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Hades kidnaps Persephone and the first winter comes to the world.

I wasn't so faithful to the story because of some personal issues. I need to do some explaining about the big dark mass that is Hades. Ever since my first read through Greek myths I absolutely hated Zeus; he's the most evil of the lot! After going through a lot of the myths I decided that Hades is the best out of the three brothers; when you have the prospect of spending eternity in his dark realm I can understand the hate against him, but since I read the myths as literature and had no fear of the underworld I liked him(even though he's guilty of accepting the worst case of incest ) I had a problem then: on all the depictions I could find he looks exactly like Zeus with slightly darker hair and I couldn't accept any kind of resemblance between a character I liked and a character I hated. So I was in need of a new look for him so I dug through the underworld descriptions and it struck me that he didn't need to have a form, since he rules over a world of shadows. Gods change their form as it pleases them anyway so I thought that he would be like a shadow, a little more corporeal than the others and way darker as well for the scare factor, but still a shadow with no clear form. I used to imagine that he started to favor a human-like form after the marriage to Persephone since he's among the few that are faithful to their wives and that actually care about their well-being and opinions. Yeah I was a little girl who liked fairy tales had to throw in some fluff.

I used a pose from this site for reference->Link I can't find the exact one
Pen and ink on paper.

Description
Hades kidnaps Persephone and the first winter comes to the world.

I wasn't so faithful to the story because of some personal issues. I need to do some explaining about the big dark mass that is Hades. Ever since my first read through Greek myths I absolutely hated Zeus; he's the most evil of the lot! After going through a lot of the myths I decided that Hades is the best out of the three brothers; when you have the prospect of spending eternity in his dark realm I can understand the hate against him, but since I read the myths as literature and had no fear of the underworld I liked him(even though he's guilty of accepting the worst case of incest ) I had a problem then: on all the depictions I could find he looks exactly like Zeus with slightly darker hair and I couldn't accept any kind of resemblance between a character I liked and a character I hated. So I was in need of a new look for him so I dug through the underworld descriptions and it struck me that he didn't need to have a form, since he rules over a world of shadows. Gods change their form as it pleases them anyway so I thought that he would be like a shadow, a little more corporeal than the others and way darker as well for the scare factor, but still a shadow with no clear form. I used to imagine that he started to favor a human-like form after the marriage to Persephone since he's among the few that are faithful to their wives and that actually care about their well-being and opinions. Yeah I was a little girl who liked fairy tales had to throw in some fluff.

I used a pose from this site for reference->Link I can't find the exact one
Pen and ink on paper.