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Published: 2020-04-05 22:54:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 2423; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 0
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I sketched this at a beach house a while back, but didn't get around to coloring and lining it until recently.For those of you who don't know, Sobek (also called Sebek, Sochet, Sobk, and Sobki) was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and fluid nature. He's associated with the Nile crocodile or the West African crocodile, and is often represented in either the creature's form or as a man with the head of a crocodile. Sobek's also associated with pharaonic power, fertility and military prowess, but also served as a protective deity that warded off dangerous forces, invoked particularly against the dangers of the Nile.
For the colors, I used a watercolor brush in photoshop, but being the guy I am, I didn't stop until the color was solid (mostly). When it comes to his form, I more or less went with an anthro approach because why not, and I tried to color him like a Nile crocodile (light yellow in the front and grey-ish green on the back), and included digitigrade feet.
As always, let me know what you all think in the comments below, PM/DM me if you'd like a commission made, and have a most wonderful day, everyone!
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Technically, he didn’t have hair in the first place, as that was just a headpiece. If you want a crocodile-headed ancient Egyptian creature that did have some hair, check out Ammit.
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This looks pretty good. Do you plan on digitally drawing it?
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Thanks. Actually, I sketched it in IRL, scanned it, colored, and then digitally drew over it.
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Now you know. What else do you think?
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I think it looks pretty good. Not my style but pretty good.
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Isis: Sobek watcha got there?
Sobek, has Osiris’ limps in his mouth: a smoothie
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I bet Osiris is asking if he’s chopped liver.
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He’s having a really bad day so far.
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Yeah, betrayed, killed, and usurped by his evil brother, and his wife has to search all over for his remains so they can get their freak on.
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And having a naked crocodile man eat him for a snack.
You think Set would take selfies with Osiris’ body parts with the caption ‘out here living my best life’
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Yep. Bad day.
And make damning evidence that pins him as the killer? Maybe he’s not so dumb.
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At least he got to be king of the dead.
He’d risk it all to gloat about it. And then Anubis, who’s standing by the body says ‘dad this is a funeral’
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Yep, and his son gets to be king of the living.
Of course, that depends on which version of the story you’re looking at.
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‘Perfectly balanced’ (sorry)
He’d still tell him he’s being disrespectful.
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Couldn’t resist?
Probably, whether Anubis is Set’s legitimate son or Osiris’ illegitimate son.
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No, and I feel bad for it.
It’s his uncle regardless.
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That made me feel a little better thanks.
I feel like you could have a sitcom drama history involving any mythology and it would probably be a gem of some sort.
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Anytime.
Probably, though you’d have to consider the fact that these mythologies were and are a part of someone’s belief system. Some are ancient and the people who worshipped them are long dead, but some groups of people have made efforts to revive the old religions, though in ways that still appropriate from old sources.
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Yeah I know. I’m not trying to make fun of any bodies beliefs, I’m just saying mythologies ridiculous in a sitcom kind of way.
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I know, I’m just saying be careful. Yeah, it kind of is, and part of what makes them that way is the context of when and where they were written.
One example of bad appropriation I’ve heard of is with the Navajo figure called the Skin-Walker. A lot of people think it’s the Native American version of a werewolf or a shapeshifter, but it’s neither. I admit that I don’t know everything about the Skin-Walker, but from what I do know, it’s a very harmful witch and the Navajo don’t like talking about it.
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I will. Yeah, the inconsistencies are kind of amusing.
I’ve heard of the Skin Walkers. I wouldn’t bring it up.
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Indeed it is. The story of Arachne is pretty damning of Athena, but that’s because the guy who wrote the story, Ovid, was holding a grudge against authority due to his own mistreatment. As such, his stories painted the gods as abusive tyrants and the mortals they punish as unappreciated geniuses.
Right, sorry.
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Yee. Yeah I know about Ovids character slaughtering and Athena and Ares basically got their personalities switched. I didn’t know about his prior history.
It’s fine. I only know about them from Mythology and Fiction explained’s video about it as well as another YouTube video from a scary story channel I used to watch.
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Apparently, he got kicked out of Rome due to criticisms against the system as well as sleeping with the emperor’s daughter.
