Hyrdra

Keepin it loose

Hydra - freestyle

I just started drawing randomly and tried to fix it as I inked. It kind of works , but isn't as planned as my normal inked drawings would be.

Heracles vs the Lernaen Hydra

In the swamps of Lerna, during the age of heroes, there lived a great and poisonous serpent, a monstrous offspring of the union of Typhon and Echidna. The destruction of this beast, called the Lernaen Hydra,  became the second Labor of the greatest of all Greek Heroes, Heracles. Every time the Glory of Hera knocked off a head of this creature, two more grew to take its place. It was not until his nephew, Iolaus, had the idea to cauterize the stumps that the son of Zeus was able to vanquish his foe.

Believe it or not, today's topic was not chosen by me, but rather by the lovely Natalie, whose drawing is elsewhere on this page.  For this piece, I recycled my own designs for both the Hydra and Heracles from my upcoming book Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory (coming out in July!) but the drawing is all new-- took me about a half hour, from pencils to scan. Consider it a preview.

Lernaean Hydra

On the road with: barely there wireless, very poor light and no scanner.

Lernaean Hydra

Lernaean Hydra