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Hecate

Hecate

Painting Painting \ Figure | 02/27/07 @510 | cabotinecco | Comments critiques (52) | Views views (3330)


Hecate
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Hecate is the Greek goddess of the crossroads. She is usually seen with two ghost hounds that were said to serve her. Hecate is most often mispercepted as the goddess of witchcraft or evil, but she did some very good things in her time. One such deed was when she rescued Persephone, (Demeter's daughter, the queen of the Underworld and the maiden of spring), from the Underworld. Hecate is said to haunt a three-way crossroad, each of her heads facing in a certain direction. She is said to appear when the ebony moon shines.
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Drawn in PhotoShop CS with a Wacom Tablet
original res about 3000x7000.
Use no "photo ref"!Hope you’ll like it.
 
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Avatar cabotinecco

 02/27/07 @523

welcome!:>
 
Avatar Simba

 02/27/07 @535

how about if they here in GFX allow me to give u 10000000000000000000
masterpiece...
this is incredible doing
and og my god i love this expression on her face
 
Avatar shidohell

 02/27/07 @536

Very good, nice colors and composition. I love it! good good!

Miguel J.
 
Avatar OnPix-Artist

 02/27/07 @538

WoW !!! :o
Is a very good work !
 
Avatar ultimaslair

 02/27/07 @555

Amazing color and mood! absolutely gorgeous!
 
Avatar Cigaro

 02/27/07 @643

excellent:)
 
Avatar ADY

 02/27/07 @703

Beautiful!!! Very emotive! Excellent composition..................:)
+9/9
 
Avatar Azurelle

 02/27/07 @709

There you are back again!
What a fabulous work, as always magnificant :)
 
Avatar tomato04

 02/27/07 @713

absolutely amazing :) i love it love it love it
 
Avatar Shade-Huntress

 02/27/07 @751

absolutley stunning!!!
 
Avatar llama

 02/27/07 @772

This painting is beautiful, good use of the green
 
Avatar Daykan

 02/27/07 @773

perfect!!!
 
Avatar Furitsu

 02/27/07 @879

Oh, gorgeous. Beautiful colors and loose strokes. Excellent! :)
 
Avatar Jenna20

 02/27/07 @898

Oh,this is really beautiful!!! I LOVE IT!!!
 
Avatar ARTOONATOR

 02/27/07 @915

Pretty impressive technique. Maybe some more variation in blue hues?
 
Avatar IraMelanox

 02/27/07 @916

lovely expression, and great color blending. dunno why, but her left hand and her face are much much better depicted than her other hand and torso... The BG is great, mysterious, misty...
+8 (thumbup) Keep up the good work !
Cheers,
Raluca
 
Avatar BlueDream

 02/27/07 @962

A lovely artwork!
I like the color scheme.
Her face is very pretty and impressive :)
 
Avatar Diane

 02/27/07 @968

Very lovely work, the colours are beautiful! Well done, great mood :)
+10
 
Avatar MikeCorriero

 02/27/07 @985

Nice mood as people have been saying, what I like best about what you did is the way you left certain aspects like areas of the hair and portions of the dress very loose and painterly, flowing with the image instead of tightly defining the details. Love the concept character too. It's pretty crazy that you didn't use any sort of photo reference for the face, anatomy moon..?

crit: Her right arm/hand seems like it didn't get the same attention that the hand holding the light trinket got, I think her right arm/hand don't seem as well defined in form because the difference in lighting and lack of shadow compared to the other arm being hit with that warm lighting.
The warm light coming from the right side of this image doesn't seem too consistent when hitting the figure. It's hitting the arm/hand and her left cheek side pretty hard. It might be nice to see it hit the hair and give it a slight glow/light effect and maybe just a bit showing up on that trinket she's holding.

Very Nice work,
Mike C -

+9/9
 
Avatar Andy--Jones

 02/28/07 @036

Very well painted although the style seems to have been done to death. Nice colours and detail in this. No references at all for anything? Very gifted are you if that is the case.
 
Avatar Poohblah

 02/28/07 @163

I love her expression

One crit, though: There are stars where the dark side of the moon should be. The moon will block the light of those stars. ;)
 
Avatar Madanapale

 02/28/07 @211

Beautiful work !....wonderful colors!....top marks!
Carlos
 
Avatar Sangimber

 02/28/07 @594

oh...the mood is shown superbly, excellent work, well done!
 
