Gerardo Lin has entered the Master and Servant 2D.
Latest Update: Line Art: Mother and Son
The lineart at last! Don’t pay attention to the grid lines on the wall and the dress, cause they are there simply as guidelines for the patterns (fabrics and wallpaper). Not much else to say here. I’m open to any suggestions. Cya!
Hi everybody, no scketch yet, but here’s my concept. I don’t want to lose generality so the “narration” may be a little awkward.
Tipical begining: Boy meets girl.
Boy falls in love with girl. Mama finds out. Mama doesn’t like. Mama tells boy to kill girl. Castrated boy obeys.
Actually, it should begin like: Mama makes sacrifices for boy and becomes a manipulative bitch. Mama cripples boy emotionally throughout his childhood and gains complete control over him…
I want to create a shakespearean scene, baroque both visually and in content. Still have to decide the context and the approach, so that’s why there’s no scketch.
Hope you guys like it.
Here’s my first skecth. This is the “master” in my piece. She hates men, having had an abusive realtionship where she was constantly beaten. She was left with a male child from that relationship, and has devoted her entire life to cripple him emotionally; through guilt and her cunning habilities.
Now, he’s fallen in love, threatening all her “work”. But she’s skillful. She’ll brainwash him to kill his lover, thus breaking his spirit forever, and becoming his complete master.
Comments and crits welcomed!
Good concept and really nice sketch! I like the face and the eyes. They give you just the idea of the character you wanted.
Great to see you in the contest!
Good luck!
Hey brother:bounce: ,Glad to see you back here. I wish you the very best luck for this new challenge. You will always amaze me with your great originality.:wise:
Thanks everybody for dropping by and giving me your comments and support. I’m not at all happy with my scketch, but as everybody is working so fast, I felt I had to post something. Still need a lot of reference material to get the look right, specially her face :argh:. I’ll also add some sort of “hat”, cause her hair that way is really annoying me.
hi GaeasHerald,
i like your story! sounds dramatic… 
just a thought: what about making her hat/hair bigger - to make her look more dominant?
the big baroque costume is nice!
good luck for the contest!
Hi guys, I’m trying to firgure out the composition, but I can’t decide how to arrange the characters. Here are my initial ideas:
a) (From background to foreground) The mother sitting to the right with an expresion of disaproval (despite everything), then closer to the viewer, the guy on his knees, holding his dead lover and his tears mixing with her blood.
b) (From background to foreground) mother sitting to the right again, with a nasty grin on her face, by her side her son kneeling (maybe on all fours) and being patted on the head by the old bitch; he has blood on his finger. On the “uber-foreground” and slightly out of focus, his dead lover with the words “love you” written in blood on her chest.
c) (From background to foreground) To the left the guy standing up, holding the corpse, with his head facing down, casting shadows over the dagger and puddle of blood. Closer, the wrinkeld woman, barely lit, with a satisfied expresion.
Apart from this, there are some things I will include in the picture (whichever version i keep). First, the woman will be holding a silver chain, which will be an exact copy of the chain that his son will be wearing round his neck (pathetic attempt on my part to bring some symbolism into the picture 
). The coat of arms of the family will be embroidered in both mother and sons clothes (to show the relationship between them). Finally the knife will have the word “mum” engraved on the blade; that’s me using the “artistic license” a bit too much.
Please tell me which one you like, where you think I’ve gone too far, and what could be added/deleted. Thanks.
Hairstyle 1.0
She kinda looks like and odd mixture of the grinch with a sea turtle, but I hope that when colored she’ll look better. Trying to capture the nasty smile, but her wrinkles make it more difficult to get it right. Plus I’m not very skilled at drawing people. Good opportunity to learn then 
Very dramatic concept. The drawing of the face looks good; keep up the good work. Your story is kind of elaborate to convey in one frame. Maybe you could show the mother sitting on her big chair, with her son chained to it. To the side is the son’s lover, calling to him. He reaches out to her, but because he is chained to his mother, he cannot reach her.
Just a suggestion. Rock on!
Hi Gerardo.
It’s a good beginning truely. And you’ve chosen the difficult path. I like how her expression “looks” kind but there is a mean part in her gaze. It will be diificult to keep the balance between the good mother appearance and the mean intentions, i think. But a good challenge for your amazing painting skills.
Don’t worry about others working fast. IIRC, you were very late, last challenge but it didn’t prevent you from creating a great final art.
Wish you good luck ! :bounce:
Take care,
Remi.
This week only confirms that I am cursed… The wind knocked out my internet servers antenna, so I haven’t been able to post anything since tuesday. Plus nothings seems to go as planned in my classes. On the bright side, with all the accumulated stress, I’ve decided how to pull this off, and managed to draw the scene (part of my obssesive complulsive approach to life, hahaha). The scketches will be posted tomorrow.
Daadaa and cuppacam: Thanks for dropping by, colours will come eventually, I still haven’t got a clear idea of the color scheme, and that worries me, cause I generally have that planned even before the scketches :argh:.
Montclaris: My mentor, you’re back! You are absolutelly right about the expresion on her face, it’s gonna be tough. By the way, I’d like your opinion on this: Maximus, Dark Angel.
I value your insight immensely.
