Paint practice with Africana

AFRICANA

She is quickly becoming my favorite character

ARGOS hue

SATAN

What villian would be more appropriate to be at the top of Africanas rogues gallery than the Fallen One himself ?  As I began writing more volumes of ODDYSEUM, I noticed using the lord of hell more and more. Suddenly it hit me that I wanted him to be Africanas archnemesis. I needed a visual and I soon decided that I couldnt decide exactly what I wanted him to look like soooooo for each name that Satan has and some I made up, I would make a different character. I think there might be about 8 or 9 versions of him at this point. I figure he is evil enough to inhabit that many characters in the ODDYSEUM universe... still gotta figure out his colors, might not go with red. 

the colors of GANESH

                                                       

Action On Paper Comics presents.......

A comic of mythic proportions.  ODDYSEUM chronicles the journey of a young mortal named Africana. She is the errand girl of the gods and she finds herself in more than a little trouble most times. This is the wraparound cover for the 1st volume and Im super excited for this project to be almost ready to go to print.

AFRICANA

GANESH

As the elephant headed hindu god Ganesh is the remover
of obstacles. I can appreciate what a broad stroke that is as far as describing what he does. It leaves so much room for my version to develop as a character. Currently, my Ganesh prefers hiphop and wrestling.  He possesses super strength, teleportation and super enlightenment abilities. He is one of the more positve immortals in the pantheon.

CAIRA

The design phase is sometimes the most fun part of

coming up with characters to populate the universe

 within a comic story. I eventually want to have a sphynx

interact with Africana so I created Caira.

She is a historian as well as the keeper of many historical 

documents relating to the Egyptian pantheon. As an ancient

mystic she is a sorcell of the highest order.

ARGO

The ANGRIEST there is 

When designing the god of war I was inspired by the minimalist style of the spartans 
in the roman culture. I could not decide what kind of footwear to put on him so I
settled on the barefoot look.  His personality is that of an ill tempered powderkeg.
Argo absorbs the aggression of sentient beings and it adds to his already off the 
scale strength and invulnerabilty.