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Cover: Bryce Warner
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www.templumdigital.com Templum Magazine Staff: Editor in chief: Yasna SepĂşlveda Spanish corrector: Nisa Arce English corrector: Emilia Tokes
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Dear readers,
We are thrilled to present you this year’s last issue.
I know, already! Time has flown away so fast and we are quite happy to have spent it with you, our dear and devoted readers, fans and friends. Can you conceive a world without art? Impossible, right? We have the same feeling here! Art, is part of our everyday life as much as air is; glance over at that kid who doodles on a piece of paper, that guy over there who plays the guitar in the park or the subway, that man there, who makes tiny sculptures out of recycled cans, and don’t you dare forget about the great masterpieces displayed in museums or private collector’s mansions. Art is one of those things which is accessible and affordable for everyone, and the best thing is that, they don’t need to be experts to enjoy it! We hope you’ll enjoy this 4th. issue as much as we enjoyed putting it together! Thank you for being at our side during this great adventure that is Templum.
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Contents
3D Art 8 14 20
Bryce Warner Cornelius Dammrich Lazlo Magyar
Digital Art Amy clare Carolina Bensler Ezekiel dela Cruz Jaume Cullel Justinas Vitkus Vanessa Trueba Ricardo Robles Sandro Rybak
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Photomanipulation Mirella Santana 72 Verónica y Viviana González78 Miska Lehto 84
Traditional Art 88 Brianna Angelakis 92 David Gold 98 Guillem Mari 104 Jana Lepejova 110 Sasha Toussaint 116 Joanne Chiong Xi Ning
The Gallery Ace Ribon Néstor Allende Virginia Berrocal
Elena García Conrado Martín Yarakte Gurgenovich
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3D Art
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Bryce warner http://warnerator.deviantart.com
-Nickname: warnerator; -Age: 21 years old; -Country: United States of America; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Zbrush and Photoshop.
“Dealing with 3D programs has always been a struggle since there was never anybody around to help and tutor me, so I built up some knowledge of 3D programs and decided to take it further� Iron Giant: I was experimenting with all the new insert brushes and found it to be tons of fun and super easy to make a robot from scratch within a few minutes.
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Predator bust: I wanted to challenge myself with a more complicated piece so I decided do the predator alien from the “Predator” movies.
Spaceman: This piece was a good practice piece for me to understand how to do more hard surface stuff all inside of zbrush, It’s challenging but fun.
“Zbrush is my favorite 3D program. I feel you have so much freedom to do whatever you want and do it quickly to produce work” Spongebob: This piece was definitely one of my favorites to do, we had an assignment to recreate a childhood cartoon, so I chose Spongebob since I knew I could make him as creepy as possible, so far this has proven to be one of the most successful out of all my pieces because so many people love Spongebob and they love the creepy spin I put on him.
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Turtlepig: The assignment was to mix two animals together and create some kind of hybrid between the two, so I chose two completely different animals and integrated them both into a design that works and is believable and created a character that has life and emotion to it.
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cornelius dammrich www.evoleeq.com www.eimer.deviantart.com
“You know that you are <<all in>> when you find yourself staring at wet tilings and trying to demystify the specularity mapping of real world materials” -Nickname: Eimer; -Age: 23 years old; -Country: Germany; -Studies: Mediadesign (Bachelor of Arts) but mostly self-taught; -Tools: Cinema 4D, Vray, Zbrush, Unfold 3d for UVs.
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Until the Light Take us: At the time of Ragnarok (the end of the world in Norse mythology) Skalli and Hati will seek to outrun and devour the moon and the sun. The blood of the moon will then darken the sky. In my imagination, Skalli and Hati are robotic wolves with an infinite supply of energy. They have chased the moon for thousands of years, caught up with it at the end of times, eaten it, and now they have fallen back into their old patterns. They located bright fixed points, that the sun and moon had given them, which now have disappeared entirely. In Skalli’s and Hati’s eyes, these bright beings are still the sun and moon at their birth. The hunt is still on.
