Finally, another contest! My hands have been itching to draw something but my brain seemed to be drained out of ideas. Thank God, @melooo182 just saved my day. He made a contest with a specific theme, it was all about mythological creatures!
You can see the post of the contest here:
https://busy.org/@melooo182/mr-m-art-contest-4-week-s-theme-mythological-characters-and-creatures
I was like, "finally! An idea." Well, I got really curious about the contest and actually did my research for this one. By the way, it's my very first time joining @melooo182 's contest tho. Had to try it out, it's for my own gain of experience, since I don't do a lot of beastly things on my art works.
So, when I was scrolling down on the web for ideas of what mythological creatures would I draw and plan a design with. Dragons, were seemed to be too common, mermaids were quite too girly for me, unicorns may seemed to be awkward for me to draw since in the Deadpool movie, Deadpool used a unicorn doll to smell it out while jerking off.
So, I thought it out really good, I had to make a choice, it should be badass, and formidable, almost impossible to kill or opposed. Something that is not really common ,but badass. Then I kinda made up my mind and thought of something that even the Greek Gods fear the most, the powerful, merciless, reckless, the one that can erase mankind from existence, the only one that can whoop Poseidon's ass and make him, his bitch!
The Infamous, The Great KRAKEN!
THE KRAKEN
Probably no legendary sea monster was as horrifying as the Kraken. According to stories this huge, many armed, creature could reach as high as the top of a sailing ship's main mast. A kraken would attack a ship by wrapping their arms around the hull and capsizing it. The crew would drown or be eaten by the monster. What's amazing about the kraken stories is that, of all the sea monster tales we have, we have the best evidence that this creature was based on something real.
Tales of a huge, many armed, headed or horned sea creatures exist from ancient times. The Greek legend of the Scylla, a monster with six heads that Odysseus must sail past during his travels, is an example of this tradition. In 1555 Olaus Magnus wrote of a sea creature with "sharp and long Horns round about, like a Tree root up by the Roots: They are ten or twelve cubits long, very black, and with huge eyes..."
Although the term kraken is first found in print in Systema Naturae (Carolus Linnaeus - 1735), stories about this monster seem to date back to twelfth century Norway. These tales often refer to a creature so big that it is mistaken for an island or series of islands. Even as late as 1752, when the Bishop of Bergen, Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan, wrote his The Natural History of Norway he described the kraken as "incontestably the largest Sea monster in the world" with a width of one and a half miles. The Bishop also noted that the animal had starfish type protuberances: "It seems these are the creature's arms, and, it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom." Despite this Pontoppidan says that the most danger the kraken represented to ships came from the disturbance it made as it came to the surface or whirlpool as created as it descended below. Because fish were attracted to the vicinity of the kraken, he also notes, Norwegian fishermen would often fish over the creature, despise the risk to their ship and their lives.
Later Kraken stories bring the creature down to a smaller, but still monstrous, size. Though early descriptions of the animal give a more crab-like appearance, by the 18th century it started showing up in drawings as a giant, many armed cephalopod (like an octopus or squid). In 1802 the French scientist Pierre Denys de Montfort stated in his book on the natural history of mollusks that the creature encountered by Norwegian sailors was the kracken octopus. Montfort even suggested that there was even a larger type of octopus than this, the colossal octopus that had been known to attack sailing vessels.
Description by:
http://www.unmuseum.org/mob/kraken.htm
Now, I didn't refered my Kraken as of an octopus or squid like creature like most the description said. I did saw the movie Clash of Titans, where they portray the kraken as a huge crab like creature with sharp edge tentacles, also having a man like torso with a beastly head. I also saw the Kraken portrayed by the PS4 game, God of War Ascension. Only that he didn't have a man like torso or a crab like legs, instead it had a mantis like hands and it's signature tentacles.
Without any further do, Let's proceed with the process of the Illustration.
I will be showing you series of photos potraying how I made the illustration from start to finish.
Process starts here
We now have it inked and shaded up, we now go with coloring.
Maped Color Pencils were used to color the illustration.
We're almost done! Just a lil' step ahead.
What's a good post without making a lil' tribute on the platform that you're posting on?
So, I sort of incorporated the Steem it logo on top of the Kraken's head. Making it more badass.
Well, it seems that we finally finish the piece. Let's now put it into sharing.
Here's the piece
THE KRAKEN by @ianceaz
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Too bad, The Kraken can be killed. As the movie Clash of Titans portrayed that the Kraken was defeated with Medusa's head. Nope, it's not what you think. We're not talking about blowjobs. It's her eyes, genius. Medusa can make the Kraken turn into stone, just a quick glance on her eyes, he can make anybody turn into stones. 😂😅🤣
Well, that'll be it. That's my entry! Thank you so much guys for checking my process out. Thank you so much @melooo182 for making the contest possible!
This illustration is also a tribute to the whole Steem it sea, for we are all the fishes and I really want to thank our very own Kraken on this sea, the Steem it maker, sir @ned. Thank you sir, for making Steem it. I have been enjoying contirbuting posts on this platform. You have no idea how you have saved me from darkness. Again sir, I truly thank you.
Sir @ned should change whale into Kraken on his own wall tho. 😂
Anyways, I'm just kidding.
Hope you guys enjoyed checking out this post and I hope you keep on supporting me on my art journey. That'll be all for now, this is @ianceaz leaving you with a qoute.
"Pay close attention to people who don't clap when you win."
Thank you people! Peace!