Historically Accurate Xena Project, WIPs

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An attempt is made at a sizing scale. Here, Xena’s only on 8 heads, where Gabrielle is on a basic 7- a touch tall tall for an Ancient Greek farmgirl. In the background, some armour work. I’m not sure whether to commit to gorgon tiddies. Seems like a very strong statement, really.

Here, Xena sits at a “heroic” 9 heads high. I think this works better for her, but Gaby needs a bit of a boost (to quite tall for her time) not to look like a hobbit in comparison.

Here’s the pose workup for the nice, fully inked and coloured hero shot that’s in the works. I’m exploring a couple options with Xena’s arm position here, but I’m fairly sold on the early hoplite look at this point.

Let’s have an accurate Heracles, while we’re at it. My headcanon is that, mostly to frustrate pissing contests over who’d beat who, that they get along like a house on fire, and whenever they meet, drink and eat the town dry while telling grotesquely exaggerated accounts of their already mind-boggling adventures.

Lastly, it’s ballgown edition, or rather, classical Minoan/Mycenaean garb. The garments strongly look to have had a boned, supportive corset-like component, given the impressive amount of support that these girls seemed to have been getting on bared breasts in sculpture and frescoes. The dense layers of pleating, tassels, embroidery, and patterning of this era are incredibly fun to draw, and incredibly time consuming. 

So there we have it! Nice, inked, full colour pics are in the pipeline; let me know what you think so far, and if there’s anything Xena-related you’d like to see!