A very long overdue commission for someone. This one took me over a month. Usually I take a week. But in the end I think it's a big step up in my work. It's not perfect but I learned a lot!

Archangel Michael is usually depicted with a sword held high and standing on the head of a person or demon. See here for an example: http://www.luckymojo.com/archangel-michael.jpg

I did my own sorta design for him, and I think it came out pretty cool. Just for kicks, the bottom there is the concept art I did for the commissioner before I started. I think I did a good job translating my concept to 3D.

The reason for the changes, in the end, he was just incapable of standing at ALL. I thus made him a base. The base was plain and circular. I then thought of trying to bring back in the concept of Michael standing on the head of a demon and thus decided to add in the skull, which I think came out pretty well! My first time trying something like this with... "scenery". I won't say it didn't have it's failings, but I think the end effect of this one as a whole is pretty cool. So yeah. ENJOY!