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This painting is inspired by the book series "Twilight", and it depicts a key scene in the first book. In the book, the two characters featured (Edward and Bella) are in a secluded meadow in Forks Washington. Bella is an average 17 year old girl who is in Love with Edward. Edward is a vampire. As a vampire, he has super-human strength and speed; he craves human blood; he has marble white skin which sparkles under the sunlight; and of course, he's immortal. Otherwise, he's pretty much human, and has human emotions, but must always fight his vampire urge to kill Bella.
This original concept image is painted entirely in Photoshop CS3. It is not a photomanipulation. -------------------- By Nicole Barker |
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Strip for me, as I have stripped for you.
I was really hoping to capture all of the elements noted in the book, but I wasn't sure how obvious it would be for people who had not read the book.
Came across perfectly, natural. I also like that their faces are modeled after movie promo pictures. That way you can REALLY get into the characters when you read the book and watch the movie!
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Strip for me, as I have stripped for you.
Thanks. I wanted to have a likeness to the movie characters, but I didn't want to "copy" any of the movie imagery that is out right now.
I hope the movie is as good as the book.
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ribbit...cluck cluck...MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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By the time you finish reading this you'll have realized that you've just wasted a few seconds of your life.
Sorry about that.
I actually don't use any special Photoshop effects or anything like that. Mostly I'm using a feathered brush with an appropriate opacity percentage, and the smudge tool. That's about it. I paint in Photoshop the same way I would paint on a canvas, layering color. The difference is, in my Photoshop file, I have over 300 layers which I will individually adjust constantly in the way I see fit. I also gather hundreds of reference images, so that I can get an idea of appropriate textures and lighting. Especially since the scene I was envisioning is imaginary.
On a side note, fruit is pretty tedious to paint, almost as difficult as human skin. It has a lot of facets of color and underlying tones and textures.
I would say that until you are more comfortable with a three dimension perspective on any given piece, you should probably use life as a reference... as in... if you want to know how to paint an apple, really examine an apple in your hand. You may notice more than if you were staring at it in a photograph.
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