#Honestly if anything it's a surprise it took me this long to make a cherub/angelsona! I've always loved angels

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Yeah! Now there’s a proper Fallen Angel! (Patreon)

Also ft. some of the mid-transformation design sketches:

Took a few wing iterations to decide how I wanted the swirls to appear - I do still like them appearing from under a tuft of feathers, as well as the double-lined look, but even simple single-line looks nice :)

I considered a “bleeding” heart at first, red and slashed, but I think an “over-flowing” pink heart is more accurate to their theme! It looks ever-so-slightly less gruesome as well haha

They’re the (Fallen) Angel of Desires! Not like Eros or Cupid, not that specific, just Desires in general - not needs but Wants. Not of hunger, more like a craving for a familiar food; not of sleep but of comfort; not of belonging but of company - impulses and snap decisions, positive and negative :)

I also considered some asymmetrical design elements like a single rattail to the stage left-

Or keeping two wings still but set to one side, but in the end I liked the symmetrical look better

Some notes about the goop! The hole can sometimes overflow since it’s not very deep, dripping is normal, but it just dissipates off the skin usually. The goop form is kind of similar to crying - it’s a release of some Big Emotion but with the entire body rather than flushed out through the tear ducts, so crying is unusual during that time! It’s much more common for everything except the eyes to be dripping, including hair and glasses haha