Today I have for you… another costume sketch of Azrael. Which probably isn’t final. And some demented NiGHTS fanart. A little anti-climatic, I know. Next to be seen will probably be more sketches and some comissions.
As some people who follow my art may know I’ve been changing the direction of my angel concept a bit and updating the characters and their outfits. Here’s the results of my work on the characters Gabriel and Azrael!
We all know PETA: the so-called "animal lovers" who set buildings on fire, protest fast food restaurants, send death threats to people who work for insurance companies that happen to insure testing labs, and worship a hypocritical organization that euthanises animals given to them when they become too expensive to care for, all because they’re pissed off and confused due to being so damn hungry. They even think owning pets is animal abuse despite the fact pets are the most spoiled, healthy, long-lived and loved animals on the planet.
Anyway, before I get onto a rant about PETA (some day, some day) let me get to the point of this post: one of PETA’s websites is currently hosting a game. A very expensive looking flash game that must have taken a long time and alot of money to make and is a Mario Bros. parody. Even for a parody it’s dangerously close to the source at first glance, but upon further investigation (I.E. playing it) one finds that it actually contains cameos of actual Mario Bros. characters. WHAT!?
"[Bush haters are] sort of elite, effete snobs who can’t hold a candle to [him]. What they don’t like about him is that he is common sense, that he is Middle America." Ever wanted to hear retard Karl Rove and the big fat idiot Rush Limbaugh talk about how SMART George "Dubya" Bush is? Well here you go.
I’m not really sure who they’re trying to kid, or what they’re trying to prove, but I thought this downplaying of Bush’s critics in light of, well, the giant clusterfuck of schemes, lies, scandals, resignations, death and failure, didn’t work anymore. Then again we are talking about a Conservative radio show here, those only exist to parrot extreme Right-winger’s ideas of how they’d like reality to be, rather than how it actually is.
As some of you out there may know, I’ve been working behind the scenes developing my angel characters in hopes of pitching a comic in the next year or two (I’m still not confident enough in my skills to render quality work at a fast pace, is one problem.) I’ve also put in alot of research into Abrahamic religious lore, from the Bible to the most obscure Jewish apocrypha, needless to say I’ve gotten alot of ideas. I’ve done alot of world building, I’ve got the history of the characters pretty much solidified. I’ve even got a good idea how I want it to end now, and plenty of ideas for the later story arcs. My goal right now is to write out an entire story linerally so I can then throw things out of chronology, easily show flashbacks, foreshadow, and extend, expand, and elongate plot points as I wish. Of course I don’t intend to give away the details.
But in all this, I’ve run into a problem. The first story arc. I’ve had a major block in my path in trying to adapt the dynamic of the original short comic to this growing beast of an idea in my mind. Basically I’ve been in a rut.