Ire

My submission for *deadlulu's "Seven Deadly Sins" contest. More info here: [link]
I chose Wrath.


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Ire

They call her Ire. She's the third daughter of Darkness, an angel of destruction, angel who flames anger and hatred in hearts of people. She's associated with the fire, sword and snakes, Alēktṓ and Mégaira. And bloody red roses. The only thing that she would never destroy are her beloved red roses.
People say it's because they remind her so much of blood and fire. The other say it was her lover who was always giving her these red flowers. He died later on. But since then she would but only weep over the beauty of red roses.
But undoubtedly these are only myths... Idle people's hopes and fantasies.
Or maybe there is a grain of truth in every tale?
May you never meet Ire, see her destructive powers and feel her wrath.


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I've been analysing my gallery a bit. While browsing further and further I suddenly realized I had neglected awfully one of the elements, namely the fire... Generally I'm more into blue/green colour scheme, but this time I wanted to do something different.

Here's the result. Okay, you can tell me that still it's that mundane dark/gothic stuff and it's not really out of the box. And that there are plenty of other works depicting angels and fire. I know. But I really enjoyed playing around with fire and red/orange colours. It was challenging cause the lighting and shadows in such works are a bit hard to create... I'd say they simply require being more decisive and not afraid of letting the lighting be stronger than normally.
It's up to you to judge If I managed to meet the challenge.

As usually I leave the critique mode on as I'm always open for your suggestions and constructive critique.
Hope you'll like it




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Many thanks go to the stock providers:
Credits
Model: ~XerStock [link]
Gate: *auroradreams [link]
Ground: =night-fate-stock [link]
Background: ~knightfall-stock [link]
Sword: ~LestatImage-Stock [link]
Skull: ~BreedStock (stocks no longer available )
Snakes: ~Lill-stock [link]
Fire: ~shutupandwhisper [link]
Flowers: *Sammykaye1sStamps [link]
Textures: *SolStock [link]

+ some elements painted.



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