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Tangy

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:23:58 PST

Cleaned this up a bit and sharpened it.

C4d+bodypaint+photoshop

* A big thank you goes out to ^VSConcepts for the DD and to *TehAngelsCry for suggesting it!

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Early Spring

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:25:26 PDT

Birds of a feather

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:20:18 PST

_{Another art challenge by , , and !

For each challenge we interchangeably give ourselves an idea or topic to illustrate and a short, specified time to execute it in whatever shape or form... of course, without knowing what the others are going to come up with.

This week's topic is ~maudt's idea: Birds of a feather. Flock together, or not, depending on our interpretation.}

So who's under the impression that I'm doing the same thing all the time? *raises hand* yeah, thought so... work in progress...

Check out the other versions by:
*vinegar [link]
`daekazu [link]
*MidnightTea7 [link]

Web

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:58:49 PST

Another tiny snowflake (lesser than 2 mm). 8 serial shots averaged to boost signal-to-noise ratio. Background: dark woolen fabric, natural light, external optics Helios 44M-5, january 2013, Moscow.

More snowflakes in set snowflakes and snow crystals on flickr.

Wraith Anger

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:32:37 PDT

My DA ID

Kol-ian

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:36:00 PST

Commission for
"Kol-ian is an alien humanoid from the planet Marc'harid, somewhere near the center of the galaxy. He is a Sire, and all Sire are telepaths. But he is an uncommon Sire - those wings on his back are retractile prosthetics (meaning he can hide them under clothes if he wants to, as they just disappear in his back). He had fallen in love with an hybrid who has natural feathery wings and would have never looked at him if he weren't able to fly. Except the beautiful winged being shunned Kol-ian anyway, so he ran away and hid on Planet Earth to heal his broken heart... His story is told in Star Minds, a science fantasy series by Barbara G.Tarn. Book 1, Technological Angel, will come out at the beginning of December in e-book format."
Kol-ian's Gallery: [link]

Thank you!^_^

Art

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:34:41 PST

Velvia ISO 50 film @ Sculptures by The Sea in Bondi to Tamarama 2012.

ravine- apparently, you shall pass

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:08:53 PST

ah february you cant come soon enough

Red Crow

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:00:01 PST

Photo by the amazing Ani Jo [link]
Make up,Hair by Ani Jo ~Ani-Jo
Model Me *CrowsReign
Special thanx to ~BoozedArioch

A lot more to come soon!!!!Stay tuned!!!!
More from ~Ani-Jo

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Twisting Lung

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:25:49 PDT

So, here is the beast I have been not so diligently working on for the past week or so. I just wanted to have fun with another dragon! Just like the previous illustrations similar to this, it will be printed in pieces and cut, then put together in a shadow box style piece. Something for my portfolio.

Enjoy! :3

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Artwork (c) Straya Obscura. 2012. All rights reserved.

demonmujer 14

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:07:42 PDT

esculrura de diceño propio

Spirits 2

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:28:43 PDT

model: Charlotte

It ends in flame

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:50:59 PST

Print available here! [link]

Completely repainted this in liquid watercolours on Canson paper.

"But the jewel burned the hand of Maedhros in pain unbearable; and he perceived that it was as Eönwë had said, and that his right thereto had become void, and that the oath was vain. And being in anguish and despair he cast himself into a gaping chasm filled with fire, and so ended; and the Silmaril that he bore was taken into the bosom of the Earth."

