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Gift for of her character SkekDemus   

Few remember the enigma that was SkekDemus, even in early days of the court he was viewed with contempt and fear, because unlike the others Skeksis he had a fascination with death and spirituality and this spirituality meant that he viewed all souls including that of Gelfling and Podlings as equals. It is not normal for Skeksis to like such things most fear their death more than anything in the world and most believe this along with the fact that Demus liked to tell the truth and maybe told the Emperor that he would die a corpse and all his plans would go unfulfilled may have led to his downfall. Who locked him away in the vast under catacombs under the castle its not know most think it was ether Zok or the Emperor himself what is very clear though is that Demus was the first Skeksis in the court to fall, though it was never made public and the Emperor went to great lengths to hide the truth by gaslighting every Skeksis to believe this lord of death had never existed and most fell for it.

Demus though never saw his exile as punishment he saw it as freedom as he could pursue his interest fully and become a true master of death. He later helped those few Skeksis who had been exiled themselves as well as those trying to break out of the dark crystals grip and influence and became the person who made meetings happen deep out of sight and away from the Emperors gaze. To the rest he remained the terrible god of death of the tombs which all the other Skeksis feared and ran away from in terror. It is believed that he succeeded in also doing something no Skeksis has ever done, in that he got the last laugh when it came to death as unlike the others he didn't rot and crumble in to nothing, he instead slowly self mummified naturally and its said that his body may lie in side the catacombs encased in a statue and immortal reminder that the Skeksis existed once on Thra. 

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Comments: 25

SkekLa [2016-01-18 13:58:46 +0000 UTC]

WOW!!!!!!
This drawing and description of Demus is mazing, Silver!
His story fascinated me ever since Moreta told us of it, and I think he is such a cool skeksis!---
He looks truly fierce here, even though we know he may be indeed a helping hand when you're underground far below the Crystal castle...
BRILLIANT PIECE!
I love it---

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Silvermoonlight In reply to SkekLa [2016-01-18 15:26:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

I agree he is very cool design and really fascinating

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SpiritBird-250 [2016-01-17 15:13:34 +0000 UTC]

Cool! He's got a grim reaper-esque air about him.

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Silvermoonlight In reply to SpiritBird-250 [2016-01-17 15:19:40 +0000 UTC]

Yeah he does, tough like the Grim reaper he looks terrifying, he's a nice guy who is just very misunderstood and doing a job. Though if he doesn't like you being in his catacombs, well lets just say he can make your life really unpleasant, like change your chalk markers so you get lost cut your string so you get lost and terrify you to the point that you never ever want to come back.

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SpiritBird-250 In reply to Silvermoonlight [2016-01-20 21:49:32 +0000 UTC]

Yikes.

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queenmoreta [2016-01-17 13:27:17 +0000 UTC]

OMFG he looks awesome! so creepy and cool. I also love the little write up you did too!, just adds to the atmosphere of the image.

I see what you mean by what you did with the teeth , it looks really cool and intimidating.

I love how you did his eyes!! and fantastic work on the cloak and weapon The spikes look lovely and dangerous too bwahaha.

The brooch is a very nice and fitting touch, it has spiky bits that go so well with his spines 8D. I also love the texturing and colouring you did for the wall behind him!. amazing job hon! and thank you so much for drawing him!! I love and appreciate so much that you even wanted to draw him <3. 

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Silvermoonlight In reply to queenmoreta [2016-01-17 14:57:51 +0000 UTC]

So glad you like it, I was worried as its not quite as white as your concepts, but I realized the character being white would conflict with the burrow like catacombs behind which are all blue and whites so I had to go for a darker shade.

Yeah I thought the lower jaw over bite would be really scary, it also means that when the teeth meet, they over lap like a real skull teeth do as there's no beak covering and it sort of adds the horror element and even though Demus is not a horror character. Plus if the beak thing was first thing you saw as he comes out of the shadows, I think it would scare the hell out of you.  Yeah I just tweaked the brooch as I loved this idea that bone is everything to the character. Oh and I loved the idea that like the Skeksis his weapon has the grooves and decoration like the big swords, even though he's outcast I thought it would be a great symbolism.

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queenmoreta In reply to Silvermoonlight [2016-01-17 15:23:49 +0000 UTC]

it's okay, to be honest the idea made sense to me, as I am currently playing a video game that have people living in a cave system and it describes them with pale skin. The falmer also have pale skin. PLUS it also acts as another nod to the original character this Skeksis is based upon, (who guess what! also lives in a cave! 8D). But I totally don't mind you didn't do it as pale, he still looks awsome!! <3.

it is a cool idea! and I loved seeing you play with it . I will try it out in my own pictures, but if I can't get it to work with my style then I will leave it as an idea for others to draw if they wished . But I'll see how I go with drawing it myself X3.

