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Mother of Grendel Grief-Wracked and Ravenous by Level20Artist
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Part two of my Beowulf series. This is the second battle Beowulf has in
the epic, where he faces off against the mother of Grendel. Unlike the
first piece, I wanted this one to depict the heat of the battle. I
wanted Beowulf struggling to fight to show that even he can not handle
the wrath of Grendel's mother.
I also really wanted to get that
fierce emotion across of Grendel's mother. To show how much she loved
her son as her love was turned into unmitigated rage against his killer.
Unlike
Grendel I wanted to depict his mother with a slightly more humanistic
appearance to make her a bit more sympathetic. For even Beowulf says
that unlike the beast Grendel he can understand that Grendel's mother
had to do what she did to avenge her kinsman.
Since Grendel's
mother is said to look like that of a water demon I thought what if I
combined a naga or serpent creature with that of a merrow and have a
serpentine tail but with an fish fin. I figured this would work for how
she travels on land and sea. The text also describes her as a sea-wolf
and I wanted to play up that fusion. So I gave her aquatic features such
as; fins, hand-webbing, and gills. I then also gave her the wolf-like
features of her wolfen eyes, fur covered hands, and large mane.
This
was really fun to create, I really enjoyed playing with the design
Grendel's mother.
As always this was created in Corel Painter.
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J. Edwin Stevens/level20artist
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