I made some Gabriel icons!

So I found this gorgeous artwork of Gabriel the other day.

And since I'm always on the lookout for more icons for my dear role-play character, the Archangel Gabriel, I was very excited - this might possibly be the best painting of him I've ever seen, that actually somewhat fits my mental requirements. Okay, so in my head Gabriel's hair is black while here it's merely brown. It's still pretty damn close. xP I love the wings. Although I must say that those excessively loose, weirdly draped robes are not flattering at all.

 

I cropped this out to make an icon by adding some text, but it was still so lovely on its own:




So I then proceeded to make myself an icon by adding text - only I couldn't decide what to add. Originally I was going to put God's Left Hand but then I remembered what Gabriel's name means and thought it would be cooler. I was aiming to get the word God in a bigger font than the other words but Paint wouldn't let me do that and I was lazy. xP 




Then I made this one, which I preferred and am using as one of my icons for cattygabriel:




I love it. ^_^


And then in the past half an hour, I decided to go mad and made four more, all from the same picture. 8D


( More Gabriel icons! )

Okay, okay, so those extra four were probably overkill. What can I say, I like the picture. xD

Also, could one of you help me out? I have this gorgeous picture of Santiago Figueras, the model I'm using as my Gabriel PB, half-tuned away, which would be perfect for me to edit in wings, so he's exposing them -  something significant, considering my characterisation for him.

The problem is, I suck at photo manips.

 <--- I want to edit his wings in so it looks like he's shirtless and is offering his wings to be groomed.

This is something like what what I imagine his wings to look like:



But obviously that won't do for the picture, so heck I'd be content with editing this in even though it's a bit too cutesy. :( I could make it look like it's only the top of his wing, since I picture them as huge.



If anyone reading this has some tips, I will love you forever! <3