Great Sword-Wielding Demon by m-tadena on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

This is one of my first attempts at coloring/ texturing my 2D work...[yay, I got my Wacom Intuos-4 tablet...I love it!] It's a little late right now so I'm not so sure whether or not I like the outcome

Dante's Inferno: Canto XXVIII
Circle Eight: Bolgia Nine [The Sowers of Discord]
(author notes):

The Poets come to the edge of the Ninth Bolgia and look down at a parade of hideously mutilated souls. These are the SOWERS OF DISCORD, and just as their sin was to rend assunder what God had meant to be united, so are they hacked and torn through all eternity by a great demon with a bloody sword. After each mutilation the souls are compelled to drag their broken bodies around the pit and to return to the demon, for in the course of the circuit their wounds knit in time to be inflicted anew. Thus is the law of retribution observed, each sinner suffering according to his degree...