I did this frontpage for a book (which won Andersen prize) to be published in Croatia from German writter for young people and children, it is about 8 years old black boy adopted by German family, and is describing his inner life and problems of society accepting him.
Book attitude is positive, optimistic, so i choosed an happy occasion where our hero acts as angel Gabriel in Nativity Christmass school play.

There was problem, because young girl playing Mary was in panic finding out that the baby Jesus is real baby and not an toy (it is a little brother of one boy, Pauls friend), but Paul saved the show because he knew to soothe that baby from before.... and was brave enough.

When the schoolplay was planned Paul was choosen to play Melchior but he insisted to play angel Gabriel; there was an incident because no one is representing angels as black people... but Paul wanted so much to play angel!

Lord God is lord of all people, so there is logical conclusion: why cannot an black boy be an angel ?

I did the sketch pre-visualisation in Poser, with some dynamic cloth setup (used some Renderosity and DAZ 3d purchased content, adjusted them and morphed to my needs), add some props I modeled in Wings, rendered out linework for authorisation. After approval, i tweaked the scene in poser some more, did an render, and heavily overpainted it in Photoshop, to get rid of rigidness....and to add some more props.

C&C wellcome, thanks!