"Screams of The Undead" - part 3

 

   This week, I've created for another contest (yes, that's the "contests' month !) and here, before your eyes and after the two previous steps I posted on this blog, is the final result.

In the end, I used about every material I could find... Acrylic, ink, pastels, pencils... And even some digital additions.

The result is quite far from what I had in mind at first (and maybe from what you can tell after my first sketches) but I am learning to like it. The only big frustration I have is that the blue background is not the original colour that actually is on my paper. I had used this same ink for a previous illustration in my Beauty and the Beast project, and I had had a hard time already to find the colour back on the computer... (I should have remembered before but... Ah well).

Then, there is also the little flowers... I'm not very satisfied with them, something seems wrong. But from the feedbacks I had for now, I am the only one annoyed by that, so... :)

My idea at first was to make something born out of the death. Here the flowers were supposed to symbolize a rebirth through the skull of the demon. Even the dead trees are showing signs of rebirth... For there are leaves appearing, flying around them. Finally, the rebirth can be found also in the skull itself, because my aim was to give a new shape to the emblematic figure of the band, to turn it into something recognizable but different. So I kind of gave it another life (without any meaning of pretension though, I hope you get that !) :)

   Apparently, there is still some votes from the audience planned for this one... If you are interested, go to this page !

Hoping you like it :)

* Design for Secret Solstice * (contest)

 

   One again, I participated to a contest on Talenthouse. This time, it was about designing a visual for the launch of the music festival Secret Solstice, near Reykjavik in Iceland. If you like my illustration, you have 5 days to vote starting by now :)

- VOTING CLOSED -

 And below, here is my explanation for the picture. I hope you enjoy ! :)

"Combining Iceland and music... What a perfect challenge. How to even translate all the feelings that both inspire into one single image ? 

I chose one path : rhythm. 

As a reference to synchromism at first, concentric circles are embrassing the landscape, symbolizing then musical waves but also waves onto water -which is the main element here- and any living beat. They create the substance of what's being demonstrated. 

Iceland landscapes are full of rhythms... The echoes of our steps onto the rocky ground or muffled into the smooth grass, the deep rumbling of volcanoes or the clearer one of geysers, as well as the relaxing tempo or the thundering sound of waterfalls... 

Music is obviously full of rhythms... It's in its essence... 

And eventually, when facing beautiful and inspiring wide spaces, while listening to beautiful and inspiring melodies, you will find out a new rhythm : the one of your heartbeats."

** Happy New Year! **

 

... Voici pour me faire pardonner de n'avoir rien posté en Décembre, ni dessin ni "joyeux Noël"!!! C'est une peinture exclusivement numérique ( aussi, soyez gentils car c'est ma première vraie peinture numérique ^^) réalisée pour un concours auquel j'ai participé par le biais de mon école, pour le restaurant La Mare aux Oiseaux, qui se transforme en Maison des Ours pour les fêtes de Noël, d'où la thématique! =)

Et c'est donc avec un peu de retard que je vous souhaite une très bonne année à tous!!!

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... This for making myself forgiven for not having posted anything in December, neither drawing nor "merry Christmas"!!! This is an only digital painting ( also, be nice because this is my first real digital painting ^^) executed for a contest for which I participated through my school, for the restaurant La Mare aux Oiseaux, turning into Maison des Ours (House of Bears) for Christmas holidays, hence the theme! =)

And so this is with a little delay that I wish you all a very happy new year!!!