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The Gathering Legion of Shadow

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So. I had an idea for a pic called "Breeding an Army of Hosts" about the creation of the angels. Im still working on that one, but I want it to be a painting which I am slow with. This one is sorta "part 2" depicting what may have taken place after Luci and his possey got kicked out of Arcadia.... I do a lot of angel stuff... woops...
Anyways, if I understand correctly, until the demons caused Jesus to be killed, they were still allowed to go to heaven at certain times, they just couldnt live there (such as when Satan was askin God what all fucked up stuff he could do to Job). I decided maybe they had their own entrance to heaven. So this is them gathering for some kind of meeting.
Since ive been growing my hair out, from time to time (and just last weekend) people have said I look like Jesus (as does anyone with long hair and a beard/goatee), and since the whole shit between Satan and God happened cuz Satan wanted to be "like" Jesus, I figure maybe Satan is trying really hard to be like Jesus of the shadows. Thus the Jesus-like position of the front-most demon. The others are just fun stuff I decided to do. Thats me in all of them, and I think the one on the far left is my fav, cuz I have a beard/Rob Zombie sorta thing goin on. I still have all the single components, cuz I think I did a damn good job, actually. Perhaps could have done better with the Rob-like one's smoke eyes, but oh well, im satisfied.
The angel on the right has crosses, and I'll tell you why. Satan and them probably knew how they were gonna kill Jesus since they first got the idea to do it. But at the time (before it happened), they probably thought they would win by killing him, so maybe at that time the Cross represented sin (hope God's not offended by that one).
That column is completely made in PS7 cept for the angels which had sharp cut offs on the bottom, so I airbrushed the rest of their robes and I think I did a good job making it look right. Specially cuz the original angel was like a concrete beige/gray not black marble-ish. Ah, hmm.. The angel on the light side isnt smiling but the angel on the dark side is *shrug*
Each demon (well, each demon thats not completely silouetted) is a demon "of" something. I wont go into which is which cuz this description is already fuckin long enough...
I used a bunch of stock for this, so thank you to...:






and I think I used as well, but Im not sure.
If I forgot you, I'm sorry

Hope you f00ls like it. I dont know if its my best, but its my fav so far.

EDIT
Fixed a couple of color problems on the angels on the column, changed some of the blue eyes in the bg to red (there was too much blue) still not sure if im satisfied with them, and i added some cobwebs to the angels on the collumn
EDIT 2
Fixed those fuckin eyes once and for all
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Actually, Satan is still allowed in God's presence and so are the demons...I just don't think they are allowed to take up residence in Heaven...Satan is supposedly said to be able to come into the presence of God and talk to him about how screwed up people are...He is not actually thrown out of that realm until he rises up against God (in Revelations) and he is thrown down to earth. Now a lot of biblical scholars think this is when anti-christ appears or this is supposed to take place after anti-christ is wounded and appears dead...but Satan brings him back somehow...I'm not too clear on this...I have not read Revelations in a while...but yeah it is interesting that people always think that Satan is not permitted in God's presence but he is...another thing to think about is that God probably still loves Lucifer...well not probably...but well you know what I mean! anyway, this is an really interesting piece. I love it! Joey is working on a book right now and the nemesis in this book is a fallen angel (not lucifer of course) but in involves some of the angels that fell...I have no clue what or how much of a role they will play...I know they have a fairly important one at the beginning but after that I am not sure how much they will be involved in the story...I have to wait and see! He won't let me read it until he is done. :) Well anyway, I am going to og look up some stuff about the whole Satan and God relationship...it's pretty interesting. :) I always wondered why people think angels don't have free will...obviously they do...to rebel they have to be able to think and feel for themselves...I just cannot see God wanting a bunch of automaton like servants...I don't know! I don't presume to know too much about religious matters...there is so much to learn and read...well, I am going to go this is too long! ;) Take care man. If you want to know what Joey's story is about I'll type up a little synopsis...it's really cool. :)

Julia & Joey :)