I’ve seen some of those videos. Lately I’ve been checking out YouTube videos where a guy reads the accounts of people who’ve encountered dogmen.
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That seems fair.
He tells the stories pretty well, I also like that he actually adds his own thoughts and some funny skits into the videos. I had to look up what those are but that’s cool. Most of my YouTube stuff has involved Jenna Marbles’ videos, funny reviews, behind the scenes comic stuff and some ambience ASMRs for when I’m reading or doing chores. I’ve also been binging Forensic files since discovering it.
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Mhmm, but it’s still him putting his own biased perspective on it. The valid ones are when Zeus and Hera mess up some poor woman’s life.
From what I’ve heard in the dogman encounters, I’ve noticed some recurring elements:
- The dogmen bear a strong resemblance to werewolves seen in Van Helsing and Bad Moon (except with tails)
- The dogmen stink (mixture of wet dog and piss among other things)
- The creatures are intelligent enough to know what doors are and how they work
- The full moon’s got nothing to do with anything
- The creatures have some degree of human-like expression, such as grinning and frowning
- While territorial, the Dogmen always seem to let the people they encounter go unharmed, if a little shaken
- There’s speculation that they’re a unique species of canids, and don’t transform into people
- When a dogman howls, it sounds like a mixture of a wolf howl and a human screaming
A lot of mine involve checking out some clips from different things, listening to rock music, and lately I’ve discovered and been binge-watching the channel Bedtime Stories. They tell stories of the paranormal and give speculation about it, kind of like Buzzfeed Unsolved, only without jokes and with moving black-&-white illustrations. They’re who got me hooked on the Dogman recently, and I hear there are more dogmen sightings than Bigfoot.
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‘Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. Your cool. And fuck you I’m out.’
-Ovid.
That’s at least good.
These dog men sound very interesting and strange.
Your options sound good, I also watch vines and tiktoks on there. Ah, seems like I might like it when it’s not seven pm I might check them out. So Dogmen are less endangered than Bigfoot.
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Pretty much.
Very, and pardon me, but I forgot to mention another commonality - they’re always described as being very tall when standing on 2 legs, like easily 7 or 8 feet. Plus, shooting them only pisses them off. I’m still trying to imagine how a dogman smiles.
I’ve heard of tiktoks, but I don’t know about it. Enjoy! Yeah, though one encounter mentioned a dogman getting into a turf fight with a male and female Sasquatch before running off because he was outnumbered and outmuscled by them.
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Wow. I’d be pissed off too if I was minding my own business and someone decided to shoot at me randomly. What kind of smile, smug, happy, your gonna die?
It’s kind of like vine in that you can make short videos and share it with people on the app, but with a few added filters like a bonk filter where a hammer is placed over a photoshopped head with a funny noise. There are some cringey videos you probably wouldn’t like. You can look up some complications on YouTube if you want an example.
I will, one thing would you describe the videos as being particularly scary? That sounds kind of funny. Like it was probably scary for the dude watching it
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Mighty big, huh? Probably, but since that’s all shooting them does, it’s often warned not to do that when meeting a dogman. IDK, the people just said that the dogmen smiled and it made them feel even more scared.
Sounds wacky. Thanks for the warning. I might.
At the very least, they’re spooky, and the illustrations are nothing to laugh at. It is if you look at it that way, though one advantage the Dogman had was that he was taller than his opponents, but muscle and numbers make a bigger difference. It was, and the guy said he was a retired park ranger (I think) who saw all this before he called it quits. He did encounter the Dogman before, as he’d interrupted the thing’s meal once, and in return, the Dogman left a severed dear head at the guy’s truck and had pissed on the tire, effectively telling him to stay out of its territory.
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Yes. I’d just walk away slowly and hope it doesn’t see me. So sinister looking but probably more so caused by uncertainty.
They’re usually mixed bags but it all kind of depends on your sense of humour.
Thanks for the warning, I’ll give one a try and see how I feel about it. True, still I think it’s cool that those two species have encountered one another. Well that’s..... something. I don’t know how I’d react to that in person other than scream, quit and then move to a city without any nearby forest areas.
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Good idea, and I’ve heard it’s not good to run from large predators. Pretty much. Another thing is that, when a dogman is near, there’s an uneasiness in the air and everything is unnervingly quiet.
