Warhammer 40k : The Archon

Commandée pour la couverture ainsi qu’une pleine page de l’ouvrage publié par Games Workshop « La croisade des mondes de Sabbat » de Dan Abnett rédigé comme un rapport d’un conseiller militaire de la croisade, Antonid Biota. Il y relate les vingts premières années de la campagne militaire impériale du même nom entre les 755-775.M41.

Cette représentation cauchemardesque de L'Archonte du chaos est bien souvent considérée comme la plus terrifiante de toute l'iconographie de Games Workshop.

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Dave Kendall : « I was asked to produce art for a character originally called The Archon. I had a limited amount of time to produce the art and was hoping to complete the entire painting in acrylic. Unfortunately the nature of the deadline and complexity of the repeating background elements meant that after completing the main character in acrylic I then went to digital to complete the artwork on time and to standard. It’s a character I really enjoyed designing. Maybe one of my all time favourites of anything I’ve designed from scratch. It has that feeling of corrupt religion and the actual concept was a creature that hid behin a beautiful, angelic, porcelain face mask but behind he was a screaming proclaiming void. This image captures him unmasked. »