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Wow, I almost forgot about this... it's been sitting on my hard drive for like two months.

Anyways, this is from when I was trying to figure out Ampelus's character design for the Dionysus and Ampelus pic (why yes, those would be the lines I worked off of in the monotone one in the middle there). Ampelus was Dio's first love, a shepherd near where Dio was raised during his goat years. And, like many of Dio's loves, he died a tragic death.

However, Dio's tears transmuted him into the first grapevine, where he's continued to live on. In chat!RP, we've already established that transmuted folk aren't actually dead, but still there in spirit, which is pretty much how Ampelus exists these days. On the bright side, he gets to have contact with anyone who gets drunk off wine made from his particular type of grape, which has been cultivated by the satyrs at Silenus's vineyard in RP. Which gave me an excuse to draw him in modern clothes.

He's a different kind of satyr from the type I usually draw. I had a few reasons for that. For one thing, there are several kinds of satyrs depicted in ancient Greek artwork, ranging from my normal goat-legged kinds to ones with just the tails, ears and horns, and since going by the myths, Ampelus is an avid tree climber, it made more sense to me to have him be the latter kind of satyr.

Lower right is intentionally left unshaded, btw. Since I used a gradient for his tail and ears, I wanted an unshaded base in case I ever draw him again.

Description
Wow, I almost forgot about this... it's been sitting on my hard drive for like two months.

Anyways, this is from when I was trying to figure out Ampelus's character design for the Dionysus and Ampelus pic (why yes, those would be the lines I worked off of in the monotone one in the middle there). Ampelus was Dio's first love, a shepherd near where Dio was raised during his goat years. And, like many of Dio's loves, he died a tragic death.

However, Dio's tears transmuted him into the first grapevine, where he's continued to live on. In chat!RP, we've already established that transmuted folk aren't actually dead, but still there in spirit, which is pretty much how Ampelus exists these days. On the bright side, he gets to have contact with anyone who gets drunk off wine made from his particular type of grape, which has been cultivated by the satyrs at Silenus's vineyard in RP. Which gave me an excuse to draw him in modern clothes.

He's a different kind of satyr from the type I usually draw. I had a few reasons for that. For one thing, there are several kinds of satyrs depicted in ancient Greek artwork, ranging from my normal goat-legged kinds to ones with just the tails, ears and horns, and since going by the myths, Ampelus is an avid tree climber, it made more sense to me to have him be the latter kind of satyr.

Lower right is intentionally left unshaded, btw. Since I used a gradient for his tail and ears, I wanted an unshaded base in case I ever draw him again.