A Storm of Swords - The Harpy -

A Storm of Swords – The Harpy

While Daenerys is getting her VIP presentation of the Unsullied, she is distracted by the daunting 20-foot-tall bronze statue of the Harpy of Astapor in a fountain.

My only question to myself was how realistic the harpy should be. At first, I was planning to make it look stylized and base it on the Burney Relief, the Babylonian statue everybody associates with Lilith. But after thinking about it for a while, I decided Old Ghis was to Greece what Valeria was to Rome. So, I thought Hellenic photographic realism would be appropriate.

ASOIAF a song of ice and fire storm of swords statue illustration pen and ink fountain harpy astapor — In the center of the Plaza of Pride stood a red brick fountain whose waters smelled of brimstone, and in the center of the fountain a monstrous harpy made of hammered bronze. Twenty feet tall she reared. She had a woman’s face, with gilded hair, ivory eyes, and pointed ivory teeth. Water gushed yellow from her heavy breasts. But in place of arms she had the wings of a bat or a dragon, her legs were the legs of an eagle, and behind she wore a scorpion’s curled and venomous tail.
Daenerys II -pg 311

September 27, 2022

Wpmorse

in Illustration, Pen and Ink

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