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I wanted to draw another woman with an Afro, but I was stuck on what sort of "theme" to give her to make the portrait more interesting. What I went with, in the end, was naming her "Afrodite" as a play on the name of the Greek love goddess Aphrodite. You could say this is how Aphrodite (or Venus as the Romans called her) would look if her cult were to spread into Africa.

Fun fact: some scholars think the cult of Aphrodite evolved from that of West Asian deities like the Sumerian Inanna, the Babylonian Ishtar, and the Canaanite or Phoenician Astarte.

Description
I wanted to draw another woman with an Afro, but I was stuck on what sort of "theme" to give her to make the portrait more interesting. What I went with, in the end, was naming her "Afrodite" as a play on the name of the Greek love goddess Aphrodite. You could say this is how Aphrodite (or Venus as the Romans called her) would look if her cult were to spread into Africa.

Fun fact: some scholars think the cult of Aphrodite evolved from that of West Asian deities like the Sumerian Inanna, the Babylonian Ishtar, and the Canaanite or Phoenician Astarte.