Here's an illustration I did as a test piece a little while ago, of the Angels appearing to the shepherds in the field on the night of Jesus's birth.
It's a bit different to my normal stuff, a teensy bit more painterly and realistic. I used photo reference for this one, something I don't do much for my more cartoony stuff, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, since it was really tricky to give the impression that it was a dark night-time scene without making things too dark, and at the same time making things really bright because of the angels' aura while not making it look too bright. Tricky, took a few goes.
Every person in this scene is referenced from photos of me dressed as shepherds and angels! I didn't have time to get people to pose for me, so I just got my wife to take shots of me, and then I changed the faces with the awesome power of my imagination, which basically just meant make their noses bigger and give them a beard or something.
Hope you like it!
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Thanks Deborah, for your comments. Glad you like the picture. Best of luck with your book, and with your daughter's move! Hope you like Australia :)
Forgot to tell you that my daughter lives in Australia and is moving to Sydney this year. Were here to help her with her move. Deborah
Cool love the feeling this gives you of the angels in flight! Like the way you took pictures of yourself for referances and changed it up a bit. I'm a inspirational illustrator of Biblical verses and just happened to come to this site. I actually just recently finsihed the armour of God that looks cartoon like which is totally out of my realm. With this I've made separate pages of the armour for a colouring book for kids. Not sure where to go with all of this now. Waiting for the Lord to quide me. Thanks for sharing your works and God Bless you on your ventures. Deborah