Janus

This started as a morning 3d doodle in Nomad Sculpt one morning after breakfast. Originally it had four insect-like legs, and no skull or faces. Later I sat and doodled while in a teams meeting, and found an odd looking head. Took it into Procreate and started playing with it. Hm, I thought to myself, might I combine this with that old 3d sculpt? So I mirrored it, moved it around, sketched, and boom! Janus was born. This is a very different take on Janus, the Greek God of portals, history, gateways.... He is usually pictured with two faces facing in opposite directions. One looking into the future, and the other looking to the past. Mine is faced towards each other, looking at it self. Do we humans really learn from our history, and use this knowledge to look forward into the future? Made in Procreate on iPad 12.9 with apple pencil and my own pencil brushes.

Janus the divine keeper of the past and future The watcher of portals reminding his subjects to look into the future with the knowledge of the past Humankind the self obsessed the short sighted denied their God his rights to look beyond himself