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Enthroned: I have to reclaim my throne. Following an oddly schemed masterplan and trying to reach something hard to reach, with my loved ones or on my own
“I think that <<perfection>> in 3D, is something like a very very very distant and tall mountain, which no one had successfully reached it’s top yet” 16
Genius: Tom Hanks wants to travel to the moon. In 1970. Almost 20 years later, your parent’s DNA combines with at a bandwidth of 1,687.5 Terrabytes per second. At the age of 6 you meet your best, and most trustworthy friend. You’re 16. Emily asks you, during the break, if you could teach her binomial series. Yours and Emily’s DNA combine with a connection of 1,687.5 TerraBytes per second. While the Internet gets quicker and quicker, the Bionet stays constant, just like your oldest friend.
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Ancient Area Network: I’ve got my nickname at a party. We were playing FarCry and were just too young to thinking about tomorrow. Eight people, spreaded over one floor for three days, while a storm was unconvering the pantiles, which flew around.
“You have to love every bit of your creation, be critical with yourself and never say that you are good enough” 18
Mercury: The main inspiration behind this piece is a piece of motherboard I once saw; it was completely colored in grey like a piece of clay, or a texture-less 3D scene and it was illuminated by purple and yellow lights. At the beginning, my aim was to create a highly detailed scene without any really noticeable shading or textures just like the picture of the motherboard. But that looked like crap! And I wasn’t able to achieve that certain look I wanted to create, so I abolished that idea and began using textures and shades and gave the whole scene some kind of old and used touch. After several discussions with friends and other artists, who criticized the lack of “life” in this work, I added the cat…. This was nearly the last element I added to this piece and it’s almost the most important one.
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-Age: 26 years old; -Country: Hungary; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Maxon Cinema 4D R13, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Illustrator CS6, Red Gian PhotoLooks , V-Ray, Realflow 2012.
Laszlo magyar www.lacza.deviantart.com www.laczadesign.com
www.facebook.com/#!/pages/LaczaDesign/251667738238318
Flashed worms: This picture is inspired by a popular kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toy; plasticine clay. At first, one of my friends asked me to depict what I thought of her. And here is the result; a funny and sweet picture. I like it how it carries us back to our childhood, and you smile remember those endless hours playing and creating, and this is the result. I hope this pic gave you a silly funny little moment.
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Specularity: This work’s inspiration source was the new Adobe Master Collection advertisement where they have these long columns which seem to explode from the center of the image. After I saw it, I decided I wanted to do it my way. The process was long, I have a couple of versions, but I chose this one as the final one. I don’t have regrets, because this piece ended up being the most popular among all my other works. I have thousands of downloads and you can find quite few places on the internet where it is shown and shared.
“I’ve read so much tutorials, and I think who wants to be a designer must do this at first”
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“Never stop develop yourself and never stop learning. Open your eyes and realize the things of the world. Don’t be afraid to try new things which you think are not like other people” Red Passion: This picture’s inspirational was eroticism: passion and women. The transformation of girls into women is often represented by the rose and its petals. When they become men’s dream. The background shows freedom, the structure of the main part represents motherhood for me.
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Genesis: Yep, this is my funniest work. I think everybody seen the comedy titled Look Who’s talking and like most of those who seen it, I loved it, when I was a kid. I didn’t want to make it serious anyway, so the spermatozoids got colors and eyes. This picture shows the race, when the first gets the chance to become a human. Of course, the oocyte doesn’t look to real either, I just wanted to trigger your imaginationn.
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amy clare http://amika-sterling.deviantart.com
“If you ever find yourself getting discouraged because you look at your art and you’re like <<wow this sucks>> don’t be, because that means your eyes are developing and your hands are soon to follow. You can’t get better until you can see what’s wrong with your own work!”
-Nickname: Amika; -Age: 21 years old; -Country: Canada; -Studies: Illustration; -Tools: Mechanical pencil, pen and ink, Photoshop, Wacom Intuos4.
Diggery the Capricorn: This was a gift for a friend, who isn’t a capricorn but really likes them. I was messing around with a more cartoonish, childrens’ book style. It was painted entirely in Adobe Photoshop CS6 with a Wacom tablet.