Well, humor is subjective.
Let me know what you think. That it is, and from what the guy said, the Sasquatches were less aggressive than the Dogman. Funnily enough, that’s what most people with dogman encounters said they did, or at least when they could and chose not to go back to those areas.
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I did not know that, thanks for telling me. That sounds like something out of a horror movie.
True.
I will. So they were holding back or just didn’t feel like dealing with him today. If someone threatened me with a dead animal on my porch I would do the same, and then I’d call the cops (if it was definitely a person that did it)
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You're welcome. Heh, yeah, it kind of does, but that doesn't mean it's not true. After all, would you want to make noises when a large predator is nearby?
Or the sasquatches could tell who was more of a threat: park ranger just observing your habits from a distance, or a dogman trying to muscle his way into the territory? You be the judge!
The cops would probably ask for proof and whatnot. Still, having that sort of thing happen would be unsettling, to say the least, and gets the message loud and clear, "Stay out of my turf and never interrupt my meals again!"
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Not until someone sets a trap for one and shows it to some scientists, which you probably shouldn’t do. No not really. Oh and fun story one time when I was younger my family went camping and we saw two bears not far from our campsite, one of them was a baby. We didn’t approach them but it was a cool experience.
I feel like both would be a bad way to start your weekend. I feel like the dog man would be more threatening, especially if he’s done this. The park ranger is probably just their neighbour who never interacts with them personally.
There’s a severed animal head on my porch. I’d throw up and then take a shower. Better than just renewing scent marks every week.
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Yeah, it's dangerous to mess with dogmen, as they appear to be both very strong and intelligent. That is cool, I'm glad you were all okay.
Very much so, and he ended his tale with him wondering if he should tell the next guy who takes over his job since he's now retired. Yep! Yeah, he was smart enough to keep his distance from them.
True, it's just I remember a line from Tremors 3 where a guy said this to the Feds, "You guys do what you do best! Find something simple and complicate it!" I wouldn't blame you. And you know how dogs and wolves usually mark their territory.
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I’ll heed your advice in case I ever see one. Thanks.
Why is he contemplating it? Just tell them!! Well at least he’s safe.
Has anybody said that to Grant Morrison? XD By pissing on it.
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You're welcome.
I think it's due to the "are they going to believe me?" factor. That he is.
HAH!! Not that I know of. Yep, can't miss that whiff.
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You ever had an encounter like that?
Still he could at least warn the person that they have some unusual animals hanging around and that he probably shouldn’t shoot at it.
Someone should at least get him a mug with that quote for a secret Santa gift. I’ve never smelt it before but I imagine it doesn’t smell great.
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I can't say I have, but I did use to camp a bit with my folks and my grandparents back when I was little. I went kayaking one time and fell out, and I thought I felt some fish brush up against my leg, creeping me out a bit since I was pretty jumpy back then.
Most likely. Would you warn them?
It'd have to be a custom made one. Probably not.
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That’s fun, I went on a camping field trip for school once and I went kayaking too. Fish do generally feel kind of nasty so I can’t really blame you. Oh and I often went camping at the site where they filmed the camp half blood scenes for the Percy Jackson movies, it’s called Golden Ears provincial park.
Would you not?
When you take pottery classes just to have a jab at someone. Eh
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Thanks. Cool!
I would, and follow up his laughter with a "Don't say I didn't warn you."
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Welcome, thanks. There’s also a bridge leading to the beach area where you can look down and see where Logan Lerman and Alexandra Daddario filmed the fight scene between them in the first movie.
And then you’ll call everyone once in a while to see how things are doing and hope the guy saw it.
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Nice. I bet there's some reenactment going on from time-to-time.
Probably, though I'd ask if the guy still works there first.
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I haven’t been there in a long time so I wouldn’t know. Still it’s a really nice place to go hang out.
Maybe. Also I just finished watching the video about it. I thought it was cool, the visuals were really neat. I didn’t feel too freaked out but I’ll wait a little bit to see if I want to keep watching their stuff
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I would think so.
Do you mean the one about the Michigan Dogman?
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Also in case you do ever go there, obviously when the quarantines done, and cross the bridge keep an eye out for a red and white fishing bobber, cause that was my doing.
Yes.
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