Raven of Last Rites

“Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

- Edgar Allan Poe

Process

Raven's are seen by many cultures as a messenger that moves between our world and the Otherside. What does that creature look like on the Otherside? This is what I imagined while creating the Raven of Last Rites.