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Description Couple of things here:

The first is that this piece is the second in a series of pieces I was challenged to do after a long religious debate with some friends, speculating on what dieties/powers in the biblical based religions might possibly be female. And what *my* take on them would be. I chose to do the four horsemen of the apocalypse, obviously loosing the horses entirely and reverting ' pestilence' back to 'strife' (or the king of kings) for a variety of reasons. This isn't intended as an insult to any religions based on the bible, it's just... speculation among friends.

The first one I did was "Famine" which can be found here: [link]
The second was "War" which can be found here: [link]

Next... Many thanks to =ladydove7 who was willing to put her lovely bod on the line for me, and let me pose her however my little heart desired until the piece took shape. And for kindly refraining from posting the actual stock photo I was using as reference until after I was done. Once she posts it, I'll edit this description with the link to it. However on her stock account she has many of the 'rejects' from the photo shoot. They're worth checking out! Edit: here it is! [link]

Finally, this piece was actually scrapped at one point, thrown away. I have eternal gratitude to *Zephyri for sitting with me while I whined about incompetence and ineptness and mediocrity, and helping with redlining over the errors that were causing me so much grief.

Watercolors and colored pencils.

Limited edition prints are available through me.
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Comments: 475

Fiery-Fire [2009-11-27 04:40:37 +0000 UTC]

One or more of your amazing artworks has been featured in my newest Journal
"Frac-Tarot" >> [link]

If you don't wish to be featured please let me know and I will remove your deviation.

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to Fiery-Fire [2009-11-30 23:14:30 +0000 UTC]

that's so cool, thanks!

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Fiery-Fire In reply to JessicaMDouglas [2009-12-01 17:08:53 +0000 UTC]

You welcome ss

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maiwand85 [2009-11-21 04:47:33 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this is beautiful! Its interesting that the little fire type things actually remind me of persian miniature style painting. Is it inspired by persian miniature or is it just the way you make fire?

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to maiwand85 [2009-11-21 04:50:14 +0000 UTC]

I.. don't.. even know what a persian miniature style painting is O.o

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maiwand85 In reply to JessicaMDouglas [2009-11-21 07:08:30 +0000 UTC]

Well im a fine arts student in the National College of Arts in Lahore pakistan, and im learning how to paint miniature paintings. It sort of reminded me of it. This type of painting is similar to biblic manuscript paintings, normally illustrating a story or a legend.

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to maiwand85 [2009-12-18 09:23:23 +0000 UTC]

lol well.. it's been roughly fifteen years since I was in college. So most of what I learned back then I've TOTALLY forgotten *grin* But I'll take that as a compliment!

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Rule404 [2009-11-17 17:56:48 +0000 UTC]

The wings are so beautiful, and I love her hair!

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to Rule404 [2009-11-20 11:51:57 +0000 UTC]

thanks sweets

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PandasRampage [2009-10-03 00:59:54 +0000 UTC]

Wow! This is soo beautiful. I love almost everything about this picture.

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to PandasRampage [2009-11-10 09:35:38 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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Kulot [2009-07-18 12:21:34 +0000 UTC]

thats sooo beautiful

more power

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to Kulot [2009-07-18 23:31:48 +0000 UTC]

thank you!

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Kulot In reply to JessicaMDouglas [2009-07-19 07:46:37 +0000 UTC]

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seleina-scorpio [2009-06-24 19:59:51 +0000 UTC]

the link that goes to famine dosent work

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to seleina-scorpio [2009-07-10 20:03:49 +0000 UTC]

ah that's because it's one of the images I deleted off of deviant. Here, famine can be found here: [link]


And thanks for letting me know so I can fix that!

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Evil-Urd [2009-05-24 19:11:03 +0000 UTC]

Oh Gorgeous colors.

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to Evil-Urd [2009-09-27 23:25:06 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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Evil-Urd In reply to JessicaMDouglas [2009-09-28 04:04:34 +0000 UTC]

you are welcome

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SoulAgainstSoul [2009-05-19 12:18:50 +0000 UTC]

That's brilliant =] I love it. I love how you've stayed away from the usual, cliched colours associated with death and, in particularly, the apocalypse.

