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Published: 2011-03-07 17:44:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 15607; Favourites: 455; Downloads: 0
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I want to dedicate this piece to the two of the greatest people I know - and . OK, don’t kill me, guys. I know you would prefer dedication of some old TR parts (and definitely not TR 2011), but I have a reason for that. You remember what we were talking about like a couple of weeks ago? I already was working on this piece at that time and surprisingly that endless conversations were very inspirational, hence there’s your merit in the process of creation. For the rest of people who still can’t understand what the hell am I talking about, just skip this part, it’s more like a private joke.

OK, so obviously this artwork is a tribute to the upcoming Tomb Raider 2011 which is a reboot of the whole TR franchise and which is treated with a part of negativism by a lot of fans, as far as I’ve noticed. And initially I was planning a long, passionate excusatory speech (don’t panic ), but eventually changed my mind. If you’re enjoying constantly complaining about all the changes and innovation, who am I to change that.

And I guess with this art finally finished I’m forced to take a little creative break, ‘cause I badly need to work on my degree work. This piece have taken ridiculous amount of time, and hiding in the university behind every plant/mop/fellow student’s back from my professor is not cool anymore. Cheers!

And from now I’ll be telling you my inspirational song if there was any. A lot of people seemed to like this idea, so here we go:

Thomas J. Bergersen - Starvation


Lara Croft © Eidos & Crystal Dynamics
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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to ??? [2013-01-07 12:20:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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ExpeditionEndurance [2013-01-01 22:22:10 +0000 UTC]

You did a great job on this!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to ExpeditionEndurance [2013-01-02 16:57:26 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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ANGELXCROFT [2012-11-11 20:19:27 +0000 UTC]

gr8 i love the sky

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RushComics [2012-06-02 03:20:29 +0000 UTC]

You know,Young Lara vs Katniss would be one bad ass fight!!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to RushComics [2012-06-02 10:59:46 +0000 UTC]

Haha, maybe Katiss could stand a chance against young and unexperienced Lara, but if she happened to face the badass lady Croft the girl on fire is as good as dead

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RushComics In reply to Inna-Vjuzhanina [2012-06-02 14:09:00 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah!! That sounds like an Epic Rap battle of History to me!! Or Croft vs. Nate Drake or Indy....

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femelushka [2012-05-15 12:27:22 +0000 UTC]

beauty

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to femelushka [2012-05-15 15:51:43 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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ilovesilenthill [2012-03-12 20:55:23 +0000 UTC]

i think the new Tomb Raider game is good, since it is a part of the Tomb Raider series!
please don`t kill me for that anyway... this art is realy good!
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Lara`s first adventure has finally moved to my journal! Check it out! Tomb Raider: The Island [link] the history is made by ilovesilenthill enjoy!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to ilovesilenthill [2012-03-13 19:03:00 +0000 UTC]

What for should I kill you for, I don't get it? If I didn't like the upcoming game I wouldn't have made fan art of it on the first place

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Shekhina [2011-08-07 23:48:12 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I love this! The colors and everything! Good job!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to Shekhina [2011-08-08 10:25:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much!

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Shekhina In reply to Inna-Vjuzhanina [2011-08-08 11:29:47 +0000 UTC]

Np

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crayonmaniac [2011-07-29 20:29:52 +0000 UTC]

Inna your art is amazing
you are an inspiration to me, all is so dynamic
you are a fantastic artist, I am glad to meet you

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to crayonmaniac [2011-07-30 07:50:21 +0000 UTC]

OMFG, I went to your page to thank for the watch and realized that I had a lot of your works in my "Inspiration" folder. I have no idea why I haven't added you to the watch, you're absolutely amazing artist. I'm deliriously happy to meet you too

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crayonmaniac In reply to Inna-Vjuzhanina [2011-07-30 09:25:01 +0000 UTC]

well i call you an absolute amazing artist too (I do not call myself that lol)
I just love your vision and your latest work is mind blowing, top category, so welcome hon

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to crayonmaniac [2011-07-30 14:50:01 +0000 UTC]

Lol, and I don't call myself that.

I'm really honored to hear those words form the artist of your level, thanks so much again Btw, can I ask a little question? I've been admiring how wonderfully you paint the skin - so many shades and so perfectly smoothly and naturally blended. There're too many shades to be painted with soft brushes and too very well blended for hard ones. What's the trick? If it's professional secret just forget I asked

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crayonmaniac In reply to Inna-Vjuzhanina [2011-07-30 15:02:41 +0000 UTC]

well it is something I do, I use this very pronounced orange as base color always and then I have to admit I dodge and burn, which is not done apparently but I get good results, then the skin starts to soak up environment colours, I blend them in,
very low opacity layers on that, when satisfied, I merge
and all the areas that are not smooth enough to my taste I use the band aid tool to pick up environment colors and to get a nice blend, i work constantly with this tool, i do not like demarcation lines for me it has to go smoothly
i use always soft reds for the cheeks. When the work is done i play with saturation levels and color balance till i get it right
and I do not keep my layers, I cannot work that way, I use a layer and then merge it, I cannot concentrate with all the layers on
I am not a professional, I am entirely self thaught so I probably do many things wrong but as long as the results are good
and I steal a lot, from my own art, I recycle jewels, I copy paste hair, I multiply locks of hair

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to crayonmaniac [2011-07-31 10:43:10 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, I would never have thought that one could get such awesome results with burn & dodge You're truly master. And thanks so much for the tip about band aid tool, never though of using it for blending. And don't worry, I'm self taught as well and I think actually all the tools and methods are acceptable if they give such wonderful results.