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, chapter 24: Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath

Blog: [link] (Old version, scribbles, lineart, wip shots)

Companion piece:

Coffee version: [link]

Art Obsession

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:43:47 PST

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

-Francis Bacon

This picture won 'Picture of the Day' on ModelMayhem [link]

Credits:
Photographer: Gail Bowman
Hair stylist: Gwendolyn Sneed
Make-up artist: KC Witkamp

Landscape_05

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:02:53 PDT

more one my speedpaint

Fawnya X

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:15:07 PDT

Model: [link]
Photographer: [link]

Dive

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:00:36 PST

Something that started as something more humble but decided to grow a bit in scale C:. This is my half of a trade with the very patient and lovely hawaiianstile who made me a beautiful and extremely dangerous sharktooth pendant (and there's really no safe way of storing it, I discovered !). Since Keone loves to dive, I knew I wanted to depict his character under water from the start but I just never knew what I wanted to do. As always this started with a bunch of waffling about in photoshop..I got a bit carried away with this piece, but I hope you enjoy it ^_^. I am habitually slow with art trades and hence why I usually don't take them, or if I do, request that the other party finish their half after I finish mine ;D!. The fish are Teardrop Butterflyfish which can be found in the waters around Hawaii.

Details:
size:4320x2700 at 300dpi
tools:Photoshop and wacom intuos 3
time taken:? broken up over a few days between other things
Recommended Listening: DJ Encore
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Conan, The barbarian

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:12:27 PST

1/6 Wax

Breathe

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:30:11 PST

Well, Morgan's gone and done something heroic (or at least very desperate). He was severely injured and fell into a coma, which has lasted several days now. It took the kindness of many people, including young Anna here, to bring him back from the edge of death, and it's still a constant struggle to keep him breathing. There is hope, but he's not...(yes, I'm going to say it) out of the woods yet.

This is the first time I've officially drawn Anna, I think. She's flesh and blood, but Morgan's perception of reality is vague at best, which is why she seems ethereal and dream-like here. I wanted the image to transition from color to pencil to suggest Morgan's life draining away.

You can find an alternate version of this (without Anna) here: [link]

To learn more about Morgan and the "Wars of Avenan" storyline, please visit here: [link]
PRINTS AND ARTBOOKS ARE AVAILABLE HERE: [link]

-Mechanical pencil and Photoshop 5.5
Morgan and Anna ©copyright me
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tranquility

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:42:36 PST

Ceska Budejovica

Anatomize

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:56:10 PST

A painting I was working off and on over break. It depicts a being who splits his soul/power into seven keys, which when brought together again, will revive him. This goes with a series of paintings I'm doing for a book for a friend of mine.

CS5

Those who favour fire

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:45:05 PDT

UPDATE: To those who asked, here it is!

Enjoy!

Yikes it's been too long again >_< but finally I finished this! Seriously this started as a random drawing of wings and just... exploded o.o Only reason it took this long was because I kept changing everything lol but at last it's done! Enjoy!

I learned a lot painting this, namely 1) fire is hard to paint and 2) I like to torture myself by painting the very things I find hard to paint (fire, hands, tricky light sources). Which is I suppose a good thing, only way I'll get better. I was attempting to loosen up my painting a bit, but not sure how well I succeeded

There's a few meaningful things in here but I won't explain it, I'll just leave it for you to draw your own conclusions from I'm curious to see what people pick up

As usual I will submit to clubs and such when I get time...

Technical Info
Photoshop/Painter combo, best of both worlds
Also many male models were ogled in preparation for this - all in the name of art, I swear.
Title is from Robert Frost poem, Fire and Ice.

© EJW (me). No stealing or using without permission.

PS Might I also add, this one makes a pretty groovy wallpaper if I do say so myself.

rapture

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:53:31 PST

experimenting with pastel and pencil.

knight

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:28:51 PST

knight

Autumn Mantra

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:12:42 PST

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Ruination

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:31:37 PST

Ruination, CS5

Another personal piece. I was inspired by this video on pink light: [link]

Also, as a side note, Ive updated my copyright signature to something a little less intrusive. Ill be posting a few more projects in the coming week. Hope everyone has a great holiday!

Butterflower2 - Iris

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:26:13 PDT

This is another, quick version of the 'Butterflower' (butterfly + flower) concept.
I did it quickly and trying to get a 'macro' photo effect.
I used a picture of Iris from my father's garden as a loose reference, but I changed the color scheme and petals shape to make the flower more interesting.

