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Cyberpepper

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This is my little tribute to Stanley Lau´s (http://artgerm.deviantart.com) pepper character and also contribution to http://PepperProject.deviantart.com My work was featured in the Pepper project art book, which can be purchased here: http://www.imaginaryfs.com/shop/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=5 My idea was inspired by Klimt and Brom, but what i wanted to achieve was an art-nouveau styled cyberspace fantasy - in which pepper feels and act like a pin-up queen. close-up view recommended, have a look here: http://fantasio.deviantart.com/art/cyber-pepper-closeup-77124358?q=&qo=

Motherplant

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Another piece for the transgenetic boy-and girls -group. A digital painting based on a reference image from Stefan Soell, used with permission.

Call of Cthulhu

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Inspired by H.P.Lovecraft, this is my rendition of a seductive Cthulhu empress. Also this is a part of another series i´m working on since a few years, called "transgenetic metahuman" Illustrations of human species that is crossed with either plants, animals, or insects to survive on another planet. Call it the next step of evolution. Reference used from my own of the recent trip to Vienna Pose inspired and referenced from http://menschenmaterial.deviantart.com/art/1-69016440

Explant

The Gods Must Be Crazy

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This is a tribute / collaboration to one of my favorite artists, if you havn´t recognized the creature by now, its a recent work from http://pascalblanche.deviantart.com -> http://goo.gl/TMjdI I have to say I´m a fan of his great creature -designs for a good decade now! On facebook he posted some WIP pictures directly from within zbrush the other day, which presented the rough base for my creation, which I´d like to share with permission from Pascal. With the coloring I went for another tribute to a master of 3d illustration, named Steven Stahlberg. The inspiration for the idea was the eighties movie "the gods must be crazy" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/ where a traveling Bushman encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects. I liked the idea of having a Shaman or Oracle worshiping modern products as something magic, which is similar to how children perceive our technological environments. This should also make us think about how dull we are to our everyday technology and appreciate our achievements a little more. Or to say it with the words of the blue-red spider: "with great powers comes great responsibility."

Fata Medusa 2011

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Welcome to the realm of the Gorgon, this is where reality melts away and your nightmares become real... This one is a collaboration for an exhibition in Thessaloniki and Athens in 2012 with http://luez2.deviantart.com - http://www.louiskonstantinou.com and http://katkill.deviantart.com as model. Additional stock is used from http://madetobeunique.deviantart.com for the 3d- model snakes. Hopefully time allows for more collaborations of this kind. Its real fun to have such an opportunity to create a story around an existing image. More info on the exhibition as soon as I get them. Print will be available later here: http://fav.me/d4cjal5

Android legacy

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Another collaboration with photographer Louis Konstantinou for an exhibition project in Greece 2012 and another Fantasio girl! Inspired by the -Amalgamate- work of Michael Oswald http://michaelo.deviantart.com and the movie Tron legacy, I found the pose of the model Gianna perfectly fitting to illustrate some kind of augmented reality in a Tron -colored - environment. I always wanted to do some Android, Fembot, Gyndroid or whatever-they-are-called-painting so here it is;-) The title Android Legacy contains some subject to think about as also the google-screen she seems to be typing on: The electronical powers that surrounds are useful and lead to an advanced lifestyle, but makes us also slaves to the technology. This image does pretty much show that we can be sophisticated and perfect as we want to, but depending on a search engine because we forget so much. Personally I think the internet and technology is a useful addition to our lives (if we have one) but its important to NOT be its slave ! And no: its NOT Lady Gaga, please read the credits! Technique digital painting / Photoshop CS5 / 20 hrs. Credits: Photography by Louis Konstantinou: http://louiskonstantinou.com Model: Gianna Vlachou Scrap sheet of the general process here: Wallpaper here: http://fav.me/d4ffai0

Neko the catwoman

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Another Fantasio-Girl, references used for this digital painting with the help of Poser, our cats and inspiration from various Neko cosplay. My aim was to create a hyper realistic Neko ^.^ Close ups here:

Bladerunner

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Its a mix between Sculpture (Microscope, CD-player, DC-adapter, sewing-machine parts, findings, clay, etc) overpainted with physical airbrush in Gold / Bronze, photographed and arranged around the exisiting imagery, used with permission from Istockphoto (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-3736351-beauty.php). The background and gear is from my own stock. Actually this was done for the cover competition at "Advanced Photoshop Magazine", made runner-up amongst 9 others in a following issue feature and was cover of French "Advanced Creation Magazine". Print available here: http://www.deviantart.com/print/24476001/?

