death and the maiden

EDIT:

Based on comments in my recent poll regarding mature content, here's a quick explanation: This pic is marked as mature because of partial upper body nudity (a breast is exposed) and a potentially disturbing theme (a young woman is kissing a skeleton.)

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My submission for CGHub's bi-weekly art jam. This round's theme was Death and the Maiden. [link]

I found out about the theme too late (yesterday night... and the deadline is today) and didn't have much time to come up with a decent concept. So this really isn't very original, but I had a lot of fun doing this, and I feel that it's different from my usual stuff. Which is the whole point of participating in these jams. So, yay!

The usual, Photoshop, from start to finish. Total time was about 10 hours. I used this crappy poser pic for ref for the maiden (Poser is such a confusing program!): [link] And I used a combination of various pictures from Netter's Anatomy for the skeleton. Unfortunately, I couldn't find examples of some of the angles I needed, so the skeleton isn't very anatomically accurate.

Detail: [link]