- Portrait of a Shadmock Butler -

Media Used:

0.5 Pencil
Prismacolour Pencils (Scholar and Premiere)
Crayola Watercolour Paints (with Tsumi Brush)
Dr. PH Martin's Bombay India Ink Black
Folk Art Acrylic Paints (White and Green)
On white Matte Board

~Firinne-Ceartais was nice enough to take a photo of this for me since I didn't want to have to try scanning it in an arseload of pieces which may or may not line up in the end . The original size of this piece is roughly 36" X 53". I need to measure it again.

Anyway, this was actually finished last year as an assignment for my Drawing II class. My teacher gave me a bit more creative freedom (during that semester) since she liked seeing "the fire" I apparently have when working on assignments I actually liked doing (like the music piece assignment I we had done previously. I'll post that one...eventually along with a couple of the others), although looking back I wonder if she nudged me like this because I had lost my creativity drive during this time.

Regardless, this seemed to be a favourite of the Art Department back then (people actually begged me to give this piece to them) and my mom now wants to hang this up in the living room.

This is my shadmock Raven in his NeverRealms appearance. In NeverRealms, Raven is Lordess Sedva's butler as well as one of her bodyguards, although the latter is very rarely stated since Raven, for lack of a better term, is a woobie of woobies, who's ability to cause death and great injury via whistling frightens him. With that said, the poor thing tries his best to stay clear of all conflict and would much rather be serving coffee to his Lordess or taking in stray kitties.

Raven has also developed an interest in a certain Japanese vampire, but won't act on his feelings since well, said Japanese vampire seems to prefer being alone...

If this gets enough feedback, I might post the other pieces I did in Fall 2011.

Playlist:

Information Society - "Ozar Midrashim 1.1"
Gabriel Fauré - "Pavane"
Horror Sounds of the Night - "Phantom of the Cathedral"
Kristen Lawrence - "Dark Glass (Instrumental)"

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