Cinabre de Dianae (Diane Özdamar)

Cinabre

Photoshop

November 2008

Cinabre is the central piece of this tryptich (because of its warm color compared to the 2 other pieces which are using cold color schemes).
Its name comes from the french name of the cinnabar stone, which is considered both as a poison and a symbol of eternal life (it has been used as a drug of longevity and resurrection).
Cinnabar is also used as a pigment.
All these images are meant to look very stiff, icon-like and full of symbols (bugs, colors, stones…) and will be printed full size (200cm x 60cm) as door ornaments.
Original size : 7087px x 23622px , 300dpi
Photoshop CS3
Wacom Intuos 3A4
No direct reference used (ie : I didn't copy a photo) though I used many references for the peacock mantis, a real pomegranate on my desk and a mirror for the hands.
40 hours approximately.


EDIT : thank you very much for the frontpage plug ! What a big surprise when waking up today ! 
Since many people asked me what are the symbols in there, here's a very quick explanation.
She's red, color of fire, life, passion and blood. Yet, she's very pale and has "dead" skin. White has different meanings in different cultures yet it's almost often associated with calm/peace. I added green too, to enhance this opposition. The colors symbolize life duality. 
The pomegranate is based on the myth of Persephone : it's a symbol of death and life too. Persephone ate 6 pomegranate seeds which caused the world to suffer winter. 
The dice are meant to represent chance/fortune which are to me very important in life (I mean life in general, with its beginning and ending). I added the cards symbols (spade and heart) to enhance this aspect (heart = love. Quite easy ^^ spade = life, both soft and spiky, skull = death. Easy too  )
She's wearing a very bright red dress full of feathers and some "light bulbs thingies" (some kind of metaphorical fire) which symbolize the phœnix : also associated with life and rebirth.
The cinnabar stone, as mentionned previously is associated with eternal life and death too. 
The horns/antennaes are associated to Nature and insects (these are very organic). Insects have been associated with eternal life and death in many many cultures (Egyptian one for instance). Mosquitos carry fatal diseases and steal blood, beetles/scarabs carry eternal life, worms/flies are symbols of death…
This painting is full of dual symbols and tries to depict Life in general in a very iconic way, such as the two other pictures of the series.
By the way, one of my friends told me that the narrow shoulders bothered her a bit, do you think I should fix it ? The proportions are ok (7,5 heads can enter the whole body, the forearms are as long as the head, same for the hands which cover the whole head, etc…) but I made the shoulders quite narrow (a bit less than 2 heads) because I thought it was elegant… Is it really too much ? 


Thanks for your looking ! Critiques, comments, etc… are very welcome ! 


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Iron Man de Anne Pogoda

Iron Man

Painter, Photoshop

August 2010

STATEMENT: I LOVE IRONMAN! 

And so I couldn't be happier as my boss demanded me to paint him one for his wall. I hope that he will like this one since I really did my best to make him precious and shiny! He was based on the tons of drawings I made of this subject in the last weeks for my own amusement.

We also had the most awesome Livestream ever featuring this painting. The video is up now, it is about some general painting advice and about texture, texture, texture!

Have fun guys. 

ZEE VIDEO OF AWESOMENESS: http://livestre.am/kEd6

Update: My approach on the Iron Man armor, finally finished. I referenced this from a movie screenshot, but I put my own twist into it, changing it here and there, mainly to make him a little thinner to be able to move better but also manly and "attractive" by changing the form of shoulders and hips. XD

I can't decide if I shall like the golden or the silver one better. What do you guys think? 

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The Wolf's Sword de Cris Ortega

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Arte Digital de AndyH (Andrew Hickinbottom)

Actimel

3ds max

June 2010

Actimel

I modeled these characters for a series of Actimel commercials for Pasozebra productions in Valencia, Spain. I was based in Valencia for a month, which was intresting.

Unfortunately, due to some copyright malarkey with the clients, i can only show this one promo image and the completed commercial video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8d5Uiiaulg

Andrew Hickinbottom

Blain

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Crocodile Tears de MichaelO (Michael Oswald)

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Etaine -white goddess de 97bzo

Etaine -white goddess

3ds max, Photoshop, VRay

April 2007

This picture is the work asked for the promotion of "Shaiya", a Korean online game.

