Vampiress Margot Another one for Inktober! Margot sings and dances, and she’s very good at it. Especially captivating your heart. And eat your head. A VIDEO of this drawing timelapse is now up on my youtube! Also, this ORIGINAL IS AVAILABLE! Links to my youtube and store is below vvv
This is the cropped version. See the vaguely NSFW version here. Warning for suggestive content, artistic nudity, and non-graphic body horror.
Exalted Art Challenge Concept Sketches - Monstrance - “The Arms of the Lover”
The divine essence of a Solar is no easy thing to corrupt and thus the Neverborn created the most cruel of implements for their Deathlords to use - the Monstrances of Celestial Portion.
These sarcophagi are uniquely forged to corrupt and bind the Exaltation of a particular servant and keep it under the thrall of the Deathlord. A Solar thrust into this insidious coffin eventually succumbs to corruption until they give themselves over and accept their new existence as Abyssals…or perish.
As each monstrance suits the Deathlord’s intentions (the way I interpret the lore), I’ve chosen to portray this monstrance controlled by the Lover (the Deathlord from my last post) as being much like its owner. The silk satin pillowing inside makes it seem like a luxurious bed, the soulsteel and jade construct gilded with gold. A prismatic crystalline lid allows one to gaze on the poor soul inside, whose body is trapped in an arc that mimics ecstasy by gold caressing arms that come alive and clasp the victim within.
Inserted along the crystal lid, jewel encrusted needles stab into each of the victim’s chakra points, plying the Solar within for corruption. Like the Lover, this monstrance combines a beautiful and terrible aesthetic.
Exalted Art Challenge Concept Sketches - Deathlord - The Lover
Masters of the Abyssals, the Deathlords terrorize Creation, the whispers of dark gods in their ears driving them forth. Each Deathlord is a powerful ghost who rules over an array of weapons and armies poised to bring about the destruction of Creation for the Neverborn, the remnants of the Primordial gods imprisoned in the Underworld.
Not so for the Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears. She has no armies, nor does she make war like the others. Her insidious claws seep into every corner of her enemies’ territories in the form of spies and hidden knives. She once seduced an entire monastery of celibate monks before transforming their holy land into a Shadowland and building her own fortress atop its ruins. I do enjoy a clever villainous lady and couldn’t resist drawing this particular Deathlord!
I wove the ‘tears’ of the Lover’s name into her design, her dangling jewels mimicking falling streams of tears and the makeup on her face flowing like tear streaks punctuated by a drip of 'blood’ from her lips. The tear shape even echoes in the cleavage cutout in her dress. For a seductress as high caliber as the Lover, I wanted a sense of high class, of ornamentation. She has bare shoulders to show a tantalizing bit of skin and smokes an opium pipe, which to me embodies her motif of 'luxurious destruction’.
She really seems to agree with the muse! I am definitely planning to choose one of her thumbnails to turn into a full painting.
I’m super happy to let you know that I’ll be participating on the Gallery Show ‘Lets Play Kings and Queens’ of @the_inverarity_gallery !! That will take place in the magical Scotland. This is an early pic of the piece I decided to work for this magical occasion. More pics soon!
Slowly getting all my pendings done. There are still a lot of work to put on this Angel of Death. See more of this piece in process at my patreon! Link at the bio. https://www.patreon.com/enysguerrero
