Secret Agent Entry: Larissa Kuznetsova

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While making this artwork, my sources of inspiration were: at first, the main artwork from the challenge's forum, Escape from NeonCity; at second, so-called epoque of spies and secret agents (1920-es) with it's gloomy atmosphere which, most probably, never existed in reality, but is always a huge source of creative ideas for artists; at third, artworks of artists of that very so-called epoque of spies, especially Rene Magritt's ones, and such styles like symbolism and surrealism, which purpose is not to copy reality, but to show mood and style; and, at fourth, an old version of Wolfstein computer game, the walls there look a bit like the walls on my background. And it's the only computer game I've ever went through - from the beginning to the end ;)
And onr more permanent source of my inspiration is anime/manga style. In this very artwork I didn't try to copy it in details, but tribute to anime/manga is recognizable for sure.

But, telling the truth, every good and professional secret agent must have a huge sence of humor, that's why it presents in my artwork also, and on the wall there is a spy version of CGSociety abbreviation - Crime General Society ;)

It reminds me a quotation from Disney's Chip'n'Dale series: "- You could not have kissed him. - My God, isn't this what the secret agents do?" ;))

It seems like every artist taking part in this challenge plays a secret agent's game a bit: we all visit each other's threads to know more about the artworks, and creating our own artworks we put ourselves in our own secret agent's world to know more about it and its' characters - that's why CGSociety turns into Crime General Society in my artwork ;)) It seems a kind of a suitable joke for me...

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My secret agents are the ghosts, walking on the imaginary spies city's streets. Telling the truth, they are teenagers only, almost children, moreover, they are not human beings at all, they're a kind of fairy creatures: their ears, tails and anathomy prove this. But even such creatures like playing secret agents game...

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Here is a rough scan of the characters' sketch. Sorry for the quality, my equipment is really not the best.
For this my artwork I used Photoshop, Wacom Bamboo One A6, some brushes - for girl's lips, for eyebrows and for additional lashes also, stars and city brushes for the background and some textures - for houses, walls and pavement on the background. The characters' draft is about 150 layers in psd format, and background is about 80 layers. So, these are some technical details.

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So, here are the characters painted, without background. Their clothes and anathomy looks more clear here than on the pictures with the background, where I used some effects for them.

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So, here are the characters' profiles. They are written by someone who is watching over them...

The boy's profile:

Nickname: Fluff.
Age: 14.
Attractive traits: unexperienced and not versed.
Skills: camouflage and retreat expert.
Special trait: supersticious.

The girl's profile:

Nickname: Cookie.
Age: 16.
Attractive traits: always finishes beginnings.
Skills: cooks spy-pies with surprises inside (dantists admire her!)
Special trait: breaks any heart (sometimes with hammer).

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Software: Photoshop

Shadowing was always a part of their not long, but very mysterious life - as far as they remembered. Different people watched over them for hours in the dark ruins of entangled in it's own legends city, went to meet them with photocameras and a kind of a strange weapon, or just ran away from them, almost swooning away from fear.
They've got used to it. They tried to be lost in a crowd. He disguised, wearing girls' dresses, she - wearing men's suits. But it seemed like they were always recognizable. They had to mix with the shadows silently and go away through the cracks of the city's walls. He has become supersticious: ran away from black cats and never set on tables' corners. She has become inventive, learning the spies' tricks and baking the files in pies in case they are caught. She wrote all the useful information on her brother's dagger ribbons - nobody will find it there, and he ate her pies, being sure that files in them mean a kind of a lucky bean.
They were extremely different - but they couldn't live without each other, because how could two normal ghosts, playing secter agents' game, live in this insane world of alive people?..
They really had a purpose - to become the members of Crime General Society. They saw this inscription once, and it was like a magnet, attracting them and making them do what they do. Telling the truth, they didn't know exactly what does this inscription mean - it just looked great, but they did their best to prepare themselves for the secret agents' life, training in making of imaginery tasks and inventing their future nicknames...

