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Legend of the Vampire III

Legend of the Vampire III

Painting Painting \ Figure | 11/17/06 @272 | amoeba | Comments critiques (28) | Views views (7262)


Legend of the Vampire III
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Made for the cover art of the last bookof the series "Legend of the Vampire" by Wisdombook Ltd.

I know this is an unusual coclour scheme for Vampire theme. The publisher wants the overall picture to have an very bright and pastel feel. They sent me this: http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/hpudding/lotv/0010346031.jpg as an example, with some suggestion of the theme like "how about the character is sitting in a mansion, and appreciating a glass of red wine". I had no idea how the image example could fit into that setting, so this is the best alternative I could come up with :(

I didn't really design the costume. I had instruction from the publisher and was given some references.

I made a walk-through and you can see some wip and most of the reference I used in this piece.

Click here for the walk-through

C&C welcome!
 
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Avatar zemotion

 11/17/06 @339

i really dig that sketch! hehehe.
 
Avatar Pirotess

 11/17/06 @438

even if it's unusual bright for a vampire theme, it's a wonderful painting! love it ^_^
 
Avatar Slither-Astray

 11/17/06 @463

woooh!! hot!
 
Avatar Azurelle

 11/17/06 @539

There he is, you colored the lovely sketch finally :)
 
Avatar beatrizmatar

 11/17/06 @555

Wonderful work¡¡¡¡¡congratulations for the nomination+10:)
 
Avatar Darknekomata

 11/17/06 @568

two thumbs up +7/7
 
Avatar zilekondic

 11/17/06 @570

This is good for a change..i hate vampyre-related things...they allways look the same...you, on the other side made this great, no matter if you recieved instructions, it's good work.
9/9
Bye!
 
Avatar Valera

 11/17/06 @597

Great work. +9
 
Avatar mysticcat

 11/17/06 @606

Wow, what a distance between your rough sketch and the final result, in which the vampire looks more sharper (and more feminine ). However I really love the colour tone you use and the white arch construction behind him. Can't hesitate to give you a 9/9 (thumbup).
 
Avatar Wallace

 11/17/06 @664

smashing colors (your trademark)

The face has some slight lighting issues as it appears
to be evenly lit, where the rest is not (hands for example)

Great composition,
The bat is my favourite part

+ 10
 
Avatar elf

 11/17/06 @684

wonderfull +10
 
Avatar blackshad

 11/17/06 @690

great work, the choice of colors is unnusual but nice
only crit : the face is flat and need shadows :)
good job :) +8
 
Avatar Kelandra

 11/17/06 @721

I like the composition a lot! And those are cool chair pics you found. :)

If I'm being really nit-picky, I'll just say maybe darken the blood in his glass a bit. However, this is FANTASTIC!
 
Avatar amoeba

 11/17/06 @739

Thanks all for the comments!

mysticcat:
Thanks! I change my mind about his face when I started rendering him. Somehow all of a sudden I wanted to try one of those narrow-nose feminine looking stylisation, so I look into one of my favorite illustrator Tomomi Kobayashi's (http://www.kobayashi-tomomi.com/ ) character to grasp that feel. I think it turns out ok for this piece. However I found it very hard to combine this stylisation with more realistic rendering. That's why it appears to be flat as many have mentioned here. If I have more time I shall experiment more to make it work. For this piece the dealine is now due, so I'll have to leave it here....

Wallace and blackshad,
Thanks for the constructive crtique :)
I added some shadow to his face in this update. However I couldn't go to far because his face is anatomically not very correct, and once I start to try shading it realistically, it just look very strang. I think the only fix is to redraw/paint the whole thing....

Kelandra,
That's a good point. Someone also mentioned the redness of the wine as well when I post it on DA. I thought it make sense as right now it look more like rose than red wine/blood. So I tried to darken the liquid. But by comparing the two results, I still prefer the pink one eventhough it make less sense, just because the light-going-through effect looks nicer XD
 
Avatar ADY

 11/17/06 @780

Excellent!!!! +9/9 :)
 
Avatar Juro

 11/17/06 @797

Sublime skill, very nice painting.
 
Avatar Ikaa

 11/17/06 @875

Ah, love your fresh colorsheme! Very nice work.
 
Avatar JenZee

 11/17/06 @898

Mmmmmm sexy !
 
Avatar Diegoth

 11/18/06 @039

YEah, excellent!!!
 
Avatar alebrije

 11/18/06 @164

Love you're style... +10 The technique it's SO GOOD! The colors always looks great... There is in the web some tutorial of you?
 
Avatar deManuel

 11/18/06 @573

Great composition and colors. Love the style. +10
 
Avatar Squeaky

 11/18/06 @759

Whoa weird. I just posted a vampire holding a wineglass, and I was trying to make it with very bring colors and softer (pastel, if you will) pale colors. This is very different though.... and very good!! +10
 
Avatar Daykan

 11/19/06 @879

wonderful!! Golden Girl, you´re great!!
 
Avatar kittyKat

 11/20/06 @371

wowza
 
Avatar Blueheart

 11/20/06 @719

love love love!
it's so cool!
 
Avatar dakoo

 11/21/06 @241

brilliant work !!
 
Avatar vanamont

 11/27/06 @766

I like your painting style...good work
 
Avatar XeHackNo

 02/10/07 @635

He's going to get a std if he keeps that up...
 
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