#Angels Before Man

[nicosraf]

Hello I've gotten a few asks w Angels & Man spoilers, and now that it's been about a month since release, I'm going to start answering them. I'm going to tag them as "a&m spoilers" so you can mute if you don't want to see :) Hope that's okay!

#mine #angels before man #a&m spoilers #<- that tag exactly #angels & man #angels trilogy

[vronoch]

angel of love, angel of michael

#angels before man #digital art #illustration #lucifer #digital painting #fanart #digital drawing #digital illustration #my art #hcjdjdhksjcg #pride #happy pride month #please read angels before man:))) it’s such a fun and not at all sad book

[cuprumbao]

lucifer from "angels before man" by @nicosraf comissioned by @greenheld! really love how this one turned out

#comission #digital art #angels before man #lucifer morningstar #i haven't read the book btw #but def should check it out it sounds like my cup of tea totally #angel

[ppyyooart]

‼️ tw blood/gore

rosier x asmodeus

the angel of fruit and and the angel of friendship

#angels before man #angels before man spoiler #abm spoilers #rosier x asmodeus #abm rosier #abm asmodeus #spoilers #tw blood #cw: gore

[greenlaut]

death of the divine ✸

as your flatter talk shivers down my spine i hear the Holy One exposing all the lies (Lord, forgive me, i know my flesh needs to die) x

baal / lucifer / michael from angels before man and angels & man by @nicosraf

close-ups + work progress under the cut

og sketches

cleaned up sketch (i can't perceive my own messy sketch's coherency ok)

1st version. didn't like how thick the lineart and the colour palette isn't clicking with me. is so i scrapped it. decided i want to do frame/illuminated manuscript thingy so i added frame and re-centered michael.

i kind of winged it for the final version, so i don't have progress of me picking colour palette or compositions. idk how i did it, i just did it, it was hard. i had a bad day so i blanked out the entire day to just lose myself in this illustration. and then uh. tada.

now some close-ups:

and some notes:

i know i want lucifer's skin to come across as "gold", so i keep picking his colour in the orange spectrum. bcs yanno--the sun (morningstar). naturally baal is more red leaning, which i think also suits his lion associated imagery well (because lion -> strength card (in tarot deck) -> red. idk, it's how my brain is)

originally michael doesn't wear an armour. i decided last minute to put him in one because fuck it; (1) armour cool and (2) i am a masochist ig

both baal and lucifer wear lipgloss. this is entirely dedicated to rafael's (the author. not the angel.) suffering. they share lipgloss by kissing, you fools.

michael has "jellyfish" hairstyle because. the front bob kinda reminds me how catholic friars/monks in certain schoolings cut their hair in that bob hair? yknow the one?? ya?? anyway it's for that imagery.

both baal and lucifer's legs are caging michael. bcs they're what ground him (vices/temptations) ahahahahaa

i actually asked rafael (author not the angel) and he said he imagined baal is a brunette, which is the same like i had in mind. except that baal asked that he got depicted as a wizened old man/wizard. so now he gets a beard and his hair is white. (he also insisted i gave him a stylish beard)

if u look closely at the jewelries the demons wore; one of lucifer's rings and baal's visible earring have gemstones the colour of michael's eyes

in return, michael's sash is the colour of the demons

baal has a ring with heliodor (yellow) for lucifer, and lucifer has a(nother) ring with red ruby for baal

baal's other gemstones are topaz and lucifer's are yellow jasper

both demons have pearl necklaces. they're supposed to represent michael('s wings ahahahahahaahaha)

my headcanon is that michael's wings are brown like sparrow's actually. BUT during the war, god gave him more power and authority and my understanding is that he got tempered into a perfect sword; so his wings turned white. when book 3 came out and they finally bang (I FUCKING HOPE THEY DO. RAFAEL. THIS IS FOR YOU RAFAEL.) his wings will turn brown againehehhehe

lucifer's coat has wing-like cut at the ends to represent his no longer existing wingsbye

michael is blue because one time i shared this imagery with rafael; michael wearing blue because of the same reason virgin mary is depicted in blue. god's favourites are in blue; fated to suffer and be left behind.

fin.

#angels before man #abm #moobaalcifer #INSHAALLAH they have a 3way amin #archangel michael #lucifer #lucifer morningstar #baal demon #baal #moocifer #baalcifer #moobaal #(?) #baalchael #sounds cool djjdg #religious imagery #religious imageries #what catholicism does to u ig #art #illustration #digital illustration #book illustration #artist on tumblr #artist #angel #demon #my art

[cinnamoth-art]

“This, this here, could be worship. ‘This—’ Lucifer pressed an innocent kiss to the prince’s sweet, divine mouth. This could be religion.”

