Zeus - Watercolor Pencil and Ink

So I wanted to do a drawing for my week with researching and learning about Zeus. So I found an image off www.theoi.com of Zeus from a vase and decided to try and give it a shot. It seems that the majority of early paintings of Zeus were pretty simple and not too complicated.

My version seems to have turned out a bit cartoony, but all in all, not the white haired dude chillin' on Mt. Olympus that I had imagined.

I'm not a drawer or painter by any stretch of the imagination, but I wanted to try anyways.

First come the mediocre sketches with a #2 pencil.

Then, I picked the wider one vs. the taller so you could see his arms. And I started filling in with water color pencils.

....and promptly remembered I should have outlined in ink first.

Continuing with the colored pencils, dseciding on this orange for the background because I thought it was a good "vase" color.

This is the picture all colored in with watercolor pencils.

The picture after the brushes did their pass over the pigment.

I really do like how it turned out, despite the cartoony nature of it. But I got some good insight into Zeus and I really think he appreciates the effort I put in to try and understand him.