Credits

• Portrait photography by GianOrso
• Concept, design, illustration, additional and photography by Yanko Tsvetkov
• Model: Javier
• Equipment: Nikon D200
• Software: Photoshop, Illustrator

©2007 by AlphaDesigner/GianOrso. All rights reserved.

Web Links

• Theogony set on Flickr
• Poseidon on Wikipedia
• Poseidon on Encyclopedia Mythica
• Blog post on AlphaDesigner Blogue

Case Study

Review

God of the sea, Poseidon holds Gaia in his tight, wet embrace. Both of them can't exist separated - the land becomes barren if water withdraws and water spills and freezes in the vacuum space if there's no land to support it. Like the male cannot exist without the female, water and land are bound for life.

Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Poseidon (Greek: Ποσειδών; Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea, as well as of horses and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology; both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon. Linear B graffiti show that Poseidon was venerated at Pylos and Thebes in pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, but he was integrated into the Olympian gods as the brother of Zeus and Hades.

See Wikipedia, Poseidon, (as of Feb. 29, 2008).

Final Artwork

• Neptune Dehydrated on Flickr