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Lady's luck

2008-12-17T11:09:00.000-08:00

Just a quick drawing for Alex, who's an amazing cosplayer and friend to me, very supportive. She asked for her two favorite girls together. So why not? I've always been a fan of Trish.

Red Knight & White Lady

2008-12-16T08:28:00.000-08:00

Thank you gift for Croaky; whom I recieved a wonderful print of her Devil May Cry KILLBILL series. I love it so had to do something as a thank you for her. She's a huge fan of Dante/Lady pairing, so why not have them snuggle up, specially on this cold day?

Parents

2008-12-16T08:23:00.000-08:00

A small gift to Divine Star who has been like a big sister to me this year. I can't really thank her enough for all her support and contribution to me. This is just a small thank you of her favorite parents, Eva and Sparda (Who's sporting a dashing goatee, thanks to Jen for the inspiration).
Sparda wasn't really good with family, he ended up eating his; Eva's expression is that partially concerned (little does she know what her boys get up to when they're older)!

Card Crush

2008-12-16T03:46:00.000-08:00

Persona 4 artwork for Metanomaly, of Yosuke. Who's another huge Megaten fan and loves the new game. Metanomaly, previously known as Kidavi has been a huge influence and inspiration to me as an artist and a fellow gurl (plus Yosuke's cute).

The Souless Army

2008-12-16T02:45:00.001-08:00

Christmas gift art for Amei and Wedwrat. Huge fans of the Megaten series (which I'm slowly getting into thanks to their amazing contribution of artworks!) Plus they've been incredibly supportive of me so I think they deserve at least a thank you.

Cold Weather

2008-12-14T05:19:00.001-08:00

Needless to say I've been super busy these last few months to do anything related to a personal project of mine. University sure is tough! And I've been focusing all my waking hours on my projects and coursework on my illustration course. I'll be updating this spot a little more since I'm being a bit of a pansy with online art communities right now in organising and gererally keeping up to date with everyone and everything, not to mention the drama!

Lastest work collaboration with my darling twin in painchat. Linework and colours by me but just you wait til you see her colours, stunning.

Project: DEVIL

2008-09-06T14:22:00.000-07:00

Product: Collaboration fanworks poject
Media: Photoshop CS2, Painter X, SAI, Traditional, Mixed

Project DEVIL is a collaboration effort by the newly formed Team SAVIOR, that from BRITTLE GLASS and MELTFIRE. The project is consisting of a fanbook of illustrations and short comics based on the video game series Devil May Cry. Accompanying the artbook is a adult themed novel, doujinshi, postcards and posters.

The main objective of this collaborative project is to for three friends from three different corners of the world to get together and create something we're all a huge fan of. It's an ideal portfoilo piece and also we intend to try and make a profit from fellow fans through our Livejournal and Deviantart accounts.

We hope you'll look forward to our finished efforts!

Illustration: Solomon's Key

2008-07-09T12:00:00.000-07:00

Product: Fanart - Devil May Cry 2
Media: Photoshop CS2 & Painter X

Close ups:

Personal project piece of fanart from the Videogame Devil May Cry 2. Practise in lighting and skin painting. original piece was inspired by the Japanese artist Icula of Uranic High, a personal favorite artist of mine who uses a mix of Fresco and Digital work; a very dark macbre style she puts towards the videogame series in her artwork which suits really well in my opinion.

"To think that he could fall for such an obvisous trap was an understatement.
The Key of Solomon was something he learnt when he first started his demonic business; it was like flypaper:

“You get a demon in - they’re trapped. Powerless. It’s like a Satanic roach motel."

He could turn a trunk into a safe, a box into a coffin and a fridge into a prison with a few simple scribbles. Easy.
This time was different.

Sure, maybe he'd seen ones in blood, humans do that all the time; but blood of his own? Kin? No.

If it was to snag, he would trash and break the seal in no time, but....this time he allowed the punishment of stabbing, beating, burning, slashing and abuse. As his back colided with the seal and burned so strong the leather bubbled against his blistering skin he could feel his blood being gripped by the hundred year olds words and ripped out of his skin.

The glass shards flickered across his eyes briefy when his knees gave in and fell. More glass thrusted into him and against the wall, the sounds he thought were lost became familar and with dry lips he managed to crack a smile.

Their relationship was never pleasant, he wouldn't want it any other way.
Pain was his affection.

And it had been too long."

Whole image was based on Solomon's Key; a demonic stype spell of keeping hold of demons until seen fit. Since the main character,, Dante Sparda is a half-devil himself, I found it ironic that he got caught in one of these traps.

C&G: Life Drawing Final

2008-07-09T11:30:00.000-07:00

Product: City and Guilds final Life Drawing exam piece
Media:
Digital: Photoshop CS2/3 & PainterX
Traditional: MDF, Acrylic, marker pens, print making dye.

The background board before the prints (mounted on foamboard). The main point of this final piece was to base the work off an artist of any given choice. I went after the talented illustrator Francisco Perez. Whose street-art style made me do the traditional background (plus homage to him with the Pac-man ghost) and his digital colouring style for the actual portraits. I'm happy how it came out and I ended up with a distinction, along with the rest of my final project.

Animation & Installation; FMP

2008-07-02T14:08:00.000-07:00

Products: Final Major Project installation
Media: Printed material, animation.

My area

The top right is my City & Guilds Life drawing final.

I had to make a bar counter too, phew that was alot of work

Customised menus and comment book also made.

I also designed wine label concepts too.

Existing Conflict/Culture projects from earlier in the year.

Collage animation. Runs of loop with two songs from soundtrack of the French movie, Ameile. each piece of music representing the theme of the cafe.

