And One of Them Was Black

10 December 2014
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_{"The City Council would like to remind you about the tiered heavens and the hierarchy of angels. The reminder is that you still should not know anything about this. The structure of heaven and the angelic organizational chart are still privileged information. Also, angels aren’t real."
-Welcome to Night Vale, Episode 25}

Back in September my art history class was talking about things like idols and depictions of deities and other supernatural creatures during the Ancient Near-East chapter. My prof. said he'd give bonus points for someone designing a deity, or drawing a deity from an existing mythology, or something of that ilk - I was never sure, he's a painter teaching an academic class, you can never be sure. At first I was all like "YEAH! HITTITES!" because nobody except me loves them, but then I thought that alot of these types of depictions have humanoid, animistic, or both for millennia, so I wanted to get a little weird. Cthulhu was to difficult for the short timespan, and I did always want to draw my headcannon for Erika. Besides, I need more Night Vale fanart in my collection anyways. I remember the Angels being described as ten feet tall, radiant, and one of them was black. Also in a later episode, a tear was descirbed as sliding down Erika's seven cheekbones, and in another one was radiating a dark light and operatic music. (I wasn't thinking about the seven cheekbones part when drawing this, but here I still have more than one!) Either way he's got a pretty snazzy sweater from Old Woman Josie. And it's the black angel who changed the lightbulb, if that sweetens the pot.  

I didn't colour the pencil sketch until now, however. But though I clealy gave up on the flowers on those wings, and the pencil work is a mess, I think it actually works with the piece.
Also, halos are fun.

Since we've been discussing Early Christian, Romanesque, and Gothic art recently, I wonder if I can fish more bonus points out of this?
As per usual, I love to hear what you guys have to say. Comments, concerns, critiques, or headcannons!

Remember that Angels are not legally real.
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Materials:
_{-Mechanical Pencil; Graphite (0.5)
-Photoshop
-Paint Tool SAI}

Estimated Time:
_{-20 minute sketch, 30 minute colour}

Alternate Versions:
_-Sketch

Music:
_{-Requiem - Lacrimosa (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Pretty Little Head (Eliza Rickman)
-Closer (The Tiny)
-Cupid (OLIVA Lufkin)
-Waiting for the Bus in the Rain (Satellite High)}