My entry for contest "Titans of Myth" ([link])

Whew, I've done it in time T_T Normally I don't enter contests in busy times like this, but I found the contest theme SO inspiring, I couldn't help to draw something.

The first thing I thought when I read the contest news was "I want something Egyptian", because of my everlasting love for Egyptology I have since I was 13 or so. Having Starfie dressed as Bastet is the first thing that crossed my mind, then I went through the whole Egyptian Pantheon just to return to my original idea
Of course, being Bastet a zoomorphic deity, it would have been hard to guess the character with a cat head, so I opted for some simpler cat ears XD For the rest... well, I wish I had time to research more... The stick is RANDOM. I've seen such stylized staffs somewhere, I hadn't any reference handy and I went totally random. I just wanted to have her holding something. I wanted to draw a systrum (sp?) at first but I hadn't time to search for refs. T_T (it's a musical instrument)
Anyway I've inserted other elements of Bastet iconography:
- The red dress: Bastet was often portrayed in red dresses. It seems also her priestesses in Per-Bastet (Bubastis) dressed in red.
- The solar disk: Bastet was a solar goddess, although in later times the Greeks had to mix their Pantheon with the Egyptian one and turned her into a lunar goddess identifying her with Artemis. Anyway Bastet is daughter of Ra and was supposed to be a solar goddess, just like all the other feline deities (like Sekhmet)
- The Ankh: it's common to all deities, symbol of life.

Bastet is a goddess dedicated to love, fun, and femininity, but she's also a warrior goddess, remembering her ancient leonine origin. I thought this was fitting with the character.

The dress was originally supposed to wrap over her breast and be strapeless, but then my eye fell on some pictures in my books where Egyptian women had all their boobs out of the dress, so I recalled Starfie's original costume used in the comics ([link]) and I thought she wouldn't mind something a bit sexier XD

I also wanted to make some hieroglyph BG, but hadn't enough time (I even have an Egyptian grammar and dictionary book, I could have made up sentences with a meaning, but I would have needed too much time T_T)

That's it. Done in brown India ink+watercolors+Acrylic retouches.

I should buy more watercolor hues.

Starfire © DC Comics, Warner Bros, Cartoon Network.

[EDIT] And now that I submitted, the deadline was extended of a week XD Maybe I will retouch it more next week XD)