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Ishtar's Descent sample pagesby ~popeyethecat

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These are two pages from my book, Ishtar's Descent, which I have luckily finished on time for college! I think I might sell the book through Lulu, but you won't have to pay to see the whole thing, because I've uploaded it to Flickr: [link]
I hope it's an enjoyable read and that you like the illustrations!

The text is based on various translations of the myth The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld (or Underworld). It is a Mesopotamian myth, and I have focused on the Assyrian & Babylonian version, which dates from around the 2nd millenium B.C.
The drawings are based on the Assyrian reliefs at the British Museum which are from Nineveh, Nimrud and Khorsabad.

~Tigra-kitty Nov 10, 2010 Student General Artist

gotta love the unibrows <3

~Magmanaut Sep 5, 2010 Student General Artist

Interasting work, maybe if you take some reference from Caravaggio´s "Chiaroscuro", if you apply that technique your work will be amazing, nice choice for your book also!!

~popeyethecat Sep 6, 2010

Thank you! The light and dark contrast was an original intention, but I wanted to more directly reference Mesopotamian plaques, in which the figure was painted one colour and the only shading was provided by light falling across the relief. But I probably should have experimented a bit more with very dark areas, as you say.

~lskaori May 12, 2010

The whole work was really enjoyable, I liked it

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