Crocodile God

This is a sort of merger between Azreal (the angel of death), Sobek (the Egyptian crocodile god) and H.P. Lovecraft.

To explain how it all came together. I have always been fascinated by Azreal and had been contemplating doing a piece inspired by him. Consequently I am also currently working on a traditional piece of Sobek and this photo I took of a crocodile's skull I could not help but think would make a really cool mask and I wanted to use it in a piece.

So the idea emerged to combine my wanting to create Azreal with this crocodile imagery. And thinking of crocodiles made me think of a swamp like setting and brought to my mind this H.P Lovecraft story. The name of the story escapes me but it was set in the Louisiana (I think) swamp and there was this eerie scene describing the swamp and this ritual taking place in the swap, and the sound of tribal drubs could be heard.

I wanted to draw that Lovecraftian/cult like feel into the piece.


Stock Credits:

Model: by Marcus Ranum (www.ranum.com)

Background: by OOOri

Mist by Dune-sea

smoke texture3 by AshenSorrow

Bone Wings 02 by frozenstocks

Dagger: BinaryStock-0045 by binarystock

Gold Orbs: Fune-stock_fractal_orbs by Fune-Stock

Ankh2 by Aninur-stock

Crocodile Skull:   by me