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This illustration has been reedited several times. Somehow I guess, that my illustrations never might come to an end.
So now Victoria looks a bit more vintage.


Concept:

Welcome Victoria! Yeah, I prefer those old strategy games, less heroes, more armies, the more units the better
Inspired by games like 'Command and Conquer' and especially by the video of 'Deathstars - Death Dies Hard' I got the idea to this illustration. The vintage-edit is a reedit of the former version, I think it fits better ... at least to me, for I am not that 'colourful' (only wearing black clothing ).

The first sketch was a bit out of proportion and so on, but I use such sketches to figure out where to put what within Photoshop (the Liquify-Tool performs good actions when pulling the sketch the way it is meant to be). I used some photo references (of the band 'Deathstars' by example) and many custom Photoshop brushes (hair, texture on clothing and so on). When it comes to create technical stuff I often use some Photoshop 'effects' in a manner of overlay (fill at 0 percent), 'cause I can't paint so clean by hand according some reflexes.

And now up to you! Guess what Victoria's secret weapons might be ... :P



Nice to know:

The name 'Victoria' is a latin word. Her name tells the story, meaning victory/success, the victorious one. Many surnames also base on professions of the ancestors (e.g. 'Carpenter', 'Schmidt', 'Fortimbras/Armstrong'). And fornames also base on different stuff: 'Christian' for someone christian, 'Sarah' meaning duchess/princess, holy names of the Koran like Mohammed and so on.



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. The background is just a 'grunged' lookin' layer, some custom brushes of filth, rust and similar things.



Feel free to comment or ask!


Your friend

C.
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~Kent1990 Sep 11, 2012
me likes :D
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~Hunterkingxxl Apr 19, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Looks stunning!
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~QueenMoorishEyes Sep 13, 2010
No tengo palabras.... PERFECTO!!

BRAVO!!
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~DeadInTheAttic Jan 17, 2011
Thank you very much!

Chris
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~FisHPastE89 Sep 1, 2010  Professional Interface Designer
nice! do you have a brush that u use to do skin with?
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~DeadInTheAttic Sep 6, 2010
Yeah! I got several skin brushes, some made of closeups of skin-photographies, others made artificial (sometimes it is like makeup of actors on a stage, you put more into it than expected to get the deserved effect, so sometimes pores are bigger, contrasts stronger and so on).
The first step is creating a smooth skin, I only use the smooth standard brush of Photoshop at the beginning.

Chris
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~FisHPastE89 Sep 7, 2010  Professional Interface Designer
oh ok thanx for the info :)
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~1Bluefur Jun 10, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Love it for sure...

The colors are superb... she looks so serious... makes me shudder a lil' lol.
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~DeadInTheAttic Jun 19, 2010
Thanks for you compliment, she is supposed to make you shudder ... one way or the other ... ;)

Chris
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~1Bluefur Jun 19, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
lol

No problem :)
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