Doodle 075 - Myths and Legends 2 (Interactive Friday)

There went another great weekend, spent most of the day today cleaning the house, so by the time I sat down to draw I was rather tired, still, I tried my best to draw as many mythical creatures as I could before having to call it a night.

Again, thanks so much for all of your suggestions, I learned a whole bunch of new stories and myths thanks to you guys, to be sincere I love myths, legends and fables, so I had a ton of fun researching everything and reading up.

Random fact about me: I used to be an student in the History and Anthropology department of my university back at Spain. Art was my first choice, but due to circumstances I ended up with my second love: Anthropology.  Of course things didn't stay that way and I managed to go back to art in the end.

Anyway, first today is Marebabe:"I'll go with my first thought: Pegasus, the winged horse!"

Oooh pegasus, I love it too, I really haven't practiced my horse anatomy and they are such an amazing mass of musculature and power that it can be very intimidating to tackle them, but I did my best, note to self: work on more horse anatomy drawings:

Pegasus - graphite and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 15 mins.

 Next was Colin Morris: "It'd be cool to see you take on the Rainbow Serpent from Australian mythology"

I had never heard of this mythical creature, so I was very excited to research it and now I have a lot of curiosity to learn more about Australian native culture and legends.

Here the serpent is actually part of a stream.

Rainbow Serpent - graphite and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 15 mins.

Next Melissa: "I'm rereading Harry Potter right now... just finished book 3. So I'm thinking a Hippogriff :)"

Another tough creature, mostly due to the horse parts lol:

Hippogriff - graphite and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 10 mins.

 Rhisssana: "Herne the Hunter. With his horns and his hawk and his horse. I've run out of alliteration."

Yet a new character I hadn't heard of, I learned so much today! I kinda ran out of space for the hawk and horse lol but I did get his horns:

Herne the Hunter - graphite and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 15 mins.

And finally for today Moonlup: 'And if you're still taking exotics, perhaps a fiery salamander?"

I decided to make this one loose, quick and fun:

Firey Salamander - graphite and mechanical pencil on plain Moleskine notebook. Aprox 10 mins.

 And that's it for this weekend doodles. I hope I managed to entertain you since you guys did an awesome job at challenging me and teaching me new stories.