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Vineris — Aztec Sacrifice
Published: 2008-09-12 04:06:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 6793; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 2819
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My submission to ConceptArt's Character of the Week, coloured up (I could only finish the grayscale version on time). The concept was a child sacrifice to Tlaloc, the Aztec god of rain.I'm still not used to painting colour over grayscale. Hopefully I'll get better at it.
Pardon the creepy subject matter.
Here's a painting progression:
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It was an honor to be sacrificed, his expression isn't accurate.
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Good thought, but the sacrifices to Tlaloc were children who were made to cry, because it was thought that their tears would bring rain.
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besides, they believed that the children become into tlaloques, or tlaloc's helpers, that ones that break the clouds to bring rain down... nice piece
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Tlaloc eh?
Doesn't stop me from feeling proud to decend from an Aztec, *looks at my arm*
Noes, hairy arm, facial hair, there also spaniard genes on me.
Man I wish I could travel back in history and see what really happened.
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Yeah, it would be interesting to see what really happened!
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Wow thats great. The colors...lighting..focus...they are great and the scene is simple yet very interesting.
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Yay! Thank you very much!
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I love this. It's sad, morbid, and weirdly funny, too, kind of Buster Keaton sad-funny.
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The colours are very vibrant for something you did first in greyscale! It's a very nice image. (: Simple, but effective.
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Thanks! I didn't manage to get this coloured up by the deadline, so I had plenty of time to experiment afterwards. I can't even remember half the weird layers I put on top of this thing to get the colours looking reasonable.
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Heh, well, it worked. XD It's very expressive, too. Eye-catching.
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I like creepy subject matters!
The wide-eyed facial expression of shock and terror is very good. Nice job.
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i really love the eyes! do you have to like colour on a multiply layer on the greyscale or something to do that?
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Thanks! Yeah, you make some new layers and set them to "overlay" and "colour" instead of multiply. Actually, here's a pretty good tutorial if you're interested:
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aw thanks a bunch! im sure this will help
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Thanks! I wasn't sure about them.
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