I was never really happy with neither of my versions of Eowyn’s battle with the Nazgul. The first one had a more dynamic pose for Eowyn but the beast pose was awkward, the second one had a good pose of the beast but Eowyn was too rigid. I also experimented with another composition in this sketch, but it didn’t evolve…
Three years later and still no decent painting… that had to change. This one started as a practice from this stock photo from Reine-Haru at DeviantArt and eventually ended up more polished than I was expecting. Not a finished product by far but not an exercise either… something in between.
A more advanced version of the sketch I made a few weeks ago. (Source: Darla portrait by faestock at DeviantArt).
The last three weeks have been a lot busier than I would have liked, especially this week. I will not have a chance to get near my tablet before at least sunday, so here are the first and last pictures of the workshop. The differences before and after are not as dramatic as most people, but that’s because I already…
Experiments with global illumination in Carrara Studio gave me the occasion of two spoofs of futuristic ads to continue my series of cyborg images.
– I wanted to transpose to androids the idea of heavily customized PCs with their transparent parts and fluorescent lights. I am not too happy of how the green lights came out but the overall image is what I was after. The name is an obvious reference to the ‘Alienware’ brand of high end PCs.
The idea for this one went through a few months of inconclusive drafts. I guess the picture had to find the right time to come out. I was after a contrast between organic textures of wood, soft and relaxing lighting of a spa and the cold and sharp reflections of chrome on the droids. The ad is a reference to the ‘Red Door’ spas, with ‘Eliza R 10’ an echo of ‘Elizabeth Arden’, label of the chain of spas.