Michael

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:18:45 PDT

I am working on a fantastical series of angels at the moment in my own time that aren't meant to be religious, but almost comic style pieces. The armour and characters in general are over the top and very fun to design. For this one, I wanted to go with wing shapes and put six to eight on them since I think traditionally, archangels have many wings. Initially I was going to go for a rooster armour design and wing style, but it got a bit toooo colourful for my colourful liking. This is also a tribute to my brother, Michael, who has always been my angel and there for me (and also posed as the reference for this person!)

You can see a larger version here: [link]

An overwhelming question

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:28:10 PDT

Please be informed, I am turning off comments here solely because I'm moving accounts, and this is one of my most commented on (continues to be) pieces. Thank you for all your comments! But I won't be keeping up on them anymore here If you want to continue to follow my work and/or fave/comment on it please go here: *doomburg

Thanks!<3

The cover for CD ch.9 (Which is now being revamped/renamed rather similar to this work O: [link])

whoever guesses what the title is from gets COOKIES!
magiK... INVISIBLE... cookies
naturally.
and yes it IS from SOMETHING D8

anywho yeh!
more lovey dovey.
cuz thats apparently all i like to draw. lollz XD

edit** btw guys! i drew and shaded this in pencil on toned paper, scanned it in and digitally colorized it =3 same technique as in this tutorial: [link]

Rogue in Flight

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:35:39 PDT

Jay and I did a sequel to our original Rogue concept shoot. Since most of this is CG... ya gotta wonder how any Production Design is involved. Well... how'd she get up there in the first place. lol. Used a trampoline and some industrial fans to get the right feel of wind going through her hair and jacket. She had to jump on the trampoline and jump off... pose in midair then land. It was interesting.

Photography: Jay Tablante
Model: Rhian Howell

Lake Town - The Hobbit

Sat, 01 May 2010 12:46:53 PDT

Prints Available Here!

DD Edit: Thank you for the DD recommendation! Sorry if I don't get back to all of you but thank you for all you comments and support!

Its probably not as awesome looking as Lake Town will be in the movie when it comes out but Im pretty happy with the results. The Hobbit is one of my most favorite stories and I couldn't help but attend Gnomons challenge this month of Esgaroth. I also felt this would give me a good chance to practice some matte painting too. I thought the Lonely Mountain would make a cool background element and you can also catch a glimpse of Smaug coming to visit Lake Town.

fragile companion

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:11:50 PDT

Print available at my Etsy shop, if you're into that sort of thing : [link]

EDIT: Oh!! Golly, what a surprise to wake up to this morning... my first DD! *BLUSH*

Hugs and thanks to *ceruleanvii and *hawthorne-cat for suggesting it, and to ^Mollinda for the feature!

Edit-the-also, and I promise that I won't do this again, THIS is a pic of it with the varnish on. Makes a difference, non?

Acrylic and silver leaf and two kahelelani shells on Claybord, 24" x 36" (Did you know that kahelelani are the only shells insurable as a gem? I didn't! The shells were a gift. That's a story for another day, however. )

And a bit of red paper.

Probably a cat hair. Possibly a *me* hair, I am a messy painter.

I might have to run around in circles for a bit, if that wouldn't bother anyone too badly? EEEE!

Sakura

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:22:55 PDT

2011. Photoshop CS4 + Wacom Intuos4.

This is my entry for the Tsunami Cfsl projet

This piece took me forever!
This is my interpretation for the tsunami theme. Ok, I'm quite tired and lazy to explain this piece, but I guess its meaning is clear...

I would like to thank my friend Bianca and her amazing photo session [link] , made by the amazing photographer Andrea Grasso [link] to have inspired this piece, and I'd like to thank also Massimo Soumaré [link] for his help with the japanese writing ("pray for Japan" ndr).

so...I keep my finger crossed to be a part of this amazing project!

I hope you enjoy!

Details:

Edit: OMG! ...my third DD! Thanks a lot to for her kind suggestion and to have featured it!

Edit2: OMG²!
This work will be featured on Exotique 7! Don't miss it (out in november 2011)!