Graphic Design; FMP Advertisement

2008-07-02T13:52:00.000-07:00

Products: Graphic design work for advertising
Media: Photoshop CS2

Posters to advertise and promote the fictional Cafe's (if they were to exist). Done in a modern style to Alphonse Mucha they were inspired after a trip to the Muesee de O'say where a Art Nouveau print exhibit was on display and seeing a few of Mucha's and also Orazi's "Blue Lady" really inspired me to do this style. Alot of research went into designing in terms of composition and also the presentation of the flowers used (for season and mood). They were printed at A1.

Front and back

Also, Business cards were printed out. Many Cafe's there had their own business cards and through my research, business cards are now back in fashion with stylish styles and presentation. I even went to the limit of hunting out exact locations where the Cafe's would be situated.

Illustration & Graphic Design; FMP graphic novels

2008-07-02T13:36:00.000-07:00

Products: Graphic novels for FMP
Media: Photoshop CS2&CS3 Ex, Painter X

Typograpghy done by me and glass/cup were practise life drawings to fill up the deadspace. The comics are bi-lingual, in English and also in French with the help of Pauline 'pip' who provided perfect French translation for both comics.
Both comics were created with rule of colour theory of contrasting colours represent moods and atmosphere. Cafe du Soliel, the Sun Cafe, is full of bright yellows, oranges and brows, to give the appearance of hot days and warm temperatures, not to mention positive attitudes.
While Cafe de Lune, the Moon Cafe, is the opposite; cool, contrasting colours of blues, greys and purples. This puts across the mood of soloum, negativity, and with the added rain, very miserable atmosphere that makes you wish you weren't there.

Concept: FMP Characters & Backgrounds

2008-07-02T13:06:00.001-07:00

Media: PhotoshopCS2
Products: Character and background concept for Final Major Project.

The 'Cafe du Soliel' cast; brightly coloured and elaborated outfits to portray the 'sunnier' side of serving, "Service with a sunny smile" After all. These were the concepts and guides in helping to produce the comics.

The 'Cafe de Lune' Cast had a much duller tonal range, with the exception of the lead character's streak of blonde hair (cresent moon). "Comfort in coldness" was the motto as I had plans to produce the cafe location alongside a back alley in the centre of Paris, where is is indeed, after my trip there, to be dank and quite grim.

The location of Cafe du Soliel is from my experiance around the North of Paris in Sacre-Couer. Where everything was on a slant and every building looked different from the other. Plus the weather was lovely up there and you could see everything from that height.

Cafe de Lune's location was changed from inside a small alley to outside along a road. Being in the centre of Paris, there was thousands of cafes, that all looked the same on the exterior; which was rather depressing. I kept this in my theme with dull colours and the only thing to stand out would be the signs, to suggest something more different inside.

The interiors was used as a guide to help me mark out what would be included in the comic. Sun Cafe was based heavily on a resturant I visited one evening which was incredibly spacious and so friendly. There were around 10-15 drawings of the layout plan and how it would look in draft form in the concept sketchbook.

Cafe's in the centre of Paris are very cramp; lots of tables and chairs pilled in with very little room to move about. I should know, I was stuck between two tables with four freinds, and the trouble we had to get out was impossible. The Lune Cafe's interior was to differ from this to be big inside and also a second floor were in plans to be a place to study, like a coffee lounge, with a huge cresent moon table. This sadly never came into the story and was left.

Concept: Deep sea fish

2008-07-02T11:01:00.000-07:00

Media: Photoshop CS2, Painter X
Product: Concept, lighting practise.

"The Skullfish is a hybdrid breed of the deepsea underwater dark Angler Fish. Using a self generated light that attracts smaller fish he gobbles them up with his over powered large extended jaw.
The term of naming him 'skull' comes from the strange jaw-set it has that resembles a humans muscle jaw structure, which allows it to extend more than normal to devour much larger prey."

Being a huge fan of the Angler fish; I adpated one with a more human-like skull to it - to make it seem more sinister. This comes with having join muscles of that from a human jaw so it can indeed open and close its mouth (to an extent as all angler fish have a trouble of closing completely because of their large teeth) with a bit more ease. This was also a texture and lighting practise, using Painter to give it more of a leathery skin.

Graphic & Illustration: Exhibition posters '07 & '08

2008-07-02T09:45:00.001-07:00

Products: Graphic Design advertising posters for New college Stamford Winter Exhibition 2007 and the End of year Foundation Arts Exhibition 2008.
Media: Lightbox, PhotoshopCS2, PainterX

Poster was designed and constructed in under four hours due to incredibly tight deadline. Sketched quickly and done over on a lightbox then imported into Painter and Photoshop for blending and textures of that from Street/ Graffitiart that I was studying at the current time. Overall, it wasn't going to be chosen due to myself not being present on the day and everyone else voting for themselves. However the Graphic degree students were brought in and mine was voted the highest due to creativity and originality. Aditional evening invitation flyer was also produced for the opening night.

Created for the New College Stamford End of Exhibition Foundation Art & Design section of the NCS Art show, a simple constructed poster with a hidden message only know to the Foundation students; (that there were some people who were submitting work with very little effort, hense the stickfigure drawing) An aditional flyer for the evening and also for the week were also produced. I volenteered to design and produce this; with the sucess of the previous one, there were no complaints.

♚FAQ♚

2008-07-02T06:35:00.000-07:00

This is the blog belongs to Gemma-Nicole D.S. and hosts as my online public portfolio for the time being.

Experiance:
Traditional and digital art in Illustration and Graphic Design. I've worked on several commerical projects including concept work for a GP2X game system, comic stips and advertising; for stores and exhibitions.

Use of work:
None of the work here may be used for commerical and non-commerical profit/usage. Any art wishing to be used for non-commerial use, must be in writing to gem_sama@hotmail.com.

More information to come later.