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red-monkey — Inferno: Charon
Published: 2005-09-15 10:26:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 6104; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 338
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Guardian of the first circle, Charon, who is the boatsman for this swampy kind of river and carries the souls of the dead across into hell.Commisioned piece for Natas Network based on Infereno, a 13th century book by Dante.
As you can see I'm not so good with colors, so I could use all the crits you guys can give me! Fire away!
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he seems so powerfull, so strong
isn't Cerberos the guardian, and Charon the boatsman?
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In Greek mythology, yea, Cerberus is a guardian and Charon is a boatsman. Dante (the writer of Inferno) used them both in his discriptions of Hell which he wrote in the 13th century. I got comissioned to draw all the circles of hell and its guardians a year back or something, but my client ran out of money -_-
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Have you (by any chance) read In the hand of Dante by Nick Toches? If not, go look for it, it's quite a book. It thought me a lot, not in the least how to get hyporcrites of my back and proper english.
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I get so bloody confused when it comes to the christian mythology. Ya know there are too many demons named charan, charin, and charun! Which Chasshole is which?! Boatman, Centaur, and demon lord? Aghh! Anyway, for the boat man, I like it, the face is a lil scewy but the stylistic treatment of the hair is nice. Now as for Dante, they came up with a classic "continuous narritive" (comic of the old days) which goes from the awakening all the way through hell to purgatory. I'm sry, I forgot the artists name.
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Wooohooo! Thank yooouuuu!!!
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Ik vind het een mooi getekend en gekleurd werk. Mysterieuze en donkere atmosfeer van de achtergrond is erg goed gedaan. Het witte haar valt erg op maar het ziet er wel een beetje plat uit doordat er geen schaduw in zit. Vooral in zo'n donkere omgeving mis ik de schaduw in het haar best wel. Voor de rest vind ik het erg goed!
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Wow, the finished piece is really something else, man. It gives off a real "death" kind of vibe. Seeing as I only work in black and white, I have no helpful coloring hints for you, so instead I shall give you two enthusiastic thumbs up and be on my way.
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Woohoo! Thanks! Very, very much appreciated! I'm pretty sick right now, so nice comments rock my day!
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Ik heb geloof ik niet eerder iets gezien wat qua stijl op deze manier van kleuren lijkt, maar da's alleen maar positief
Als er al iets is wat ik zou (proberen) te verbeteren, dan is 't zijn haar; dat kan wel wat lichtgrijs voor highlights gebruiken IMO.
Desalnietemin, puik werk
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Dude, I love the colouring! !!!! And I really like the sublte linework of the water that you see through the fog, nice!
I don't really feel the hair but it works for you so that's cool.
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man, A-MA-ZING
the backgorunds colors are perfect!! and the design of the boatsman too!! to favs
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Thanks for the fav and your kind words man!
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great atmosphere ... your light source on him is wierd tho ... i dunno exactly where the this light is coming from. I mean we are in fog with is very reflective ... So i think the lighting sould corrospond to the only real lightsource in the picture ... fallow me ?
it seems u colored the guy and stuck a bg in there
if u switched up the lighting so its moreso coming from that one light on the boat. i think it would be alot more sucessful
but dude it still looks great ...
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"it seems u colored the guy and stuck a bg in there"
Yup, I colored Charon first, a week or two ago, then I didn't know what to do with the pic beyond that, like I said, i'm not that good with colors, changed the background and the rest of his surroundings a lot until it came to this. I kinda felt Charon had to be the focus of the pic, so I left him like this. But yea, I think you're right about the lighting on him, I'll try to change that.
Thanks!
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Stop the color nonsence. It looks damp and eerie. I love this. The hair almost radiates.
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No, I won't stop! Cuz well... I really DO need to learn more, but thanks man! Much appreciated
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I like it! Nice mood u got going on. But the white hair springs out of the pic really spooky and the coloring is good fits the piece well
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too bloody beautifull..
*sigh*
only one little thing that's less super fantastic great.. the hair.. maybe it needs shadows or some noise.. it's too smooth I think, but that's just me.
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I really wanted his hair to be extremely white, you know, cuz that's how Dante discribes him, well, he mentions his really white hair, so there, dunno, works for me.
Nadia, you're such a fangirl 
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its a pretty solid peice, the colours are fine, dark and moody. I jsut bought The INferno on Amazon after seeing your drawing adn tehn teh NEXT day seeing a friend at college reading it, i thought "i want in on this"
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Heheh, you're in for some great stuff man, Dante was really, REALLY ahead of his time, still, it's kinda weird to read a book written in the time when people still thought the earth was flat
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Nope, read this book because I had to for these illustrations, plaesantly surprised, but yea, I heard a lot of good things about Faust.
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im curious to read Faust too, read that?
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