Never know, might come out with yet another design tweak

awesome! hahah I just did my best and drew a scythe XDD. SO I loved seeing all these extra elements you played with for this image, thank you again, so very much for drawing him!. <3.

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Silvermoonlight In reply to queenmoreta [2016-01-17 15:31:52 +0000 UTC]

I hate the Skyrim falme! The way they creep on you gets to me, its like you don't know there there and suddenly the little bastards are righr behind you clobbering you with an axe. Don't get wrong I love the idea of underworld evil elves but they drive me nuts I remember going deep in to the dwemer mines and getting so annoyed with them that just went werewolf and killed a huge bunch and the worst part they don't even have good stuff....like you have to kill about ten before you get some decent item.

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queenmoreta In reply to Silvermoonlight [2016-01-17 18:47:51 +0000 UTC]

they are!! troublesome things, I am also very wary when looting things there, as I don't want to pick up any of their gear. Even their arrows aren't worth picking up! D8.


I too find that a nuisance how they can catch you by surprise like that, though I think I find the bigger pain for me are the Chaurus. D8
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Silvermoonlight In reply to queenmoreta [2016-01-17 19:23:25 +0000 UTC]

Ah there's a trick with the Chaurus, don't run at them sword blazing instead have a shield to block their poison spray as you run at them then strike and shoot at them from a distance if possible with ebony or elven arrows or dragon bone if you can make it.  Oh and complete the whole armour tree, its worth it I really need to replay the whole Skyrim game again sometime, but I'm currently playing Tomb raider 2013 so I just haven't gotten around to it as yet its on my to do list because I wanna replay again change some mods and complete the dawn guard quests.

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queenmoreta In reply to Silvermoonlight [2016-01-24 14:41:32 +0000 UTC]

Yeah I usually go with the bow and arrow, as most of the time I see them before they see me 8D.

Sheesh I also really need to play some more Skyrim XDD.

Ooh hooked to Tomb Raider XD I know that feeling, wanting to play more Skyrim but busy playing another game instead XD.

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Silvermoonlight In reply to queenmoreta [2016-01-24 15:21:00 +0000 UTC]

Yeah thats the problem with steam, you find yourself weirdly hooked between two or three games

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queenmoreta In reply to Silvermoonlight [2016-01-25 16:29:13 +0000 UTC]

you do indeed! XD. I find it rather addicting, also you can find some games at such bargain prices too!

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Silvermoonlight In reply to queenmoreta [2016-01-25 16:44:58 +0000 UTC]

Yeah every time I find myself something I don't always play (Oh I do in the end but its a long time before I get to it)

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weasel-girl [2016-01-17 04:09:34 +0000 UTC]

Good lord! He looks terrifying!

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Silvermoonlight In reply to weasel-girl [2016-01-17 11:40:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you but I did not make this design the terrifying credit goes to

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ArlenFram [2016-01-16 17:47:45 +0000 UTC]

FFFF!
This is awesome, Silver!!
I adore his  ominous look and the visible spines and the robes!
You created very dangerous looking cryptkeeper, I say!

I adore him!!

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Silvermoonlight In reply to ArlenFram [2016-01-16 19:05:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you Kel

I cannot take credit though for this character's design he belongs to this is just my interpretation of the concept

 

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ArlenFram In reply to Silvermoonlight [2016-01-16 19:15:23 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I know But you drew him marvelously, that I wanted to say ^^ You did amazing job on him!

*sits on needles seeing Fer and Kel inked*

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Silvermoonlight In reply to ArlenFram [2016-01-16 19:18:59 +0000 UTC]

Yes its inked and so is La's, it made sense to do this one first as it more of a portrait where as yours and La's have way more details and have two skeksis in both plus backgrounds plus I now now how Fur is meant to look due to the other illustrators so her image will have all the details like long hair and so on

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ArlenFram In reply to Silvermoonlight [2016-01-16 19:25:42 +0000 UTC]

Yes, Fer has really a lot of details! She is very feminine and delicate skeksis... and has really lots of elaborate robes!
I hope you will have fun drawing her!

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Silvermoonlight In reply to ArlenFram [2016-01-16 19:38:01 +0000 UTC]

I've already drawn the fresh new more feminine version of fur I really enjoyed it because it is such a sweet delicate design, you can tell that to Fur from me and its always nice to revisit Kel, but this time much like La's image its more a romantic setting rather than dark one's like I've done in the past .

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ArlenFram In reply to Silvermoonlight [2016-01-17 15:58:03 +0000 UTC]

I really can't wait to see <3 I adore your art BUT you already know that ^^
Romantic setting... such unusual set for a skeksis yet in AU so natural

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Silvermoonlight In reply to ArlenFram [2016-01-17 16:16:47 +0000 UTC]

Yeah I agree, I was still going to put a dark element in it, but its more the castle setting

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