deviantART: by:morbid-countess

New account

~morbid-countess — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:30:43 PST

I'm not sure why, but I kinda want a new beginning here on devinatART.

So I've decided to make a new account: MorbidCountess.

It's pretty much the same like this one but without most of the work and with some new add-ons.

I would be very happy if you visited me there and add me as your friend again. I really need a support.

Thanks ahead, your MorbidCountes

Stock inspiration

~morbid-countess — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:13:22 PST

Besides music and my own emotions, I've found another inspiration. I'm talking about the stocks and other resources I find around here on deviantART. If I may say, the inspiration is pretty strong.

I just search the popular resources during the last 24 hours and always find something I might use.

The same happened with "Scared Siren". It's nothing special but I do like it.

It kinda reminds of my earlier work: "Into the Blue Memory". What can I do? I just love the ocean element and I adore using lightnings in my art.

Working with emotions

~morbid-countess — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:17:52 PST

As usual, the work I'm very satisfied with is not recognized around the community, but I'm not making drama about it because I am used to it. Even though I don't understand.

I think that Vampire Heart is an amazing work. It may seem like nothing special was done to the original stock photo, but I worked on it for very long. Mostly on the face of the girl, of which I'm very proud. The guy's demon eyes turned out awesome as well.

I also enjoyed working on it like I mostly don't on other stuff.

I'm still pausing the "Greek Mythology" collection and concentrating on showing my own emotions through my work.

"Greek Mythology" pause

~morbid-countess — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:15:20 PST

No, I haven't stopped with the "Greek Mythology" collection, I've just taken a little pause from it because there are some other things and feelings I want to show through my work right now. They're connected with my personal life and a need for the expression.

I will probably return pretty soon to "Greek Mythology" but stuff like this is what I'll be posting for now.

"What Happened" turned out pretty ok, I'm satisfied.

Two challenges: done

~morbid-countess — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:21:00 PST

Eight part of my "Greek Mythology" collection is here! And I think I should be satisfied with this one. I am really proud of what I've done with the background. I think I manipulated everything very well. Even though no one will probably recognize that. Oh, well... I'm used to it.

Except for being the eight part of the collection, Apate is also the last female Goddess made by parthenogenesis from Nyx. I've finished them all, I'm so proud! Now I've finished Chaos's and Nyx's female children by parthenogenesis. Two challenges are over.

The next challenge is Nyx's children with Erebus. That shouldn't be much trouble because they had only two children, and only one of them is female. (I don't do male mythology characters for now, if you didn't know)

Loosing self confidence

~morbid-countess — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:21:27 PST

As it usually happens, when I love the piece of art I do, then the people around hate it. I mean, almost every piece of art in my gallery which I adore has none, or just 1-2 favorites. Stupid. The same thing happened with Nemesis, that's probably the reason I don't like it as much as I did when I finished it. Sad.

My new part of the collection is here and I find it disgusting. Hopefully, other people wont.

I am loosing my self confidence when it comes to my work lately. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I was sure I'll be getting better with every new piece I finish, but I guess it's not going that easy.

Spreading art

~morbid-countess — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:28:18 PST

Eris, my sixth part of the "Greek Mythology" collection, has became a part of a Board Game based on Greek mythology which uses cards. You can see it here. I'm very honored because this is the first time my work was featured outside my gallery. Thanks, RiTz21!

Besides that, my seventh part of the collection is finally here and I'm finally satisfied with what I've done. I love everything: from the way I manipulated the background, model that completely plays the role right, to the chain and hair brushes I've used.

Webcam update

~morbid-countess — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:17:13 PST

Few days ago, when I was wondering around the deviantART, I came across a profile where the webcam of that user caught my eye. It was showing a Goth dressed animated girl and the source: Meez.

So I went on that website and liked it a lot! There you can make your own Meez, one to look just like you in the certain parts of day, on holiday, in school, everywhere and always! Way too cool!

I made one for school time but I'm sure I'll make more of them.

The only problem is that mine is not animated and I don't know why. Hopefully I will solve that problem soon enough.

Anyhow, sixth part of the "Greek Mythology" collection is here!

I'm satisfied with the whole concept and the symbolism but I didn't photo manipulated it well enough.

First of a kind

~morbid-countess — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:27:39 PST

And the fifth part is here!

As usual, I'm not very satisfied, but at least it's better than this one, I hope.

Philotes took some time and more work, probably because I'm not used to work on colorful and light images. Btw, this one is actually my first of that kind.

I liked the symbolism in this piece, Friendship is easy to show.

The biggest problem was the background, because I had never worked with two parts of backgrounds before this piece. It's easy to see that the meadow and the forest behind don't go together. And the model doesn't belong very well in the composition, even though she plays the role right.

