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Tremorworks: Demongate High: ArchangelProject for ~phoenixsamurai
Feathers are fun, lemme tell you...
Now in color:
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Heh, he looks a lot more in proportion now! I love the dramatic sword wielding pose.
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Yes indeedy... Big feet save the day once again.
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Wow, lots of comments on this one!
Looks great! The bigger sword really helps. ^_^
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I agree - the bigger sword gave him some balance and also closed the circle of the composition more neatly.
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And I wanted to ask you, what sort of pens do you use when you do stuff like this?
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Thanks very much!
I use Zig Millenium ink pens. They're comparable to Micron and cost about the same, but I can get Zigs at my local hobby store and don't have to wait on mail-order.
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Awesome. 
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No, feathers are evil. EVIL, I TELL YOU!
That aside...
Excellent work on this! So much detail and the inking is superb! Love the armor and the flames still look really good!
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LOL - Yes, feathers are evil. I agree absolutely. But they look soooooo cool...
Thanks verily!
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Well done with the armor and detailing work.
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Thank you very much. I wanted him to look beautiful and dangerous at the same time. I don't think of angels as little naked babies with fluffy wings...
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I like him. The armour is nice. The feathers were awesome.
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I do hope those are stout wings to support all that armor.
Steve
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Oh, it's very light armor... More a hardening of the will than actual metal.
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LOL! Lightnin' sword, thunder-thighs? That just sounds wrong...
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Thanks very much. No fluffy Christmas angels today!
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your welcome and no, that is definately no fluffy Christmas angel!
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Yes. I agree. Especially seraphim.
I may have to do one of them just for fun. Even the biblical apocrypha describe seraphim as firey serpents, or something like that. Not the kinds of beings you want to try to take down in a tickle fight.
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Yeah, searaphim are on the next list I'm sending you. ^_^
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*turns giddy cartwheels*
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Angels were never there to be pretty and shiney. Most of them had unfthomable tasks. Flaming swords, strange habits. I always thought it strange that the concept was feminized and then made child-like... some screwy notion of purety that has been popularized I suppose.
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I blame the Victorians.
Actually, I'd have to go a-hunting through the histories to find out what really happened. If you look at any of the older writings on the subject of angelic beings, they read a lot more like demons than they do the pretty guardians that so many current depictions support. I would suppose that the "pretty" angel started appearing as early as the pre-Renaissance, where they have all these yards and yards of draped fabric to wear, and ornate, gilded wings. The definitions of purity and beauty, ever in flux anyway, seemed to start giving way to the prettyfied angels around that point.
Granted, the orginal depictions of the Greek Nike were awfully pretty, too.
And then again, again, what patron is going to support the 16th Century artist who wants to draw cherubim as balls of wings, eyes and fire?
Personally, I'm glad our modern culture allows us to dig around and find many different interpretations of the angelic so that we fantasy artist types can do both the prettyfied versions and the monstrous versions in one sweep of the brush - er, so to speak.
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Actually there were some funky angels in pre-renaissance art... I saw some in Europe... I wish I could direct you to who painted them...
Well, the greeks liked their myths to have an element of glamour to them.
Oh, yes. Between archaeology, a long recorded history and the fact that artists are not dependant upon the government or the church for funds makes this a good time all the way round for fantasy artists. (oh... and the internet...)
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