I am leaving for Italy today.
My wife and I are going to one of her friends’ wedding, which makes this month one of the busiest I’ve had in a long while, since next week I am flying to Canada for my holidays.
No wait, this year has been dead busy from the beginning, full stop.
Anyway, with all the things to set up before we leave I had to skip the gym for an awful lot of lunch breaks, which, if on one hand will make my attempts at not becoming a plump lazy guy more difficult, on the other hand gave me the opportunity to do some speed painting while having my veggies at work.

I started this as a simple mood study, at the beginning there were just some generic ruins with the giant leg of a non specified creature in the middle. Then my friend Dave passed by and went “A-HA! Godzilla, LOL!” and I had to do something else.
In the end it didn’t turn out too bad, I changed the dinosaur-looking leg into something closer to a humanoid, and I eventually decided it would have been a huge demon in a really bad mood.
I gave him flaming whips because they fit the character and they were the best weapon to be seen from ground level, since the upper part is out of sight.
When I realised that reds worked pretty well in contrast with the overall mood of the painting I started playing on that by adding red lights bouncing from the debris on the left hand side.
All in all I think I’ll ask Dave to come and take the piss out of what I’m drawing more often.

3 Responses

1. Bruko says:

   September 10, 2010 at 10:06

   love the tilt, as if this was a photo taken by a photojournalist trying to escape but still doing his job.
   R.I.P. pretend photojournalist.

   We’ll see you on sunday! I’ll be the one running around like a mad woman 😛

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   • Paolo Puggioni says:

     September 10, 2010 at 10:23

     ahah oh noes, I feel bad for the journalist now!

     Seeing you guys is one of the reasons we’re looking forward to the wedding. Ah, and also the fact that one of Val’s best friends is getting married.
     However, at the beginning I thought it was your husband commenting, and now I have this disturbing image of Ale jumping around like a butterfly in the dress you were wearing at the last wedding.
     I mean, with beard, hairs and all.

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2. massimo says:

   September 10, 2010 at 12:26

   Flaming whips are cooooool. I imagine the daemon whipping Mothra in some monster BDSM thing.

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