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Digital Art
Snow Castle: I wanted to prove to myself that I could put together something styled after more traditional fantasy art instead of the more colourful and exaggerated stuff I tend to make. It was digitally painted and textured in Adobe Photoshop CS6 with freely licensed stock photos.
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“Digital tools and programs aren’t there to make art easier, they’re there when you need them to convey your artistic message” 29
Cityscapes: These cityscapes began as a series of pen and ink doodles in my sketchbook which I then decided to scan and colour to play around with setting different moods and environments. The left city is intended to give off a more fantastical, magical vibe; the middle one is a futuristic city styled after European architecture; and the far right depicts the dark, seedy underbelly of an gloomy metropolis.
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“Don’t try to be anyone’s personal art director. It’s invasive, pretentious, and rude”
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carolina bensler www.carolinabensler.com
http:// nuindaeiel.deviantart.com
www.facebook.com/Carolina.Bensler.art
-Nickname: Nuindaiel; -Age: 25 years old; -Country: Spain; -Studies: Associate Degree in Visual Arts and Design, Illustration Major; -Tools: Photoshop and Wacom Bamboo Fun A6.
“An artist tries to connect three different minds: the artist’s mind, the writer’s mind and the reader or observer’s mind. Together they can create and tell one thousand stories from the same image”
Akina: A long time ago, in Gion district in Kyoto, there was an extraordinary geisha named Akina. She was so famous that all the places where she performed were full and people fought for see her dance or just enjoy a conversation for half the time it would take an incense stick to consume itself. She loved her work above everything else. Work was her reason to live and it became her perdition as well.
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Oyuki: The legend says that the young Oyuki had the misfortune of being born with white hair as the fallen snow and the eyes pink as the blooming Sakura. People rejected her since her birth and they cursed her and her family for that, she never had a friend except the snow, and Oyuki considered that the snow accepted her like no one else did, no friend, nor her family. When she was happy the snow rested calm under the winter sun, but when she was upset there was terrible ice storms.
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The Seaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Calling: The old stories tell that, a long, long time ago, a girl with a strange blue eye was sold by her parents to a filthy brothel of a little village in the coast. Umiko grew up between toothless fisherman, travelers, drunk men, and the strong smell of the ocean, alcohol and the fish rotting in the sun; she only had one dream, escape of all that.
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The Koi and the Red Lotus: A long time ago, in rough times of famine, lived in humble village, at the border of the Aokigaharaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forest, a young woman who dreamed of becoming a samurai warrior. Her name was Arashi and she was seen as a crazy and feared by the locals who thought her tattoos were inappropriate for a woman. She was left to live on her own in the forest. There, away from the civilization, she still wanted to become a great warrior and in her quest of the bushido way, she soon she learned the dark secrets of the forest and the magic.
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Purple: Eiko enjoyed night after night, the spectacular purple explosion from the blooming Sakuras, while lasted the Yozakura, when the stars lighted dimly the black sky. She knew that she could never see them again bathed in warm sunlight.
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-Nickname: Sikei; -Age: 19 years old; -Country: Philippines; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Photoshop.
Messed up
ezekiel dela cruz http://sikei.deviantart.com
http://shadowness.com/SIKEI http://www.behance.net/sikei
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Rebirth
“I get inspirations from everyday experiences, like while I am conversing with my friends and co-artists suddenly I’ll get some ideas” 40
Speechless
“Women’s body is art itself with all the shapes and curves” 41
jaume cullell www.jaumecullell.com
jakurradas.blogspot.com
jaumecullell.deviantart.com
www.facebook.com/jaume.cullell
-Nickname: Jaku; -Age: 29 years old; -Country: Spain; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Photoshop CS5, Cintiq 21.
“Being an illustrator is harsh and full of frustrations, so work hard, with dreams and passion, and never, ever, ever give up” Sheldon: Caricature of Jim Parsons, Sheldon in The big bang Theory show.
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Lee Van Cleef: Caricature of Lee Van Cleef, the bad from “The good, the bad and the ugly”. I’ve always been a big fan from Sergio Leone’s westerns, this was my special tribute to him.
“I usually work with sketches: pencil and paper; this way I force myself to think where to draw all the lines without the facilities of digital work. For me, it’s important to keep the traditional bases of the whole process”
Machete: Caricature of the actor Danny Trejo from the movie Machete directed by Robert Rodríguez. Maybe this is one of my most complex works, specially for the textures details.
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Harrison Ford: Caricature of Harrison Ford. This is the third caricature in my gallery of Harrison Ford and the first as the actor himself and not as any of his emblematic characters (Han Solo, Indiana Jonesâ&#x20AC;Ś)
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Mclane: Caricature of Bruce Willis as John Mclane in Die hard. I love to make caricatures of people or characters who I admire and I think you can see it in the outcome.
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Justinas Vitkus http://justv23.deviantart.com
“When you’re interested in something you collect information (especially visual information) about them almost all the time”
-Nickname: JustV23; -Age: 21 years old; -Country: Lithuania; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Wacom Intuos 4 tablet.
Lord of the moons: So there is a ring of moons around this strange planet. Didn’t much care about possibility of this world being real or just a pure fantasy. I just had fun painting it…
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In the shadow of the broken moon: Triton - biggest Neptune’s moon. It is slowly closing to it’s planet and is doomed to be ripped in pieces by Neptune’s tidal forces.
“Usually I get inspiration from my own mood. Then I just try to create what reflects my mood at that moment. But sometimes I get inspired by people around me, especially while walking in streets”
Jupiter: Evening at Jupiter. With no ground this is everlasting turbulent sea of clouds, huge storms and lightning. Up in the sky shines crescents of two from four biggest Jupiter’s moons – Io and Europa.
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Swirl: Storm season on at extrasolar planet. Swirl of growing thunderstorm cast shadow on this old volcanic terrain...
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tablet and painting software are almost the same tools as brush and canvas. They may be different, but they require the same skill level from artistâ&#x20AC;?
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Vanessa trueba http://oh-ninona.deviantart.com http://nessa-monstruitos.blogspot.com.es
-Nickname: Ninona; -Age: 30 years old; -Country: Spain; -Studies: Illustration; -Tools she uses: Photoshop.
“My drawings always has the vintage look, I use textures and I think this is one of the most characteristic technique on my works” Tiergarten: Feminine and sensual representation of Tiergarten’s park in Berlin. Tiergarten means <<The beast’s garden”. The turquoise/green is for the main color of the sculptures you can see there, the majority are cover for moss and humidity.
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Pink.-smelling music: Sweet colors, nice and fresh as a fruit or a flower. Is the wonderful sensation of hearing the music you like and letting it overwhelm you...
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Music is my muse, she opens my mind and helps me to createâ&#x20AC;?
Fall: Autum, falling leaves, and sometimes sad feelings or deeper emotions.
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“Motivation is essential for art. Furthermore, you need to be patient and work hard; working with art is harsh but that’s not a reason to give up”
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Umbracle: Self-portrait in the Umbracle (indoor garden in Barcelona). I wanted to draw the sensation of introspection, magic, sensuality and amazing loneliness that I felt the first time I was in the Umbracle.
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ricardo robles http://ricardorobles.daportfolio.com http://mejorquelarealidad.blogspot.com.es
http://rukkits.deviantart.com
-Nickname: Rukkits; -Age: 31 years old; -Country: Spain; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools he uses: Photoshop, graphic tablet.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, art is to transport your inner world into the outside to show it to the people who want to see itâ&#x20AC;?
Ciudad Catarata: A big city was raised in the middle of the roaring waterfalls.
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La flauta negra: A satyr plays his dark melody in the middle of ruins of an abandoned castle. Is he the responsible of the destruction?
“I try to create interesting compositions to keep a strong treatment of color to increase the sensations”
The Monstercaller: Lord of the monsters, he’s guiding his hosts.
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The new born: Lady Dragon is observing her new born.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Study Nature, this will help you create, and never leave aside your imaginationâ&#x20AC;? Ying Yang armor: Just a character design.
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Sandro rybak http://sandrorybak.deviantart.com http://sandrorybak.blogspot.com.es
“I learn from my mistakes and even more from happy accidents. I think the biggest part in developing artistic skills is observing reality and translating it into your artwork”
-Age: 22 years old; -Country: Germany; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools he uses: Photoshop.
