<sub>"Everything in its entirety will flow through the consciousness and veins of this my beautiful first Son. In his self-imposed torment let him impose the torment of the love upon himself, of those he deems to love above me..."




I had some time over the past couple of weeks, so I figured I could give in and paint him again: Lucifer.

He is one of those characters that I don't seem to get tired of. Maybe it's because he's been with me for so long, and for so long I've not dared paint him, that now all those pictures in my mind want to come out all at once. I kind of wanted to do something that reminds of old paintings, without compromising a modern or maybe even timeless feel. It was odd doing just a portrait after all those complete character paintings, but a nice break nonethless.</sub>


Photoshop CS
<sub>+ close-ups: one | two
+ freehand, except for some life reference of a heavy silk scarf for the drapery
+ the stone shield is recycled from a painting I never finished - about 3 years old...
+ quote from Convivium by Andrew E. Maugham.</sub>