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Published: 2009-10-14 22:08:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 6857; Favourites: 108; Downloads: 0
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Ola PeopleWell after being away for a while and having absolute no inspiration at all I was browsing the stock section of dA and found the X-men set by *kirilee and immediately some ideas sprang up in my mind while browsing through the pictures.
Spend around a week working on it. Pretty much every evening I had available. In total the artwork is made up of 190+ layers. A lot of time went into shading and lighting of the items floating into the air.
Also I know that the female version of Mephisto should be Mephista but I did not like the sound of that. I decided to stick to Mephisto. It is kind of a female mix between Magneto and Doctor Manhattan. It is the first time I have done a Superhero/villain kind of artwork and I did enjoy it very much.
As usual I have used a lot of stock and resources and below you will find a rundown of everybody I have used stocks or brushes from.
Stockpics:
Xmen 6 (mephisto) [link]
Factory Ruin [link]
Purple orb [link]
Comet Ghost town 137 [link]
chair in the attic [link]
Empty room [link]
flying newspapers [link] , [link] and [link]
Bricks [link] and [link]
brick [link]
Brick [link]
Gear 3 [link]
Glasses [link]
Hard hat [link]
axe and hammer [link] and [link]
plank wall [link]
Screw [link]
Welding mask and acetylene cylinder [link] , [link]
Toiletpaper [link]
Pliers [link]
Tools [link] and [link]
Screws [link]
Victorian tools [link]
Wedge 1 [link]
Wrench [link]
Box [link]
Falling paper pack [link]
Brushes:
Hair brushes [link] and [link]
Hair brushes [link] and [link]
Hair brush [link]
Hairbrush (I sadly cannot find this brush anymore as soon as I find it I will update this list)
Hairbrushes [link] and [link]
The traffic cones and the garbage bin are made by me.
Thanks all for sharing such wonderful stocks and resources
Greetz Robert Blokker
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Thanks a lot for the kind words.
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Wow, it's look so amazing! I don't know what to say.
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I'm already honored by your compliments. Thanks a lot
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Impressive work with the atmosphere here, it has a very derelict and unsafe mood to it, also thanks to the chaotic movement of all the particles. It also somehow reminds me of Portal
Though if I had any advice, I think Mephisto could be centered a little better. She kind of merges with the canister beside her head and blends in with the BG a bit, but I still think it's admirable how many stocks you used and the piece in general
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Thanks you for taking the time to write such a complete comment.
I can actually see where you are coming from with your comment re Mephisto. However.... For the life of me I cannot remember where I have the original PSD file. So it would be quite an easy fix. But I can't change anything untill I find it.
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You're welcome, and I can understand that, my computer is getting pretty cluttered with Artworks, scraps and photos as well, so I hope you can find it
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I love it!!! Truly awesome piece of work. I'm totally blown away! Well done.
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Glad you like it thanks for the compliments
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Wow! this is so cool (I can't believe I just said that, but it's true). I can see all of the hard work you put into this, and boy it was worth it. (it's Storm, it's Storm! In all of her glory!!)
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This was an artwork that I really enjoyed working on. Yes cutting out every detail in the Artwork was a huge undertaking and I'm not even talking about lighting all the elements individually. All the color and shadow layers the painting but then again... When I look at the endresult I know for sure that not a single second was wasted during the creation of this artwork. Still one of my best (own opinion that is) and the fun thing is that even though I know the X men and the character of storm she was never meant to be Storm. Still it ended up looking a ridiculous lot like storm 
Glad you like it
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I could tell by the title that it was meant to be
Storm, but, like you said, it ended up looking like her, and that's NOT a bad thing.
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Hehehe you have a point there. Well I have some good ideas that I will definately have to execute to get rid of the horrible Gathering artwork that has been haunting my mind for the last weeks. More will follow.
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I know what you mean about ideas haunting your mind. I have a lot of ideas for certain stock I've been downloading lately (not sure if they'll look like I intended, but I do have the ideas) that I have to pull myself back from doing all of them one after the other so that I don't overrun deviants on my watch with my stuff, or overrun the groups I belong to. People will get sick of looking at me!
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This is really Good Job , Wonderful and the light is amazing
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Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you like it... This one took a very long time to put together.
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yes i do ^^ Yeah i can see the difficult , but you did it congratulation
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Thanks... It really givces you a lot of satisfaction when a piece like this is finished.
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actualyl sorta reminds me of Storm. anyway, she looks kinda short, like her body/legs should be a bit longer for her arms/head. the flying stuff looks good to me.
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Even though it looks like it there is no link with this artwork and the X-men. I simply wanted to make a sort of evil supervillain or somebody with superpowers. Mephisto was the name that stuck.
As for her body. It looks like that. From my memory I have not done much to the original stockphoto in that aspect. No heavy deforming or so. I think I leave it this way. I consider the artwork done but thanks for noticing though.
And thanks for the compliments as well.
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she just reminds me of storm, or storm's powers I should probably say, storm always controlled them.doesn't really mean she has much to do with her. I would just watch for that in future, you don't have to edit it to make the body longer or something. I would say it's done too. and it's no problem
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Thanks for the kind words really appreciated.
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Thanks for the kind compliments... Really appreciated.
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Thanks for the compliment. Really appreciated.
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Hey there, Fantastic piece!
Just letting you know it has been featured in our group #one-stop-stock 's news article here [link]
Thanks
Helly
xx
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Nice, Very Nice. Thanx for sharing the links to the stock. I am a beginner photoshop user and I like to make photomontages, so therefore I like to study other peoples work a lot and it helps if the stock is available. 
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Your work is featured in my journal here;
[link]
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Thanks a lot.. IΒ΄m glad you like it. It is a part of the artwork I spend a lot of time on
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Ola Claudia... Dank voor het compliment... wordt enorm gewaardeerd
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Wow that's a lot of stock you can diffidently tell she has power though, very nice piece and I like the lighting.
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Thanks for the kind words they are absolutely appreciated.
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That is awesome. I'm glad even a little part of it is mine. It's just perfect! The lighting, the colors, the theme, everything!
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Thanks for the kind words and yeah... often Stocks play a really small role in my artworks but therefore not less important. It is a bit like the tiny part that without it the clock does not work.
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Thanks for the kind words... they are absolutely appreciated... Now up to the next work full of ridiculous amounts of objects and stocks... or maybe IΒ΄m going to do something simple this time. I donΒ΄t know yet.
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Thank you for the kind words. It is indeed hard to keep everything realistic as soon as the number of stocks go up. I usually spend more time on it then. IΒ΄m glad you like it.
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That is an Amazing piece of work. Everything comes together so nicely.
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Ola Lisa
Thanks for the kind words. You have no clue how happy they make me
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