Alex Yates ILLUSTRATIONS: mythology

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the rape of Persephone

dry point print of Hades and Persephone

Persephone, the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Demeter, kidnapped by Hades and taken to the underworld.

while Persephone was gone her mother( the goddess of the harvest and the fertility of the earth.) stricken by grief and anger stopped providing life to the crops bringing forth a plague on humanity. Zeus made a deal with Demeter and Hades to end the plague, Persephone could not leave the underworld completely she was bound there for a section of the year, at the beginning of every autumn she would descend to the underworld were she will stay untill the start of spring. in the time shes gone her mother Demeter would not bring life to the crops and a season a darkness would remaining each year.

a tribute to the cold weather we are having

jinn drypoint

part of my demonology print project

pagan whore demon

drypoint print

kind of a little etching doodle

not much too it,

this perticular print came out dark so i worked into it with white

xenomorph drypoint print

finally my alien dry point is completed

its been along time coming, originally etched earlier in the summer but had to wait awhile to print it

death

the grim reaper...

its avalible to buy in my online shirt store

and a signed a4 print is available from my print store

shirt designs

these are two desgins i did for a mythical creature based tee design competition on

deviant art... if anyone is on devaint art you can vote them here

Cthulhu

jinkininki

jikininki
hungry ghosts
spirts of selfish people, who feed on the flesh of human corpses
folklore from Japanese Buddhism#

i used my recently printed cthulhu dry point print to enter the contest

cthulhu dry point print

cthulhu

all hail Cthulhu

im going to be doing a demonology print project next year this was a piece in development for that

if anyone wants one then feel free to email me.

death metal illustrations

these are a few samples of early illustrations from my a-z of death metal series click below to see the full set of awesomeness
a-z of death metal series

lies

addiction