Sunday, May 2, 2010

Gilgamesh and His Last Acts


The second piece to the Legendary Leader Gilgamesh. I took two different telling of the endings and put them together here, the first is Gilgamesh went and found a man that could bring others back to life after Enkidu died and Gilgamesh went to find immortality. After a long journey the man promised to teach Gilgamesh the secret but only if he stayed awake for 10 days, but as soon as they stopped talking Gilgamesh fell asleep for 7 days. So to make sure he couldn't deny his failure he had his wife bake a loaf of bread for every day he was asleep. When he awoke he saw the bread and left. The other ending is where the gods crack the ground so that Gilgamesh can see Enkidu again and his spirit comes up to tell Gilgamesh about hell.

done in Photoshop and Painter,