Gods and mortals

As always life's been a bit too busy to post over here.  If you're following me on Tumblr you've already seen all of these, but I like to spread out my stuff. 

Aphrodite, Cupid's mother and the villain of our story.  She's not entirely bad, as she does love her son and most of her actions towards Psyche (or some of them at any rate) are done in the belief that she is not good enough for him.  She's sort of the mother-in-law from hell.

Ares, god of war and possibly Cupid's biological father.  I haven 't fully decided on that.  He's an act first think second kind of guy, with a quick, pretty explosive temper.  However when he's in a good mood, he's a pretty good guy.

Persephone's mom.  We probably won't see her except in passing.  I had to crop her role out as it slowed down the story and I just wanted to get to the confrontation between Psyche and Aphrodite at Aphrodite's temple.

Psyche's oldest sister.  Psyche's sister's are described as being unattractive.  I liked the idea that they were alright looking girls who overcompensated with clothes, jewelry, and make up where Psyche was simple.  Charis is a Greek name meaning "grace, kindness" which aren't necessarily traits I'd ascribe to her.  She's the more hot headed of the three sisters.

Psyche's next oldest sister.  Costume wise I decided to have the main colors of Charis and Melitta's clothes fall to either side of Psyche's on the color spectrum.  Melitta generally has a cooler head than Charis.  Melitta is an ancient Greek version of the name, Melissa, which means "bee" and Melitta likes to think of herself as and tries to be the queen bee of the group.

I'm off to London later this week, so I'll try to post again when I get back.  I'm participating in Inktober over on my Instagram, so I'll try and cross-post some of my stuff over here then as well.