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She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, but not up close.And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.
A concept art I did of War, the Apocalyptic Horseperson from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's excellent book Good Omens. It's quite a rough sketch but seemed well liked on my artblog so here it is. I took the forest fire metaphor a bit literally... I'd love to draw the rest of the Horsepeople at some point, as well as the other characters, but I'm due for a re-read!
Inspired by the facial features of the beautiful Genevieve Padalecki, who is my dreamcast for this character. I hear there's a miniseries in the (very early) works...!
Artwork by Alice X. Zhang
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Comments: 229
The first things that popped into my head when I saw this was "Ruby!" but then I thought "Oh my god! Jared Padalecki's wife!!!"
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I thought she looked familiar! 
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One of my favorite books! Awesome job capturing her!
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Wow this is amazing. I loved that book and this is such a great representation of her! Great work!
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I KNEW YOU WOULD DRAW SOME GOOD OMENS ART
EVERYTHING IS AMAZING HERE
AND NOT HERE
JUST EVERYWHERE
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looks like Margarita of the Master and Margarita. the Witch!
Amazing!
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I know you said this back in 2012, but... A Master and Margarita comment on a Good Omens artwork? My two favorite books, both totally underrated and obscure, somehow brought together??? *dies from the explosion of combined awesomeness*
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...Wow, I love the colours here! And her expressions is gorgeous, it's just an amazing picture
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Wow--this is totally how I see her too! Very lovely~
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You are AWESOME!
I am going to have to fave this, because it is too spot on and pretty to not fave.
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beautiful work! kinda reminds me of jean grey from x-men
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Oh God! I'm actually in love with all these Four-Horesman-of-Apocalypse-thing... This is a great War!
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Ohmigod, yes. I've always wanted to *see* those characters, and not just have to make 'em up in my head!
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I love that book: your portrayal of War is beautiful!
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I like her facial expression
gorgeous red hair of fire
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OMG I love good omens, this is so beautifully amazing! It captures the description perfectly
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This is brilliant! She looks like Ruby from Supernatural - her face structure reminds me of Gen's.
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Ah, Good Omens. One my favorite books of all time.
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She looks gorgeous!
Her hair is so sexy and I can actually feel the flames burning me! Awesome job!
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You know, I read that book but I never tried to hard to imagine the Horseman too much. I felt they were all a bit of a throwaway characters considering how it ended.
Still, cool idea. Can't wait to see more. Plus this makes me now want to read it again.
You should try American Gods as well if you are a Neil Gaiman fan.
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I saw picture first and said to myself: "omg thats war from good omens! it must be!" and then i hurried up to look if i was right... jeez thats exactly how i imagined her.
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