SciFi and Fantasy Art: Lamassu

That is way cool I love it. Printed it and my son has it on his school folder.

Those lamassu's you see in ancient babylon guarding the ancient palace and in ancient Assyrians art are actually Jinn's!!! There are some with a lion's head and a horse's body with wings. In Ancient times Men and jinn had contact. Jinns wondered and roamed around during ancient time. Especially King Solomons time. jinn were powerfull things, they can turn into anything they wish and even turn themself into men. Early assyrians thought they were god's so they respected and obeyed them. Thats why the Assyrians carved statues like them. Jinns are usually creatures with mixed animal features, it can be anything. For example the sphinx in Egypt. And the statue of ganesh the hindu elephant head god.Those are actually jinns. Many jinns can turn themselves into men, reallly tall or even tiny. there are many kinds of jinns, which we weak human beings cant see! only for those special ones. DOnt worry people! jinns still are among us till these very day. Only we cant see They mostly live in very isolated area's or different worlds, caves are common places too. Another example of jinn is the Gryphon beast, or egyptian statues of Anubis the jackel head with human body, Or some with crocodile head with human body. and lots more!

That's really cool...I love the texture and the poses in both the lion things. Very good work.

Fantastico! I love it! once again amazed. nice use of colors.

Great picture! I'm actually researching Lamassus right now for school, and it's really cool to see a modern interpretation. I think it's an awesome picture. About Lamassus being religious, I don't see how it's offensive to see an interpretation, as there were artistic interpretations of Lamassus in ancient times. True, the image of a divine being can't be captured, but I think that every artistic interpretation is true because the divine transcends actual form.

That's an awesome pic. But you know the back legs. You know the bone that is connected to the hip well the bone connected to that bone looks a little short on the winged lion. Maybe make it a bit longer. And I agree. It does look a little 1 dimensional. Oh you could add highlights. Not that I'm complaing. It's awesome the way it is. It's better then I can do. So yeah. Just figured I would try to add constructive criticism. Oh and once my gallery is up which should be about Feb. 20th or so you should come check it out and see if you can find anything I need to work on. Of course it won't be much. Only 4 pics. But I'll add more very soon after my gallery is actually up. So yeah. Keep drawing cuz your stuff is awesome.

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Your drawing is really great. Good job!

Leogriff = a lion possessing the wings of an eagle. When you cross a female griffin with a male lion the majority of their offspring will be leogriffs.