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Grigori77 — Spike - edit
Published: 2010-01-19 02:15:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 739; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 7
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Continuing the Buffy fanart session, I've finally got round to the original Big Bad, William the Bloody himself.
Okay, so Angel was supposed to be the big hero/heartthrob vamp of the series, but I think it was right and just that Spike ended up being the big hit - he is definitely the cool one. I dunno what it is, maybe it's the danger, the lip, that fantastic coat ... but yeah, he was the man, definitely.This may have come across even better than the Faith piece actually ... I got the likeness pretty much spot-on, especially those razor sharp cheekbones, and the coat too, definitely. His most wicked little trophy ...
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Having now joined up with as a contributing artist I'm resubmitting my recent Buffy fanarts for inclusion in the group's gallery. I know, sad ain't I ... anyways, there'll be some fresh new Whedon fanart up soon enough. An' DIGITAL too ...
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I like your style here. So many portraits of Spike seem to be done in a photo realist style, so it's nice to see something different.
You've caught the sense of his cockiness and swagger. I like his baseball bat. Though I'm pretty sure he never used one on the show, I like him with it here.
Someone commented that his upper body is too long, but I see it as just part of the stylisation you have going on, he kinda looks like he's been stretched and it fits the look.
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I thought about going with the fire axe he used in his first episode but it would've been too much like my Faith pic ...
Thanks, I'm glad you like. I need to get back to doing some new Whedonverse stuff sometime ...
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It's interesting he kept that coat of his, after he got his soul back. I agree those striking features of his; made me wonder if he even eats anything with that bare bone face of his.
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It is very telling for the character - he certainly went a very different way from Angel, and I still liked him FAR MORE ...
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I can agree. Angel was always moody, about two slit wrists shy of being emo I'd say, even though I understand why. Spike's almost flamboyant personality was an attention getter right from the get-go. I'm glad they chose not to kill him off in the second season.
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Soul-returned Spike is actually very much how I see Nemo actually ... the same tortured regret, and yet while he's striving to make amends and become good, he's still all acerbic and witty with it.
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Time made him all sarcastic. Kinda like the Psychlos from Battlefield Earth (the book); once they were "cured" they weren't bloodthirsty but still were gruff due to upbringing.
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Maybe ... in Nemo's case in his youth he was essentially USED by his father, essentially trained and conditioned as a killing machine, and then when his eyes were finally opened he rebelled, or "committed heresy" as the Divine put it. Basically he started a one-man crusade against everything he once supported ... and all the while he's filled with guilt and regret for the sheer weight of murder and brutality he once inflicted in his father's name ...
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That's quite the pressure for one young man to endure.
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He did kinda go off the rails a bit for a while because of it ... and his departure did A LOT of damage. When I say he's wanted as a "heretic" I'm not kidding - he's not just hunted because he betrayed his own kin, he also slaughtered a fair few Darklings on his way out ... and has killed a lot more since, too ...
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So when are we going to see the exploits of this tormented (in more ways than one) young man?
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Still in development, mind ...
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also, just so you know, you don't have to re-upload everything in order to put it in a group. you can just go to the groups gallery and upload existing art from there
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Yeah, I guess I figured it out after ... don't matter too much, that was the last of my old Whedon stuff anyways ...
Be some Firefly stuff up soon, with luck ...
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this is awesome, I adore the detail and colouring, and also the pose 8D
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Thanks. 
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Spike was my favorite character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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I gotta agree with you there.
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I have to agree with you - he came out better than Faith. More resemblance with the original^^
Something I didn't see in the Buffy pictures is that long upper body... Maybe that's why I didn't like Faith too much. And you're doing it here again... But since it's Spike^^ I have to like him
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Ta ... yeah, worked REEEEEAAAALLY hard with tons of ref for this piece.
Anyways, it's still something of a dominant element in my style - I'm working on it, it's not as bad as it was, but I still got some progress to make ...
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