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King of the Jungle

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:20:56 PDT

I first read the original Tarzan book when I was a kid of 12... still love the character today and always wanted to paint him... so I did. Poor impulse control I guess.

Closer details from [link]

Pencil sketch, painted in photoshop, posted on the interwebs and now viewed by you!

Click on/download for closer view.

Urukhai

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:51:02 PDT

Painted this after watching lord of the rings for like the 100th time

Old Cults - Cthulhu

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:46:15 PDT

© Paizo

For The Carrion Crown Adventure Path: Wake of the Watcher

I just spotted this on the Paizo website so I'm now allowed to show it

Muse

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:11:59 PDT

Sebastian Again

EDIT: Oh, Wow, Thank you all very much. When I saw that this piece of work have been chosen as 4th August's DD I was very happy. I must laugh very much, when I read the comments. Thank you for them, too. You made my day

Uhm...by the way...sorry boys, these pairs of abs are real and not airbrushed. I just made the contrast of the whole picture a little bit heavier.

Claris- A Lady's Progress

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:58:49 PDT

EDIT: OMG, a DD!! I never expected that! Thank you so much to *NadezhdaVasile for suggesting, and to $Moonbeam13 for featuring!! I wish I could answer everything right away, but I promise I'll do it as soon as possible when I get back from my vacation. Thank you so much!!

Edit 2: Oh hey look, a companion piece with Leland!

OH WOW, I AM FINALLY FINISHED WITH THIS. Those of you who were following the progress of these drawings on my Tumblr are fully aware that this was almost a whole month in the making! So now, finally, the fruit of all that ceaseless labor.

I love historical costumes. Love love love. For me, part of the fun of designing and playing a vampire character, especially one that manages to live for a very long time through many eras of human history, is designing their clothing. It's like an entity unto itself- costume tells you about the character's personality, their income level, their profession; it's no secret that visual design affects a TON about an audience's perception of a character. In Claris's case, her whole personal storyline affected a lot about her visually- her hairstyles, her outfits, her accessories. Exploring this in the context of "what outfit was she wearing during..." was SO much fun, and apart from being a cool timeline exercise, it was a fun character-related one too.

This isn't a complete cross-section of EVERY outfit she ever wore, but in the interest of keeping my sanity, I limited it to 20, and as such I excised some rather large swathes of time (for instance, everything between the 1330s and 1570, during which time she was inactive in a nunnery, or the late Victorian and Edwardian eras between 1865 and 1910). This is unfortunate because those time periods had some wonderful clothes, but I didn't really have a specific event or series of events to tie them to, so it became harder to visualize. Hopefully, these 20 will suffice. I've given all of them "names" of a sort, since it's easiest for me to associate them with a scene or a word- calling them the outfits from "the Carpathian Mountains scene" or "the reunion scene" becomes much easier than "russet gown with lace collar" or "pink early Georgian with amethyst stomacher".

The dA page view of this had to be a little small, simply because this is a really big file, but you can probably see enough to make out the text and the silhouettes. If you're interested in finer details, by all means download the full view!

Now, I'm going to ramble a bit. More than I already have. I'll try to keep each individual blurb short, but it's a lot to go through- I want to talk a little about each outfit (especially the ones that were significant for whatever reason) and the historical context, and a little about what was happening in the story at the time. Don't feel obligated to read it if you're not interested! If you are interested, go right ahead! _{In the words of Ron Swanson from Parks & Recreation: "Put ketchup on it if you want. I couldn't care less."}

