Well today has been a very fruitful day in the studio, I have finally started to amalgamate all my mythological orchestra figures together into one whole image. Its six A1 sheets so far, but i'm going to have to add another four I think to get all the relevant instruments in. I started with doing a little study sketch of the Minotaur Harpist (top left) earlier and it has just evolved and snowballed from there! I should of made the figures a lot smaller in heinsight, but I'm enjoying the challenges that this size drawing is throwing at me. At the moment, although you cant see them very well on the picture I have attached, there is about 15 different characters so far, I think I will add another five, else the task will just become to colossal and will take forever to accomplish. If anybody has any interesting: characters, legends, stories, myths, ideas that involve any 'humanoid' characters that would help me, as i'm starting to run a little dry on ideas, it would be much appreciated. I have looked at Indian, Egyptian and Greek mythology mainly for inspiration - any other religions or belief systems that will provide fruitful? 

One thing I have started to sedulously started to look at within this drawing is anatomy. I have my trusty books on hand and I have tried very hard to figure out how these bodies slot together, both human, and animal/beast combined - which is a lot more difficult than I firstly imagined! I'm still struggling a bit, so I think I might need to take a few photos (any volunteers?) to really nail the whole layout of how the bodies react not only with each other, but also with the instruments themselves. 

I hope to get a little bit more done tomorrow so some more pictures should be coming soon, watch this space! 

The Drawing so far!

Faun and Mermaid Cellist and Violist 

Minotaur Harpist

Anubis Double Bass