Lead into Temptation

This is a new character I've been wanting to draw and color for awhile, but just finished today -4/27/10-. This is Tempt (until I come up with a better name), a creature who derives amusement from leading people into temptation. This is usually done when people are sleeping, have just died and are in that 'limbo' status, or during the night.

Tempt will bribe them with offers, whatever it is that they absolutely can't refuse, and lead them somewhere. He is much like a demented Pied Piper. Typically, he will lead them and make them do horrible acts in order to give them what they want...be it leading the soul into hell, killing people or whatever else.

This picture is kind of a dramatic show of my embodiment of Temptation. The good the evil, the wicked and the innocent...the tempter and the tempted. Tempt was the first to be colored, and I knew exactly what colors I wanted him to be...I wanted him to be dramatic, bold and evil looking while still showing a twisted sense of charm and appeal.

The little girl, last to be colored, was to be his polar opposite. Not dramatic...soft, pastel and light colors that tied the picture together. Picture took around 6-7 hours altogether -sketching, lineart, coloring and shading-. Tempt was inspired by (and the picture was helped finished by) the song 'Calliope', which is track 04 of Nox Arcana's 'Carnival of Lost Souls' album. You can listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMk4_BaUiJ8&feature=related