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kirilatiki — Insanael the angel of lunacy
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Published: 2018-04-19 19:17:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 794; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 0
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The essence of creation once had a body, the existence was called the Mother Goddess, the encarnation of existence was weak and when the war and chaos came over the gods, they were all consumed and vanished, but existence on her last breath before turning back to an abstrect concept of reality wished for a way to come back.The Mother Goddess was order and for her to come back, it was needed that the reality she created needed her again, once more, and as she wished for it, Insanael was born, her wish was that the caos of a dimension with no life would be enough for her to come back, but as wrath took her over and her last thoughts, Insanael would then bring chaos among the gods who betrayed her and in the end died for it, so he waited for life to sprout again and as life came back, the smaller goddess that were the ones who would take care of living beings came back, in order to bring back the Mother, Insanael spread an infection, seven sins cursed goddesses and powerful beings were corrupted and consumed, went mad and followed without knowing a plan to destroy every single aspect of order.
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You certainly have eye for composition and depth, as well as anatomy. I especially like how that huge hand on the foreground overlaps with one of the masks. It's also good that you showed one of the other masks from behind. A lot of people would've just had all of them show the face side. Showing the hollow side makes it more obvious that they are masks and not just hovering faces. I also appreciate the crispness of the brushes used on that particular feature. Sometimes things don't have to be full of details, the mere shape and shading already says a lot.
The highest mask has interesting color choices, with the magenta and light blue highlights. The mask that is upside down has great lighting and looks good in the fit screen version. However looking at the large version, a lot of things are blurrier than I would want to see, giving things a bit of an unfinished look. If you're going to use a resolution this big, it would make sense to use less blurry/semi-transparent brushes.
You clearly put the most effort into the character itself, and it shows. Especially the left forearm shines out as something great. Overall, the skin is beautifully shaded and it looks like there are some aspects of green in the shadows. Concerning the shading, the only problem I have with it is that the shadows cast by the hair don't show up well enough in the fit on screen version. The hair looks good from up close, but usually if something doesn't look right when seem from afar, it tends to mean there is something wrong with it. In this case, too much gray.
I'm wondering about the red things sprouting from the back that are seemingly half invisible. It makes me think of four dimensional simulations where pushing an object can move it in the fourth dimension, so that it becomes invisible. I've never seen anyone do that in art but it would fit the theme. It's possible that you accidentally erased them, but if you did, don't try to fix it! It gives a great out of this dimension twist to it.
Looking even closer, it's really nice to see all the brush textures, especially on the wing-spikes.
One thing that bugs me is the disjointed color palette. You used pure red on the eyes, which seems like a forced choice. The red used for the wing-spikes is much better, and if the eye color was more like that, it would look much better. Also the red things in the top of the picture clash with the cooler red of the wing-spikes. The combination of flesh and turquoise as well as the inclusion of faint blues looks good, but then you've thrown in all those reds, a black cloak, white masks and even brown in the background. If the disjointed color scheme was intended to convey the insanity of the character, that would explain it. However as a general artistic choice, a more harmonious palette would be welcome. This painting has so much potential, yet on some levels it seems unfinished. When you have the thick diagonal thing on the right, it would instantly look better if the area next to the darkest shadow had a less blurry transition. The soft brush strokes in the rest of the diagonal thing are excusable and look good from afar but the transparent reds over the dark area make it look like the dark area isn't actually much further away from the viewer than the diagonal, but instead flat. Compare it to the crisp transition on the black shadow next to the knuckles of the big hand and the top of the mask. That should demonstrate what I mean.
This turned out to be a really long review, so I'd better wrap it up. The challenge rating in this image is 9/10 or so, but it could benefit from cleanup of borderlines between surfaces that are supposed to be in different depths. I also recommend that you study color harmonies.
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Thank you very much for this comment, the critics and the compliments
the blurry background I did because I wanted it to have a dreamlike feel, but i guess I could have gone sharper in some parts
the red things on his back are aether or akasha, the fifth element that has no physical representation known so i just went with a somewhat fluid with some crystal aspects
the color palette, I knew there was something off and now I see it is the warm red on the background, I worked everything with a colder pallet and then all of a suden a bright orange-red, that I choose because I wanted it to give some hellish tints, since he is the one who brings evil, and it ended up not matching.
buut for the eyes I used pure red cause I wanted them to shine, maybe if it wasn't for the warm red in the background it would have popped out better.
I'll do more color harmonies studies and definetly will try doing better rendering and paying more attention if somethings feels off, i also had some problems with the hair and now that you pointed out I can see it lol, thank you again
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Wow. That's a very deep story . But still, that and this painting has a good effect. Nice job!
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oh thank you, I'm no english native so maybe it's poorly written XD I did my best in not making it confusing because the gods are abstract ideas incarnated and this is a fucked up concept to work with lol
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I hear you. I'm not much of a writer myself, I don't even like writing LOL. But what I wrote in my first fanfic turns out pretty good. So I think you did a great job with this one as well.
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ooh thanks I'm glad to know you think so, he is one of my most important antagonists
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ooh thank you very much, the effect actually happenned as a happy accident that I decided to leave cause I thought it look good XD
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you're welcome ! You were right, it looks great ;D
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