Avatar Ztak

 02/28/07 @657

What can I say...B-B-Beautiful :p
 
Avatar cupcake

 02/28/07 @672

Stunning work
I like the colors you used & the lighting.
+10
 
Avatar Wallace

 02/28/07 @678

it looks really pretty,

But I agree with Andy-Jones this is a fairly common style
The colour choices are excellent, with those subtle green lightspots a nice touch

I would suggest to remove some stars just under the visible part of the moon, the nonvisible part would cover the stars:)

+ 9
 
Avatar natedogler

 02/28/07 @768

Very cool!
 
Avatar XeriuX

 02/28/07 @776

beautiful!
 
Avatar Foxie

 02/28/07 @856

Beautiful!
She's gorgeous!
But she looks a little scared to me.

I love the colours.
Good job.
 
Avatar cabotinecco

 03/01/07 @132

First of all,thank u all very much like this painting~~~
I must say,I use no ref with the girl(so you could find some defects,like the right hand and the shoulder),I used an olny reference is the moon.I repainting it at photoshop.
The flower and the grassplot ,I used many custom brushes,in three different layers.
After all,I will draw some anthropotomy sketches,to do my best in my other paintings.Thank u again.
: >
 
Avatar BaronImpossible

 03/01/07 @504

It's very rare I comment on pictures of females just standing there doing nothing, but this is an exception.

Superb atmosphere, and her expression and her lamp really finish it off nicely. Your concentration of detail in the places that matter is masterful. You didn't quite pull it off in your other images but this one is expert in that area.

IMO the moon should be bigger and lower down and the top 15% should be cropped. Still, that's a relatively minor matter.

My first +10 this year.
 
Avatar mysticcat

 03/01/07 @720

It's really miraculous if you use no ref here.
The girl stands still doing nothing but the viewers can feel many things deep inside.
The colour combination is really unwashed.
+9/9
 
Avatar PNKasim

 03/01/07 @823

Evocative stuff, from my perspective this is a top marks piece. No crits cos I think it does it's job, and does it damn well, too.
BRILLIANT soft-focus grass/shrubs by the way. Sort of thing that makes me jealous
 
Avatar Florence

 03/02/07 @570

Wow! It's beautiful! I love the colors! +7/7
 
Avatar small-serenity

 03/02/07 @652

No doubt you are one of the most talented artist around. What a beautiful piece of art =) Very soothing.
 
Avatar WarrenLouw

 03/02/07 @750

All round very beautiful! and very well done on her face. a beautiful, well executed face always impresses me.

Keep it up
 
Avatar Ketka

 03/03/07 @848

+10! Very emotional picture
 
Avatar blackcat13

 03/05/07 @163

Oh wow. that's gorgeous O_O I love the lighting and the colors you've chosen.
 
Avatar Bookzie

 03/05/07 @552

i love the colors the most. picture if perfect ! face,hair and left hand R perfectly done. love the dress too. its flow... ;) great!!
bring us more of urs works soon!!
top marks from me. ;)
 
Avatar eduardobedoya

 03/08/07 @072

great style
 
Avatar Illumirage

 03/14/07 @322

aaah!!!
 
Avatar slickgreekgeo

 03/16/07 @444

You nailed the whole greek feel w/o overdoing it. The color scheme is one of the strongest I've seen in a while, you really pulled it off flawlessly IMO. Amazing work.

+10
 
Avatar lindella1

 03/20/07 @567

you are very good with colours :)
 
Avatar kayness

 05/25/07 @518

I agree with both Wallace and Andy that this style is very common. Yes, I'd like to see something different, but you know, if it's already good then why change it? change if you're only comfortable to don't do it for others. I really dig the colours. The green of the vial offsets the typical common complementary-colour schemes very well.
 
uberpanda

 06/06/07 @163

Beautifully done, love the color and the sheer tone of it all. But....Sarah Michelle Gellar? Just kidding.
 
Avatar mamoun

 12/20/07 @791

very WoW !!!
+1000000
(+10)
 
Avatar ersen-t

 12/20/07 @814

excellent work.
 
Avatar zelazny

 12/20/07 @876

Its people like you that make me want to snap my Wacom pen! 9+
Awesome!
 
Avatar Vamp4444

 12/23/07 @358

BEAUTIFUL! +10/10
 
Avatar Raphael

 12/23/07 @834

Hecate! Hecate! Ra! Ra! Ra!

Well Done :)
 
Avatar proteque

 12/28/07 @042

so perfect this is... I love it
 
Avatar venomsblood

 12/29/07 @334

Wonderful colours. Very moist and soft.
Great work! Lovely expression.

BRILLIANT!
+10
Rae
 
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   cabotinecco
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  Xiao Bing
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  10/08/1982 (26)
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