The mindsight wallpaper

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This is a personal wallpaper version of a cover work I made for the band "The Mindsight" http://themindsight.com Yes sometimes I´m so completely insane to put a little work on top to create a nice giveaway. Usually this is a nice way to gain traffic to the musicians website if they host the 1920x1200px version, I don´t know if they´ll put it up someday, if so I´ll add the link. Maybe some decent interest in a high resolution wallpaper can make them do it;-)

Best Friends

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Best Friends forever - A girl and her tentaculous friend. This was another study based on a reference photograph (licensed from istockphoto) and in a way a tribute to my friend Serge Birault, whose best friends are also tentacles (what a coincidence:) Actually I wanted to build the tentacle with Sculptris but ended up realizng that it is easier done painting directly in PS. Had a fun time painting this, the tentacle is painted from scratch, the lighting and lower part of the girl is completely constructed upon the base and painted all over matching the realistic / comic style painting look. Print available: http://www.deviantart.com/print/29044778/?

Vampira Morgana

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A digital painting of the beautiful Lady Morgana http://threnodyinvelvet.com/, tried out a new stylized approach in digital painting with this one, reduced and yet bold. Photoshop CS6, 6 hours, Wacom Cintiq. Find some steps of the development on my tumblr-sketchbook here: http://fantasio.tumblr.com/tagged/morgana

Android Legacy :: Messenger II

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If you can vote for my "infected-by-art" entry, this would be highly appreciated: https://www.infectedbyart.com/entries/248 Since there was a decent demand for a tutorial on how to achieve the tron / android look : I did a 6 page tutorial for the German Advanced Photoshop magazine (now "bildbearbeiter") http://www.der-bildbearbeiter.de/2012/03/der-bildbearbeiter-042012-ist-da/ Interesting for German readers only. The complete workshop covers how to create the tubes with the pen tool and how to achieve cyborg-skin-look. I have put a little overview / walkthrough on my blog here: http://fantasiox.blogspot.de/2012/04/android-legacy-look-walkthrough.html All image credits are mentioned and used with permission, the model is courtesy of http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/ Hope you like and I hope it is a helpful article. cheers, f

Dragonwhisperer II: Daenerys

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A personal work inspired by Game of thrones and the work of Andre De Freitas. I don´t wanted to reproduce what everyone else was drawing, this is also no fanart, just my very personal interpretation. In terms of style I tried something different with this piece, more graphical, more illustration style. Learned a lot. Took around 7 hours to finish. Photoshop CS6, Wacom Cintiq, Reference for the model used with permission: sergeyp/123RFStock Dragons: http://elevit-stock.deviantart.com/

Spirit of the crow

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In ancient mythology the crow is the guardian of ceremonial magic and healing. Crows are the bringer of messages from the spiritual world, which otherwise would have to dwell beyond the realms of time and space."One who has the honor of having a Crow fly by her side, is an individual who has the Role of carrying souls lost in pain, denial, bitterness or ill intent, into the light of forgiveness and self-awareness." *** Another collaborative work for my "Fantasio -girls" portfolio. Model is the beautiful Seffana: Seffana http://seffana.net Reference Photograph from Pascal Abadie: http://devabadie-photo.deviantart.com Brushes and painting technique acquired from http://adonihs.deviantart.com Some Ornaments and stock resources i used for reference: http://MouritsaDA-Stock.deviantart.com, http://IanGray.deviantart.com, http://sergeypoluse.deviantart.com The reference Photo from the model was the inspiration to this, while the main intention was to get close to my previous "wings of steel" kind of work Inspired by Michael Parkes and some Art Nouveau; Which has set a new landmark for me combining graphical and flat surfaces and also 3 dimensional / Photomanipulation and digital painting to create a composition. My main focus lies in the composition and flow of the image, the story with the crows has developed around this piece as a happy accident while working on it and it allowed a really uncommon pose and setting.

Corpus Delicti

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The full image of corpus Delicti, a personal work with a personal story. Inspired by Max Sauco and Joel Peter Witkin. With this image I finally tried to incorporate the 3d-modelling-technique (the head was done in Sculptris and rendered in Cheetah 3d) with photo manipulation and digital painting techniques. The hypothetical play with the title should provoke some thoughts about "what" is the "piece of evidence" in the image, or better said if there was a crime, who´s the delinquent? I wish you a nice time to find that out;) P.S. that is not chalk on the floor ;) Close up here: http://fantasio.deviantart.com/art/Corpus-Delicti-Teaser-crop-314293111 Print available and bigger image for details here: http://fantasio.deviantart.com/art/Corpus-Delicti-314443178 Stock credits: Model: Istockphoto - Cevdet Gokhan Palas Room: http://AnneWillems.deviantart.com Present: http://ravenarcana.deviantart.com Lightbulb http://doesnotexist.deviantart.com & personal stock and brushes

