T-SHIRT GODS

This was one of the first things I did trying to modernise Greek mythology. I used greek statues as a reference for the images of Gods and added t-shirts with modern slogans that I thought related to each of the God's characteristics.

I had a lot of fun doing this, and thought that the images ended up being really funny. They definitely serve their purpose of combining modern culture and greek mythology, while focusing around the personalities of each God.

I felt good about this because I got a lot of positive feedback from my peers for it, they really liked the slogans and I found that even if they didn't recognise the statue they realised who each God was because of the matched slogan: for example Zeus' t-shirt says "Absolute Ledge", a response to this was "of course it's zeus, who else would be Absolute Ledge".

I used ink and fine-liner for these and I think it gives a really nice effect. It definitely has that old- grey stonework effect to it with the colour and texture of the ink. The lining could be neater but it gives the desired effect. I think these images worked well because I didn't sketch them out beforehand - they were spontaneous, I'm finding a lot of my favourite works have been spontaneous un-sketched ones.

I think these images would be really cool as a zine or postcards, or both. I think the modern element makes them recognisable and relatable to a modern young adult audience. These images could be applied to a set of t-shirts, which might be fun - a t-shirted person on a t-shirt. Meta.