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A piece of art for a business plan competition based on a game concept by my friend Alex - [link] , wherein you play as an angel-soldier working his way up through the ranks.

This is my attempt to draw a generic Seraphim. They are, of course, one of the two or three specifically named types of angel that people know.
The only distinguishing description we find of them is in the Book of Isaiah, 6: 2-3 "Above Him stood the Seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew"

Searching for reference pictures, I was surprised that I couldn't find any piece of historical art that actually depicted them as covering their faces as per the only description we get, so I was left on my own to devise how it would work. I think I came up with a pretty decent solution (and I love the way it looks with the wings completely folded over the body like that).

This was originally intended to have a transparent background, but there are issues with photoshop's antialiasing and transparency in png's (semi transparent pixels come out gray, so the image has a whitish fuzz around it, and that halo causes some major issues). I also wanted to use a lens flare in the halo, but lens flare only really works on a background, so for the DA version, I went and made a background.

And, just for the record, this may, some day, be a copyrighted design for a game (although I'm not certain the extent to which one can copyright a non-specific character based on a physical description from scripture...)

Description
A piece of art for a business plan competition based on a game concept by my friend Alex - [link] , wherein you play as an angel-soldier working his way up through the ranks.

This is my attempt to draw a generic Seraphim. They are, of course, one of the two or three specifically named types of angel that people know.
The only distinguishing description we find of them is in the Book of Isaiah, 6: 2-3 "Above Him stood the Seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew"

Searching for reference pictures, I was surprised that I couldn't find any piece of historical art that actually depicted them as covering their faces as per the only description we get, so I was left on my own to devise how it would work. I think I came up with a pretty decent solution (and I love the way it looks with the wings completely folded over the body like that).

This was originally intended to have a transparent background, but there are issues with photoshop's antialiasing and transparency in png's (semi transparent pixels come out gray, so the image has a whitish fuzz around it, and that halo causes some major issues). I also wanted to use a lens flare in the halo, but lens flare only really works on a background, so for the DA version, I went and made a background.

And, just for the record, this may, some day, be a copyrighted design for a game (although I'm not certain the extent to which one can copyright a non-specific character based on a physical description from scripture...)