Finally, a personal piece. this has been sat in my WIP pile for the whole of Jan but I’ve reached a point where I don’t think I can do much more with him now.
Every doodle I’ve done recently has been this guy of late, though it was high time I got round to doing a big piece of him, it’s been long overdue really. He’s been entirely redesigned in appearance. I have a bit of soft spot for Orion considering he’s probably my first OC
so it was a real treat to get some time to paint him. He’s quite wicked and villainous, but I have a feeling that’s probably why I love him.
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Be bold, be bold, but not too bold,
Lest that your heart’s blood should run cold.
Lestat de Lioncourt.
Making my way through the Vampire Chronicles at the minute. I needed to get the Tom Cruise vibe for Lestat out of my head! Also took a bit of licence with the hair but what’s new.
GPOY
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft (via quotemadness)
This is one of the best things I read all week.
Digital card created by Voodoo Darling.
YES. Also: ”The function of fiction is being lost in the conversation on violence. My book editor, Sean McDonald, thinks of it as “radical empathy.” Fiction, like any other form of art, is there to consider aspects of the real world in the ways that simple objective views can’t — from the inside. We cannot Other characters when we are seeing the world from the inside of their skulls. This is the great success of Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter, both in print and as so richly embodied by Mads Mikkelsen in the Hannibal television series: For every three scary, strange things we discover about him, there is one thing that we can relate to. The Other is revealed as a damaged or alienated human, and we learn something about the roots of violence and the traps of horror.”
RADICAL EMPATHY, WHAT A GOOD
Exploring the darkness 4/?
“I had the heart and held it as I’d seen Pandora hold it. I drank from it. Oh, it had plenty of blood. This was magnificent. I sucked it to pulp and then let it fall” – TVA, Armand healing after going into the sun
“Savage”
Exploring the darkness 3/?
“When had it happened that arterial blood was not enough, and he must rip out the heart and suck it dry also? When had it started that he had to lick the most vicious wounds for the little juice they would yield? He could exist without this, yet he couldn’t resist it, and so he sought—or so he told himself—to make the very most of it when he feasted” – Prince Lestat, chapter 8, Marius and Flowers
There’s something so delightful in seeing Marius depicted outside his usual elegance and poise. I’m falling in love with this piece the longer I look at it.
#AGREES AGGRESSIVELY
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