The Winged King

An updating of a recent piece of work. The version of this that I drew two years ago showed a wingless King in Yellow, a result of my indecision as to whether I wanted the figure to be winged or not. Other factors also affected the decision (or lack of it). After spending a large portion of the drawing time working on the perspective and the shadows I was a little reluctant to cover the background with a huge pair of wings; and I’d spent so much time working on the picture as a whole that I simply wanted it to be finished so I could get on with other things. Well, one of the many advantages of layered, digital art is that you can always return to a piece at a later date to revise or add to it when a situation like this arises. The more I’ve looked at this picture since its ostensible completion the more I’ve felt the absence of those wings. In Robert W. Chambers’ stories that refer to the King in Yellow I don’t think he ever actually mentions wings but he did put them on the figure he…

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