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The Demonessby *Tomoran

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Pen and ink illustration for Joseph Armsteads "The Darkness of Exalted Flesh", appearing in Wicked Karnival #7. I really took my time on this one, and I finished it up around 50 hours. Original is about 8 1/2" x 11. Here's an excerpt from the story, for those interested:

"She was at least six feet tall and looked to weigh no more than one hundred and thirty pounds, slender and muscular with wide shoulders and a narrow waist, the figure of a dancer or that of a track and field athlete, yet her flesh was bluish-gray, flaky and scaled, and it had the look of toughened leather. Her face was sculpted beauty, like that of an haute couture fashion model, aristocratic and slattern at the same time, and her almond-shaped eyes were a striking shade of violet. Her hair, which fell down to her waist, was a dry, frizzled rat’s nest of deepest black and there were dirty silken ribbons festooned with white animal bones and multicolored bird’s feathers laced through her tumbled tresses. She was covered in tribal tattoos, blue and red ink deep into her flesh, interlocking serpentine designs, and she was pierced, cruelly, by silver loops and hooks through her clavicle, the distended nipples of her bulbous naked breasts, through her navel, and she was punctured by a set of thick silver needles along the sides of her rib cage.

The nightmare truly began at the fold of skin under her taut belly… she had been flayed open, her womb and sex organs laid bare, stripped of flesh, and it was as red and as wet and feverish –looking as if it had happened only moments ago. Vapors of steam wafted off the massive exposed wound. Both her long, shapely legs, too, were stripped of their fleshy envelope, so only exposed lengths of muscle fiber and ligaments covered the skeleton of her lower limbs.

Attached to a wide leather belt, the only clothing that adorned her body, was the severed head of some monkey or apelike being, riding on each hip. The mouths of the decomposing heads were stuck open in a silent, perpetual scream of agony."

~GorgingOnChunks Jun 11, 2007

Probably one of the sickest illustrations ive seen on DA. Taking alot time on work is something i have trouble with.

*Tomoran Jun 23, 2007 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thanks so very much. This is one I really tried to take my time on, and it's one of the few things I've drawn that I'm still pretty happy with. Normally, I lose interest on them, and rush the last part.

Thanks again,

T

~GorgingOnChunks Jun 24, 2007

your welcom. yeah thats my biggest problem. i take alot of time of the main point of the peice. and everything else seems to get jumbled.

*Tomoran Jun 29, 2007 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

That was my problem for years. If you look at my older stuff, the backgrounds are always black. It wasn't so much stylistic as it was me covering up a rushed background or foregoing a background completely! I just force myself to concentrate on all the components now.

T

~GorgingOnChunks Jun 29, 2007

Ha ha yeah. I do that. Mainly because I do tons of tshirt art. But I have trouble making a black background. idk how. lol. I would always erase till it looked faded into. lol.

*Tomoran Jul 3, 2007 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

LOL! I hear you, bud.

T

~GorgingOnChunks Jul 3, 2007

Yeah. Its difficult to draw a tshirt design and people take it for granted

*Tomoran Jul 5, 2007 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

It is extremely difficult. I've been asked to do a couple, and I had a VERY tough time creating an attractive image that would transfer well. I give you credit, bud.

T

*MartinSilvertant May 20, 2007 Professional General Artist

Absolutely amazing details and an excellent background. Really great atmosphere. Strange I haven't payd attention to this one before; I've browsed your gallery multiple times.
The way you drew the blood is a pity, though. I've seen a few other drawings where you drew the blood the same way: a lot of really thin drippings that connect like a web. That's the only negative thing about this drawing. As for the rest of the drawing, I envy you.

*Tomoran Jun 23, 2007 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thanks so much, MS! Truth be told, this is one of my favorites of all I've drawn. Sorry that you don't like the blood...I guess that it's a stylistic thing.

Thanks again, bud.

T

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