Devil Progress
Added 2019-05-01 00:40:49 +0000 UTCI've already had an opportunity to jump right into this piece. I'm just setting the stage right now. Some artists can work almost like a printer. My brain doesn't work that way so this is my process. Some liken these process differences to architects and gardeners. I'm a gardener, I plant seeds of ideas and color, I prune, I replant, I'm sculpting the landscape. I make a mess and gradually clean it up. Chaos into order.
So expect a lot to change from here to the final. But also not much at the same time. You'll see what I mean in a few days.
Before I get to this point I need to get the drawing transferred to whatever I decide to paint on. I paint on a variety of materials such as the panel shown here, linen canvas, and aluminum. There are about 5 good ways to transfer a drawing. One of the easiest is to project the image. It makes things go pretty quick even though it can be tedious.
But these smaller compositions go quick. I use a digital LED projector. I love it so much. You can also see I've dropped in a summoning sigil. When looking up spells I came across images that looked familiar. They looked familiar because my good friend, and fellow MTG artist, Jim Pavelec is working his way through the Ars Goetia!
Points if you can name the sigil that is summoning up the Salamander class red elemental that we call a devil.
Comments
agreed - scary and fascinating for sure. best thing to conquer a people is to take their gods and reclaim their holidays. its really interesting to me which things were taken (holidays) and which were violently discarded (Gods).
Steve Wooster
2019-05-01 23:21:28 +0000 UTCYeah, I have it as Bael. But it's the same. It was a Phoenician god and so it makes sense that it became a demon as that's pretty much what the ancient christians did with their marketing by making all other gods demons, pagan rituals become devil worship, etc. It's scary and fascinating research.
2019-05-01 14:41:14 +0000 UTCI've seen it as baal, bael, baell and a few others depending on the translation. loosely based on a Canaanite god, it is a christian demon (and some believe that is what Tolkien based the name of the Balrog on) Just for context to see if that is the right one :)
Steve Wooster
2019-05-01 09:29:55 +0000 UTCso close. maybe there's multiple spellings?
2019-05-01 03:15:02 +0000 UTCthat's baal isnt it?
Steve Wooster
2019-05-01 01:19:48 +0000 UTC