Aside from that, I'm so happy about the new deviantART gallery style. Just when I was thinking about erasing some of my work and categorizing them, new gallery came up. And it's awesome!

I immediately made few folders and featured only work I want to. It's awesome, check it out.

Worst one so far

~morbid-countess — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:12:47 PST

After some time, because I was busy at school, I managed to make another part from the "Greek Mythology" collection.

And it succeeded in just one thing: being the worst part of the collection. Still, I don't think it's awful, but I'm not satisfied at all. Well, see for yourself.

I didn't work much on it, probably because I just wanted to get rid of it. I thought that it would be easy to show misery and distress, but it wasn't. When I realized that, I just wanted to get it done and continue working on other parts of the collection.

Without a full-view, please

~morbid-countess — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:52:03 PST

And the third part of the "Greek Mythology" collection is here!

I am kinda satisfied, not as much as I want to be, but ok...

Picture looks better when it's smaller, so don't full-view, please! Lol...

Anyways, it has a scary and Gothic feeling, different from everything else I worked on. And I like it. The birds turned out great, but I had some problems with the skulls, as you can see. Clouds and moon really get along, and the cave was a perfect place to put the model on! And the model totally plays the role right.

Not a big success

~morbid-countess — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:52:28 PST

Not so satisfied with my latest work, the second part of the "Greek Mythology" collection: "Nyx".

I mean, it's ok, the model is perfect for the role and everything, but I think things don't match the way they should. Or am I just too big of a critics.

I don't know... I guess I was just too happy with my first creation in this collection: "Gaia", so I thought everything else would turn out that great.

I really succeeded in capturing that "Goddess feeling" in "Gaia", which I didn't in "Nyx". Model really stands out in "Gaia" but in "Nyx", you can barely see her...

I guess, unfortunately, everything wont turn out great as I imagined. And there is so much work ahead.

But I'm not complaining. I'm actually pretty excited because it's interesting to work on something like Greek mythology.

"Greek Mythology" collection

~morbid-countess — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:30:14 PST

I've decided to begin a new collection of artwork.

After the (not so successful) collection "My Fairy" (dedicated to my boyfriend, who still wasn't that during the process of making the collection, and inspired by song "My Fairy"), I'm starting with a new collection called "Greek Mythology", simply because it's inspired by Greek mythology, which I find very interesting. And I also enjoy making symbolic art.

I'll do my best to bring to you most of the Greek mythology characters from the very beginnings. Thats the reason I've started with "Gaia".

Sadly, I'm not good at male photo manipulations, so I'll be making only Goddesses and other female characters for now.

Happy Halloween

~morbid-countess — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:18:21 PDT

Wishing you all a nice and creepy Halloween!

Halloween art 1; Halloween art 2

Love, Diana (morbid-countess)

Inspirational bands

~morbid-countess — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:12:09 PDT

I guess my work is getting better each time I submit something new. Your comments and favorites prove that. I'm very happy because of that, I am working very hard on my art and try my best to show how I feel and what I see through it.

This time I was again inspired by a Nightwish song. That's the band which gives me most inspiration, as well as Sonata Arctica and Within Temptation.

Poetry as an inspiration

~morbid-countess — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:34:56 PDT

Again, I was inspired by poem I learned about in school. First it was "The Bitch" by Sergei Yesenin which inspired me on "Mother's Love". This time it's "Farewell" by F.G. Lorca. It's an amazing poem and a lot of art work could be done based on it. Mine is just a raindrop: click.

During the process of making this photomanipulation, I've finally learned how to make shadows in "Photoshop 7.0" what will make my work more realistic, I hope.

Underrated work

~morbid-countess — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:02:12 PDT

I think I'm getting better at photomanipulation. I'm mostly proud of my piece "Ocean Soul". I really didn't expect it would turn out this good.

But I'm just asking myself when will the time come when other people will see my talent. I've been on deviantART for over three months now and so far I didn't get so much success. I'm not saying I'm better than anyone else, I'm just saying that my work should get more attention. Then, I'm sure, it would be more successful.

But maybe I shouldn't care about all of that. I'm not here for fame, like many other deviants. I'm here for expression through my work. I get inspired a lot, usually music is my biggest inspiration. Lately I've been even inspired with some poems and poets I learn about in school.

I just hate when I realize I'm better then the last time and I just want to erase my previous work. I'm trying not to do that because I want to see my beginnings, mistakes and I want to remind myself of some previous moments of my life that are shown through my work.

Finally 18

~morbid-countess — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:20:18 PDT

Happy Birthday to me!
Finally 18.