Ars Goetia 61 - Zagan

Zagan, one of the nine Kings of Hell.

A very powerful entity who commands over thirty three legions of demons. Listed as the sixty first demon described in the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is classified as both President and King, both titles symbolic of the power and sway he has within the infernal abyss.

When summoned, Zagan often assumes the shape of a winged bull, but will transform into a man some time after being conjured. He has the power to turn water into wine, blood into wine, and back again. He also has the power to turn any metal into coins. It is said that he can impart great knowledge upon any man, and even turn a fool wise.

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Personal illustration from 2021, done in Procreate and Photoshop.  Here is the WIP:

The Morrigan

The Morrigan is a goddess from Irish Myth.

This drawing was "updated" in 2018 but was originally made for a 2008 Character of the Week (ChOW) challenge at the now defunct conceptart.org website.

Janus

Description: In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past. The Romans dedicated the month of January to Janus.

 This was a drawing I made in January 2018 for a Character of the Week challenge over at conceptart.org, made in Procreate and Photoshop.

Medusa

Medusa is creature from ancient Greek mythology, a woman who is hideous in appearance, has serpents on her head instead of hair, and has the ability to turn people to stone with her glare.  She is oftentimes portrayed as a villain in movies and video games.  She was once a beautiful maiden priestess of Athena, who was seduced by Poseidon, and fell in love with him.  For breaking her vows to celibacy she was cursed, and terrorized the world until she was killed by Perseus.

I portrayed her as a serpent, in the style of the movie Clash of the Titans, or the video game God of War.

I did this drawing for a contest over at Deviant Art themed "Born Bad" in February 2018. The drawing was made in Procreate and finished in Photoshop.

Genie in the Lamp

I worked on this drawing from 2011 until 2018, little by little, until I had a major breakthrough with it finally and got it to a stage I consider "finished."

Below is an animated GIF.  I made this using an old antiquated piece of software (Magic Morph) that is useful in morphing images from one to another.  For example, you can take two portraits and make the face morph into another face, similar to Michael Jackson's Black or White video.  Rather than starting with two different images, I started and ended with the same image, and used control points to animate the background and foreground smoke effects.  I'm really happy with how this turned out.