Personal Work: Fenrir

In anticipation for tomorrow's partial solar eclipse I have drawn Fenrir, the fen-dweller. In Norse mythology it is recounted that Fernrir would eat the sun heralding in Ragnarok, the Norse end of times. So whenever a solar eclipse came about the vikings would be convinced that Ragnarok had begun only to be left startled and bemused when nothing actually happened.

Bumbling and incompetent, this sun-sized Fenrir drifts through space attempting to eat stars completely oblivious to the fact that his mouth is too small. 

Inspired by the Norse legend as well as the actuality of the solar eclipse I drew a very spherical Fenrir. Look upon his splendor and weep.

How on Earth the Norse peoples of old could mistake what was clearly a very round object blocking the sun for a large wolf-god is beyond me but it inspired this picture of the Fen-Dweller.