Shadowhaunt: Love Lies Bleeding

Shadowhaunt: Love Lies Bleeding

On Zazzle
On DeviantART

Won a Today’s Best Award on Zazzle (second page, bottom row)

Closeup of a picture I’m workng on – I liked this bit on its own, and I wanted to show a closeup on the details anyway.

Very Sandman and Neil Gaiman inspired (specifically, the Endless – Mostly Death, but also Dream, Destiny and Desire), but not actually OF them.

Some personal stuff in there – some emotional imagery, some pretty details that mean nothing.
The pain of caring and protecting something beautiful that feeds on you and hurts you. The paleness of being only a shadow compared to another’s light and glory. The power of darkness and being unknown, and the restraint possessed and never seen.

And I just had a completely different idea for the background…

Anyway, the full picture’s up to fours hours at the moment (and hasn’t been touched for awhile…), this bit… was maybe two hours.

ArtRage 2.5 and graphics tablet

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