Christos Anesti!/Alithos Anesti! Paschal Digital Painting.

[fenderlove]

Title: Christos Anesti!/Alithos Anesti!
Artist: fenderlove
Medium: Drawing and colouring in Photoshop CS3.
Rating: Totally Worksafe.
Summary: In my comic London Calling, my OC Ursula is Eastern Orthodox, so with Pascha (Easter in the Greek Church) being tomorrow, I thought it would be fun to do a piece with some Paschal themes. Spike (who is very brunette and sheeple-headed) is holding a tsoureki (Easter bread) with a kokina avga (red egg) on top. Ursula is also holding some kokina avga. They are wearing my own version of Greek wedding stefana (floral wreaths) with Easter lilies.
Preview:







x-posted on nekid_spike.

Comments

[sky-prague.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's incredible O_o! Well done, it's great. Thanks for sharing it.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! :D I had a lot of fun with this one. James is always a joy to draw (not always a joy to colour though). LOL. ;-)

[sky-prague.livejournal.com]

Seriously, till today the Dresden art was my favorite art from you but now, this is challenge, it's incredible. Love how you did his face and Ursula is very pretty :). I have new desktop :D:D. Thank you.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Aww, yay! :D I'm really that you like it so much. I'm pretty proud of it, and I feel like I learned a lot from doing it.

I might post some "detail" shots later because the original size of this piece is about two-and-a-half times bigger than this one. XD

[sky-prague.livejournal.com]

I hope you'll still working on the comics because I want to read the part with these images :-).

Yay, I am all for see the details \o/.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I need to get back to work on the comic. I got sidetracked with graduating from university and now looking for a job, but I really want to finish it (and not just because James made me promise to finish it and give the complete version to him at Dragon*Con). :-)

This particular scene doesn't occur, but it might in the sequel! I'm all for Spike letting his hair go natural, fluffy and cute. I think it might be worrisome for a vampire to go into a Greek Church... or any church for that matter. XD

[sky-prague.livejournal.com]

Oh, you have to keep a promise \o/. Nope, I am not forcing you to finish it :D.

Good luck with finding new job! It shouldn't be a problem for you when I look at your art :).

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I am going to get back to work on it. Don't worry! :D I have to finish it or else I can never do the prequel and sequel comics that I want to do. XD

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Here's two detail shots at nearly full size.
Spike: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/fenderlove/spike_detail.jpg
Ursula: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/fenderlove/ursula_detail.jpg

:D

[sky-prague.livejournal.com]

O_o that's incredible O_o. You can draw James's face through details, amazing!

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Thanks again! :D A lot of the work in the likeness comes from the colouring. Here's the cleaned up ( but still somewhat messy) linework that I did before I started "painting":
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/fenderlove/pascha.jpg
I generally only really clean up the faces 'cause I don't want a lot of weird lines getting everywhere. XD

[sky-prague.livejournal.com]

The thing is I am not even able to draw the sketch so my admiration starts here :D. The rest of it is little miracle for me, the coloring is amazing and the same goes for the sketch. I tried once to convert image to painting in Photoshop and... well it ended badly :D, so I am enjoying works of others :D.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

If you'd like some tutorials, I could send you some. They are good if you want to learn how to paint in Photoshop. :D
I learned in high school how to draw James's face by printing out pictures of his face at various angles and drawing on top of them with a big marker, mapping out all the "zones" of his face. It really helped me to see his face as a bunch of little areas than trying to draw everything at once. *hugs*

[sky-prague.livejournal.com]

It would be fantastic; at least I can take a look on them. Although I am not sure that they will help to improve my skills, or better lack of my artistic skills :D.

Drawing over Jameses face... hmmm :D:D

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

As usual, your art work is fabulous!

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :D