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Loustat coffin side scene linocut made by yours truly

Armand, Amadeo, Arun

In this week’s installment of ‘I can’t stop painting Armand!’. I started sketching this listening to ‘Beware’ by Deftones and it was a perfect combo. They’re the soundtrack to devils minion in my head. Also maybe dipping a toe into some Jasper/ Talamasca stuff soon cause I adore William Fichtners bone structure. But damn Assad Zaman is gorgeous, speaking of bone structure. @ IWTV casing dept, you really did find a painting in a human with him, huh?

This is sort of a Frankensteined companion (lol) piece to the dual-eyed Armand- initially I just wanted to paint something of vampire Daniel looking HAWT, and I originally had him wearing his sunglasses but honestly I thought it looked cooler without them. Then I started thinking about his eyes… and here we are lol.

This wasn't true.

His lips were hot, and I could feel the fangs under them, feel the urgency suddenly in his fingers pressing against my scalp. It sent the shivers through me, and my body tensed and then shuddered, and it was sweet beyond prediction. I resented this lonely intimacy, resented it enough to transform it, or rid myself of it utterly. I'd rather die or be away, in the dark, simple and lonely with common tears. From the look in his eyes, I thought he could love without giving anything. Not a connoisseur, just a blood drinker.

"You make me hungry," I whispered. "Not for you but for one who is doomed and yet alive. I want to hunt. Stop it. Why do you touch me? Why be so gentle?"

"Everyone wants you," he said.

"Oh, I know. Everyone would ravage a guilty cunning child! Everyone would have a laughing boy who knows his way around the block. Kids make better food than women, and girls are all too much like women, but young boys? They're not like men, are they?"