I had an urge to draw a dryad recently, I guess because after reading the ‘Belgariad’ by David Eddings I realised that his interpretation of them is totally different from what I had imagined. Eddings’ dryads are small, feisty childlike beings, whereas I had always imagined them as beautiful wild women with a sort of predatorial sexuality about them. It’s kinda cool thinking about how everyone has a slightly different take on things hidden in their minds. Anyway here’s what I came up with! I’d love to hear what you guys think, and what you’ve imagined!
I love this!
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Hey that’s awesome! She has the same expression as a big lazy cat in idle mode while she waits for prey to pass under her that’s it’s worth her while to jump on.
I’ve imagined Dryads as diaphanous vamps with urns on one shoulder, wandering around filling up Bacchus’s wine bucket.
I like yours better. Bacchus beware.
Thanx guys!
I’m glad you picked up on the lazy cat thing, that’s what i was going for, wild and unpredictable (like nature!). When I read your interpretation i got a funny image in my head of Bacchus as a hip-hop pimp with his ethereal dryad ‘bitches’ shaking their booties around him (heh shows what culture i grew up in!)
I hadn’t even thought of them in that way, but i suppose they are originally from Greek mythology. Now I can imagine the Greek-style dress with flowing layers caught about the waist and pinned at the shoulders (sorry I’m rambling
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I have been told I am a wood nymph/dryad (my “otherkin” identity), and this is very much like me. I have done this very same thing, in almost the same pose, and I am catlike. Thanks for sketching what you see.