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Vampire: The Masquerade portrait

Finished portrait

A Vampire: The Masquerade portrait made for a client. We had to maintain the person’s likeness using a photo, while changing the lighting, gesture, accessories, and clothing to fit the client’s character needs, and also keeping in mind the dark mood of a Vampire setting.

An example of this realistic, dark mood are the illustrations for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, by Black Chantry Productions.

This was a challenging, wonderful piece that taught me a lot and I’m super satisfied with the end result. Thank you Rafael!

Portrait of a woman with long, straight blond hair and blue eyes. She wears a V-neck lilac top and lilac eye makeup, a cat necklace, and holds her right (our left) hand up, showing a delicate chain bracelet with blue stones. She looks at the POV and the background has cool-toned shadows.
Finished piece
Close-up of the woman's expression. Her lilac eyeshadow glitters softly.
Close-up

WIPs

The overall process was a mixture of tracing from a photo (to keep absolute fidelity to the proportions), using 3D to set up the new lighting, more photo references as necessary (such as for the hand), mood references provided by the client, and intricate paintovers to reproduce their game’s hyper-realistic art style.

WIP for the vampire portrait. Has unfinished lines and placeholder colors
WIP
Lineart sketch.

References and 3D setup

a 3d character with her hands up and blond hair in a similar pose as the finished drawing
Blender lighting setup
Photo reference of a hand gesture
New hand photo used as reference. The original photo had no hand gesture.

Software: Blender, Photoshop, Unreal Metahuman

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