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This illustration is my first participation for an awesome contest on french website 3dvf.com.
The subject: "Jules Verne's Universes".

This artwork was inspired by the "20 000 Leagues Under the Sea" novel and represents my vision of Captain Nemo and his loneliness. I wanted to show this 2 faces character. A charismatic man, cryptic, cultivated and passionate by sciences, music and arts. But a man contained on itself. That's why I wanted his reflect to appear different of what he seems to be.


Photoshop CS3, Wacom Intuos 3 A5 tablet, and long, long, too long hours.

I could never imagine doing that! It's the first time i'm doing an artwork like this.

Sorry for my bad english.
All comments & critics are welcome.


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Cette illustration est le fruit de ma première participation à un concours sur le site 3dvf.com; "les Univers de Jules Verne". Tout un programme.

J'ai choisi de partir sur le thème de "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers". Ce qui m'avait le plus marqué quand je l'avais lu, c'était la solitude du capitaine Nemo. Un homme charismatique et énigmatique, cultivé et passionné de sciences, de musique, d'arts mais qui reste renfermé sur lui-même.

Alors plutôt que de mettre en image l'univers sous-marin du roman je voulais arriver à dé;peindre "le monde de Nemo" au travers des traits de ce personnage meurtri, froid et solitaire, qui veut disparaitre de "la surface" pour fuir la haine et l'horreur dont les hommes sont capables.

J'ai voulu mettre en avant ces deux dimensions du personnage, d'un côté un être difficile à cerner, froid, autoritaire et de l'autre le côté plus humain et triste qu'il cache et qu'il ne peut parfois plus contrôlé. L'idée était de mettre cet homme face à lui-même, à son passé et à ses vieux démons qu'il semble fuir et auxquels il tente d'échapper en se réfugiant dans un monde sous-marin.

Tout çà n'étant que mon interprétation mais je voulais donner un visage à cet homme mystérieux.


Comme d'hab: Photoshop CS3, tablette Wacom Intuos 3 A5 et de trop nombreuses heures.

Les commentaires et les critiques sont les bienvenus.

PS: Je vous invite également à aller voir les illustrations des autres participants; il y avait un sacré niveau.

Comments


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:iconseppomeier:
Awesome! Great painting. :+fav:

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I like it .RAW!
:iconjaclynhyde:
Oooo, very atmospheric.
:iconloshampos:
The art...the colors... Amazing!

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:iconmansairakuhikaru:
My nickname is Nemorivarex, and YES, I love Captain Nemo, and I love your picture too !!!

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:iconlizolb:
wow... nice work. Love the collors !!! .D
:iconbexkex92:
This is so emotional. In the novel "20 000 leagues under the sea" Nemo is always kind of acting, showig a false face towards the others (at least the three main characters), but I think he's really a very sad man (He has some breakdowns in the book too). This picture illustrates it really good.

Sorry for bad comment, but I hope you understand how I meant.
Nemo is a very fascinating character, really. I wonder why there's so little art of him.

I love your technique in this. It's just... wow, great pic!! :love:

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:iconlitenin:
Wow! What a comment! I appreciate it. Really!
I'm totally alright with you about Nemo. It's exactly what I felt about him, several years ago when I read "20 000 leagues under the sea". It's a sad person.


ps: for the moment, I not really have any technique. But I search it, and one day I'll finding it. One day.

But thanks for this comment.
:iconbexkex92:
Glad if I could do anything right ^^
Indeed, and I really like the book. At first I just thought it was going to be boring and hard to read, but afterwards I consider it one of my absolute favourite books.

You don't? That's pretty interesting, and, I guess,pretty irritating too :O Well, good luck in finding one!!

Not at all :)

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