cacodemum: The First Choir Next entry in my Bird Omens series, we’ve got the Big Guns of the a
cacodemum: The First Choir Next entry in my Bird Omens series, we’ve got the Big Guns of the angelic choirs: Michael, Uriel, and Sandalphon. We have a secretary bird, a luzon bleeding heart, and a golden-crowned kinglet respectively. The suggestion to make Sandalphon the absolutely smallest but angriest bird possible came from my dear @kyuofcosmic, and it’s resulted in a lot of tower of babel jokes, along with dustbathing in ashes. He’s also going featherbald and has plated the lining of his beak in silver. No teeth to do a silver cross on, so it’ll do. I knew I wanted Michael to be a secretary bird as soon as I started the project, given their prowess, but Uriel was a bit harder to match up; Uriel is often given epithets like ‘archangel of salvation’ which made it a conscious choice to use a bird that seemingly looks like its just thriving post stigmata. That and I just love them, they’re a fantastic bird. As for their constellation(s), I chose Eridanus as a joint constellation instead of individual ones, as it ties into the holy-water aspect rather well, and the archangels do enjoy being quite large and foreboding. Except for Sandalphon. Sandalphon is 3 ounces of whoop-ass and preens for God. All are crowned in bronze halos. (Also please enjoy a bonus shot of my cat deciding she needed to ‘help’ me by stealing pens.) Adam and the Them, or the mirror piece to this which will feature the Dukes of Hell are up next as both are thumbnailed, just got to do their respective sketches! Others in the series: Aziraphale | Beelzebub & Gabriel | Crowley | Anathema & Newt -- source link
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