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Fanart - Alecto!

Published: June 24th 2023, 4:20:37 am

Come on Barbie, let's go party!

I've put a lot of effort into this picture that will be incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't read Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb book series! This is Alecto-- she's just woken up from a very, very long forced nap, and she's not happy.

This character in the books is described as looking like Hollywood Hair Barbie, and I gave her the hair, but also beefed her up a little, so she'd look a bit more imposing and like she could do some serious damage with that sword. And since Alecto is on a mission of well-deserved revenge, I also wanted her to be reminiscent of Judith in Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith Slaying Holofernes: