Topic: Art's Gallery ** UPDATE 2019-09-04 K-2SO**

[Art deWhill]

thanks a lot, L.E.!
Ratfink is an awesome and nice guy. He freaked out when he saw it Its always a good vibration to get these reactions of the original creators and not a bad "OMG how could you do this to my design..."

[hangarbay94]

Stefan, you are getting really clever with your effects, I love the gold on the shin pads, God only knows how you got the technique. Is the face a real one with brush strokes added on, as it she looks so real, I love her arrogant smile.

Awesome as always!

[Art deWhill]

thanks a lot for your kind compliments, Jules
I simply picked the gold color from a photograph and used varied shades of it, so nothing special about it. Her face indeed started out as a real one, but I only used it as some sort of guideline and heavily overpainted it: I gave her new eyes, a new skin tone and make up, sculpted new cheeks and added the light fx. But because her wonderful expression is still the same and notable makes her look so real I guess.

[hangarbay94]

I've never tried digital painting before and your technical explanation makes me even more in awe of your work!

[Art deWhill]

oh you definitelly should try it out, its big fun and also enhances the possibilities of photomanipulations/composites.

[Art deWhill]

so here is an UPDATE on "Lady Grenadier". Ratfink went crazy when he first saw it and I must confess that I am very pleased myself on how it turnded out. It now looks like some Dieselpunk stuff. hope you agree and watch out: she's as fast as lightning on the trigger ;-)
as always thanks a lot for your time and comments.



direct linkt to the 1024px version: http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/065/6/7/lady_grenadier_by_art_dewhill-d4rx03d.jpg

[Tamer]

Wow Stefan. I liked the old version, but she sure does look very nice to these old eyes. On the front page.

[botwt]

WOW!!! Just too cool!

[Luke Sprywalker]

Holt crap! That background makes this EPIC! Really well done Stefan!

[Art deWhill]

thank you very much, guys! as alwaysyour feedback means a lot to me - as well as a fp feature, really thrilling, thanks Tamer
if its allowed to say I am really proud about how this image turned out and I had so much fun doin it. In fact I allready asked Ratfink for permission to use some more of his steampunk figures and searching for more customs of this genre or other post-apo stuff. I also submitted Lady Grenadier to some steampunk groups on deviantart and got really nice replies. Also learned alot about steampunk, all the cosplayers and the subgenres... now I know that there is Dieselpunk, Teslapunk, Atomicpunk, Blitzpunk, ... very interesting.

[Art deWhill]

Hi guys,

no Star Wars stuff in the pipe for I have some scifi cover artworks on my to-do-list. in addition I am on some kind of retro trip, watching and old German scifi TV series of 1965, 2001 and 2010 and stuff and reading the stories of the author who commissioned me, which are also written in that kind of mood... getting inspired to fool with simple shaped ships and stations and today I came along with this concept painting. No exciting POV or designs, just a simple scenery, but simple things can have a great impact on us, too I think
Hope you like it anyway. Just gimme your feedback, please.Thanks!

[Tamer]

Stefan, this looks awesome. I bet you will be able to see it on our fp soon.

[Art deWhill]

Hey Shawn, thanks so much my friend, your ongoing support really is amazing! lets toast to that

[Tamer]

Definitely Stefan. You are on the list of people I hope to be able to meet one day.

[Art deWhill]

oh, you are on my list, too, thats for sure