I will miss the dinosaurs

Jesse Balmer lives in San Francisco California with his frisbee and two brush pens.

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  1. Thanks everybody who made it to the opening last night.  Made me feel goodman.
Some explanation:
This piece is populated by characters from a story that’s been slowly forming in my head for the past few months(which I intend to eventually turn into a comic).  The winged dudes are part of a group of rogue deities on a mission to rid the immortal plane of impure beings.  The serpent they are killing is none other than the serpent responsible for the corruption of Adam and Eve in the Bible(and therefore responsible for all humans in their current destructive state).  This is seen by the deities as one of the greatest travesties imaginable, humans being the one disgraceful, shameless, mortal and semi-lucid creatures in an otherwise relatively orderly cosmos.  The serpent is actually a higher class deity than they are(I may just make him Satan as is suggested - this is a world where many, many gods exist and the death of one is relatively inconsequential), but they believe that his crimes are so great that he deserves to die.  Anyway, the debate then becomes(at least for the isolated image’s sake) whether the snake’s deeds are punishable by death.  In the story the deities are obviously villains, and the serpent will be portrayed as a wholly wise and kind character before he is slain. This scene will play an important role in the deities declaring war on all beings below them(which will include demi-gods - the only actual challenge to achieving their goal(there are a lot of them)).  It is their first major act of divine aggression. Thanks everybody who made it to the opening last night.  Made me feel goodman.
Some explanation:
This piece is populated by characters from a story that’s been slowly forming in my head for the past few months(which I intend to eventually turn into a comic).  The winged dudes are part of a group of rogue deities on a mission to rid the immortal plane of impure beings.  The serpent they are killing is none other than the serpent responsible for the corruption of Adam and Eve in the Bible(and therefore responsible for all humans in their current destructive state).  This is seen by the deities as one of the greatest travesties imaginable, humans being the one disgraceful, shameless, mortal and semi-lucid creatures in an otherwise relatively orderly cosmos.  The serpent is actually a higher class deity than they are(I may just make him Satan as is suggested - this is a world where many, many gods exist and the death of one is relatively inconsequential), but they believe that his crimes are so great that he deserves to die.  Anyway, the debate then becomes(at least for the isolated image’s sake) whether the snake’s deeds are punishable by death.  In the story the deities are obviously villains, and the serpent will be portrayed as a wholly wise and kind character before he is slain. This scene will play an important role in the deities declaring war on all beings below them(which will include demi-gods - the only actual challenge to achieving their goal(there are a lot of them)).  It is their first major act of divine aggression.
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    Thanks everybody who made it to the opening last night.  Made me feel goodman.

    Some explanation:

    This piece is populated by characters from a story that’s been slowly forming in my head for the past few months(which I intend to eventually turn into a comic).  The winged dudes are part of a group of rogue deities on a mission to rid the immortal plane of impure beings.  The serpent they are killing is none other than the serpent responsible for the corruption of Adam and Eve in the Bible(and therefore responsible for all humans in their current destructive state).  This is seen by the deities as one of the greatest travesties imaginable, humans being the one disgraceful, shameless, mortal and semi-lucid creatures in an otherwise relatively orderly cosmos.  The serpent is actually a higher class deity than they are(I may just make him Satan as is suggested - this is a world where many, many gods exist and the death of one is relatively inconsequential), but they believe that his crimes are so great that he deserves to die.  Anyway, the debate then becomes(at least for the isolated image’s sake) whether the snake’s deeds are punishable by death.  In the story the deities are obviously villains, and the serpent will be portrayed as a wholly wise and kind character before he is slain. This scene will play an important role in the deities declaring war on all beings below them(which will include demi-gods - the only actual challenge to achieving their goal(there are a lot of them)).  It is their first major act of divine aggression.

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