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to SoulAgainstSoul [2009-09-27 23:23:52 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much.

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momofrappachino [2009-03-04 15:13:28 +0000 UTC]

i like this, you've managed not to make it the typical apocolypse drawing (all firey and bloody)

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to momofrappachino [2009-07-17 20:32:24 +0000 UTC]

thank you very much

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zjlht [2009-01-31 00:48:52 +0000 UTC]

I love it! The hair and wings especially

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to zjlht [2009-07-11 17:30:48 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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suffocatingXsights [2009-01-07 02:09:21 +0000 UTC]

I absolutely love her wings and the expression. ,D

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to suffocatingXsights [2009-01-12 15:49:49 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Villa-Chinchilla [2008-12-03 19:20:36 +0000 UTC]

Great work~
This is so amazing. I just went WOW when I saw it.

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to Villa-Chinchilla [2009-01-05 05:50:15 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Villa-Chinchilla In reply to JessicaMDouglas [2009-01-11 21:40:21 +0000 UTC]

welcome welcome

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Hettar7 [2008-11-30 01:58:58 +0000 UTC]

Your rock face turned out really good. I love how there's the chiseled outline of wings on the rock right behind her wings. A nice accent. The little swirley blue things kind of confused me at first, until I figured out that they were souls of the dead. And I really like that her expression isn't mean or bloodthirsty. In fact, it's almost .... Calm. It fits Death better. Death takes life because that's what it does, not because it enjoys it. It just is.

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to Hettar7 [2009-01-05 06:07:08 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much!

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foxybee [2008-11-24 11:46:28 +0000 UTC]

sooooo luv it!

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to foxybee [2008-11-24 21:01:17 +0000 UTC]

thank you!

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morbid-little-girl [2008-11-18 23:35:00 +0000 UTC]

Hey! I'm watching you, how'd I miss this one?????
This is amazing, I love it. Especially the wings

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to morbid-little-girl [2008-11-18 23:49:54 +0000 UTC]

because I am sneaky like neenja?

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morbid-little-girl In reply to JessicaMDouglas [2008-11-19 00:11:49 +0000 UTC]

lol That must be it

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Silinde-Ar-Feiniel [2008-11-14 01:20:02 +0000 UTC]

Totally awesome! I love the way you made her wings!

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to Silinde-Ar-Feiniel [2008-11-16 18:45:46 +0000 UTC]

thank you!

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Rhi-R [2008-10-16 14:06:10 +0000 UTC]

Wow, amazing!
And what a clever idea, with the female deity/apocalpytic idea!
Rhi x

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to Rhi-R [2008-10-28 15:43:20 +0000 UTC]

thank you!

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Yukari-Shinohara [2008-09-29 13:22:23 +0000 UTC]

Death is beautiful...haha.

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to Yukari-Shinohara [2008-10-28 15:16:53 +0000 UTC]

*chuckles* oops! ANd thanks!

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illusorya [2008-09-21 11:45:49 +0000 UTC]

My gosh..... I'm dead....
Really fantastic... The wings..... The wings....

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to illusorya [2008-09-21 23:08:38 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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purplerebecca [2008-09-08 19:20:25 +0000 UTC]

Gorgeous work!

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to purplerebecca [2008-09-12 16:46:08 +0000 UTC]

thank you!

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Galuna [2008-09-04 19:18:23 +0000 UTC]

its magnificent. i like the way you see death with your imagination. she is gorgeous. nice work.

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JessicaMDouglas In reply to Galuna [2008-09-12 16:55:24 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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LovelyLadyGray [2008-08-11 16:50:49 +0000 UTC]

This is one of the BEST of the 4 in this series. I like how the colors compliment each other which is very hard to do. Her expression is alert as she harvests the souls of the dead with her trusty scythe. I love her dress & chocker.

*I always had a fondness for Death in Terry Prachett's DISCWORLD novels. Death is funny even though he doesn't mean to be funny. I like your take on the four traditional Horsemen of the End of the World. *

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