, among others, a sculpture that looks like polished twigs stuck together and attached to a found tree stump.
This is the reason I don't enter these things. But hey... I won a gift certificate to Pizza Hut.
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ritten: Nope, must'a left it leaning against the Nebbie.
Eh? Wha? Did I miss something?
Is this a reference to that weapons conversation we had in that troll thread? Cuz that was an xkcd reference...
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
It,could,be,cause,Nebbie,has,disk,which,could,hold,weapon or 2,flag on the moon,how'd it get there?
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
Sorry, left my copy of the 3.5 PHB2 back in the car... (That's a exotic Feat Weapon, right? Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Mars Needs,Women it,very right,and,the,flag is not,really,,,,there.
I was,Hopeful,that no,one would,notice,the,cross threading.
Yeah, right.....
Feet weapon, that reminds me of this guy I knew in the Army, the down time after long road marches were not pleasant. We hung the NBC warning flags around his bed one night. Another night a guy got in to trouble when he walked by the cot and started clanging metal together. (An audio warning for a chemical or biological attack that means get suited up or die.)
The moon will begin flagging in another 14 days, roughly.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: I just found out that my entry earned me a whopping "Honorable Mention". Fourth place to, among others, a sculpture that looks like polished twigs stuck together and attached to a found tree stump.
This is the reason I don't enter these things. But hey... I won a gift certificate to Pizza Hut.
You should have sent in a pile of bricks stuck to half a vivisected calf on an unmade bed. I hear that's what they're calling art these days.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Is there any concept to concept art?
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
You mean, sketches and whatnot? Not really. I pretty much had it worked out in my head and did it without sketches.
Or am I misunderstanding your question?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I meant the sticks and stump. What a concept.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Ooohhh... I get it.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
So, does her fur just start suddenly at the neck, or does she sport some sort of back-pelt?
Nice damn illustration, as always, but to be snarky, her head seems a bit too large for her neck, giving her a slightly bobble look. Not your fault really, how else could you manage that "L" shaped neck?
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I guess I hadn't really thought about her fur pattern. But I'm on board with a back pelt. Generally I don't like my women with back hair... but then I guess I don't generally like them with feline heads either. So it works.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
It would be cool to see it Stargate-ified. The lion head would work well as a Jaffa helmet. Pit we only saw the serpent guards, horus guards and a mention of the Setesh guards. You could aslo argue that we saw another type in Stargate the movie.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
That's a good idea really- we never saw ra's children Geb and Nut (and you know O'Neill would love to meet Nut)- you could make a nice Stargate scene....maybe some hottie female Jaffa (or whatever the women warriors were called).
I still want to see Tokra Jesus- complete with glowing eyes. Maybe a Last Supper thing with a zat gun on the table and a ribbon device on his hand.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
In the pilot, Apophis referred to one as "Jaffita", but thereafter, they were all just called Jaffa.
My theory about the Anubis guard we saw in the movie is that it was some Jaffa that used to serve Anubis but that Ra co-opted after Anubis was banished. We never saw his Jaffa's helmets on the show.
If I wanted to Stagate-ize this concept, I'd probably make goddess look like the Goa'uld we saw in "Summit" and make her slaves look more Jaffa-like with a couple of guys with cat/lion helmets.
A Tokra Jesus would probably be named Yeshua, or something more Hebrew. And would that make Pilot a Goa'uld?
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
It took me a second to realize you meant Pontious Pilate. I was wondering how we got into Farscape territory... Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Er...why Jesus as a Tok'ra? I don't remember any discussion about Jesus on Stargate...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Seems like it would be more consistent to have a Goa'uld Yahweh.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
quote:Originally posted by B.J.: It took me a second to realize you meant Pontious Pilate.
*slaps self* That'll teach me to type while I try to eat... my mind wasn't on my spelling.
Jesus was never mentioned in Stargate as either a Goa'uld or a Tok'ra. Jason was just saying it'd be cool...
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
I believe there was mention of having a character on Stargate that was Jesus. I can't remember if it was supposed to be a Tokra or an Asgard, however.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Neither one makes a lot of sense. Sokar is the only one who seems to have gotten humans after the alpha gate was buried. Jesus came after that. The Asgard were here around that time (or well they didn't say for sure but they could've been I suppose) but they were Norse-themed.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Some humans were taken off Earth after Christianity started. I think the episode was "Demons".
