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Deviousness `ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We're absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi. Congratulations, Sharon! Read More
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And yeah, you nailed his style spot-on. Not even sure if that's what you were even shooting for! Religious symbolism, delicious meat flaking off the bone, meticulous details. ur gr8
This is quite cool. Texture and color is genius, I especially enjoy all the dry, flaky layers of skin or dead flesh around the ripped-throat. Together with those pointy fingernails and the nose and teeth part of the skull it creates this feeling of aggressive brittleness. Touch that thing and you will cut yourself.
How did you do those dead flesh/sharp bone parts? Is it all painted or did you use some textures/other tricks like transformed brushstrokes?
I see the connection with the church in the halo (with the blue sky behind it?) and the hands, what's the connection between the animal skull and the church, or is it random? (It looks for me like a deer skull. If it's a sheep head which looks similair I get the idea C
The bone is just the basic Photoshop hard brush and patience. I purposefully did that to avoid an obvious digital visual solution. I used the skull as a reference, but simply kept in mind where the body would be. The rest sorted itself out naturally. :3
Seriously though, beyond that I can't explain much. I was drawing them even before I knew how to do so.