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Published: 2015-11-04 03:06:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 6280; Favourites: 224; Downloads: 76
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I wanted to post this for the Day of the Dead but, since I spent the whole day visiting graveyards and lots of late relatives I completely ignored existed, I didn't make it in time
Anyways! What's better than my old Sorceress character, some mummy and weird rituals for this day? ^^ The drawing was made in record time, less than 10 hours, so some things are off here and there.
Also I'm trying to learn how to use my new scanner, so far the only issue I have is that the colors look "colder" than the original but with some digital change they become acceptably close to the real work. On the other hand I don't have any problem about screwing the perspective by taking pictures with a slightly wrong angle....
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Looks like it could be a comic page or cover. Stylized fantasy scene here.
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pretty much anything you do with these cats that look like like south american natives i am going to like, they are pretty awsome.
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Thank you! 
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why did you mix those cultures, is it because they are both primitive and still around .... largely being unrelated , i usually mix the amazon basin kayapo with the Akha from Thailand as they are more ethnically and culturally similer. is it zoological, between central Africa and south America the cat species are related, the cheetah came from the Americas before the continents separated.
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haha glad you found them "cute". This is the first time I read that XD
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Oh man, this was so far down in my replies 
And of course they're cute
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Come al solito... no vabbè, basta 
Mi piace molto l'armonia dei colori che hai usato, lo sfondo con i toni un po' più "spenti" e desaturati in contrasto con il rosso vivo dei tatuaggi
E la complessità della collana della sciamana è impressionante, ti ci sarà voluto un secolo per disegnare tutte quelle perline D8
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haha Grazie infinite ancora una volta!
Sono contento che ti piaccia, io non ero molto convinto anche perchè volevo rendere più dettagliato lo sfondo ma non ho avuto tempo. Effettivamente disegnare quelle collane è un lavoraccio! XD
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Ma di niente!!
Trovo che lo sfondo vada bene, in questo modo c'è ancora più attenzione sul personaggio^^
E ci credo! XD
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Honestly, the skinny bodies and fully skinless skulls are what make this even more macabre. Full skeletons just aren't as reliable for giving trespassers the creeps...
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Mummies with exposed skulls are the best!
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This it awesome! You see so many undead humans and it's like- where the kjahiit at? do they not die?
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That's true, in most games all the zombies-skeletons are only humans. ^^ These ones are not undead but plain dead though
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Thank you SO much!
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Wow. That's a long time stiill. I'll try to make this question make sense; how long does each 'stage' take? You know, sketch, lineart, colors. And do you count thumbnail sketches as part of the time?
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Ehh.. Honestly I don't know, I never checked the time of that. It depends though, if there are lots of details the sketching and inking may last more than the coloring, while if I have some particular color effect, like a night scene, the coloring might take ages.
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Speaking of night scenes, how on earth do you do those? They are really cool.
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It takes quite a lot of time, I have to use the normal "daylight" tones, keeping them lighter and then work with new layers of blue and black over them 
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Thanks! I'll remember that. I think it's the same method with colored pencils. Not too sure. I'll have to experiment network a bit.
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Well, that lady certainly got some nice company. It's actually a good amount of macabre with the mummies having taken the flesh off their skulls. Interestingly enough in prehistoric cultures people were in some cases (meaning if not buried completely or burned and put into urns) decapitated and the skulls were defleshed.
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Yup, that's the way they preserve the corpses of important people, the body is mummified while the skull is exposed and painted with religious symbols (I have to work on the true meaning though)
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I really like the strength and colours of the body paint, it gives her a distinctive look. Not to mention that the overall scene is pretty cool as well!
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Thank you a lot!
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A very interesting mix of cultures here:
Oriental-style writing characters on the skulls,
Egyptian-style necklaces,
Prehistoric shamanic bone totems,
and a weapon almost identical to a Dacian falx.
(Then again, I'm not the most well-versed on cultures outside of generic modern American, so I may be completely wrong.)
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Yup, I like to mess with different cultures. ^^ The writing was quite made up, I didn't mean to make it look oriental even if it does, and about the weapon it was actually inspired by a central African sword, I don't remember it's name unfortunately ^^
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Yup, I worked on that
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Amazing work! I cannot see at all where the work would be 'off' at all
I can't but admire time and time again how carefully you manage to color with water colors 
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Thank you a bunch! 
Aw, thank you once more
And no, this time I didn't use the pencils ^^ I had little time to complete it so I cut out a lot of details.
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And I'm stupid that I was afraid to go to undergrount of Reformate fathers church, and see the same view of "nice" mumies XD
Anywa, very cool graphics again, and this time for me this is a kind of "Memento Mori ", but in Anthro version XD - Really great game of gray and Brown i and red tattooes, great are the incense in the background, the smoke of incense - brilliant effect
(I'm disappointed :C XD)
And That's just good graphics on this particular time the feast of the dead/Zaduszki day and this one time of the year...
Memento Mori...
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I remember you mentioned you didn't like old corpses
Mummies don't have the faces because that's part of their ritual, the skull has to remain exposed. ^^
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Well 
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I really like the feline characters that you have and I was waiting to you to do something about this one. I also have to say that the mummies look really tetric, especially because their skulls are completely skinless but the rest of their bodies look as they were conserved someway...
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Thank you!
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That's pretty interesting... I also think that creating a world without "real" gods gives that world more possibilities and a mysterious side...
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Great work!
I like the composition of the shawls.
May I ask, what kind of colours you use?
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Thank you a lot!
Watercolours made by Winsor & Newton. And a tiiiny bit of tempera or acrylic here and there
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Ah the return of the tribal lady
And scanners can be quite tricky to get right XD Usually you just have to settle with whatever looks closest to the original lol. But I think the scan quality here is great!
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Indeed, I was planning a drawing like this for a very long time!
I usually work on the image in GIMP to adjust the coloring and stuff. Everything look clearer than when I used the camera but still pretty good.
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