Eros, God of Life

Whoa mamma, I'm finally done! For a quicky sketch thing this sure took a lot of effort.

Concept/Background Tiem:

Eros, the Ancient Greek god of Love actually has some pretty giaganto roots. He was originally a primordial god who "came from Chaos and called all of Cosmos into existence" (who was either born from or married to Nyx, depending on the creation mythos. Born from he's called "Phanes", and married to he's "Protogonus" - "one who came first"). He wasn't just god of love, but THE God of life, the living force and creation (which I guess can be shoehorned into "passionate eternal love/sexy times" - babbies come from where). He also had an epic long battle with Chaos at some point in time.

So anyways, I took this and ran a mile with it for my story (two, actually). He's the most powerful god, one of the three primordial gods who came from the Unity and separated to establish a unique identity, which in turn sort of... created the universe. Yeah, Big Boom. There's a lot more random spiritual fluff here about gods and the Unity, that takes up several pages, so I won't go into it. The universe exists because he's locked in pretty much an eternal battle with Chaos/Entropy, and when he loses, as he always does, the current universe goes crunch. Somewhere down the line when he's rested, another one forms.

That random grey thing in the back is actually his true form. Because he's a primordial god who existed before anything else, he and his two siblings have some pretty random... manifestations. Eros is a giant ring, signifying eternity, that orbits his favourite planet somewhere in the oooniverse. His human form is merely a little projection, like one of those glowing lights on the heads of deep-sea fish, so he could better communicate with humans for whom he has a certain... weakness. As I previous mentioned, other than humans, things less significant than a galaxy exploding aren't... particularly interesting to him. Well, lots of stuff on his plate, what can you say.

He's got funky eyes because you can see the universe in them.

Anyways, it's still pretty quickly-done all things considered... And closer to the end I was just like lalalaohhhhthislookslikefunlet'sdoit. Hence the random purple/blue lighting in his hair. I also don't have ofc what he's wearing. Originally he was supposed to be naked, but I've been doing way too many nekkid sketches recently and it sort of felt cop-out-ish. So I tried something grecian... Was it Greece where they were purple for royalty, or Rome? Grade 8 was too long ago.

Anyways, some content (c) me.
Brushes - namely, the galaxy, is from *redheadstock