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Nikki-vdp β€” Gabriel

Published: 2010-09-20 07:12:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 765; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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Description I'd promised an angelpic, so here's my Gabriel. (yes, that Gabriel, but just in a sort of funny version of heaven as it pops up in a silly story of mine. He's sort of an accidental shameless flirt, meaning he isn't aware he's actually engaging in flirting at all. He just *is* that way. Most of the other angels think it's hilarious he still doesn't get why he converts so many more women than men )

Anyways, hate my scanner for messing with the shading as usual, and hate the paper itself even more. No matter how clean my eraser it kept making smudges every time I tried to correct something, so I couldn't do away with all the stupid mistakes, sorry for that.

UPDATE: I'm posting the entire story on DA now. You can find the first chapter here: [link]
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Comments: 27

Charmaiden [2011-01-27 04:32:48 +0000 UTC]

Delicious! Mmmmm that hair!

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Nikki-vdp In reply to Charmaiden [2011-01-27 08:26:57 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!
And yeah, I have a thing for long-haired guys. I would probably freak if my bf ever dared to cut his

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Charmaiden In reply to Nikki-vdp [2011-01-29 21:03:38 +0000 UTC]

Same here for both!

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Nikki-vdp In reply to Charmaiden [2011-01-29 21:25:08 +0000 UTC]

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kizzychan [2010-11-12 11:25:49 +0000 UTC]

What a nice angel...

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Nikki-vdp In reply to kizzychan [2010-11-12 12:44:47 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much

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IntoTheCaramelFrappe [2010-11-12 11:13:28 +0000 UTC]

Very well drawn, I admire such talent you've expressed into this!! Absolutely wonderful texture along with fine toning, the image clear to see with well-shaded outlines. The creativity is great as intended, and I am impressed with this!! Well done, 10/10 of course!!

The way the art itself flows with such a formality that causes passion to overflow through my body when I see this...it's breath taking...Well done indeed and this was without a doubt considered as "Art". Not to mention overall it's such a wonderful inspiration this drawing gives me! So detailed along with a great moral sense of value, delightful scenery added with details beyond mere words! I truly value this a lot, very well expressed and high quality into the characters themselves. Even an interesting touch of some vivid coloring.

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Nikki-vdp In reply to IntoTheCaramelFrappe [2010-11-12 12:45:04 +0000 UTC]

Wow...thanks a lot for the enthusiasm

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IntoTheCaramelFrappe In reply to Nikki-vdp [2010-11-12 19:59:17 +0000 UTC]

No Problem, it seriously was worth going over your art!! I really admire it and hope you continue to make submissions because yours is worth seeing ^_^

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Nikki-vdp In reply to IntoTheCaramelFrappe [2010-11-12 20:20:51 +0000 UTC]


Thanks so much again for the support

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ChocolateIsForever [2010-11-01 05:58:14 +0000 UTC]

Well, hello there, handsome!
The hair...oh the hair.... exactly this wavy sexy and enough to make me faint from coolness hair, yes, I want to touch them PWEEESE!!

Awesome tribal wing design on the pants, and hell, I love the idea of a Gabriel with jeans and a crescent moon on his forehead

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Nikki-vdp In reply to ChocolateIsForever [2010-11-01 07:03:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so so so much

Sometimes I think I just started that story as a very very poor excuse for drawing hot angels all the time You can touch the hair btw, he probably wouldn't get your real intentions behind the move anyway Poor Gabriel is a bit alien to the concept of fandom

Glad you like the clothes' design. I actually like to think that while the other archangels did not join with Lucifer in his uprising against heaven, that doesn't necessarily mean they're truly happy with the way everything goes. The clothes are supposed to reflect that.

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ChocolateIsForever In reply to Nikki-vdp [2010-11-27 14:48:31 +0000 UTC]

You're most welcome, and this is my excuse for drooling over the computer screen

And this is a very nice way to elaborate these characters too! I like the way you put it, and I agree, Angels also have free will right? They can't be always happy and..."angelically" accepting everything without any objections about how Heaven works

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Nikki-vdp In reply to ChocolateIsForever [2010-11-27 15:18:27 +0000 UTC]

Glad you agree with me on that. (actually they're doing a lot of planning behind God's back, but I'm not going to tell you what it's all about just yet. Don't want to get you spoilered now, do we? )

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vridhisharma1 [2010-09-22 09:20:15 +0000 UTC]

he looks hot!

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Nikki-vdp In reply to vridhisharma1 [2010-09-22 09:30:39 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Glad you think so and thanks so much for favving

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vridhisharma1 In reply to Nikki-vdp [2010-09-22 15:00:09 +0000 UTC]

your welcome! and yea he is a hottie!

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Nikki-vdp In reply to vridhisharma1 [2010-09-22 15:56:27 +0000 UTC]

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Hecateslight [2010-09-20 14:30:47 +0000 UTC]

Hm... I think he is a cute hottie! I guess the wings must have taken forever, cause the feavers are very detailed... He has a very beautiful face and I like his clothing a lot, especially your tatoo-design wings on his trousers, also his jewellery is looking great.
Hm, sounds like he is a cute innocent angel who has no idea how he is seen by others... And it sounds like an intersting story.