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I - Servant Alive!Claris, wearing the shift she wore as a servant. This is basically her standard attire before being Embraced. Simple, boring, brown, covered hair. Largely, she is a nonentity.
II - Court After her Embrace, with her new "title" name Claris of Reidona, this was the first "lady's" dress she ever wore. She spent quite some time being rather uncomfortable with the idea of wearing a gown that was clearly above what she still thought of as her station, but being presented at the vampire court in London forced her to get over it. Her hair is somewhat anachronistic for pretty much all of the medieval drawings; no respectable lady at the time would go around with it all loose and free-flowing like she wears, but Leland likes it this way, and as far as she's concerned at this point, whatever he says goes.
III - Magna Carta Not from a specific scene per se, but this is one I designed for her and Leland going around London. At one point there was an in-game adventure during the reign of King John that also involved William Hardel, the Lord Mayor of London and one of the enforcers of the Magna Carta. At this time, Claris is Leland's "bride" (though he won't consider their relationship to be one of an actual husband and wife for a very, very long time) and travels with him pretty much all the time.
IV - Faerie Not a dress made by the faeries; the dress Claris wears while she and Leland are trapped in the actual land of Faerie. In the White Wolf continuity, this is an actual "place" of sorts, called the Dreaming by the fae. Vampires who've been there are very few and far between- it was pretty much a total stroke of (un)luck that brought them there in the first place. That crown thing, by the way, is made of really starched linen.
V - Leaving The dress from when Leland leaves her, hence the sadface. The start of a very difficult time for her. Dress looks awfully comfortable, though.
VI - Order of the Holy Chalice In 1332, Claris started her own order of nuns called the Order of the Holy Chalice, based out of Abingdon. Open only to vampires, she sought to provide shelter and education to those who needed a break from the immortality thing. Calling herself Sister Saint Clair, she was abbess for over two centuries and saw the Order through the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII by relocating them to France. In the 1550s, she left the abbey in the charge of Sister Agnes, her Nosferatu second-in-command, who still presides over the Normandy abbey in the present day, even though the Order itself has since spread to many countries. She keeps her hair covered and modest at this point, because her natural inclination is to cover herself up.
VII - Angel The dress she wore for her more significant encounters with the entirely-doomed Brother Simon DuMont, who would become her vampire childe after being fatally wounded by the Swiss Guard during the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Since leaving the Order, she's taken the name Clara de Roydon, and her clothing tastes have gotten significantly more extravagant, mysteriously correlating with her degrading morality. At this time, she's bitter over the loss of Leland and then Rose and she's selfish and possessive of Saffron and Blanche (including keeping the latter in the dark about the possibility of ever getting physically older than 12). Simon VERY mistakenly assumed she was an angel the first time he saw her, and only after she Embraced him for a completely selfish reason did she start to notice this gradually mounting issue.
VIII - Venice Absolutely one of the most decadent dresses she ever wears. Gold embroidery, jewel-encrusted, miles of fabric and tulle. Fittingly, worn during an adventure set during the Venetian Carnivale.
IX - Carpathian She's still on the bejeweled, richly-embroidered thing. During this time, Simon just Embraced a traumatized Blanche (who aged up about 10 years) and called Claris out on her total monsteryness, and in case things weren't going well for her already, she finally sees Leland again after hundreds of years. Acting contrite is totally not enough to undo all the pain it's caused her and all the irreparable damage she's done to herself and her other relationships because of it... so she blows him off. Buuut, symbolically, she takes her hair down out of the tight close-to-the-head curls again, because she totally misses him. DRAMAHAIR. :3
X - Great Fire Having parted from Blanche and Simon, and having "finished" her business with Leland, Claris visits Gregory and Rose in London with her newly simplified wardrobe. Fire breaks out, there's much panic, and she ends up crossing paths with Leland again, who's a total wreck. They end up banned from London under the prince's assumption that they started the fire, which they totally didn't.
XI - Reunion This is her "getting back together" dress. Anyone who saw the last picture I did of these two guys will remember the context- Leland, being pretty much totally broken, shows up and begs her to forgive him, which (because she's spent almost 100 years getting herself morally decent again after a long stretch of letting herself go) she totally can now. I didn't do a drawing of her wearing panniers, because 1) it's a little early for those at this stage, and 2) I think they look stupid.
