Digital Demo

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Persephone is the Greek goddess of springtime. The young goddess was abducted by Hades, the god of the Underworld and was eventually rescued by her mother, but since she had snacked on 6 pomegranite seeds in the meantime she was forced marry Hades and stay with him, one month for each seed she has eaten. So Persephone stays with her husband during the fall and winter and rejoins her mother spring and summer of each year. (How did you think we got those 4 seasons anyway? :-)

Here is a very condensed version of how the graphic Persephone was created.

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Layout sketch for Persephone. The graphic was originally going to be created as a digital painting, but after some consideration I decided to use a photo manipulation for the goddess and add it to a digitally created background.

photo by l wynne
The model is photographed using a onion in place of a pomegrante.We later borrowed a real
pomegrante from a neighbors tree which I photographed and overpainted to add to the graphic

photo manipulated
Here I have begun to manipulate or enhance the photo. Since our model is basically a template, her hair and
skin tones have been repainted and darker undertones of the clothing were roughly sketched in.
The body has been made longer and more stylized. Also I have added the borrowed pomegranite as a layer.

doric
Next I created the column from another photo but had to hand draw the bases/caps
The marble textures were added with Paint Shop Pro's Air Brush Tool then "Smudged" to blend them.

background
A pastoral scene was digitally painted using several different brushes and filters. The Italian Cypress are from another photo. I lthink these trees have an almost unworldly look. The columns were then added as a layer.

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Here a few more trees and shadows have been added to create a spacial perspective.Datura flowers were "cut and pasted" to the top of the column as kind of a vine to symbolize death and rebirth. The model was added asa new layer and her gauzey attire was painted using the Air Brush tool again at a very low opacity/density so I could keep much of the farbic transparent.Naturally I had to use a Greek style font for the goddess' name and used a 3d cut-out effect.

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