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Concept:

Welcome Thanaea. Her name is inspired by the names of some of the gorgeous artworks of the illustrator 'Linda Bergkvist'. I just wanted to create a somehow erotical and dangerous character in one person. The funny thing is that an illustrator also is some kind of a designer, figuring out the clothing and stuff. I like the idea of the textile being the wings of the dragon, and I also must admit, that I prefer more simple, useful clothing than many colour- and cheerful nonsense accessoires. I wanted Thanaea to play a bit with her knife. You don't need big, heavy weapons to be lethal.

She would be a very deadly fairy: 'Engelsstaub - Faerieland'.

'A rose for the dead'.



Nice to know:

Assassins were arabic people, who are said to have got their name from their consumption of hashish. I am not quiet sure whether that's real, but the assassins also inspired people writing stories like about the 'Necronomicon' ('Wanderings of Alhazred') and in my opinion it's somehow similar to the east-oriental ninja, mystical and fascinating.


Technics:

After picking many references I created some rough drawings, which I used to illustrate this within Photoshop.
My usual technic is similar to airbrush. Masking the single elements (so I don't need to take that much care of the borders later on). Custom texture brushes increase the credibility. The original size would fit on a poster.
For the fire I also created a custom brush, almost similar to the one I made for candlelights, only more scattering and other random transformations.



Feel free to comment or ask!


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Mood: Love *LilithGiroyami Jan 18, 2011  Student General Artist
Amazing!
Do you accept art trades? *-*
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~DeadInTheAttic Jan 18, 2011
Thank you! Art Trades, what do you mean?

(I am not quiet used to this deviantart Stuff ...)

Chris
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*LilithGiroyami Jan 19, 2011  Student General Artist
well, you do a picture for me and I do another for you :D
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~DeadInTheAttic Jan 19, 2011
Hmm, funny Idea!

Then, what do you have thought about, it seems that you already have a certain Illustration in Mind?

Actually I don't need further Pictures of others (I have collected - let's see ... - about 4000 Illustrations of others for References ;), but what I need are funny, good, cool and so on Ideas. So if you got some cool Ideas for Posings, Characters, Scenery and so on, just let me know and if I paint one of them, I will send you for your own private Purpose a final File of that.

... or if you have got inspirational Names of Characters to be painted ... whatever you think might inspire me.

What do you think?
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*LilithGiroyami Jan 20, 2011  Student General Artist
You could do my OC Altair Tamariko(demon with the power of darkness and yellow like cat eyes)[link]
fighting Dante Knights (demon with the power of ice and iceblue eyes) [link]
I think it would be a good idea ^^
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~RedMercenary Sep 12, 2010
This is beautiful but one suggestion is her lips dont have a lot of color, i didnt see them very well other than that its great, i really love her outfit and the tatoo on her arm
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~DeadInTheAttic Jan 17, 2011
Thank you for your Comment! Her Lips should look natural, but I have reedited it, hope this will do (or I will reedit it again ;) ).

Chris
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~RedMercenary Feb 23, 2011
Good work the lips look much better!
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*halcyonshores Sep 11, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Truly stunning work.
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~DeadInTheAttic Jan 17, 2011
Thank you!

Chris
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