― rafael nicolás, Angels Before Man

I've been reading Angels Before Man again and it has made me cry just as much as the first time. I think about Lucifer pretty often and the fate he's been saddled with, I figured he's due some righteous anger

#angels before man #rafael nicolás #lucifer #digital illustration #illustration #he deserved the world #blasphemy is kinda sexy

[kan1nekaz]

The Sword of God

Michael from @nicosraf s Angels Trilogy 🫶

#I keep thinking about that post about how Michael wishes he was an insignificant angel so he could’ve had the freedom that Baal did #and how the sword of god can only ever be one thing #gon dammin #it makes me so sad #like he can never belong to anyone else #angels and man #angels before man #mine #archangel michael

[doorstepwhiskey]

"I was just curious."

#angels before man #my art #baby gorl...

[arsgoetiq]

angels before man (rafael nicolás)//olympus: the battle of the giants (francisco bayeu)//angels & man (rafael nicolás)//fallen angel (alexandre cabanel)

#while going through my notes and highlights from abm and a&m i noticed this parallel and it altered something in my brain #angels before man #angels & man #book quotes #mine

[barkingworms]

Lucis first night in hell

#angels before man #rafael nicolás #abm #lucifer

[nicosraf]

Angels & Man, a queer retelling of the Watcher's Flood, is now available for ebook pre-order

with a beautiful illustrated cover by the incredible Hyde Angelus @iliothermia and a back designed by Alex @swordvampire.

Angels & Man is a queer retelling of the Genesis Flood // Noah's Flood // the Book of Enoch // the Book of Giants in which:

The angel Azazel is miserable in Heaven. In the aftermath of Satan's fall, the angels live in the reconstructed ruins of an old utopia, oppressive and paranoid of any new rebellion. The angel Samyaza is content in Heaven, but he longs for the eternal city's former glory. Watching the feeble humans below, wallowing in sin for centuries after Adam and Eve, he sees opportunity to earn back the Lord’s favor. On Earth, the Watcher angels arrive to lecture on God's love, but the love of a human soon begins to seem much warmer.

It's the sequel to Angels Before Man — a queer retelling of Satan's fall — and the second book in the Angels Trilogy — a series of books about gay angels and the end of the world.

Paperback / Hardcover are coming soon (it always takes me a while to get them set up but I'm hoping ). While we're at it, please look at the cover illustration for the hardcover dust jacket by @siroc-co :

I want to sap about how hard I've worked on this and how grateful I've been for your support :( It means a lot to me. Thank you all. But let me leave the content warnings here for now:

Graphic violence, death, depictions of oppression, body horror, pregnancy and miscarriage and childbirth (including for character that does not identify as a woman), sexism, homophobia, bigotry, sexual content, non-graphic sexual violence, issues of sexual consent, incest, depictions of war and starvation, emotional and physical child abuse and neglect, suicide, mental instability, self-harm, abusive romantic relationships

#mine #angels before man #angels and man #angels trilogy #queer books #lgbt books #writing #indie books #book

[cassanovaaaa03]

Lucifer, angel of beauty makes a friend in the garden 🐍 inspired by angels before man by @nicosraf

I just ordered angels and man and can’t wait for it to get here. This series is going to have such a chokehold on me 🥴

#my art #artwork #angels before man #lucifer #fallen angel #angel art

[citrum]

beloved lucifer

#angels before man #abm #abm lucifer #lucifer #digital illustration #digital art #my art #art #photo #& #i have had a lot of thoughts about him the past few days for better or worse #sorry if this is mid i have reached a point where i don't think i can be happy with it lol #tumblr also fried the quality so that's grand isn't it lmao

[burnbrighterthanever]

supernatural 5x04: the end // angels before man, rafael nicolás // nobilis, jenna moran // dinner and diatribes, hozier // the caged owl, gregory orr // dear forgiveness, bloodnotink // nobilis, jenna moran // a cornstalk fiddle, notbecauseofvictories // cryptotheism // nobilis, jenna moran

#web weaving #nobilis #angels before man #a cornstalk fiddle #spn #the au #stel speaks #stel writes #stel creates #the fire of baator

[greenlaut]

i hope you suffer.

my take on pre-war abm michael (the michael lucifer fell in love with) angels before man written by @nicosraf

#i lovingly dubbed this as 'lucifer's michael vs god's michael' #lucifer's michael being the closest to humanity vs god's michael being inhuman #wanted to do monstrous design for god's michael but my brain cant handle that rn #being loved by god as a violence. ascension as a loss of self. #i procrastinated cleaning my room for this sksjksjd #abm #angels before man #abm michael #archangel michael #archangel #angel #michael #mikael #archangel mikael #my art #religious imagery #religious imageries #digital illustration #illustration #artist on tumblr #art #book illustration

[inkedlycanz]

Hopping on tumblr once more to post my fun personal art yippee I’ve been enjoying the book Angels Before Man by @nicosraf and it’s by far my favorite book EVER i have never been able to pick up a book and devour it while also feeling a gut wrenching connection with the characters. I am just so glad to have found it. You’re awesome Rafa :’) I have so much fun art to share, some serious some silly. This one I did post on insta but it felt lonely so I wanted to share it here 🥹 hope my fellow abm enjoyers will appreciate it. Michael and Lucifer are so tragic I just had to make my own version of Creation of Adam. DELICIOUS

#angels before man #abm #angelsbeforeman #angels trilogy