"Etaine" have two characters that were born from one body.This image is godness of light(white).

Image code of this godness is 'purity' and 'peace'.

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Skin Deep de MichaelO (Michael Oswald)

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lolitbyannmei de AnnMei (Kulik Larissa)

But Not Broken de kisalon (Kirsi Salonen)

But Not Broken

Photoshop

June 2009

But Not Broken

Tribute speedpainting & partly photo manipulation to the great movie Terminator Salvation. 

Online tutorial of this will be availabe soon at It's Art, but you have to wait that 'til next week

Roshiko Amanogawa (practise portrait)

Painter, Photoshop

May 2009

Hi! This is a speedy portrait (about 2 days ~ approx 8h of work), that's made as a practise before proceeding making various greyscale/duotone character concepts. Had a lot of fun with this one, since he's a char in my book anyway, so nothing goes "wasted" 

comments and crits are most welcome!

Cheers,

Kirsi

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Arte Digital de AndyH (Andrew Hickinbottom)

1978

Debbie

Guitar Hero PANDORAscreenshot2

Arte digital de Mariya Winterfall (estele)

Maria Alaeva Estele   digital art

Location: Moskow, Russia

Language(s): English, RussianMoskow, Russi

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Shivarka Taurus de kisalon (Kirsi Salonen)

Shivarka Taurus
Photoshop
March 2010

Hi! 
I think it`s good time to show some new development about my `Ordera` -project. It`s been too long since the last one 
Here`s a creature called a zara. Their history is shrouded in mystery and isolation, after their race was hunted and hated and put to exile. Most of all zaras in Ordera were killed in the kingdom of Pangaya. Now there`s only a handful left of these beings who to most people are merely called as a `demon`, but they don`t know what this actually means in `real life`, usually people mistake them for being beggars or hermits and forget they saw them at all. Countering a zara face to face doesn`t get to happen but very rarely, since they do not want to be seen but only in the places they need to be present and manage business affairs. They hide their face under the deep hood to avoid sunlight at all cost, since their skin is extremely sensitive and easy to burn in bright sunlight. They enjoy the light otherwise deeply.


I translated a small chapter from the book itself where there`s a conversation between Shivarka and Kifu, the previous being a young sangrae composer (sorcerer in certain terms).


'Zara sighed and shook his head.
'You thought even I was a fable, slackminded boy. I can see inside your mind easily as watching a starry sky in bright moonlight. Everything can be seen with bare eyes, but you don`t even try to see beyond your own stupidity. You`d be surprised what lies out there.. there can be whole worlds which you don`t want to see. However they see you the moment you close your eyes! Hahahaha!'
After this been said, Shivarka didn`t speak further that night. 


Kifu couldn`t sleep at all. He watched the demon and tried to resolve his mixed and frightened thoughts. 
Was Rei in such a place what Shivarka had mentioned? It couldn`t be.. '


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Arte digital de Pascale Nubret

Arte Digital de Anne Pogoda

...the girl who seemed to be made of all light

Photoshop

November 2006

This is meant as the opposite of "Doom".

First of all I have to say that I worked very very long on that face. I finally wanted her design to be done and I saw that I should learn from some "old masters" now. That's why I took my books and looked for artists I'd like the most. One book was featuring french masters and I picked Fragonard and Bouguereau as my favorites to learn from.

Influences can be seen here, because I just love their way of painting backgrounds and floating dresses.

I also started to make her costume for real. http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/8784/wheyoz1.jpg

 Broken Wings

Photoshop

May 2007

 My personal tribute to Tekken's Devil Jin!

Some time in 2006, I wanted to make a Tekken fanart Dojinshi, but then It occured that I got so much work with commissions and stuff that I sadly had to scrab the idea - and so it all ended with this coverart.

D'Artiste Sketches 

June 2011

Thought I could share. Please enjoy. 

By the way, if you bought the book make sure to watch the tutorial videos that come with it also. There you can see my work with one of these drawings. 

If Tony Stark had 'my' face I would give him... this one. 

IRONMAN ARMOR: http://darktownart.cgsociety.org/gallery/912987/ :

Hmm.... a template of expressions. I must say that I like it a lot. It is quite different from my usual stuff but that's because I did it at my free time and not as a commission.

