Just A Happy Person

Wouldn’t be me if I didn’t have an “I noodled further” version 💃

Tweaks:

- Super slight skin tone adjustment

- Added more silver

- Skinnied up and darkened the noose

- Lightly deepened some of the wrinkles

Nicodemus Archleone & Anduriel

Did this all in one day from start to finish at the cost of now needing to do all my taxes tomorrow. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

You think you know about commitment. About faith. But yours is as a child’s daydream beside mine. Let them win? I do not dance to the Fallen’s tune, Knight. We may move together, but I play the music, I set the beat. For nearly two thousand years have I followed my path, through every treacherous bend and twist, through every temptation to turn aside, and after centuries of effort and study and planning and victory, they follow my leadership. Not the other way around. Turn aside from my path? I have blazed it through ages of humanity, through centuries of war and plague and madness and havoc and devotion. I am my path, and it is me. There is no turning aside.

-Nicodemus Archleone, Death Masks

Nicodemus Archleone!! [Bonus: Character Narration]

...With bonus content of me editing a character voice together and then painstakingly crafting it into a narration of one of his best monologues in the books!!

Was a difficult challenge painting a supernaturally beautiful man but we did it

“Let's get something clear up front. I'm not Harry Dresden. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences -- and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being. I'll be damned if I know how. But then, I'll be damned regardless. My name is Thomas Raith, and I'm a monster.”