Applied Illustration: Exploring Greek Mythology - Andromeda

After reading back on my feedback sheet I decided to try and home in on an existing text to illustrate around as it is far easy to illustrate something with developed characters than creating characters and a good storyline for this module. 

I first looked at the story of Andromeda (one a friend had mentioned earlier). In Greek Mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of a king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia, when Cassiopeia boasts that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids (sea nymphs who often accompany Poseidon).  Poseidon sends a sea monster to ravage the kings land, Andromeda is stripped and chained naked to a rock as a sacrifice to the monster but is saved by Perseus. 

I drew a few ideas for monsters and Andromeda for a while but for me the story felt very long and I thought people might get bored reading about it. This lead me to start thinking about modernising a greek tale. Either by changing the time period or by slightly changing the story or the medium it was told on. 

I started to think about the possibility of a web comic and how that would work, I also started to think about creating a small publication.