Hel in Black, Photoshop 2014/2019
Half dead, half alive goddess of the Underworld in Norse mythology. Ruler of Helheim, a realm of cold, hunger and famine, where those who die of sickness and of old age go. Carvings on her throne represent her siblings: the wolf Fenrir, and the world serpent Jörmungandr. All three of them are children of the god trickster Loki and giantess Angrboða.
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Norse Goddess Hel, Photoshop 2009/2014
The first version of Hel's portrait in clothes more stylized on the Viking Age, wearing a Norse woman's apron held by tortoise brooches. I dressed her black later, in 2019. The clothes and jewelry are not one hundred per cent historically accurate, especially the head dress, but I believe that in a realm of fantasy and mythology gods and goddesses could attire differently to real people of that time.
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This drawing actually started as concept art for the unfinshed 2008 illustration, visible below, but I went too far working on it and so it became a stand alone illustration. In 2009 the throne stil had bird shaped carvings similar to the WiP variant in color. With time I wasn't satisfied with it and in 2014 I redrew the carvings into shapes closer to the Viking Age patterns in 2014. Finally I dressed the goddess black in 2019. The 2008 unfinished illustration is still waiting for to be done.
Hel and Baldr (WiP, Painter 2008)
"Everything in the world, dead or alive, must weep for him"
- illustration to the Death of Baldr (Baldur)
Loki in modern times, ispired by a fantasy novel "Kłamca" ("Liar") by Jakub Ćwiek, avaliable in English via Amazon:
Contrary to Nietzsche, God is not dead, but he is gone and just doesn't seem to be coming back soon. In these difficult times, unexpected alliances are formed. Such is the one between Loki, the Norse god of lies who survived the fall of Valhalla, and angels, trying to keep order in new reality. There are cases that cannot be solved with a halo over your head and it is where the trickster god feels at his best. He seems content making a career as an errand boy for angels, but can you trust the Liar?
Alternative version of the Liar, done for a friend who is an avid fan of the Aliens. A close-up of the Aunties in the back, as I renamed the xenomorphs in this image, is at deviantART. (Painter 9.5, 2012)
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