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Holy shit.
Right, see, here's when not being an artist severely harms me, because I have no idea how one would go about painting this. Is this drawn by hand, is this a photoraph with effects...?
Look, no clue. Looks dope as hell, though. Which is, ultimately, all that matters.
I'm not gonna go crazy here trying to assume which character the pic represents because I'm not exactly sure if that matters. The story is a rather melancholic, dark-edgy story about two women, and this one could be either one of them. Not really the point.
I like the feeling this gives a lot! It's very dark with only white to highlight the woman, and so she blends into the shadows whenever she's not directly hit by the light coming out the... is that a window? I don't think it is because the shadow of the woman is cast over it, so I doubt the light is coming from there. Then again, it does hit her neck from that direction, so...?
I don't know a lot about shading. Whatever.
So the main feeling I got from the story was that of melancholy. It's all very demure, very sad, very dark. Very 'what happened in the past' and heartbreak and shit. This piece has an air similar to that. Woman alone, darkness around her... I do read her expression as a smile if I don't look too hard at it (if you do that it sort of blurs out and you don't know what you're seeing anymore), so it doesn't feel overly sad, but it does feel lonely.
The imagery of the fic is very bleak, and I'm assuming this picture tries to go after that with the high contrast. I like it! It feels like something that could very well be the cover of it.
I'm afraid I don't have a lot to say about this. Composition is nice, and your eyes get drawn to the woman's face automatically; the use of black and white gives this a noir/somber feeling, and overall it's very visually pleasant. You can picture this being something that happens in the story itself. Good job!
Right, see, here's when not being an artist severely harms me, because I have no idea how one would go about painting this. Is this drawn by hand, is this a photoraph with effects...?
Look, no clue. Looks dope as hell, though. Which is, ultimately, all that matters.
I'm not gonna go crazy here trying to assume which character the pic represents because I'm not exactly sure if that matters. The story is a rather melancholic, dark-edgy story about two women, and this one could be either one of them. Not really the point.
I like the feeling this gives a lot! It's very dark with only white to highlight the woman, and so she blends into the shadows whenever she's not directly hit by the light coming out the... is that a window? I don't think it is because the shadow of the woman is cast over it, so I doubt the light is coming from there. Then again, it does hit her neck from that direction, so...?
I don't know a lot about shading. Whatever.
So the main feeling I got from the story was that of melancholy. It's all very demure, very sad, very dark. Very 'what happened in the past' and heartbreak and shit. This piece has an air similar to that. Woman alone, darkness around her... I do read her expression as a smile if I don't look too hard at it (if you do that it sort of blurs out and you don't know what you're seeing anymore), so it doesn't feel overly sad, but it does feel lonely.
The imagery of the fic is very bleak, and I'm assuming this picture tries to go after that with the high contrast. I like it! It feels like something that could very well be the cover of it.
I'm afraid I don't have a lot to say about this. Composition is nice, and your eyes get drawn to the woman's face automatically; the use of black and white gives this a noir/somber feeling, and overall it's very visually pleasant. You can picture this being something that happens in the story itself. Good job!
Artist, I am guessing you used a photo reference, perhaps solarized, and painted the highlights. Black and white sharply emphasizes the division of figure/ground, perhaps a nod to the “tearing.” A striking piece and I want to put it in the upper-mid tier, but it’s going to have a lot of competition.
I originally asked Roger if one could submit animations, because my original idea was to have a ghastly face flash across her face as thunder roared outside.
Since that was outside the realm of possibility, I decided for a simple high contrast image.
>>Aragon
I'm glad you liked it! I liked the story quite a lot, as well. The process of making this image was similar to what >>GroaningGreyAgony said. I took a couple of pictures (woman in dress, fluffier dress, a window), upped the contrast to the maximum, and then started painting over all the lit areas.
The thought I tried to represent here was that Madeleine has a very warped view of Lady Silvia. She idolises her and holds her in the highest regard. So you could say she focused only on what she perceived as good (lit) and let all the bad things just sort of fade into the background (dark).
For the most part, anyway.
Since that was outside the realm of possibility, I decided for a simple high contrast image.
>>Aragon
I'm glad you liked it! I liked the story quite a lot, as well. The process of making this image was similar to what >>GroaningGreyAgony said. I took a couple of pictures (woman in dress, fluffier dress, a window), upped the contrast to the maximum, and then started painting over all the lit areas.
The thought I tried to represent here was that Madeleine has a very warped view of Lady Silvia. She idolises her and holds her in the highest regard. So you could say she focused only on what she perceived as good (lit) and let all the bad things just sort of fade into the background (dark).
For the most part, anyway.