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crayonmaniac In reply to Inna-Vjuzhanina [2011-07-31 14:59:16 +0000 UTC]

psst, don't say that about dodge and Burn (we will call it D&B in code henceforward lol) people say it is not done, I did a waterdrop on skin tutorial with D&B and got killed by some pros, what that was tough! but if you look in my scraps you will find it and the results are good, admittedly one can paint the drops too, but this in my opinion gives very good results, but hush hush, never say I told you this lol

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to crayonmaniac [2011-07-31 16:29:01 +0000 UTC]

Oooooh,'kay, we'll give it secret name then I remember that tut of yours! I've seen it ages ago and still remember It's wonderful, as well as the results. Personally I see no harm in using D&B for little tricks like drops and stuff. When I was only beginning and was reading in various tutorials all that list of prohibitions (liked D&B, smudge, filters, blah-blah-blah) I strictly and blindly followed that and then just saw more and more jawdropping artworks of professionals who do use all that I just said the hell with it, nothing is prohibited if it gives wonderful results and one can never say looking at the artwork that some "forbidden" stuff was used there. Personally I looking at your wonderful artworks would never have noticed that.

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crayonmaniac In reply to Inna-Vjuzhanina [2011-07-31 17:22:59 +0000 UTC]

Amen to that! Wellcome to the secret society of D&B and BA(band aid) I do not like artistic snobism, the only thing I like is good and honest art, a tool is a tool, it is the result that matters
I think i am going to make a little stamp! our conversation today inspired me

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to crayonmaniac [2011-07-31 20:06:40 +0000 UTC]

Totally agreed!

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crayonmaniac In reply to Inna-Vjuzhanina [2011-07-31 20:22:25 +0000 UTC]

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Ericaust [2011-07-23 00:06:12 +0000 UTC]

wow, i'm shocked i've never seen your artwork before, your good!!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to Ericaust [2011-07-27 09:35:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a bunch!

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Lascivious-Kitty [2011-06-22 12:00:51 +0000 UTC]

I love her, I love the landscape, I love the pose, I love her expression... I love your art!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to Lascivious-Kitty [2011-06-22 12:11:38 +0000 UTC]

Thaaaaank you!

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irmesia [2011-06-10 15:21:17 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful!

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Sashich [2011-06-04 15:32:52 +0000 UTC]

So amazing!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to Sashich [2011-06-04 18:22:58 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Ankelwar [2011-05-02 21:22:05 +0000 UTC]

WoW!! Very nice!! i like it so much!!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to Ankelwar [2011-05-02 21:33:32 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Valkyyria [2011-04-30 10:09:30 +0000 UTC]

I'm not really excited about the upcoming Tomb Raider, but I still think this is stunning work!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to Valkyyria [2011-04-30 11:37:47 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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LemmonAndLimme [2011-04-22 16:28:36 +0000 UTC]

Amazing !!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to LemmonAndLimme [2011-04-22 16:34:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot!

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LemmonAndLimme In reply to Inna-Vjuzhanina [2011-04-22 16:38:11 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome ♥

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night-is-my-shield [2011-04-21 22:46:34 +0000 UTC]

You did a great job!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to night-is-my-shield [2011-04-22 08:50:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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night-is-my-shield In reply to Inna-Vjuzhanina [2011-04-22 15:04:49 +0000 UTC]

Welcome!

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dash-of-mystery [2011-04-18 14:01:53 +0000 UTC]

I love the composition, the foreshortening, the detail put into the background, and... well just about everything! This is really well done.

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to dash-of-mystery [2011-04-18 15:05:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot

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dash-of-mystery In reply to Inna-Vjuzhanina [2011-04-18 15:09:40 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome.

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PinkuArt [2011-04-16 15:42:10 +0000 UTC]

wow! I love the sunray effect

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to PinkuArt [2011-04-16 16:51:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a bunch!

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braaj [2011-04-15 15:36:33 +0000 UTC]

Perfect!! Logo on it, and they can sell it as box art!

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Inna-Vjuzhanina In reply to braaj [2011-04-15 15:43:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much! I'm honored to hear that

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angelicasylum [2011-04-11 15:40:08 +0000 UTC]

Beautifully done, great job . As for the game, I greatly look forward to it's release.

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