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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Votive of the Deep One
The talented Allan Harwood brings us this work-in-progress shot of his "Votive of the Deep One". It's based on a design from Mike Mignola's "Hellboy" universe.
This is a really nice piece; I most especially like the cleaness of line and the spiral eyes.
Votive offerings in the form of placks go pretty far back into antiquity. There are a number of excellent ancient Greek votive offerings that are surprisingly like Christian votive offerings such as Milagros. The below links might give you some good ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votive_offering http://www.collectorsguide.com/fa/fa052.shtml For more in depth reading download the textbook: http://archive.org/details/greekvotiveoffer00rousuoft
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This is a really nice piece; I most especially like the cleaness of line and the spiral eyes.
Votive offerings in the form of placks go pretty far back into antiquity. There are a number of excellent ancient Greek votive offerings that are surprisingly like Christian votive offerings such as Milagros. The below links might give you some good ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votive_offering
http://www.collectorsguide.com/fa/fa052.shtml
For more in depth reading download the textbook: http://archive.org/details/greekvotiveoffer00rousuoft
This is the first time that I've seen you post about a creation of someone's whom I'm also following :) keep up the awesome posts!
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