EDIT Made some adjustments based on a critique. Also lightened it a bit because I realized how way-too-dark it'd be on older monitors...
SORRY IT'S SO HUGE. THE DETAILS! BLAME THEM! Auugh. I worked so long on this and still think I should have done a more interesting composition.
Oh well, I don't care anymore. IT'S DONE.
Anyway, yes, finally I've done another piece of finished art featuring Semyaza and Lilith. I think I finally have their designs about where I want them. Semyaza I've suddenly toned down and broadened a bit, I like him better this way. Regulars might also notice he's missing his horns... yeah, he's probably going to have normal angelic features now. I didn't really have much of a reason to make the Grigori look like more cliche demons/fallen angels other than "it looks cool lol."
Sides he may be the only Grigori character to show up, so, yeah. It'd just needlessly complicate things if he has bat wings for no reason.
If you don't know the Grigori (or "the Watchers") are a group of fallen angels in the most kickass of all ancient religious writing The Book of Enoch (well at least in my opinion *nerd*) which leads me into my next point:
Introducing the Nephilim! That's what... what those horrific little demony thingers there... are. Technically they're supposed to be giants, but I decided to take some creative license and mine ended up one part Gollum and one part Rubber Johnny or something (I was actually studying some pics of children with spinal deformities and stuff.) I was sort of influenced by that old X-Files episode about Nephilim as well (a cookie to anyone who knows what I'm talking about), and they sort of reflect how people used to think mentally ill, mentally challenged and deformed people were demon-possessed or themselves demons or changlings (though I suppose some people in the world still think this to some degree...)
My Nephilim here are in spirit form, but I plan to never show full-on exactly what they look like either way. See, the Nephilim were children of angels (specifically the Grigori) and human women in the Book of Enoch that God had slaughtered (and soon after drowned everything on Earth cause man had gotten too evil and according to Enoch were taught secrets of Heaven by the Grigori. God hates smarties.) However their spirits continued to wander the Earth. And so there you are.
P.S. I've been studying fashion shows and fashion photography alot lately. :B Is it obvious?
P.P.S The pattern on Lilith's dress came from a swatch of cloth that was part of the lid on a jar of blackberry jam I bought at an antique shop recently it wasn't antique jam, don't worry.
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Started as two pencil sketches, did all the rest of the work on the computer. I think I'm getting okay with digital.
A very beautiful piece. I can see you're really getting into digital artwork. I love the Nephilim figures. Having them lineless and painterly was a great choice and they were rendered beautifully in terms of contrast and color.
I am absolutely in love with Lilith's outfit. Especially the colored glitter or bead-work details. The one thing about her outfit that bothers me is that her shoes don't seem long enough. Not in style-wise, but it looks as if her toes are jammed right against the front of her shoe making it look either unnatural or very very uncomfortable.
Another issue is that the Lilith is very contrasted with her black outfit, but that same darkness is not used anywhere else in the piece. This draws the viewer's attention immediately to Lilith as well as throws off the balance of the piece. I think throwing a few darker, more black shadows into the Nephilim figures will help balance it out.
I like the use of screentone for textures on Semyaza's clothing, but it's making him look a little flat, especially as compared to Lilith and the Nephilim whose forms are very rendered. I think fading the textures into the shadowed areas will help rid him of this flatness.
I hope some of my suggestions help.
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Funnily enough while drawing her feet/shoes I was trying not to make them too big, I tend to draw all my characters with big feet because I have big feet >_>;
D: You make an excellent point about the contrast, I actually didn't notice it, but it's easy enough to go back and remedy.
As for the texture, I could do that yes, or maybe even make the pattern wrap around. I just thought without any texture his jacket would look too smooth.I could also shade the pattern itself like I did on Lilith's dress pattern.
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I especially like Lilith (she's one of my favorite characters in the Bible.
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Great job with this, you've seem to have gotten more comfortable with digital work if you're going from sketches straight to computer.
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It sounds like the sound it makes when yer head smacks into loosely packed, moist soil.
I am absolutely in love with Lilith's outfit. Especially the colored glitter or bead-work details. The one thing about her outfit that bothers me is that her shoes don't seem long enough. Not in style-wise, but it looks as if her toes are jammed right against the front of her shoe making it look either unnatural or very very uncomfortable.
Another issue is that the Lilith is very contrasted with her black outfit, but that same darkness is not used anywhere else in the piece. This draws the viewer's attention immediately to Lilith as well as throws off the balance of the piece. I think throwing a few darker, more black shadows into the Nephilim figures will help balance it out.
I like the use of screentone for textures on Semyaza's clothing, but it's making him look a little flat, especially as compared to Lilith and the Nephilim whose forms are very rendered. I think fading the textures into the shadowed areas will help rid him of this flatness.
I hope some of my suggestions help.
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"You think a minor thing like the end of the world was gonna do me in?"
"I have nothing to lose but my life, and I got that for free!"
D: You make an excellent point about the contrast, I actually didn't notice it, but it's easy enough to go back and remedy.
As for the texture, I could do that yes, or maybe even make the pattern wrap around. I just thought without any texture his jacket would look too smooth.I could also shade the pattern itself like I did on Lilith's dress pattern.
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