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EDIT: I thought it was just my laptop monitor, but apparently something had gone terribly wrong in saving the file and the colours just became off. So hereby there's the TRUE version of Thanatos, now with the colours like they were intended.

I drew this guy once a long time ago when I was drawing Gods in suits ([link] and it took me nearly a year to draw him again, but presenting: THANATOS.

God of gentle death and the one who guides the sould to the underworld. Hence the butterfly, which was a symbol for souls in ancient Greece (Hence Psyche and butterflies). He was also winged, I gave him the wings of a Barn Owl since they were associated with death. Also he's handsome specifically to lure souls with him. It works for both genders since the Greeks actively practiced homosexuality as well as the fact that the athletic youth was seen as the most perfect form of the body. Poppies and the Theta were also symbols of him.

This image is prone to some powerful colour distortion between my desktop and my laptop. My desktop, where it was drawn, shows his skin as a warm mocha sort of dark (I envision him very dark Brazilian for some reason) while my laptop makes him full-out BLACK. Which is not where I was going with him. I guess I just have to hope that my laptop's a tool.

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*Orkideh84 Mar 22, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Absolutely gorgeous, I must say. :+fav:
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~TheDutchesse Mar 23, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Oh geez, thank you!
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~aLxv1 Feb 24, 2013
Oh man, if Thanatos would see this he'd hunt you for the rest of his life, lol.
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~TheDutchesse Feb 24, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
How so?
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~aLxv1 Apr 1, 2013
Cause you know, he's all about death and darkness, here he's covered in butterflies and flowers..
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~TheDutchesse Apr 2, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
For the Greeks the butterflies represent souls, so really he's covered in human souls, for his job is to gather them. Poppies were another symbol of him (and of his brother Hypnos), in fact he was often portrayed wearing a wreath of them. I don't know why you think he's about darkness, that would be his father Erebos. Thanatos is not even associated with violent death, only the gentle kind.
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~aLxv1 Apr 2, 2013
I see.. Well I guess I didn't do my homework, at school when I was studying greek mythology, I remember him being described as a cold-heart being, as an "awful" god. Maybe there are more things to it than I'm aware of. If that is so, then you did a good job on this one:)
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~TheDutchesse Apr 7, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Or maybe your school didn't do its homework? It's very common to generelize these deities, or put them in a very modern/western perspective. We've got to keep in mind that, while for us death is not a good thing, for the Greeks often it was. I do believe that Thanatos, while he wasn't a friendly God, was fair and indiscriminate. There were other smaller deities representing a death of suffering.

Also keep in mind that what I draw is merely my own representation of these Gods, often a little bit twisted for my own needs.
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~aLxv1 Apr 1, 2013
Cause you know, he's all about death and darkness, here he's covered in butterflies and flowers..
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~minecraftcreeper1 Dec 21, 2012  Student Artisan Crafter
just to tell u in the book it siad the thanatos was pale it siad "a pale hooded figure appeared with his hands chained"
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