Since this is the first time that I did such an expression table, some of them may not look "perfect" and I totally screwed up the "sad" face because I somehow cannot see this character being sad - it makes me laugh because it doesn't suit him

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Arte digital de dark-spider (Cris Ortega)

Ice Maiden

Photoshop

October 2009

 A picture I did last year as christmas card. Didn't have a lot of time, so I picked a mid-portrait with frozen theme. Done in Photoshop, about 10-15 hours.

Shadow  Within

 The Warriors

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Arte digital de kisalon (Kirsi Salonen)

Batar Orcellos - character concept

Photoshop

January 2009

He's one of the 8 conceptual characters of my book "Ordera". 

More 'personal' info about this guy here: http://www.kirsisalonen.com/ordera/index.htm

Hope you like him.

Cetanrui Banka
Painter, Photoshop
October 2009

Big city concept, based to the sceneries in my book "Ordera". It's the city of golden sunsets, city of power and wealth, tyranny and freedom. Also a place where the heroes and antiheroes meet to start their long journey together.

Made with combination of scanned old historical photos and painting in Photoshop & Painter. Pretty happy how it turned out.. was a lot of nibbling with the details, actually so much that my eyes hurt at the end X)

Hope you enjoy this and leave a comment! 

Below's some details, not in their full scale though, approx 50-70%.

thanks for looking, comments and feedback is much appreciated!

Cheers,

Kirsi

Cyclone Chamber
Photoshop
April 2010

This is a challenge piece made for It's Art -forum's theme of  Unknown Place; and it happened that it won the 1st place!!! 

I got a description finally for it too.. by the time I painted this, it didn't come to me in that way I wanted it to be described, so I just would say that it tells about the forces inside of more powerful forces who always struggle for dominance but the other cannot be greater than the other, however the coin flips by a chance and something small might change the outcome of this 'duel' of controversies.

I am you;

the darker side you run from,

I am you;

the sun in your eyes turn me blind,

I am you;

thrust the blade inside so that I could feel my soul,

so that I can finally become closer to you,

my beloved,

the one I hold so far and so close,

the one I fear and the one who's cold;

o' brother death;

let's battle until our dreams unfold."

Kirsi Salonen 2010

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Syllia…de Dianae (Diane Özdamar)

Syllia…

Photoshop

June 2008

A very long time overdue artwork for my metal band, which will be used for posters / ads.
The character is Syllia (same as the name of the band).
She's meant to have huge eyes, proportions of both a child and a grown up person, and to be completely mad…
Actually, she's not a young girl, she's ageless, hence the weird proportions.
Details and WIP here
You can also find a very detailed description of this character there.
We'll be playing live on Saturday, so I had to finish this artwork in a hurry… I wish I could have had more free time…
Photoshop CS3,
Wacom intuos 3A4
No reference used, though I used a mirror for the lower part of the body and hands. I'm trying to practise anatomy as much as I can.
50/60h
It looks much better in real life… details have disappeared due to jpg compression, as usual. The most damaged part is the hair : there are no details anymore. The legs also look "dirty" while they look textured in the full version.
Thank you very much for viewing !


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Arte digital de 97 bzo

Etaine-white goddess

3ds max, Photoshop, VRay

April 2007

This picture is the work asked for the promotion of "Shaiya", a Korean online game.

"Etaine" have two characters that were born from one body.This image is godness of light(white).

Image code of this godness is 'purity' and 'peace

Xiah (Yeon-lang) 2
3ds max, Photoshop
April 2007

This image was made in the year 2003.

The lady's name is 'yeon-lang'

She is a heroine of korean console online game 'Xiah' made by Taewool Entertainment.

The picture is a PR poster of the game.

All object modeled by edit poly.

All the textures are hand painted with photoshop. 

Render is deafault scanline renderer.

dragon sky (determination) 
3ds max, Brazil r/s, Photoshop
May 2007

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Arte Digital Estele (Maria Alaeva)

Battle Elephant

Captain Barbossa
Photoshop
October 2007

Hello!  Its my new fan-art - captain Hector Barbossa. Its my favourite character, its was very interesting to reaw him. In this painting i was testing new brushes and techniques. I used the refs for some elements of my picture! Hope you like it!

Metallic
Photoshop
June 2009

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Amiri de MichaelO (Michael Oswald)

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