Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 17, 2015 Hash Fellow Share Posted August 17, 2015 A quick modeling test for something I've been itching to try: the "demon with squid-like wings", one of the many ghastly creatures in Michelangelo's painting "The Torment of St. Anthony" I tell ya, that guy must have been a saint to put up with all those demons chewing on him. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Excellent model...can't wait to see everything put together! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 17, 2015 Author Hash Fellow Share Posted August 17, 2015 I'll warn that it won't happen fast, there's a lot that would have to be invented from that one view. I've actually seen this painting in person over at the Kimbell Museum in Ft. Worth. It's rather tiny, only about a foot across. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 I tried to hit 'like' on this but was told I had hit my quota for positive notes for the day...(!) I hadn't used ANY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted August 18, 2015 Admin Share Posted August 18, 2015 Nice detail work Robert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detbear Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Looks cool Robert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemyax Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 I tell ya, that guy must have been a saint to put up with all those demons chewing on him. He's either that or the Doom Guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 20, 2015 Author Hash Fellow Share Posted August 20, 2015 I'm going to need more shape information than the painting gives me so... I've been trying to find some creature that has a head similar to that demon and I'm thinking that, minus the triceratops frills, it's basically a rodent because of the side-mounted eyes on the head rather than front-wise-facing eyes like a cat. My next step was to look at rabbit skulls to see how they are built and... geez, get a load of this ... a rabbit with fangs much like the demon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 21, 2015 Author Hash Fellow Share Posted August 21, 2015 Michelangelo's painting was actually an art school project and the earliest of only four known easel paintings by him. He based it on a previous engraving of the same subject by Martin Shongauer. In terms of the depictions of the creatures, both have strengths. In Shongauer's version the demon with squid-like wings has a head that is much more dog-like than Michelangelo's and more anatomically plausible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpendleton77 Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Those wings are looking good so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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