Sussi1's Portfolio

Portrait of a Mouse

Sussi1 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:05:56 GMT

Portrait of a Mouse

Just a typical classic historical portrait…but with a surreal twist. Enjoy your cheeze balls! The question is, who is the mouse?

I used personal references for the pose and for the cat paw, I found many refs at http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml. Photoshop CS2 and wacom tablet.

Closeup image here http://mariafribergberntsson.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/mousedetail.jpg

Goodbye

Sussi1 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:11:51 GMT

Goodbye

From the time long, long ago when They decided to leave...
Inspired from the song "Goodbye Milky Way" by Enigma:

Shall I go, shall I stay
107 light years away
many times, so many doubts
But no reason to talk about

Mission is over, mission is done
I will miss you, children of the sun
But it's time to go away
Goodbye milky way

For a better world without hate
Follow your heart, believe in fate
Only visions and the mind
Will guide you to the light

Mission is over, mission is done
I will miss you children of the sun
I go home until someday
I say goodbye, goodbye milky way

In 5 billions years the Andromeda galaxy will collide with our milky way
A new gigantic Cosmic world will be born

Photoshop CS2, to many hours..

Aquarium

Sussi1 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:27:09 GMT

Aquarium

Beware of what species you put in your aquarium! Things could go wrong...

This started out as a practise in waterbubbles and then evolved. Personal references used for the face and for parts of fish (end result is kind of a mixture between a swedish flunder and a tropical fish).
Credits to Dianaes water tutorial:http://dianae.deviantart.com/art/Simple-Water-Splash-Tutorial-89945904
PhotoshopCS2

The Lindworm

Sussi1 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:33:17 GMT

The Lindworm

Thora Borgarhjort(Þóra Town-Hart or Þóra borgarhjörtr)receives an adorable baby lindworm as a gift from her father Herrauðr, the Earl of Götaland (in Sweden).
Alas the lindworm grows and takes Thora hostage, demanding to be supplied with one ox a day (or more).Thora is eventually freed by a young man in fur-trousers named Ragnar, who then obtains the name of Lodbrok ("hairy britches") and becomes Thora's husband.
What happened to the Lindworm? It was of course killed by Ragnar.who became a great hero. He appears in many legends and folklore tails and it is beleived his story is based off viking sagas.

The lindworm was like a giant snake, sometimes it had frontlegs and sometimes also wings (although that was not so common in scandinavian lindworms, more so in England, then they were called wyverns and France, vouivres).One can for example see lindworms in viking runestones.
There are two forms of lindworms, one is like an enchanted prince in disguise, and gave fortune if you met one. The other was very dangerous, like an evil dragon, it moved by biting it's tail and rolled like a wheel.

Technical stuff: PhotoshopCS2 about 40 hours. No special reference used, except for my hand holding my daughters plushie in front of the mirror. For the scales I found a texture that I used at CG textures [link]

The Huntress

Sussi1 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:11:04 GMT

The Huntress

The huntress was from the beginning meant to be a tuff, fears amazon/viking like female, but as I painted she just refused to look mean and didn’t fit in the background, a forest. I saw a documentary about Tolkien and was influenced by the land and people of Rohirrin, so I changed the background. I also thought she needed some companions on her hunting, so she got a bird and a dog. Her hairdo was inspired from George Lucas Star Wars movies, no special character, just some hairdo that would fit on a female in one of the Star Wars bar scenes. References was used for the shape of the bow and for the bird. My friends dog modeled for yes, the dog.

Photoshop CS2

Huldra

Sussi1 — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:06:02 GMT

Huldra

Huldra appears in old Scandinavian folklore as a seductive forest creature, the Lady and ruler of the forest. The huldra is stunningly beatiful, but if you saw her from behind you could see she is hollow with a hole in her back, just like an old tree. She also has an animal’s tail, in Norway it’s a cow’s tail, but in Sweden(where I live) it is usually a fox’s tail.Huldra is very interested in humans, especially men, and rewards those that are kind to her, but she can make your life miserable if you make her angry.
In some traditions, she lures men into the forest to make romance(sex), rewarding those that gives her satisfaction and often killing those who don’t or refuse her.
Sometimes she marries a local farm boy.When they are married in church, the tail falls off. If the man doesn’t treat her right, she will be incredibly ugly and the husband will suffer greatly throughout the marriage.

Kiss Me

Sussi1 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:09:03 GMT

Kiss Me

What do we all dream about? Admit it, we all want to find that perfect prince or princess. But remember, You might have to kiss a whole lot of frogs before You kiss the right one. So, keep on kissing and keep on dreaming!

Photoshop CS2

Beginning of A Friendship

Sussi1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:34:52 GMT

Beginning of A Friendship

Friendship as well as brother- and sisterhood can come in many forms, colors and shapes, sometimes when you least expect it. You, lucky ones, embrace it!

Bliss

Sussi1 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:20:12 GMT

Bliss

Thousand of years
we have lived side by side
in the land between day & night

Yet, you have never understood

In shadowland
You scream, you run
pray for the sun to return

Always the fear in your eyes
You say we are heartless

Evil

You have never understood

There is no choice
It is survival

In the thick grey darkness,
Open your eyes and see
There they are, the little ones

Not evil
Only love

In the land between day and night
We have children too