Temperance XIV

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A new Project in progress, themed with the meaningful imagery of Tarot cards. The selection is rather based on my favorite cards than on chronlogical order as I don´t know if there is even time enough to finish them at all. The main motivation for this was that I always wanted to do my own Tarot, just for the fun of it, I love the topic - I´m not a firm beliver tho - but never found a suitable style to manage the many symbols and still keep it coherent...until now Now I found something, obviously inspired by the work of "Andrew Jones" and "Nekro", however, my aim is to take this inspiration to another level, and to learn something new out of it. Which I have done with this piece yet, didn´t knew Mandelbulber can be so much fun. Some background info: Programs used: Krita 2.7, Photoshop CS6, Groboto, Mandelbulb 3D Time spent: Around 25 hours Stock credits: http://frostbo.deviantart.com http://ybsilon-stock.deviantart.com http://diza-74.deviantart.com http://camelfobia.deviantart.com http://haustriaangloalliance.deviantart.com http://www.mediamilitia.com W.I.P. Screenshots: http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/267/a/e/xiv_temperance_screenshot_w_i_p_1_by_fantasio-d6nnrdj.jpg http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/267/a/5/xiv_temperance_screenshot_w_i_p_2_by_fantasio-d6nnrk3.jpg Asterion-Tarot portfolio: http://asterion-tarot.darkfolio.com/

Corpus Delicti / Disquision2

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"In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity."Quote by Annie Besant A new personal work starting out as an exercise but become so fascinating to work on. this is a homage to artists Max Sauco and Nekro, but also Olivia and Brom. It wasn´t quite clear which direction to go because in the first initial composings the headgear and wings were bronze-colored so I wanted to add afollow-up work on my piece disquisition , like that one: However, in the middle of working this out, I found a solution on how to adjust levels of different ornamental elements in a way that they look like one thing, exactly like Nekro does it, the look wasn´t anymore that bright I have intended it to be like in the disquisition piece so I had to come up with either a new idea for a series or add it to the Corpus Delicti: Actually I ended up using several elements plus some new one and then found that one meaning of the word "disquisition" already meant " investigation", so it came naturally that this piece has to be the solution of both, a story of a crime and investigation. Hence the quote on top of the description. But I leave it up to you to make up a story about which is which, have fun;) Stats: It took around 35 hours to complete, Photoshop CS6, Wacom Intuos 4 & Wacom Cintiq 13HD. Digital painting, Matte Painting, composting, Fractal rendering, 3d rendering. W.I.P. capture: Credits: Model reference courtesy of http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com Cat by http://NickiStock.deviantart.com Background done in Apophysis and Pixelmator Brushes and stock of my own archive.

Frozen teardrops

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Velvet dreams and plutonium tears... sculpture and digital postwork. This started as a sculpture head that should fit onto a plaster -body, hold by hands coming out of a bust. after years of *don´tknowwhattodowhithishead* i decided to rework the complete interieur of a "pearl" guitar amp ( i was been told its rare to find such an exteme wonderful exemplary now) to finally fit the head into it. If one would put the two cables of her eye again back on a speaker, its still possible to make music with this amp, but is there someone who wants to do this? Ok, what i´ve done digitally to it, is just opning the eye, the whole creation can be better seen here: [http://fantasio.deviantart.com/art/Stillife-2005-deus-ex-machina-23697666] or here: [http://fantasio.deviantart.com/art/Stillife-2005-part1-20785132] also the proof, that its entirely my creation: [http://fantasio.deviantart.com/art/Stillife-2005-part3-21660672] now available as a big print! http://www.deviantart.com/print/4623467/?

Heavy metal thunder / eBook cover

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Another book cover I painted for the author Kyle Stiff, whose Sci-Fi novel is somewhat different than the usual book, it is kind of a "choose your own adventure"-styled book. Had a lot fun painting this, as it was a welcome change and challenge. Visit the Amazon page for more info: http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Metal-Thunder-ebook/dp/B005HFHLFU Btw. there are lots of details and stuff, due to this I made a progress "walkthrough" from sketch to final painting - available for free on my blog here: http://fantasiox.blogspot.com/2012/03/heavy-metal-thunder-book-cover-painting.html Please check it out for Sci-Fi character rendering galore! No references harmed in this painting! This painting was done using Photoshop CS5 and an intuos 4 tablet, took effectively 25 hours to complete -chunked down into several weeks. C&C´s welcome!
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