Medusa by Fyreant

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Almatheya-Andra Featured By Owner Jun 24, 2012 Student General Artist

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ManeatingCouch Featured By Owner Aug 22, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I wonder if she's upset she can never get a date?

RobertoToderico Featured By Owner Oct 10, 2010 Professional Digital Artist

fantastic!

Gabylina Featured By Owner Dec 10, 2009 Interface Designer

hipnotic

indirillan Featured By Owner Dec 2, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

I have the impression that there is an influence of Brom, no? Great colors.

MAXIMOMIXAM Featured By Owner Nov 13, 2009

SO good on so many levels!

Chocolateer Featured By Owner Apr 20, 2009 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I love the intense hues, and the powerful pose.
Excellent work, keep it up!

danka-ns Featured By Owner Apr 20, 2009

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Dianae Featured By Owner Dec 18, 2008

Hello there,

You've been featured here

Keep up the wonderful work !

Fyreant Featured By Owner Dec 28, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

'twas a fine thing you did.

saray Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2008

Medusa = <3

Awesome play of contrast and coloring, I love it

Dumaker Featured By Owner Dec 3, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

Other amazing work, wow

ninaogsofus Featured By Owner Dec 3, 2008

Great colours!

Zephyri Featured By Owner Dec 2, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

This is quite possibly the most incredible use of such a primary colour scheme i've ever seen! Fantastic stuff... it's the kind of image that makes me all giddy and excitable just from looking at the intense red exploding against the violet blue of Medusa's skin. And the little touch of green in the snakes.. genius! I wouldn't ever have thought these colour could combine so saturated and still make a classy picture. Awesome, awesome work.

Dianae Featured By Owner Dec 2, 2008

Hello there,

You've been featured in this News Article : [link]

Keep up the amazing work !

Fyreant Featured By Owner Dec 3, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

Thank you so much!

NoreLineas Featured By Owner Mar 19, 2008 Professional General Artist

The colors and the art nouveau look to this are wonderful

NeterG Featured By Owner Mar 2, 2008

Even if the pic is REALLY awesome I would sometimes like to see some medusa art to be accurate with the description…

Fyreant Featured By Owner Mar 2, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

What description?

NeterG Featured By Owner Mar 3, 2008

I think that pic was made for a D&D adventure on Dungeon Magazine, right? The D&D medusa is a scaly creature with a hideous face, but a lot of artists simply make them as nice woman with snakeshair…
Even so, the pic is outstanding

Fyreant Featured By Owner Mar 3, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

No, it's true: I went my own way. That's the thing I tend to do, for better or worse.

NeterG Featured By Owner Mar 3, 2008

Even if I love your art, I must say that is quite bothering when a text is doing all to get an image in your mind, and then you see a pic that shows a different thing.
Even so, sometimes the pic is MUCH better and cool than the description! I like this medusa design much more than the one in the Monster Manual

Fyreant Featured By Owner Mar 3, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

Well, thank you!

I know what you mean. It can be disappointing when the art of a book cover, for instance, doesn't have anything to do with the actual book. Though in the artist's defense, oftentimes (in fact, the vast majority of the time) they aren't given a whole lot of choice over what sort of image they are supposed to do. And sometimes? Sometimes the description is just damn silly. Sometimes there's nothing you can do to make a cool monster out of a goofy idea.

It's been years, but as I recall the adventure this illustration was for had a medusa that was supposed to be a looker. I plead innocent!

NeterG Featured By Owner Mar 4, 2008

Yep, I have heard before about artists don’t having the proper descriptions. That’s so stupid! What are the art directors for then?
And yep, you are innocent about the medusa thing then

Fyreant Featured By Owner Mar 5, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

Sometimes the AD is completely helpless in the situation. R&D and Marketing can have a great influence on the process...generally not for the better.

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DarkMoonSylph Featured By Owner Jan 15, 2008

Awsome, love the color, and the guy turned to stone,lol.

Fyreant Featured By Owner Jan 20, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

Yep. Some women are just plain trouble, y'know?

DarkMoonSylph Featured By Owner Jan 21, 2008

Yes yes, I know indeed.

Themrock Featured By Owner Jan 12, 2008 Professional Traditional Artist

Awesome color choices!

Fyreant Featured By Owner Jan 19, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

Thank you, sir! I'm steering myself back to weird color choices; I feel like I went safe and dependable for a while, there. Dredging up the old stuff helps remind me you should never stop experimenting.

PyroPanda Featured By Owner Jan 11, 2008

Brilliant vibrant colours! _{_{(blue+orange is my favourite complementary colour pair)}}
Your mastery of lines is impressive too!!♥ ;o;

Fyreant Featured By Owner Jan 22, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

Compliments are powerful weapons, man. Check out Mark Zug's work! He sprinkles little microdots of compliments all over the place. It's one of the things that makes his work so yummy.

HentaiNeko Featured By Owner Jan 9, 2008 Hobbyist Digital Artist

So amazing composed! the colors are so well chosen i must say, this is surely a masterpiece!!

Tyrus88 Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2008

The intense red wall is freakin fantastic,and Medusa as well. nice use of a triad color scheme : )

Fyreant Featured By Owner Jan 22, 2008 Professional Digital Artist

Sometimes that business about limitations spurring creativity is true. Color's such a huge world, I find myself going a *little* less crazy if I limit my palette. Thanks!

brujaslight Featured By Owner Jan 1, 2008 Professional Filmographer

I really love the composition, flow, and heavy use of color contrast to make her stand out. Love it

ImaginaryGirl10722 Featured By Owner Dec 27, 2007 Hobbyist General Artist

She is probably one the most well known characters of Greek mythology, however I find it a shame that you don't see her much now a days.

CrimsonMagpie Featured By Owner Dec 27, 2007

Excellent work thar, the colours work very well methinks.

Kenjha Featured By Owner Dec 26, 2007

Bem loka a pintura...!!!

SoundNinja Featured By Owner Dec 26, 2007

Man I wish I was your disciple or something. All I can do is draw!

NathanRosario Featured By Owner Dec 26, 2007 Professional Digital Artist

Those are some nice colors! Well done.

Arwen-l-elfe Featured By Owner Dec 26, 2007 Hobbyist General Artist

I'm happy to see something different. I usually see your MTG art.

The color is great! and as the others said, the pose is well done!

QuietCritic Featured By Owner Dec 26, 2007

I agree with =dunwich7 about the pose. I also like that one snake that's longer than all the rest--usually depictions of Medusa tend to render the snakes more or less symmetrically or evenly around her head, but yours gives the snakes more animation.

I also agree with ~frozen-peas about the (solar?) stone design in the background.