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Nikki-vdp In reply to Hecateslight [2010-09-20 14:35:46 +0000 UTC]

Hèhè, thanks. Good you realize, HE probably never will Poor dear. As for the wings, I actually love drawing feathers and it's about the only thing I can draw FAST, so that was pretty okay As for the story, he's actually part of the same story as Kyria. It starts out kinda funny and awkward but gradually becomes more and more serious. So happy you liked it and thank you so much for favving

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Hecateslight In reply to Nikki-vdp [2010-09-20 14:50:39 +0000 UTC]

Well, okay, two angel OCs (allright, ONE angel and a fallen one) is a bit logical they may belong to the same story...
Well, okay, I know this "funny-serious" things in stories... But I think in my stories it is more like "senceless/strange/depressed-serious"... Best example is "angel of light", the only story I have sort of finished so far...

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Nikki-vdp In reply to Hecateslight [2010-09-20 15:05:04 +0000 UTC]

Okay true, it's a give-away
That description sounds like I shouldn't read it without comfort nearby But great that you actually finished a story . I'm still trying to start out, which takes long, simply because I want the whole major storyline planned out beforehand cause experience taught me it'll end up way too messy if I don't

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Hecateslight In reply to Nikki-vdp [2010-09-20 16:47:02 +0000 UTC]

Hm, well, I did not say that "angel of light" is good, did I? It is horrible, I think. The idea itself is not all bad, but the circumstances it was written (most of it before my A-levels, so it is most of it is more than four years old) influenced it a lot, my language/narrative skills were not that good at this time and part of the story is waaaay to simple, but another part is way to complex, and some things are a bit to rushed or not fine enough... There is a chance making it better, BUT it would mean a completly overwork of it.
I guess, I am not a writer that good, and this is one reason why I have not finished Regina Noctis yet, though I now have a point it all is meant to go to for some months. I love it to much and do not want to make it to something not that good like angel of light... And I guess your way of working with it is better, cause I saw it when I wrote my play "Dido", that it helps a lot to have some clear lines in it. ^^ BUT I also think that some lines in the story can change and been developed while writing.

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Nikki-vdp In reply to Hecateslight [2010-09-20 20:29:52 +0000 UTC]

I'm sure it's not as bad as you think, and that you'll work out Hecate's story really well some day. I know I'd love to read it It will be great to get to know the character better that I've tried to draw for you Although I'm not one to talk really. I have the same thing going on with what I make, I have so few time left to write, that once I can work on it again, I'm already not satisfied anymore with what went before. So very much like you actually And of course you're right that a story can develop while writing, it's just that I need the general development planned out because of the nature of these stories in my head. I started making up characters and stuff to get myself to sleep actually. I'm quite necrophobic, and as a kid I once didn't sleep for almost a year and a half because I was afraid that when I'd wake up my parents would have gone, or someone else I loved. When left to my own thought I'm pretty prone to think about horrible worst case scenarios all the time. The stories are (still) my way of preventing my mind to go to topics that make me, well, freak out. I know, it sounds pathetic, but there isn't much I can do about it. The result is of course that these stories are really adrift in my mind and that I take on the same element in dozens of different ways sometimes. That's why, if I really want to write it down, I need to get it in line a bit more Now please don't think I'm a total weirdo okay

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Hecateslight In reply to Nikki-vdp [2010-09-23 16:43:53 +0000 UTC]

I would never think you are a weirdo at all, my dear! I think, fears, whatever they are against, always have some reason. They are not to be taken by mind, I know, but in some aspect always understandable.
Well, or maybe I am a total weirdo, too, but in this case I think not being one must be the most boring thing on earth! I have loved stories all my live and wanted to be able to create good ones. I am not sure whether my stories are good or not, sometimes I am sure they are, sometimes I am sure they are not, all I know is that I deeply love my OCs and my stories and that they are what keeps me going on. I have sometimes this depressed phases in my live (well, way to often, I guess, but I do not think it is an illness yet ) I think everything is senseless, I am the biggest loser on earth, I have no future, well, guess it is a little stereotyped! But when I remember how much I love my OCs, no matter if their stories are good or loved by anyone else, and that they are mine, they belong to me, no matter, what will happen, and this helps a lot. Hm, I guess taking an element all over can have diffrent reasons... I often have this old "problems with the father" sheme in diffrent variations. Well, the chances I get famous are not that big, I guess, so no one will have to write hundrets of pages how biographically this is! Do not get me wrong: I love my father, and THIS is the problem I have with him, cause most of the time it seems like he does not care about me... There is a German phrase "Jeder hat sein PΓ€ckchen zu tragen", I guess there is a lot of truth in it... Well, only thing you have to do is find a way to work with it! And I think, when you get the line in your story (and this day will come, believe me, I waited for it with Regina Noctis for ages!) it will be a great day and a brilliant story!

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Nikki-vdp In reply to Hecateslight [2010-09-26 07:42:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for understanding

As for the stories, well I think, as long as they help you as much as they do to cope with all the fuss and trouble of everyday life, that that makes them already more valuable than most other stories around there

And I wish I could do something about the situation with your dad, seems like it's really weighing hard on you and I don't think you deserve that at all
We have a similar phrase here in Belgium by the way 'Ieder huisje heeft zijn kruisje' which translates roughly into 'each house has its own cross to bear'.

And thanks so much for the support

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Hecateslight In reply to Nikki-vdp [2010-10-07 14:08:56 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I think so, too. I think, maybe this is something which might also help to make a story really good, cause you give automatically so much love to it.
And, well, most of the time I do not think about my Dad and it is okay, only sometimes this feeling returns, I cry for some minutes or/ and write someting sad and it is okay again. It is never okay at all, but it is something I can live with, I guess.
Well, I guess here we see again it is a simmilar cultural background in Belgium and Germany. I think, in an islamic or asiatic country the massage might also be in a phrase, but in a waay diffrent one. ^^
Hope you are fine!

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