Making of 'Devil and Demons'

I started this project as I would any other, creating a mood board of the theme. I found out quickly though a lot of the images I was searching for looked super similar and wasn't really engaging me. I decided to do some further reasearch and look at other cultures and religions, and what their highest form of evil was. I thought looking at one of the oldest civilisations would be a great starting point. The Egyption were obsessed with the afterlife and their God of death, Set ruled the underworld. He was in the shape of a jackal. The theme of anthropomorphised animals or a mutation of sorts created demonic creatures. The Egyptians we also fascinated with magic and sorcery, another running theme I found amongst the dark arts. While I was looking through Christian views on the devil, I was facinated to find out that the different names of Satan, Beelzelbum, Leviathan were all aspects of the 7 deadly sins. At this point I thought I had enough ingredients to create Devils and demons.

My initial ideas we pretty lame but the more and more I did I found my self creating things that had character. I enjoyed the process profusely even though I did it so slowly. Annabeth asked us to have a minimum of 10 designs and I ended up with 20+. I think the next step to accumulate people's opinions on the designs and choose the one people enjoy the most. I think this is another step out of my comfort zone as i don't enjoy showing people my work, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised and find out that people aren't as critical as me.

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