Next entry in my Bird Omens series, we have the Antichrist himself in Adam, with his friends Brian, Wensleydale, and Pepper — aka The Them. It was an extremely deliberate choice to have the kids all as pigeons as it is a very big dichotomy to the Death & the Horsepeople who are all birds of prey.
Adam is a Nicobar Pigeon, our closest Dodo relative and just a fancy thing because they have the most amazing feathers. Brian is a Polish Helmet Pigeon, Pepper is a Danish Suabian Pigeon, and finally, Wensleydale is a South-German Monk. I chose them for the colour dichotomy to be perfectly honest; all of them use three variants of grey (warm/cool/toner) and meet in the middle with Wensleydale being iridescent like Adam.
I made a really deliberate choice in the halo for this one with Adam — his powers are so immense that they defy all other celestials, but he has a guiding hand on either wing lending backup…
(Crowley and Aziraphale’s halo colours were deliberate just for this — no others in the series will or have gold/silver.)
This one was a behemoth to finish and took me an entire week, partially due to health, but also just due to the intensity of it. Thank you again to my dear @kyuofcosmic for the suggestion of a Nicobar for Adam, your birds have challenged me in this project in wonderful ways, and a big thank you to @pony-farts for being a compositional aid as well when I was trying to balance it.
Just two more entries left in these main pieces, with Shadwell & Madame Tracy, and Death & Horsepeople to go!
Then Bird Omens came to be a thing for me, and it swept me away for a month and a half. Nine mixed-media illustrations in total, made with Copic markers and specially pigmented metallic and pearlescent inks on 300gsm watercolour (rough, rendering on smooth side) paper to allow me to use a wet-on-wet technique for colour layering to mix, shade, highlight, or straight up perform witchcraft.
I feel like you can watch my art level up going through each one - all of them used new techniques or mediums for me, and I pushed myself to try whatever I felt I could make work.
I cannot thank my own ineffable dear Kyu enough for helping me with bird choices, and all of you seeing people comment along with retweet/reblog with fun tags has been really wonderful.
This particular series might be done but I have plans for a lot more illustration work, Good Omens inspired and otherwise. I hope everyone can enjoy me sharing more work in the future. It’s nice doing full illustrations again after 5 years of hiatus.
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description:the photos were made at table rock state park in NC. the 4 children dolls (and Dog) are shown climbing and walking around in the sun on large flattish boulders with shrubbery around them and blue sky and mountains in the distance.
note for doll people: i’ve used mattel Creatable World bodies and team stacie / harry potter heads for these hybrid dolls. they’re roughly 1:6 scale like most of my others. i repainted the hair on the HP guys and gave adam strange eyes, but other than that there’s not a whole lot of customizing involved. the clothes used are mostly CW and barbie, plus some others.
I don’t talk enough about how much I love the little details in Good Omens - like, the small not really consequential things that just make it such a rich and fun experience to watch. One of my personal favourites, among many, is Adam’s halo. Adam’s halo, you say? Yes!
Straying from the halloween costume type ‘floating ring hovering above the head’ type halo, premodern art often depicts holy people + angels with a ring glowing ring behind their head, like so:
“I am an Astronaut swimming through the Galaxies.”
This piece was ultimately inspired by Owl City. I’ve been a fan for years and I really love his songs! So I hope you like this drawing I made the same how much I am proud of creating this! ❤ .
Do not steal my art. If you are planning to repost then
I have to wonder if Adam Young (Owl City, Sky Sailing) did something problematic or something because I swear Tumblr would love him but I rarely ever see posts about him?
maybe i’m reading too much into it, but i really love the scene where crowley and aziraphale talk with adam right before satan arrives. like SO often adults will patronize kids and believe that just because they’re children, they don’t have any value in the conversation. but aziraphale and crowley never do that with adam. especially when adam says “but i’m just a kid” and aziraphale replies “but that’s not a bad thing to be, adam”. they don’t explicitly tell him how to handle the situation, they fully trust that adam will make the best decision, whatever that may be. idk i just think it’s refreshing to see that. adults take children and their judgement seriously without undermining them simply because of their age.
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