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greenlaut · 21 days

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death of the divine ✸

as your flatter talk shivers down my spine i hear the Holy One exposing all the lies (Lord, forgive me, i know my flesh needs to die) x

baal / lucifer / michael from angels before man and angels & man by @nicosraf

close-ups + work progress under the cut

og sketches

cleaned up sketch (i can't perceive my own messy sketch's coherency ok)

1st version. didn't like how thick the lineart and the colour palette isn't clicking with me. is so i scrapped it. decided i want to do frame/illuminated manuscript thingy so i added frame and re-centered michael.

i kind of winged it for the final version, so i don't have progress of me picking colour palette or compositions. idk how i did it, i just did it, it was hard. i had a bad day so i blanked out the entire day to just lose myself in this illustration. and then uh. tada.

now some close-ups:

and some notes:

i know i want lucifer's skin to come across as "gold", so i keep picking his colour in the orange spectrum. bcs yanno--the sun (morningstar). naturally baal is more red leaning, which i think also suits his lion associated imagery well (because lion -> strength card (in tarot deck) -> red. idk, it's how my brain is)

originally michael doesn't wear an armour. i decided last minute to put him in one because fuck it; (1) armour cool and (2) i am a masochist ig

both baal and lucifer wear lipgloss. this is entirely dedicated to rafael's (the author. not the angel.) suffering. they share lipgloss by kissing, you fools.

michael has "jellyfish" hairstyle because. the front bob kinda reminds me how catholic friars/monks in certain schoolings cut their hair in that bob hair? yknow the one?? ya?? anyway it's for that imagery.

both baal and lucifer's legs are caging michael. bcs they're what ground him (vices/temptations) ahahahahaa

i actually asked rafael (author not the angel) and he said he imagined baal is a brunette, which is the same like i had in mind. except that baal asked that he got depicted as a wizened old man/wizard. so now he gets a beard and his hair is white. (he also insisted i gave him a stylish beard)

if u look closely at the jewelries the demons wore; one of lucifer's rings and baal's visible earring have gemstones the colour of michael's eyes

in return, michael's sash is the colour of the demons

baal has a ring with heliodor (yellow) for lucifer, and lucifer has a(nother) ring with red ruby for baal

baal's other gemstones are topaz and lucifer's are yellow jasper

both demons have pearl necklaces. they're supposed to represent michael('s wings ahahahahahaahaha)

my headcanon is that michael's wings are brown like sparrow's actually. BUT during the war, god gave him more power and authority and my understanding is that he got tempered into a perfect sword; so his wings turned white. when book 3 came out and they finally bang (I FUCKING HOPE THEY DO. RAFAEL. THIS IS FOR YOU RAFAEL.) his wings will turn brown againehehhehe

lucifer's coat has wing-like cut at the ends to represent his no longer existing wingsbye

michael is blue because one time i shared this imagery with rafael; michael wearing blue because of the same reason virgin mary is depicted in blue. god's favourites are in blue; fated to suffer and be left behind.

fin.

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barkingworms · 21 days

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Lucis first night in hell

#angels before man #rafael nicolás #abm #lucifer

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kan1nekaz · 5 days

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A little silly doodle of Michael and Lucifer’s first meeting in the gallery garden 🥺 how far we’ve come.

Testing out some new stuff with my art style, I’ve got some work to do with it but I like the direction it’s heading :)

#angel #angels before man #abm #lucifer #archangel michael #mine #moocifer #they’re just #so 🥰

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citrum · 9 months

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beloved lucifer

#angels before man #abm #abm lucifer #lucifer #digital illustration #digital art #my art #art #photo #&#i have had a lot of thoughts about him the past few days for better or worse #sorry if this is mid i have reached a point where i don't think i can be happy with it lol #tumblr also fried the quality so that's grand isn't it lmao

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inkedlycanz · 1 month

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Hopping on tumblr once more to post my fun personal art yippee I’ve been enjoying the book Angels Before Man by @nicosraf and it’s by far my favorite book EVER i have never been able to pick up a book and devour it while also feeling a gut wrenching connection with the characters. I am just so glad to have found it. You’re awesome Rafa :’) I have so much fun art to share, some serious some silly. This one I did post on insta but it felt lonely so I wanted to share it here 🥹 hope my fellow abm enjoyers will appreciate it. Michael and Lucifer are so tragic I just had to make my own version of Creation of Adam. DELICIOUS

#angels before man #abm #angelsbeforeman #angels trilogy

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mellvetica · 13 days

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I've had this book in my periferals for a while and finally managed to work up the courage to read it and I gotta say, it kinda struck me to my core. It's beautifully written, the characters are deep and commanding and it's so painful in the best way.

More little fella's coming in the future. Thank you Rafael Nicolas for giving me the warmth of the stars while I was really really sick.

#angels before man #ABM Lucifer #Feeling very seen by a book is genuinely both a comforting and terrifying experience.#ABM

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nyorart · 6 months

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Rosier and Gabriel portraits practice since this book has me in a chokehold

#angels before man #abm #rosier #i love them your honor #JUST LOOK AT THEM #abm gabriel #So glad nothing bad happens to them #denial #My beloveds

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cinnamoth-art · 5 months

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Taking notes while reading is very important

#angels before man #abm #annotations #i dont know how to annotate #or take notes #the inner machinations of my mind are an enigma

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straylaughs · 1 year

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lucifer from angels before man by @nicosraf !!

#go read this book guys PLEASE #i need to cry yell scream etc. w someone other than the voice in my head #this took me like 3 weeks just because of school n stuff but wooo im finally done #i was 80 pages into the book when i started this but then drawing this just ended up being my way to cope w pt 2 <//3 #angels #lucifer #angels before man #angels before man fanart #abm #abm fanart #digital art #my art #ok yea this released like a few months ago but im patiently waiting for an abm movie adaptation

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raniououou · 5 months

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Part 1 Lucifer (abm)

I was gonna finish this drawing but gave but gave up :/

#angels before man #abm #abm lucifer

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greenlaut · 14 days

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i hope you suffer.

my take on pre-war abm michael (the michael lucifer fell in love with) angels before man written by @nicosraf

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barkingworms · 4 months

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Tumblr please don't kill the quality PLS PLS PLS

#angels before man #rafael nicolás #abm #Lucifer #queer books

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kan1nekaz · 12 days

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Sorry to bombard everyone with my Angels and Man art, but this is a recreation of The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche! Satan certainly looks rather unhappy, despite being surrounded by buff shiny men who love him. How can it be

Michael, Lucifer, and Baal from @nicosraf s Angels and Man :)

#angels and man #abm #angels before man #archangel michael #lucifer #Baal #I’m not a moobaalcifer propagandist #but it worked for this #ok to RB!

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citrum · 9 months

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