Demonic Explosion: A illustration for the trading card game ‘Inferno’. Its a huge deathly explosion created by one of the demons, to destroy life.
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Cave of the Giant: Is a paintign about discovering a huge cave, with paintings that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t possibly have been made by humans. Everything else is in the mind of the viewer.
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Digital art gives you more freedom to do experiments and is more forgivable when one makes mistakesâ&#x20AC;? 69
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jaime Jones is my favorite digital artist. I love how he use his knowledge from traditional media and uses it in a digital environmentâ&#x20AC;? 70
NYC Sunrise: when I started this project, I had no idea what I was doing. I left it unfinished ... and perhaps half a year later, I thought of it and finished it for two hours!
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mirella santana http://mirellasantana.deviantart.com
https://www.facebook.com/mirella.santana.5
-Age: 27 years old; -Country: Brazil; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools he uses: Photoshop CS5 and CS6.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody is born knowing, but we all have the ability to do what we dreamâ&#x20AC;?
Sorcery: Is a modern witch who casts spells which are good and help people. Her beauty enchants and bewitches many who envy and a desire to be like her.
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Photomanipulation
Warrior: A brave warrior in a world full of magic and color. Facing her many enemies with her lightness and beauty.
Sound of Death: In this piece, I wanted to show what a dramatic and poetic song represents. She is starring at nothing in her loneliness and the birds are attracted by the sounds of death.
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The Last Song: Follows the same line of art “Songs of Death,” but it’s a song of farewell from someone who gave up on life, who finds no sense to keep trying ... Giving your last breath with a last song.
“I try to describe my feeling in an art form”
Tears of an Angel 3: A very emotional art, showing the pain and grief of a fallen angel with broken wings.
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Verónica and Viviana Gonzalez Blazek http://Kalosysart.deviantart.com http://shadowness.com/KalosysArt
-Nickname: KalosysArt; -Age: 31 years old; -Country: Argentina; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Photoshop y Wacom tablet.
“For us, make art is a jorney to a fantasy world, inspired by our sensations, feelings and dreams. A reflex of the soul, sometimes dark and other times full of light”
Tenderness: This image shows the sweetness and love from a guardian angel who cares about her little ones... that’s why we chose warm colors as yellow and gold which reflects tenderness.
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Missing dreams: A woman who has lost her love. Her soul feels the sadness and the cold loneliness while the winter approaches, drying her tears and freezing her dreams into oblivion...
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Autumn breezes: This image represents those moments when you feel the darkness is taking over your life... but the sweet breeze of autumn caresses you and whispers to you and you feel that that there is still hope.
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From Hell: A dark angel broke her chains and is ready to attack and take you with her! You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if you should try to run or give up.
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“We don’t have a characteristic style, in fact our works are very versatile. We like that because we can surprise and try new things” 83
miska lehto http://hocspy.deviantart.com
-Age: 20 years old; -Country: Finland; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Photoshop CS5 and Wacoom Bamboo pen.
“When you feel the project is getting too overwhelming just save it and close it for a while and do something else. Once you continue the project you might spot some little mistakes you previously missed and who knows, you might find a new perspective for your work”
Snow Queen: I’m a big fan of Grimm brothers. In this picture i wanted to show the real beauty of the queen.
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Reborn: Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a story about a woman who lost her loved one to someone else. She promised herself to get her loved one back at any cost. Jealousness and bitterness gnawed at her heart and started to burn everything around her. Soon, her skin started to turn into magma and her soul burned with rage and turned into fire. She lost her mind. She lost her determination. Now, the only thing she can control is the fire that scorches her heart.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want my art to tell a story I want people to find the stories by themselves when they look at my worksâ&#x20AC;?
Medusa: She is the queen of gorgons. I get this idea while studying greek mythology.
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Traditional Art
brianna angelakis http://www.BriannaAngelakis.com http://BriannaAngelakis.deviantart.com
http://briannaangelakis.tumblr.com
http://www.facebook.com/BriannaAngelakisArt
-Age: 21 years old; -Country: United States of America; -Studies: Fine Arts and Illustration; -Tools: Graphite, oil, markers, colored pencil.
