Figurative illustration and symbolic narrative.
Studio practice, commissioned work, and the ongoing development of Mythos Penta.
MCV Arts is a figurative illustration studio concerned with symbolic narrative and myth-adjacent imagery.
The practice encompasses commissioned work, personal studies, and the long-term narrative and visual development of Mythos Penta, an original illustrated mythology.
Influenced by classical figure work and older folkloric traditions, the studio approaches drawing as both discipline and invocation, where image precedes explanation.
Studio Works
Figure & Studies
Disciplined drawing from life and imagination forms the backbone of the studio’s figurative practice.
Illustration & Narrative
Symbolic and narrative-driven works developed for print, publication, and long-form projects.
Client & Applied Work
Selected commissions across editorial, promotional, and independent contexts.
Mythos Penta. A mythic fantasy.
The Festival of Thryxos
What took you so long?” A pacing and perturbed Veyros gruffed.
He was tall and powerfully built, with long hair the color of sun-bleached wheat that fell past his shoulders in careless waves.
Valisse turned her head slightly, honey still gleaming on her fingers. Several other creatures pleasured themselves as they fawned over the goddess.
“My love,” she said, unhurried, “I’m the goddess of lust. I am not Lord Veyros’ queen, even though you’d like to think that, and besides, my body isn’t claimed by any one man or beast. You know that.”
She grabbed him by the beard and put her face up to his.
Veyros huffed a low laugh and moved closer to her naked body, finally positioning himself between her legs.
“I don’t care who wanders,” he said. “But I care who returns.”
She studied him. Her eyes traced the familiar scars, the thickness of his hands, her hands moving across his broad, hairy chest. The Great Veyros, she thought. Sky God. Bringer of Storms. Impatient child.
“And I always do, my love,” she replied. “That’s the part you like to forget.”
An anthology
Mythos Penta is a five-book illustrated mythic fantasy where gods, goddesses, and mortals are bound by memory, fate, and the choices that echo across worlds.
At its heart, Mythos Penta is a story about transformation, the search for meaning, and the quiet realization that the greatest mysteries are often the ones we carry within ourselves.
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