I have to admit, I've been feeling a bit reluctant to change it dramatically at this stage, and there are still some things I'm not sure how to fix, but I hope this takes care of the most important things.

OK, first of all, I increased the saturation of the brightest skin shades to make up for the green AA, so now the colors should seem less muddled. Added another skin shade a bit closer to green.

Not sure if the wings need changing since they're meant to be damaged rather than neat and symmetrical.

He does look less scary in a way, but I thought the old one looked scary in a cornered beast sort of way and that maybe something more intelligent would seem more threatening. I guess it's a matter of how you choose to read it?

Indigo, that makes perfect sense, and I seem to have more trouble keeping the more basic stuff in mind when trying more challenging things. Anyhow, thanks a lot for another helpful edit.

Edit: Nothing major, mostly palette changes and polishing.

My first five and hopefully not the last!

Ooh, thanks a lot, guys! That helps a ton.

I think I was trying too hard to stay true to the original colorwise. I tried to figure out how much to darken the darkest shades. Then I just tried black.



I turned his back muscle into a sort of second arm to make it look as if he can actually move them. So now it's even more invented than before, but I hope this looks a bit more natural (hardly the right word, but you know what I mean ).

As for demonic anatomy, I wasn't quite sure how human to make him, but I kept the short neck and big hands and feet from the original since I figured a short neck would make his jugular less exposed, and a creature made for fighting would have big hands and maybe big feet for balance. I don't know if that makes sense, though, since I don't know of any ferocious, bipedal predators.

Still some parts left I'm trying to fix, and I need to add shadows cast by wings and horns, but this is it for today.

I sort of got distracted from my previous piece by this week's PJ challenge, which just happened to be something similar.

Original.



I know the wings look a bit flimsy. How's the anatomy?

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