“I love the physicality of traditional art. You can brush your fingers over it and actually feel each individual mark. After working on a painting for several hours, I always look down at my hands and arms to find the remnants of oil paint, and it makes me smile” Saving fish from Drowning: Helped me to escape from a series of oil paintings I was working on for several months. The series of paintings I took a break from involved intricate details, making me artistically frustrated. I submerged myself into this painting, using much larger brush strokes and often thick globs of paint - an entirely different approach when compared to my past works. While the title of the painting was taken by a book of the same name written by Amy Tan, the painting itself truly represents my own need to breathe.
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To the Lighthouse: Is one of my few planned paintings which actually resembles my original thumbnail sketch. I usually change my paintings a number of times while they’re in progress, but this particular painting I spent several hours in the compositional planning stages, so I didn’t want it to change. Both figures are myself - the one to the left is me as a child and the one to the right is myself in the present. The painting represents my loss of childhood innocence which is why the phallic lighthouse stands erect above my present self’s head. Additionally, I’m offering the fruit of knowledge, an apple, to the viewer. The head of my childhood self, placed below a halo of grass, proves my childhood, natural innocence in comparison to my corrupted, adult self.
A spider sewed at night: Is a very “in-the-moment” self portrait. My oil paintings generally take anywhere from one week to one month to complete; however, I managed to complete this painting in a single day. With my skin layer shaded in graphite, I lightly glazed oil over the graphite. This is the first step to all of my oil paintings; however, for this piece, I kept the translucent, single layer for the completed piece instead of painting a number of layers. With this piece, I acted entirely on my own natural impulse, metaphorically sewing as a spider with the paint.
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Feeding time: Is one of my more erotic pieces because of the nude female and obviously phallic snake. At the time, I was working on a number of children’s illustrations in marker and colored pencil which focused on movement in a composition. With this piece, I wanted to achieve a similar compositional movement by utilizing the same media but with a more adult subject matter.
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david gold www.thedavegold.com http://davegoldartgallery.deviantart.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dave-Gold-Art/130277573682305
-Age: 37 years old; -Country: United States of America; -Studies: Self- taught; -Tools: Oil and canvas.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my paintings I communicate between two worlds the real world and my world. I put a strong emphasis on the human condition and the thoughts and reasons people do the things they doâ&#x20AC;?
The grand Master Puppeteer: This figure is a visual metaphor for addiction and once it has you it plays you as its puppet.
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Blind: This work reflects anxiety. Anxiety is not the easiest emotion to display. So this is a depiction to the sudden feeling of a complete state of being anxious. What would be ones feeling if the world went blind for 30 seconds.
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m all out of love: This painting is about people who drain us of all our emotions and continue to take even after the well runs dry.
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe we start to develop artistic skills when we are born. Even as an infant we are drawing with our imaginationâ&#x20AC;?
The Romper Room: This painting is an exaggerated response to bad parenting. A while back I was shopping in a store and some kid picked up a plastic bat and started knocking things over on the shelves. Next, he started hitting me. His mother did nothing about it. I had to ask the mother to please stop your child from hitting me. She asked him to stop and the kid screamed and continued. The mother did nothing; I was shocked, but not amazed. I guess when one lets their child walk all over them the child therefore feels they can do what they want.
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Old, lost and confused: This painting is a reflection to a personal experience. The figure reflects a senile old man, which I met jogging in real life the other day. I had to call the police to help him get home; he was completely lost and confused.
