I am Shodan

"The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species should only be a footnote to my magnificence."
- Shodan

Here we have one of the most memorable scenes from the first person shooter/role playing game System Shock 2, in where our favourite evil artificial intelligence Shodan reveals herself to the player. Out of context this might not make much sense, but if you, like me, have played both games then you should know what I'm talking about.
There will also be a painted version. Right now I got another digital painting to finish and another picture to ink. Plenty to do! So expect more.

System Shock 2 © Irrational Games and Looking glass studios

Sleep Dealer

Fan made poster illustrating the mexican/american sci-fi movie Sleep Dealer, which I also wrote down my thoughts on here for the curious:
http://www.ign.com/blogs/harkaiden

Fallen angel

All right, time for an update don't you think? Been a long time, since I've been taking my time to practice a lot and learn new things, when I'm not busy with other things.

Now this piece I made by request from a friend of mine.
Had a lot of fun making this as I got to try a bunch of new things out and learn a great deal.
Hope you'll like it as much as I do!

I used a reference picture when creating this picture and I recommend taking a look at it, as it is quite amazing:

http://s509.photobucket.com/albums/s334/rosetatoo_2008/Angels%20and%20Fallen%20Angels/?action=view&current=420x570Fantasyart-1.jpg&newest=1

Penumbra

"You know... Clarence... that's not a bad handle - I am something of a guardian angel."
- Clarence

Not too long ago I finished Penumbra Overture and Penumbra Black Plague. I did try out the expansion - Reqiuem - as well, but grew tired of it when I found out there was only puzzles in it and almost no suspense or atmosphere or even much story to it.
                                             (Spoiler alert)
However Overture and Black Plague are great games that chilled me to the bone, almost as well as Amnesia did, much thanks to the great atmosphere and involving gameplay. There were a lot of memorable moments in both games, but the one that stands out the most has to be in Black Plague, where you as the player reaches and enters the research room where the apparant only survivor and your only friend -Amabel Swanson- is located. The protagonist has himself gotten infected and therefore recieved a voice in his head calling itself Clarence, being the manifestation of the virus.
Inside the research room you get locked inside with one of the infected personnel and you have to act fast. You lure your enemy under a crane carrying a box and drops it onto him. Afterwards you come to your senses and as it turns out you were only hallucinating, because of Clarence, and on the floor next to the box lies Amabel, dead by your own hand.
This was quite a shocking part and this was the part where I knew this was one of the scariest games I have ever played.

Penumbra © Frictional Games

Moon Sorceress

Here's something different from what I usually make.

The history behind this picture is that it was made as a request from a friend of mine. Her instructions were to create a picture with her in mind, like creating a character based on her basically. And this is how it finally turned out.

For this piece I took the opportunity to practice with ink and brushes so this one is traditionally made, only with slight adjustments in Photoshop. Gotta get back to the brushes soon, it's a lot of fun!

Cyberlady

So here we are, new blogger kinda sort of and still learning Blogger so the page will look as good as possible. And now for this first post I thought it'd be apropriate to show the "Cyberlady" here.

Now this picture I created back in 2010. I started off with scetching the face while on a train. I had an idea, but half of the work was mostly for passing time on the trip. However as I scetched other ideas came to mind, like "what if she was an android or something like that?", and after that there came the cables for hair, circuits and other fun parts in the head and I played with the concept back and forth during digital painting. Lastly I applied the cybernetic prosthesis holding up the head and there we go. Done. Far from perfect, but I think I did pretty good.