Artes Visuales

Cinabre de Dianae (Diane Özdamar)

2012-06-20T16:31:00.001-03:00

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 !

Fuente CGSociety

Comics de Nei Ruffino

2012-06-20T16:26:00.000-03:00

Pinturas de Tiziano

2012-06-20T16:23:00.004-03:00

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Gipsy Madonna (Oil on canvas, c.1510)

Mary with the Christ Child (Oil on canvas, 1561)

Pope Paul (Oil on canvas, 1543)

Portrait of Marcantonio Trevisani (Oil on canvas, 1554)

Fotografias de Chema Madoz

2012-06-20T16:18:00.002-03:00

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2012-06-20T16:17:00.000-03:00

Pinturas de Thomas Kinkade

2012-06-20T16:15:00.000-03:00

Pin Ups de Vargas

2012-06-20T16:11:00.001-03:00

Iron Man de Anne Pogoda

2012-06-20T16:08:00.000-03:00

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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Pinturas de Caravaggio

2012-06-20T16:00:00.002-03:00

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The Deposion(1604)

Youth bitten by a green lizard

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2012-06-20T15:58:00.003-03:00

Dirty Car Art Gallery

2012-06-20T15:56:00.000-03:00

The Wolf's Sword de Cris Ortega

2012-06-18T12:56:00.002-03:00

Fuente CGSOCIETY

http://dark-spider.deviantart.com/store/

Caricaturas

2012-06-18T12:53:00.002-03:00

Mr_OBM by ~toniart57

Robert Pattinson Caricature by ~yorkey-sa

Springsteen by ~jasonseiler

Pinturas de Claude Monet

2012-06-18T12:51:00.002-03:00

Fotografías de Steve McCurry

2012-06-18T12:49:00.002-03:00

Imágenes manipuladas por Christophe Huet

2012-06-18T12:48:00.000-03:00

Pin Ups de Gil Elvgren

2012-06-18T12:45:00.002-03:00

Arte Digital de AndyH (Andrew Hickinbottom)

2012-06-18T12:44:00.000-03:00

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

Fuente CGSOCIETY

Tempation of Christ (1480,fresco)) de Sandro Boticelli

2012-06-18T12:35:00.002-03:00

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2012-06-18T12:34:00.000-03:00

So-Long-My-Love

Special-Feeling-Women

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The Harvest

Arte 3 D de Julian Beever

2012-06-18T12:29:00.000-03:00

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2012-06-11T14:26:00.001-03:00

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Comics de Adam Hughes

2012-06-11T14:23:00.000-03:00

Pinturas de Canaletto

2012-06-11T14:20:00.003-03:00

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La Grenouillere(1869)

Palazzo da Mula at Venice(1908,canvas)

Fotografías de Steve McCurry

2012-06-11T14:17:00.002-03:00