MindzleAngel of Fury
This painting was begun as a speedpaint while I was attending the Massive Black/Concept Art event in Seattle 2008. It has been worked over so many times it little resembles the original. I have this idea for an angel of fury that is literally an animate explosion. Why would a “living” explosion need a sword? Maybe the sword is the talisman of his power, who knows.
Both the angel and the horse are somewhere between skeleton and flesh, but not zombified. I tried to mix elements of both without becoming either, or just a animated corpse. Minor things, both their noses are skull with skin, but I put flesh where needed to convey emotion or musculature.
I am fond of the dude in the foreground who is amid the detonation, I feel I did a good job with the foreshortening, and especially like the way the hand “blocking” the explosion has Subsurface scattering.
All in all the painting is a little bit muddied, too much detail, dust and shredded stuff makes it read poorly as a small image, but in the end I still enjoy the image and am glad I decided to finish it.
And as always you can see this and many more images at c-hammer.com
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If it's a homage, pardon the French, to that artist, the sword is mighty justified.
I like the way you've handled the light on the foreground figure's hands and face.
The moon is great too.
It might be funny to incorporate humour into this sort of thing as well.
Like you did with the alien hanging out the washing.
Instead of a horse, a rocking horse or a horse on a carousel.
Instead of a sword, a baseball bat or a belt to a pair of paints around the ankles.
Instead of horseman, an hallucinating drug-addict.
Maybe...just an idea.