Azazel, The Most Punished - Color Phase (Patreon)

This is a character I think about a lot, so making a new piece for him has been going very smoothly. The sketch was finished almost immediately and the color has fallen in place just as fast.

The palette in this piece is similar to a favorite old personal painting of mine called "Wake". The muted green tones and ruddy golden hues make for a simple addition to any painting that already has clearly established lighting and values. It's easy to keep the palette very limited because the most vibrant versions of these colors mix together very naturally to create warm and cool variations of each other. That makes it easy to paint light and shadow by splashing a little orange on anything being lit and splashing a little green on anything going into shadow.