" The torturers brought one more victim to the room they dare not enter alone. Legend said the skull upon the wall was a heretic long past, from the days of the original Inquisition. Yet none explained the horns that grew from the ancient bone, or the disappearances of subjects left untended.
The pragmatic said that rats ate the abandoned souls left to rot after their confessions were extracted, and scattered the bones among the piles that littered the stone floor. There was no one to clean them up, the superstitious would not enter the room saved for these special cases, not until long after.
But this time, a pair of brothers had been taken. Confession had been wrung out from one the day before. The torturers expected to find his putrid corpse still bleeding upon the stone slab on which he had been chained and tortured to the brink of death.
But all they found was blood, a little dried where the chains had bound the unfortunate man, yet still dripping wet from the mouth of the inanimate skull on the wall. "
The above wonderful caption was written for this image by the Fantasy writer Jaq D. Hawkins. Thank you Jaq, I think you did an excellent job. To learn more about the author visit her website at www.jaqdhawkins.co.uk.
Dark Fantasy art is a new and increasingly popular subgenre of fantasy art and literature. It combines horror and usually includes gothic elements depicted in dark atmosphere. Dark fantasy art often involves elements of supernatural horror with intelligent beings like vampires and werewolves. Lately the genre also found its way to comic books, games, anime and movies. Many feel that dark fantasy is not yet clearly defined as it often overlaps with regular fantasy.
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Awsome pic, you should make a Heaven and Hell Genre coz this looks demonic! id love to see what you could do the the genre, your art is friggin brilliant!!
Ive also put a comment in the surreal genre and forgot to put my email if you want to reply.
I really like the way u made the blood dripping out. Its looks very realistic not like some other painting i saw somewheres else including dripping blood but barely dripping at all!!
Dawid Michalczyk: @dale Thanks. I do not sell CDs with my work due to piracy concerns.
dale_wright: Your images are incredible, to say the least. Would it be possible to obtain a CD of Surreal. I would love to purchase these if not to incredible if t... (more)
Sangeetha: Amazing..:)
lincolm: something never before seen pictures somewhere but put a compelling world, I can say that his art is "encantadora".
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