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Aurum: Seer of the Stars

I've always been fascinated by astronomical mythology and things like the Greek/Roman pantheons and other personifications of celestial bodies. I don't remember how, but I got it into my head back in November some time to do my own version with my Crossworld characters. And then the brain went "Hey, why not make a series?" Of course, I forgot to take into account my ADD attention span, so two of the three pictures sat around for over a month waiting for me to finish the third piece. And then, in the length of about one afternoon, I finally got it done! Yeah, I tend to be silly like that.

And here's the real toughie of the three! Coming up with colors of the other two was a snap, but how in the world do you choose a couple colors for the stars?! I muddled around for a while, using some blacks and greens, but that just made him look like Harry Potter. Finally I decided to go with a couple different gradients of green, blue, and purple, as well as other colors tied in. I've always seen the stars as fairly cool. The nebula in the cloak was a suggestion from some classmates, and I thank them for the idea, it helps the piece a lot ^_^ I didn't really draw so much on mythology for Aurum, instead using more of what I knew of Western magic and fantasy. The stars are distant and mysterious, yet kinda playful, so Aurum was the perfect choice, and unlike the other two he's facing away from us. I have no idea what he's doing with that sparkly smoke, but it looks like he's having fun doing it! And he got no big orb of celestial might, because his domain is over a myriad of smaller bodies, and rather than having one item with a bunch of dots or some such, I gave him three smaller orbs rotating around with the same pattern on each one.

I'm gonna bite anyone that says he looks like Harry Potter :E

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(Aurum © Me, and is part of the Crossworld setting!)

Description
Aurum: Seer of the Stars

I've always been fascinated by astronomical mythology and things like the Greek/Roman pantheons and other personifications of celestial bodies. I don't remember how, but I got it into my head back in November some time to do my own version with my Crossworld characters. And then the brain went "Hey, why not make a series?" Of course, I forgot to take into account my ADD attention span, so two of the three pictures sat around for over a month waiting for me to finish the third piece. And then, in the length of about one afternoon, I finally got it done! Yeah, I tend to be silly like that.

And here's the real toughie of the three! Coming up with colors of the other two was a snap, but how in the world do you choose a couple colors for the stars?! I muddled around for a while, using some blacks and greens, but that just made him look like Harry Potter. Finally I decided to go with a couple different gradients of green, blue, and purple, as well as other colors tied in. I've always seen the stars as fairly cool. The nebula in the cloak was a suggestion from some classmates, and I thank them for the idea, it helps the piece a lot ^_^ I didn't really draw so much on mythology for Aurum, instead using more of what I knew of Western magic and fantasy. The stars are distant and mysterious, yet kinda playful, so Aurum was the perfect choice, and unlike the other two he's facing away from us. I have no idea what he's doing with that sparkly smoke, but it looks like he's having fun doing it! And he got no big orb of celestial might, because his domain is over a myriad of smaller bodies, and rather than having one item with a bunch of dots or some such, I gave him three smaller orbs rotating around with the same pattern on each one.

I'm gonna bite anyone that says he looks like Harry Potter :E

Details: [link]

(Aurum © Me, and is part of the Crossworld setting!)