Take this voice, take these hands I can’t use them anyway Take this music and the memory Of the muse from which it came If it’s true what they say I’ll be on my way (x)
Im gonna be working on it in earnest this semester and hopefully have what I want done by the end of February or in time for my IB art show in… April? May? Who knows. So here’s a cast lineup type dealie while i figure out body types and heights.
From left to right we have the original willowy poet boyfriend™, the bad choice songbird, big mc huge large, our lady of the impossible waist to hip ratio, that one asshole and those three freaky ladies whose speech always rhymes.
album i would pay $$$ to watch as a stage musical: hadestownby anais mitchell
“what you gonna do when the chips are down?”
with; natalie dormer/lara pulver as either eurydice/persephone | jonny lee miller/benedict cumberbatch as either orpheus/hades (because i’m not totally stealing a page from boyle’s frankenstein no) (and also it’s totally not because these four are from elementary and sherlock)
sort of based off jdrox’s (and my own) need for a movie with natalie and lara together
mythology meme - 3/10 media based on mythology: Orpheus and Eurydice retold in Hadestown: A Folk Opera (x)
Hound dog howl and the whistle blow Train comes a-rollin, clickety-clack Nobody knows where that old train goes Those who go, they don’t come back Way down Hadestown Way down under the ground…
Number 2 done! I spent way too long on this, but it was more complex than I initially planned for. I will probably go back and edit it in the future but not right now. I have 15 more of these to do.
lover, tell me if you can - who’s gonna buy the wedding bands? times being what they are; hard, and getting harder all the time
lover, when i sing my song all the rivers sing along, and they’re gonna break their banks for me to lay their gold around my feet, all a-flashing in the pan, all to fashion for your hand - the river’s gonna give us the wedding bands
doubt comes in with tricky fingers; doubt comes in with fickle tongues; doubt comes in, and my heart falters and forgets the songs it’s sung. where are you? where are you now?
Cinderbricks and razorwire Walls of iron and concrete Hound dogs howling round the gate Them dogs’ll lay down and play dead If you got the bones, if you got the bread But if all you got is your own two legs You best be glad you got ’em
ORPHEUS Wait for me, I’m coming Wait, I’m coming with you Wait for me, I’m coming too I’m coming to
HERMES You’re on the lam, you’re on the run Don’t give your name, you don’t have one And don’t look no one in the eye That town will try to suck you dry They’ll suck your brain, They’ll suck your breath They’ll pluck the heart right out your chest They’ll truss you up in your Sunday best And stuff your mouth with cotton
-“Wait for Me” from the folk opera/concept album Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell, a retelling of the myth of Orpheus set in post-apocalyptic Depression America. Srsly, one of the most beautiful things I’ve heard all year, so I made a painting.
i got the wind right here in a jar, i got the rain on tap at the bar, i got the sunshine up on the shelf - allow me to introduce myself! brother, what’s my name? my name is our lady of the underground! brother, what’s my name? our lady of ways, our lady of means! brother, what’s my name? my name is our lady of the upside-down!
mister hades is a mean old boss, with a silver whistle and a golden scale. an eye for an eye, and he weighs the cost; a lie for a lie, and your soul for sale - sold! to the king on the chromium throne
Hermes doesn’t really get a description, he’s pretty much there to guide and inform, but his voice is excellent and just brimming with crusty goodness.
Here’s Inktober 16, from Anais Mitchell’s “I Raise My Cup to Him.” Bit of background: this song is the last one on a concept album called Hadestown,which is a folk-opera adaptation of the myth of Orpheus and Persephone. Since I am a giant nerd (or at least a graduate of a small liberal arts college with a very good Classics program), I am pretty much obsessed with this album, and will sing its praises (so to speak) to anyone who makes the mistake of giving me five minutes and an ear. On that note (I swear these musical puns aren’t happening on purpose): check it out! It features not only Anais Mitchell, but also Ani DiFranco and a lot of other fantastic artists. All told, a thing of beauty.
*sheepishly steps off soapbox and sidles back to the drawing board*
Ok, so as promised hot censured art because I love how this sketch turned out. Not censured art is under the cut. Warning for nudity and slight sexy times:
It’s the last day of Dragoncon Goes Virtual! Swipe to see a few of the prints that I’ve put up for sale. I’ve put up some Hadestown prints, Disney & Final Fantasy fanart, and TTATF prints.
With Doubt that she’ll never come // Doubt that his lover will ever come back
Haha what if I kept making simple designs for Hadestown characters that would be relatively easy to animate and compositions for animatics… Haha… Just kidding… Unless…
(Scene from Epic II for @pidge-1220, I owe you my life)
Quick colored sketches of Hadestown’s Persephone and Hades because I love them. I don’t have a valid reason for the sword because I don’t have the patience for the animatic I see in my head but i think Patrick Page should get one anyways. Ms Amber I have Feelings for you.
