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Published: 2013-10-26 21:14:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 858; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 3
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Description "...When the light is out of the reach,
He'll come to you, but not to preach;
Dark as night, with a matching cape,
Resembling a nightmare's shape,
With the bloody black feather,
With the book of the leather
An apprentice of death..."

The rumours say he was one of the first nightmares, the ancestors of the ones we know today. His big black feathered wings were lost in a fight, but nobody can tell why the death itself decided to let him live and help with one duty. The duty of collecting secrets.
Usually he comes to the dying if they have a secret to pass, yet it's possible to summon him.
There is a weird key he often carries, though nobody can even guess what it is for..."


Keeper of Secrets by Theatres des Vampires www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI2ww6…

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It's a concept of a character which was floating in my head for a while after that song.

Nightmares measure years in white, grey and brown feathers only; black are this guy's only, meaning his alliance with death.
White pupils are a sign of it, too.

His wings are just bones, but he is able to float in the air.


Terrible and simple background, yeah. Couldn't think of something better.


P.S.: It's 3 am.

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Art, character (c) me
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Comments: 15

DarthTriforce [2013-10-27 17:40:55 +0000 UTC]

I really love the poetic story and the lovely picture here^^

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RusCSI In reply to DarthTriforce [2013-10-27 17:46:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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DarthTriforce In reply to RusCSI [2013-10-27 20:34:47 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome^^

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juju712 [2013-10-27 08:02:53 +0000 UTC]

Excellent!

For the BG I would propose Β tomb or a heap of some other books he may have filled.

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RusCSI In reply to juju712 [2013-10-27 08:06:49 +0000 UTC]

Oh, a tomb could be fitting ^^ He has only one book which never ends

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juju712 In reply to RusCSI [2013-10-27 08:12:06 +0000 UTC]

Cool! ^^

That make sense, imagine the size of the library otherwise...

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Dragonluvr1 [2013-10-27 05:31:02 +0000 UTC]

AWESOME!!!!!!!

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RusCSI In reply to Dragonluvr1 [2013-10-27 05:51:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you :3

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Wolf-Rizer [2013-10-26 23:58:54 +0000 UTC]

Awesome picture! Nice use of the phrase "bury your secret to the grave".

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RusCSI In reply to Wolf-Rizer [2013-10-27 06:27:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Wolf-Rizer In reply to RusCSI [2013-10-27 14:09:21 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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Krazzulimaii [2013-10-26 22:22:53 +0000 UTC]

While I see that you were going for a dark picture, I feel like there should be a little less of it. Even if you just have the light glowing on his skin from the feather. It's better to have many different shades

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RusCSI In reply to Krazzulimaii [2013-10-27 05:51:35 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for... the critique (?), but I don't know what you mean by "many different shades" Many different light sources? Gradient shading? Soft shading? ???
And it's bones, not the skin the feather leaves the light on.

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Krazzulimaii In reply to RusCSI [2013-10-27 06:33:08 +0000 UTC]

I was typing quick near then end and didn't want to have to think, so I said skin


I mean that this picture is too dark. Have some much brighter highlights from the feather. It's good to have a lot of variation between light and dark, rather than everything being nearly the same brightness.

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RusCSI In reply to Krazzulimaii [2013-10-27 07:15:53 +0000 UTC]

The feather doesn't give that much light. Well, and it's cell shading, where I use only one shade or two. If it was soft shading like here ruscsi.deviantart.com/art/Summ… , that'd be another case

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