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Right, like I said, Sokar was the only one to do that. That was Demons...with Sokar in it. Remember? Sokar? ;P
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Yah, but then you said that Jesus came 'round after that. But if the society was Christian-based, then the humans would've had to have been transported offworld in the first few centuries C.E. After Jesus.
Or did you mean that he came after the Alpha Gate was buried?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Yes, that's what I meant.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Can anyone think of what other helmets they could have? Hathor... a bulls head. (I think the bull motif or cow, was used on the costume of her first prime).
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
What was that joke Teal'c told about a Jaffa with a dripping nose?
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
3 jaffa meet on a field of battle. The serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guards' beak glistens. The Setesh guard's.... nose drips.
LOL!!!
I had a whole list of hemlmet possibilities written up at one point. Here are two of the ones I designed.
I remember another one I thought would be cool was Olocun's, but the problem is, the Jaffa helmets were originally designed to look like Egyptian figure drawings. Goa'uld pretending to be god's from other races might have different Jaffa armor. Though, it all seems to be pretty standardized.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Sweet- that second one has a very "Dark Crystal" thing going on.
It'd be cool to see a Cthulhu headpiece- articulated tenticles could frame the visor with a large "eye" gem on either side lined up at the temples.
That whole "Demons" episode made no sense- why would they be Quakers or puritans or whatever. Someone must have returned to earth, nabbed a shipload of colonists or a settlement and placed them on that planet- Jesus beliefs and all- and then played Satan to keep them in line.
Odd...we never really saw any satanists, though Sokar had several planets under his control and really seemed to believe his own hype (unlike Baaal and the other system-lords).
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Nice Aban, but something about them seems a little 'light' on top - not symmetrical or something. I gather those designs are based more off of the Horus Guards?
The Serpent Guard helmets were more all-over a snake head. Maybe for the skull one - make it overall more a skull other than just a 'standard base' with skull.
Setesh guard... weren't there helmet type things surrounding Seth's 'throne' in the compound? Depicting that animal?
Also - Did anyone ever identify all the different Goa'uld system lords in that episode with the Goa'uld Hierarchy pyramid hologram?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I always thought the Jaffa helmets were woefully un-balanced. The Serpent Guards are top-heavy with these huge wide cobra heads; the Horus Guards are bottom-heavy with these tiny little bird heads.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well...not "bottom heavy" really- just (slightly) more practical in that the weight rests lower- possibly on the shoulders.
The serpent guards could probably get knocked over like bowling pins with those goofy helmets.
Did those do anything? Night vision or air-cooling maybe?
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Since the headpiece has no visible eye-holes one would presume they gave some form of enhanced vision, though it would take some practice to fight in it, given the mask's eyes are much higher than the wearer's. That is of course assuming the mask's eyes are the sensors. Mind you, I think their purpose (as demonstrated in the movie) is mostly psychological. Of course in the movie they weren't "Jaffa" but the actual gods Anubis and Horus, at least as far as the humble people of bunny-wey were concerned.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Yah, they were based more on the movie helmets. I never liiked the serpent helmets. Also... the use of the helmets at all makes little sense in the TV universe. All the Jaffa know exactly what the Jaffa are... there would be no psychological effect when they're fighting each other, which they seem to do alot more than they fight human slave populations.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Imagine armies of impossibly encumbered warriors clumsily staggering toward each other- with those staff weapons no less-! Fighting on sand dunes would be hilarity- Jaffa sliding around in the sand, falling over, trying to get back up, falling down again ...over and over...
Now if the helmet did really useful stuff it would almost make sense- like groups of Jaffa circling a position so sensors in the helmets can triangulate an enemy stronghold for an orbiting ship's weapons....heck, the helmets might even have a lockout that prevents anyone without the jaffa tatoo from useing their higher functions. A wise system lord might even booby-trap the helmets to prevent an uprising- something that electrocutes the wearer.
Wht do the Jaffa wear that silly armor anyway? It stops nothing from killing the wearer. You'd think it owuld at least be bullet proof.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Yeah, it's one of the things that makes much more sense in the movie than in the series. In the movie, Ra is basically playing a big bluff, ruling with only two "gods" a couple of gliders and a (seemingly unarmed) mothership. As soon as the people stopped being afraid of their "gods" they easily overwhelmed Anubis and Horus and the staff weapon proves to be next to useless at close range and/or against superior numbers. It certainly makes the Earth rebellion and the 10,000 years of no contact with Ra more plausible. He was afraid to come back to a world that didn't fear him and when he found out how far they'd come, was directly threatened by them.
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