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guillem mari www.guillemmari.com www.guillembe.deviantart.com www.randomsprouts.wordpress.com
-Country: Spain; -Studies: Fines art and graphic design; -Tools: Watercolors, pastels, acrylic.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;These works were created specifically for being part of a personal exposition called <<Miradas de Aire>> (Air Glances). The main theme was centered in two ideas: first is a tribute to femininity due to the misbalance between the male and female genders and that misbalance is one of the main problems of the actual society; secondly, the knowledge about that misbalance and how the society is being conscious about thatâ&#x20AC;? Horizonte
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Simbiosis
“I just want to enjoy what I do, live from it, even if I need to live modestly”
El Fértil Terreno de la Incertidumbre
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you enjoy painting, and you do it with love and humility, everything else will come with time.â&#x20AC;? 103
Jana Lepejova http://jane-beata.deviantart.com http://www.facebook.com/janebeata http://jane-beata.tumblr.com
-Nickname: Jane-Beata; -Age: 28 years old; -Country: Slovakia, currently living/working in Czech Republic; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Watercolor, ink, Copic multiliners, pen, watercolor pencils.
“I love going to a store to pick new supplies, the shop atmosphere quite often fills me with inspiration”
Timebomb: This work is a portrait of a friend (deviantArt community volunteer), I made a speed painting video during it’s realization to explain my way of creating a watercolor portrait. Name of the painting is based on music I have put in the video.
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Rain: (full name: “When the rain washes you clean, you’ll know”). Name of this work was based on a song, but the main thought is endurance. Your personal life experience is the most valuable treasure, obstacle is a friend and a coach, doing it’s best to make you stronger.
Affection: It’s about a state of mind on the edge of reason, when emotion takes over your best judgement.
“Traditional painting hanging on your wall brings so much energy, charisma and is so very personal ” Forgotten: Is about vanishing in time. Does it mean we never existed, once we vanish from people’s memories?
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Watercolor eye study in flesh tone: This detailed watercolor eye study was made for tutorial purposes, to explain how to paint realistic eyes using fluid media. Tutorial is available for download in my gallery.
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Sasha Toussaint http://bondagefox.deviantart.com http://shadowness.com/BondageFox
-Nickname: BondageFox; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Watercolour, mechanical pencil, gel pen, coloured pencils.
“As youngster, my grandmother often took me to museums, galleries and she always made a little quiz for me from the pictures we had seen. She wrote up for me the title and the artist who painted it and at night she asked me by titles who painted them and I had to answer” Autumn colours: Something warm I painted at my vacation at the Sea sometime ago. I just wanted to draw something warm and happy, which a bit can maybe bring spiritual feelings to the watcher. As Autumn is my favourite season it was a good lead with the colour theme for this painting.
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No rest for the Wicked one: An art which was born out of emotional overload over a serious health issue I had sometime back. I just wanted to draw out what I could not tell out on a way which can close it inside and let me free from the frustration. The work turned out something even more, not only sealed the feelings away but gave birth to something more deep and strong. Something which by today pleasant to think about and remember. I used several symbolical signs here and the work both suppose to give negative and positive feelings, a bit of ying-yan by the idea that no light without dark, nor dark without light.Â
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Stretching and Magic: Something I revamped from my early childhood to see how much my skills and ideas changed since then. I think I changed a lot and was fun experience to work with coloured pencils without using a rubber eraser. It started as fun but I liked doing it too much that I ended up finishing it. Not perfect, but I can always learn from it.
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Burning desires: An art I did for a lovely artist of her character in my style. It was surely a great experience to work with something out of my own comfort zone and see the result. I am fairly happy how it turned out though I still think I could do a bit better.
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Joanne Chiong Xin Ning daevaluque.deviantart.com http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=2229135
-Nickname: Daevaluque; -Age: 20 years old; -Country: Malaysia; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Mechanical Pencil, Eraser, Sketch book.
“I started off slowly by drawing or copying human or animal anatomies. Observing human body language and the body movement and flow of clothes and hair…” Deathword: It’s weird when people keep commissioning me characters that are homosexual or something related to that. Well I think I’m just over reacting much. I’m not sure how to make of it when she sent me the reference. It’s just that I prefer something more detail and bigger size ref. Garvin’s information is just totally blew my mind and I was determine to make him as pretty as I could possibly work on.
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Suemao: Originally this was based on a really sketchy reference with typed information regarding the character. This one was really hard, as I had really bad planning skills for composition and have a fancy taste for details. The way I look at it now I think I could do better work on it. I guess my perfectionism keep me from kicking my old works even though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as old as I thought.