XII - Midnight Ride American Revolution! After leaving France in 1720, she and Leland (still on less-than-perfect terms with each other) set out for Louisiana, then a French colony on the American mainland. Gradually, over the course of 30 or 40 years, they made their way northward to the Massachusetts colony, and during this time, they started over fresh in their relationship and he courted her as if they'd never been together before. They "married" in 1752, this time with no reservations on his part about referring to her as his wife, and she officially became Mrs. Clara Roydon Rochester. She's wearing a wedding band, and does all the time from here on out. This dress is from the events preceding the battle of Lexington and Concord; she and Leland were among the (many, easily forgotten by history) riders on the first leg of Paul Revere's ride. I love those white mob caps.
XIII - Bastille Day French Revolution! They're just popping up all over the place this century. The vampire princess in Paris was assassinated on the night before the storming of the Bastille. Claris tried to protect her but just ended up horribly injured (but morally improved by heroism!). The dress is a fairly simple robe à l'anglaise, but man that hair. O_o
XIV - Great Exhibition The 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London was the first international exhibition of culture, technology and industry, and as a bit of a gadget maven, Leland insisted they go- luckily for both of them, the vampire prince who wants them both dead is asleep, so people are less willing to try and take them out without guarantee of reward. I imagine there's at least one very, very old photograph of her and Leland taken at the exhibition, and she's probably wearing this dress.
XV - Civil War Shortly after the Exhibition, they hightailed it back to the States to avoid drawing unnecessary attention. The Civil War broke out in 1860, and the two of them were long since settled in North Carolina as an established safehouse on the Underground Railroad funneling escaped slaves to points north. Leland spent a fair amount of time as both an open soldier for the Union army and a spy infiltrating the ranks of the Confederacy.
XVI - Great War During World War I, they resettled back in a very out-of-the-way corner of England in secret, and Leland went to fight for the French army in the trenches. Claris stayed at home with Saffron, and ended up getting rather used to an empty house. I have a strange fondness for this dress- usually the time period isn't my favorite, but I really like the overall look.
XVII - Metropolitan Dealing with increasingly shorter skirts and sleeves has been something of a problem for Claris. For one thing, she's white as a sheet, and for another, if she should accidentally touch someone they'll be a little grossed out by how cool she is to the touch. Plus, she just doesn't like showing off much arm or leg. She will confess to preferring bras over corsets, though, even if she never had a problem with the latter. At this time, she and Leland and Saffron have been living near New York City (close enough for a short drive).
XVIII - Blitz At the breakout of World War II, Claris and Leland relocated to France for the sole purpose of helping political refugees. They ended up working in conjunction with the Order of the Holy Chalice under Sister Agnes, who sent refugees to them, at which point they got them out to a boat bound across the English Channel. News of an impending attack on London brought them across with the refugees, and they landed in the city just in time for the worst attack during the bombings of London. On an unrelated note, this is probably the shortest dress she'll ever wear. It's very in-period, but to be frank I think she feels a bit exposed with that much leg showing. XD
XIX - Transfusion Ohhhh the '80s. Very bad fashion decade for... almost everyone. Not so bad for her, though, because her taste is so toned-down by now that she ends up looking tasteful even with those silly lace gloves. At this time, she and Leland are living in New York again, and she's teaching history electives for very motivated college students, so she gets to be Professor Rochester. The "scene name" of this outfit comes from Saffron's none-too-pleasant cure for the preternatural infection she, Claris and Leland are carriers for, contracted by Leland when he was tortured in Romania hundreds of years back. Fortunately, being a vampire sets one up to be uniquely equipped for being totally drained of infected blood and then reinfused.
XX - Awakening This is an outfit I designed way back at the beginning of the game, with the intent of having her wear it at the end. And so she did. It's rather easy, I think, to see how this look grew out of the one from the '80s. As an odd side note, I rather like how this outfit mirrors the things that men were wearing when she was first Embraced. It's like she came around all over again to being the same person she always was, but is dressed to be more well-equipped and capable instead of hindered by societal expectation. Or maybe I just liked the look of it. Either way, it's been a long strange trip for her.
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PHEW, so that's that! If you actually read that whole thing and didn't get bored, you get one of these: Thanks for bearing with me! These were every bit as fun to research as they were to draw, and I want to give a shout-out to some GREAT sources for designing outfits that look in-period:
The Chronicle of Western Fashion by John Peacock [link]
What People Wore by Douglas Gorsline [link]
English Costume History 1066-1830 by Dion Clayton Calthrop [link] as cited on Fashion-Era
La Couturière Parisienne
The Costumer's Guide to Movie Costumes

