A height difference illustration featuring Titan and Eden.
This painting has all the tropes, themes and textures I enjoy: Contrasts (size, color, height, costumes), faces, armor… So I took my time to make this a fun and polished picture.
I wanted an external view of Titan’s lair, the Temple of the Two Gates. Behind them there is a suggestion that they’re in a patio with a privileged view of a jungle (although it’s obscured by some mist) that isolates the lair from the outside world.
Software: Photoshop. Sword and architecture roughly sketched in Autodesk Maya.
Development
This scene started as a more serious piece, until the woman had a blob of paint that looked like a fork sketch in her hand. I found it amusing and added a food bowl into the scene, steering the scene towards a more lighthearted mood.
I placed Titan’s hand near her face and the fork to reinforce their size difference.
3D sketching
I started the scene as thumbnails, then modeled columns, a set of stairs and, and generated a simple rectangular block to serve as the perspective guides for a parapet. The gladius sword is a free model I found online.
Then I exported the scene below and traced new perspective lines on top of it before positioning the characters and garden from my sketches into the final scene.
Moreover, this painting also resulted in the preliminary sketches and plans for a more definite version of Titan’s armor.
Titan and Eden
They’re mercenaries in a cyberpunk meets demons and fantasy world. Think Shin Megami Tensei with Mushishi, Cowboy Bebop (and other 80s and 90s sci-fi anime inspirations) and a dash of magic.
Titan is a size-shifting demon or demigod (depending on whom you ask) living a reclusive life until a party of demon hunters accidentally crashes into his temple.
Among the invaders he finds Eden, who does a favor for him and his lair — at a great cost. He feels compelled to thank her somehow, and decides to spend some time catching up with the human world outside as a new mercenary.
Their one-shot
“Pulse” is a long one-shot about them, which consists of the duo talking and reminiscing about how they met. I’ve been writing this scenario for many years, so the one-shot became a long lore exposition chapter I revisit often, for fun.
CW: Blood, fantasy violence, profane lore — often mentions gods, demons, and angels as the entities that live among humans in that world. Titan and Eden are a couple (of course they are!) and in an intimate romantic relationship as well.
Long description
This section has a long description of the full illustration.
A day scene in a patio. The skies a re a pale, misty blue with blurred clouds. The patio has a row of white marble columns on the left side of the scene. Facing the POV are two characters: A fair-skinned, blond man wearing gold and red armor,and a long, large red cap that he extends with his left hand towards a woman sitting on top of a stone parapet.
The woman has long, straight dark-brown hair, a medium skin tone, a white tank top tucked into high-waisted dark brown leggings with similarly dark, geometric pattern pieces attached to it. Balanced on the parapet, in front of the man and on the left side of the image, there is a gladius sword, which points in the woman’s direction.
The woman holds a fork and has her mouth half-open, as if midway through speaking or chewing. To her left in the parapet (right side of the image), there is a brown food bowl with blobs of pink, green and white brushstrokes.
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