Hails o wretched weaklings!

This evil and dark art was created on the slopes of of the mountain leading to Helheim itself, with the help of Thor, and the all mighty Skaal. This mighty piece of frostbitten evil and despair was done to appease the Great Scholar who has taught my wombless self for almost 5 full moons. With Odin by my side, I was able to create a blasphemous and purid etching that will forever storm the hearts of all the christians who ever dared to invade our fatherland.

Hail! Hail! Hail the might of the frostbittenly dark North!


(This was the final task for this semester in Drawing course. The focus was composition - strategically placing all the objects in a way that will frame the focal point, and lead the viewer to it. But of course the rest of the elements play a key role as well, like charachter development, perspective and so on. The assigment criteria were to make a composition, with either a calm/peaceful or intense/frightening mood. And it HAD to include: A church, a person, gravestones, and an old tree. Being familiar with the norwegian black metal scene in the mid 90's, the idea for a metalhead burning down a church came to me in about 0.3 seconds. Smoke/fire effects were a bitch to create since its the 1st time I ever draw flames and smoke in a realistic way.... even though I had some degree of success, it still looks lame.... but oh well - practice will perfect it. Hope you like it, and any critique is warmly (frostbittenly ) wecome.)