Whoop-dee-doo, I did finally finish Mehraj, which is a door slammed shut on another long-standing gestalt. That said, besides him and those other two there's a whole bunch of others I've sketched out in a similar style and wanted to make into a nice monochrom-y illustration series, suitable for turning into a neat little artbook (with accompanying short stories) I could print out and put on a shelf.
Will I do it though?
Maybe? How it usually goes with ideas like these, is at some point one realises just how unfeasible the scope of what's planned is, and the whole thing then just meanders in "development hell" for years and years. In this case, that phase has already come to pass in an earlier, much milder iteration of the idea, one that didn't involve multiple standalone illustrations.
I suppose I owe it to there never being any kind of real, grandiose hype or pressure regarding these, or, in truth, my art in general. No monetary incentive, barely any outside motivation. Lack of widespread popularity and attention can be disheartening in this day and age of instant gratification, but it's also a blessing, as you just roll with your new and finally finished work being... well, just another picture, appreciated by a small number of those who (hopefully) like the make of it, and not solely the subject matter.
Anyway, time to go to work and then come back and play videogames without thinking about how closer you've gotten to finishing the artwork this morning, if at all.
The picture below is missing, like, a dozen more girls relating to the demiurge on the central right. Big lul @ this actually having structure and lore.