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Software: Photoshop

While making this artwork, my sources of inspiration were: at first, the main artwork from the challenge's forum, Escape from NeonCity; at second, so-called epoque of spies and secret agents (1920-es) with it's gloomy atmosphere which, most probably, never existed in reality, but is always a huge source of creative ideas for artists; at third, artworks of artists of that very so-called epoque of spies, especially Rene Magritt's ones, and such styles like symbolism and surrealism, which purpose is not to copy reality, but to show mood and style; and, at fourth, an old version of Wolfstein computer game, the walls there look a bit like the walls on my background. And it's the only computer game I've ever went through - from the beginning to the end ;)
And onr more permanent source of my inspiration is anime/manga style. In this very artwork I didn't try to copy it in details, but tribute to anime/manga is recognizable for sure.
But, telling the truth, every good and professional secret agent must have a huge sence of humor, that's why it presents in my artwork also, and on the wall there is a spy version of CGSociety abbreviation - Crime General Society ;)
It reminds me a quotation from Disney's Chip'n'Dale series: "- You could not have kissed him. - My God, isn't this what the secret agents do?" ;))

It seems like every artist taking part in this challenge plays a secret agent's game a bit: we all visit each other's threads to know more about the artworks, and creating our own artworks we put ourselves in our own secret agent's world to know more about it and its' characters - that's why CGSociety turns into Crime General Society in my artwork ;)) It seems a kind of a suitable joke for me...

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http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/24/18754/18754_1249597018_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/24/18754/18754_1249597018_medium.jpg)

Software: Photoshop

So, here are the characters' profiles. They are written by someone who is watching over them...

The boy's profile:

Nickname: Fluff.
Age: 14.
Attractive traits: unexperienced and not versed.
Skills: camouflage and retreat expert.
Special trait: supersticious.

The girl's profile:

Nickname: Cookie.
Age: 16.
Attractive traits: always finishes beginnings.
Skills: cooks spy-pies with surprises inside (dantists admire her!)
Special trait: breaks any heart (sometimes with hammer).

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http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/24/18754/18754_1249597147_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/24/18754/18754_1249597147_medium.jpg)

Software: Photoshop

My secret agents are the ghosts, walking on the imaginary spies city's streets. Telling the truth, they are teenagers only, almost children, moreover, they are not human beings at all, they're a kind of fairy creatures: their ears, tails and anathomy prove this. But even such creatures like playing secret agents game...

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http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/24/18754/18754_1249597305_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/24/18754/18754_1249597305_medium.jpg)

Software: Photoshop

Here is a rough scan of the characters' sketch. Sorry for the quality, my equipment is really not the best.
For this my artwork I used Photoshop, Wacom Bamboo, some brushes - for girl's lips, for eyebrows and for additional lashes also, and some textures - for houses, walls and pavement on the background. The characters' draft is about 150 layers in psd format, and background is about 65 layers. So, these are some technical details.

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http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/24/18754/18754_1249597398_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/24/18754/18754_1249597398_medium.jpg)

Software: Photoshop

So, here are the characters painted.

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http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/24/18754/18754_1249597830_medium.jpg (http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/24/18754/18754_1249597830_medium.jpg)

Shadowing was always a part of their not long, but very mysterious life - as far as they remembered. Different people watched over them for hours in the dark ruins of entangled in it's own legends city, went to meet them with photocameras and a kind of a strange weapon, or just ran away from them, almost swooning away from fear.
They've got used to it. They tried to be lost in a crowd. He disguised, wearing girls' dresses, she - wearing men's suits. But it seemed like they were always recognizable. They had to mix with the shadows silently and go away through the cracks of the city's walls. He has become supersticious: ran away from black cats and never set on tables' corners. She has become inventive, learning the spies' tricks and baking the files in pies in case they are caught. She wrote all the useful information on her brother's dagger ribbons - nobody will find it there, and he ate her pies, being sure that files in them mean a kind of a lucky bean.
They were extremely different - but they couldn't live without each other, because how could two normal ghosts, playing secter agents' game, live in this insane world of alive people?..
They really had a purpose - to become the members of Crime General Society. They saw this inscription once, and it was like a magnet, attracting them and making them do what they do. Telling the truth, they didn't know exactly what does this inscription mean - it just looked great, but they did their best to prepare themselves for the secret agents' life, training in making of imaginery tasks and inventing their future nicknames...

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Well, telling the truth, I didn't want to hold my artwork till the last challenge's days, but there were some problems with the Internet connection, so I just couldn't join the challenge - that's why it's happened so - I joined the challenge and put here all my pics in one day... It's just because of some technical problems. :argh:

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