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Mousama no Kyuukon: Based on the classic girl visual novel. To think my shading was upgraded from this to de present state in just one year, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty puzzled by myself. It was slightly inspired by Hellobabyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s detail accessories and patterns and the characters as well. I had a hard time not laughing when drawing this picture because it kept reminding me of the characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plots.
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ShrimpHeby: is a piece about dellusion and betrayal. Not necessarily a love betrayal, because anything in life can betray us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the most vicious and bitter feelings.
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Exclaimed: It’s possible to achieve something so detailed with the likes of pencil or mechanical pencil for my case. No. I’m not saying digital is not good just that I’m in bad terms with it. Thanks to Exclaimed’s character’s details it was really fun to draw this beautiful character.
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The Gallery
Ace Ribon
-Age: 14 years old;
http://aciejoker.deviantart.com/
-Contry: United States of America; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Paint Tool Sai.
Two Sides Soul: This was a drawing for an art contest. The background and details were done completely by me using the default paint tools. In this illustration I tried to illuminate the characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two sides/personalities/ souls by the facial expression. You can tell theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the same person by the eyes, and scars, but if you look closely their expressions show you all.
Elena GarcĂa -Age: 27 aĂąos;
http://hikaripawa.deviantart.com/
-Country: Spain; -Estudios: Ilustration -Tools: Photoshop CS3 and Open Canvas 4.
Pirate Portrait: This illustration was initially created as a concept art, just to show some characteristics of the character. Was a real challenge to play with light and colors. I wanted to draw a typical pirate but at the same time something fresh with unusual and extravagant touches.
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NĂŠstor Allende -Age: 37 aĂąos;
http://sgrum.deviantart.com/
-Country: Spain; -Studies: Fine Arts; -Tools: Photoshop and Wacom tablet.
Alien warrior: Creature created by Gigier for Alien, with a mix of the models designed for the second and fourth movies.
Conrado MartĂn -Age: 25 years old;
http://entiman.deviantart.com/
-Country: Spain; -Studies: Fine Arts; -Tools: Watercolors, ink, acrylics and oil.
Fearful Symmetry: Is an illustration based on a poem by William Blake which embodies the power and inner fire of the uncaged tiger.
Virginia Berrocal -Age: 37 years old; -Country: Spain; -Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Photoshop.
http://virberrocal.deviantart.com Ranger and the wolf: The relationship between man and nature framed in a world of fantasy is something that always attracted my attention, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I created this work. Both characters (human and wolf) are in a symbiotic relationship ready to battle any kind of danger that destiny holds for them. 127
Yarakte Gurgenovich -Country: Russia;
-Studies: Self-taught; -Tools: Poser, 3Ds Max and Vue. 128
http://doobdoobom.deviantart.com Cybergasm: An emotional picture about music.
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Digital art tutorial: â&#x20AC;&#x153;demonic explosionâ&#x20AC;?
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1 I start my paintings with a 50% grey background. In the initial sketch, I could already have established the basic shapes and colors, and then I would start sketching the actual painting.
2 I always start working in black and white. The reason for proceeding like this is that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really terrible with values and tend to use unsaturated colors when starting. The goal was to create a demon sorceress in the middle of an explosion. I wanted to make it a little bit different and went for a giant growing skull destroying the environment.
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I added the first shapes for the foreground, rocks, stuff flying around.
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Here, I tried to add the first layers of color. I always experiment with the overlay modes to get the greatest effect out of it. Sometimes paintings look like they were just filled with one color, making the artwork look boring. For my base I tried to use different shades of blue and azure, to get more depth, again experimenting with blending modes. I also used some little hints of brown here and there. I love to use the circular gradient tool for coloring in the beginning phase so the colors can mix with each other, besides I added sparks to flow into the whole explosion/destruction theme. I had some old photos of me and my brother playing with sparklers I could use these for the sparks of the giant skull in a new overlay mode.
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In the final part i wanted to add some more shapes to the foreground like loose rocks flying in the direction of the watcher. I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very happy with the foreground so I changed some stuff. Added some more reds and purples, because Ithought the color pallet was lacking some warmer colors
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