_{Claris and all outfit designs © *temiel.}

Angel Krioni

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:42:37 PDT

Woah! Such huge wings i ever want to give an angel, if I would draw one. Guess, i red too much Peretti. Hehe. But in fact, angels are dazzeling creatures and such a marvelllous angel I wanted to have. I think, it came out well.

Forgive me my bad english.^^

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I can't believe!!! Finally a DD! Thank you, Alice!

Corps, crane et amortisseur

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:27:49 PST

116x87cm
Pierre noire et acrylique sur toile
Paris 2010

Easter Egg Alice in Wonderland

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:04:08 PDT

Don't know which category it fits

Today we painted our easter eggs.
This is one of my two eggs I've painted. With figures from "Alice in Wonderland", the Disney movie by Tim Burton, you know?

I know, the characters don't look like in the movie. And I forget a lot, like the White Queen or the Bandersnatch ^^

Hope, you like it and we will find the egg tomorrow XD

Happy Easter!

edit 2011:
Wow wow wow, I've got a DD? *fall from her chair*
A great "Thanky you!" to the suggesters and to ^StormPenguin for the feature.
And please excuse my bad english ^^°

Green

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 03:35:04 PDT

This is my entry for Share One Planet Wild Animals CG Art Elites Invitational Competition.
The website of the competition is:
[link]
Green peacock is a kind of beautiful wild animal which needs us to protect. I wish we could give them a green home.

Long lost demons

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:35:34 PDT

Model : Eleanor Black
Hair : Conception 451
Designer : Jessica Darwin

Melancholia

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:27:09 PDT

Gray Lady Melancholia and her Four Servants: Fear, Sorrow, Despair and Unrest.

All rights reserved. Please DO NOT USE my graphics for any commercial or noncomercial purposes! Do not redistribute without my permission or without crediting me!

Hellscream vs. Bloodhoof

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:50:16 PST

An interior illustration painted for the novel, "The Shattering."
This is the image that the "Proof?"signature was pulled from.

Holiday Art Exchange

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:35:20 PST

holiday art swap!

this is for MoNyOh,
it's her character, the Lord of Deveran.
Merry Christmas! hehe

please don't use it without permission.

organised by , it sure was fun painting this guy

edit : corrected the right arm somewhat...

Silon Winter

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:56:05 PST

Prince Luke and his servant/friend Danathen all decked out in holiday-ish garb. My theme pic for the winter of 2005/2006. ^__^ A lot of love and time went into this one...though it probably needs a bit of a repaint now. You can find the original lineart sketch here: [link]

You can learn more about Luke, Danathen and the "Not All Kings Wear Gold" storyline here: [link]

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SIGNED PRINTS AVAILABLE HERE: [link]

Luke and Danny are copyright me
[link]

Marijana's Tree Shoe

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:19:52 PDT

A Tree Sandal! To be made of a faux-leather and satin. The model offers a lot of possibilities for its variations, including different colors and patterns.

This shoe design is a birthday present for my sister Happy birthday, Marijana!

White Doll

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:44:21 PST

Model:

Full set can be seen here [link]

Ares

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:34:02 PDT

Yes, like there aren't enough Greek gods drawings around. How about a series?

Ysbrydnos

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:02:54 PDT

Calan Gaeaf All Hallows Night, the first day of winter.

Ysbrydnos Night of Spirits, when the boundaries between our world and the Otherworld begin to blur and the souls of the departed may walk among us once more.

Branwyn The White Crow.

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Watercolour on Canson paper. And I want to marry my scanner now. I had to do absolutely no postwork.
Since so many are asking: CanoScan Lide 90.

