Thursday, December 2, 2010

Myth Poster

This is Marie Graboso.

My myth is the story of Persephone's abduction:
This story is about Persephone’s abduction into the Underworld. Growing up, she was so beautiful that every God wanted her especially Hades. He took her away from her mother Demeter, goddess of bountiful harvest, who was so sad she didn’t make anything grow (establishing the cold winters.) Though, she wanted to spend time with her mom, ate the seeds of the pomegranate while living with Hades. So in the end, she divided her world as Queen of the Underworld and daughter of both Demeter and Zeus in Olympus. As a naïve child from childhood began to be consciously aware of her choices and decisions growing up and being away from her parents.

So above, is the first draft of my idea. What I did was I used the story of the Little Mermaid and how she was torn between two worlds. The pomegranate is a symbol to be with her mother (had six seeds that represent the 6 months with her) and the crown represents her choice of becoming Queen in the underworld (which has 6 pearls to represent the 6 months with Hades.)

I'm still working on it, but I'll be open to ideas and such. c:

2 comments:

CarynR said...

I'm not trying to favor your idea already because I'm a huge little mermaid fan, but I'm really interested in the fact you took a fairy tail and was able to relate it it to the myth!
You can probably do something a little different with the poster, I don't know what, but maybe you should make a couple other posters with the same idea to see what else you can do.

Olga Type said...

marie!

love your idea but instead of pomegranate/crown if i were you i would push the idea of the little mermaid more onto it b/c the purpose of the assignment was to look at your myth from a different perspective so basically totally twisting the story around and making it something different but with the same main idea.

so main idea= a girl that is torn b/w 2 worlds [as in your myth and the little mermaid. ]

so concepts [these could be good bad random or shitty idk] = girl that's a teacher by day but stripper by night (live 2 different lives) - man thats secretly a cross dresser but is super buff and no one knows.

i hope this helps?!
btw: i love your style. your art always seems to be delicate and pretty and i really like that :]