Xiombaca WiP

As detailed elsewhere, Xiombaca. This is a WiP, started in '92. Yes, some projects move very slowly.

Xiombaca and the Garden of Thorns

Xiombaca and the Garden of Thorns...
The x, pronounced as a nearly silent z, EYE-ohm-Bah-kah.

She is an ancient manifestation of chaos; destruction through rampant, unbridled creation. Typically, as in this decaying sketch, she is depicted nude on a throne, her true face disguised in her own growth as false faces both beautiful and grotesque manifest about her true face. She is crowned with a halo of thorns, and is adorned only in the thorny vines that grow from her womb, engulfing her throne and court, choking and destroying all around her.

Her throne is made of suffering, depicted as men or angels bent into subservience at her whim to provide comfort at their own expense, as Xiombaca's garden of destruction wraps and racks their bodies with pain.

The vines as depicted are both emerging and entering, aspects of both the intrusive and expulsive acts of procreation, but thorned as they are, demonstrate the wound of sundered purity, the violence of rape, and the pain of birth; all made grizzly and undeniable. She is a twisted and dark fertility goddess, a furrow in which only ill seed grows.

Heir's Folly- the doodle

Most of my larger works started as a doodle in the CoT. Heir's Folly was no exception:

Heir's Folly

Properly scanned and uploaded now, This is probably my best 'completed' work so far, in my opinion at least.

This is actually a second piece based on a previous, the subject of which can be seen as a silhouette against the moon in the background. Unfortunately, this drawing took center stage in my mind and the other fell by the way-side... a story most artists can tell many times over. I still work on the other drawing occasionally, but it lacks the sense of urgency this drawing had.

King of Pain

The words KING and PAIN are mirrored images of each other. The dagger forms the word 'of '. This was done about 10 years ago. In the animated version, the KING/PAIN revolve around the dagger.

Horns of a dilemma

Always wanted to do this as a finished piece.