Find out more about the story here: [link]

Steps: ___ Detail shots:

FEE3-Sea Dog

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:27:25 PST

Legolas the sailor in 16th century. So interesting to see him in diffrent times.

This is a illustration for the fan-fic FOR EVERY EVIL by Mirrordance.The story involves LOTR characters and their adventure in our modern time. It looks weird but charming.Thanks to Lukeyoung who translated it into Chinese, so that Chinese-speaking readers like me can enjoy it too. So I'm drawing illustrations for this trilogy.

FOR EVERY EVIL:[link]
FOR EVERY EVIL 2:[link]
FOR EVERY EVIL 3:[link]

Flying Fox

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:20:12 PST

Inspired by a flying fox and the lattice patterns of a moth wing.

my new works and works for sale are listed on my livejournal [link] and on my etsy [link]

Email me if you are interested in commission work - creaturesfromel at gmail dot com

Leanan Sidhe

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:52:22 PST

Edit 04.02.11: Fixed shading in a bunch of places, the image should flow a million times better now. Print file also updated.

A birthday gift to ~Uvaydra, finally catching up with my promise to draw a sexy guy for her. Happy birthday, Sheena!

Leanan Sidhe are a somewhat ambiguous type of fairy. On one hand they are akin to muses, picking an artist to inspire, making him or her live a shorter, but more creatively intense life. On the other hand, they are similar to succubi. I had a little fun trying to capture a bit of both.

Also while I'm at it, here's a link to a Giftart contest run by `iggygirl: [link]

Corel Painter 9, Wacom Intuos 3, a few days here and there.

May be reposted for as long as my name and preferably also a link back to my gallery are provided along with the image in a clear manner. No commercial use without my written permission. No modifications.

archer

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:56:52 PDT

archer

Vue it - Christmas Village

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:30:25 PST

Man, just made it with one day to spare before Christmas And that was after weeks of work and more program crashes than I've had on anything before (seriously, these things are nightmares to make) But neverless, I'm proud to present the second installment of the "Vue it" series not too long after the first (don't think I'm gonna do one every month, I did this since I had no other ideas for a Christmas deviation this year )

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Still not exactly what I originally envisioned, but with limited time and computer power - beggars can't be choosers so I'm gonna call it a day here. Made using Cinema 4D, Vue and Photoshop and output into this format via PanoQTVR, Merry Christmas!

Others in the "Vue it" series:
Vue it - Pine Shrine
Vue it - Approaching Pandora
Vue It - Holiday House

Credits:
Normally I prefer to model my own buildings but I didn't have enough time for that (though some are, but not all) Some models were free from here, here and here I modelled the snow on them and did all the texturing though.
Also, I had help from *thd777 exporting it into the right format for me.

Thanks for the Daily Deviation! To ~chukkz (and I know others) who suggested it and $Moonbeam13 for featuring it!

All artwork and animations in my gallery are my copyrighted property and are not to be used without my permission, this includes any screenshots of parts of the scene.

It is a Mad Thing

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:01:35 PST

Photoshop w/ Cintiq and pen.

Water pearls

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:20:43 PST

OH MY! Thank you so much for the DailyDeviation to: [link] . It's a total surprise!

PS: if you liked this one, please take a minute to check out my others pictures.

Sloth

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:39:50 PST

A little sloth catching some zzz's. Zen Brush on iPhone

Monkey King

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:55:01 PDT

My new illustration
Photoshop CS5
original size 7763x4843px
available to print size A4
close up 100% size and work in progress [link]

saw the old chines cartoon and film and it was very inspiring.
I wanted to create a decorative illustration in the contemporary Chinese
art style with many details , warm colors and aerial forms.
Monkey King is a hero with no doubts , but i can't say that he is good or
bad guy. He seems to me more composite and deep character. He has rather
mutable inconstant earth spirit.
I wanted to show the contrast between the world of beauty Dakinis and more
materialistic Monkey King.

Thank you for the watching and comments!