🂽 Harley Quinn "Queen of Hearts" - Digital Painting & Process

in #art7 years ago (edited)

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"...that's so cute. You think you're scary. Well I've seen scary and you don't have his smile"

This was a fun one! Doing established comic characters gives you a lot of room to play with. Take this Harley for example, my take is rather different than what you saw in Suicide Squad. This one is more akin to the 1992 animated version but a lot more evil. This is a straight up Photoshop painting that I made using my mouse, regular brushes and color blend modes. I think the playing card format rounds it off nicely. Perhaps a "full deck" of heroes and villians would be cool?

Harley Quinn is the frequent accomplice and lover of the Joker, whom she met while working as a psychologist at Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, where the Joker was a patient. Her name is a play on the name "Harlequin", a character which originated in the commedia dell'arte. The character has occasionally been depicted as an antihero, and she has teamed up with fellow villains Catwoman and Poison Ivy, the latter serving as Quinn's close friend, recurring ally, and romantic interest. Harley Quinn has also been depicted as a member of the Suicide Squad. - Wiki

"Face it, Harl, this stinks — yer a certified nutso wanted by the law in over a dozen states — and hopelessly in love with a murderous, psychopathic clown."



CategoryFanArt
MediumPhotoshop
Size4800x3600 px
SubjectHarley Quinn
StyleDigital Illustration



Here's the animated process for Harley that I made out of the individual layers:

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Alrighty, enough geeking out for today. Back to work on @mammasitta's Hummingbird!

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I love love LUUUURVE this. She really looks like she's about to jump right out of the card and... murder you and make you like it 😱
haha brilliant work my friend. also love the little process animation. really shows how you're not afraid to keep "remodeling" her face until it's the way you want it. I find myself hesitant to do that often, for fear of making it worse, not better. though I'm trying to get out of that headspace. especially since, I mean, undo button! lol

Merci Beaucoup!
Yeah in Photoshop I often adjust the perspective, skew it around and warp it until it looks right or I like itenough. It's as if you were sculpting a lion from a rock. Just remove everything that doesn't look like a lion! I'm trying to take a page out of your book and make each card animation a little more elaborate ^^

aaah, den post hatte ich vorher garnicht gesehen. @zeroooc du hast es drauf!!!! ganz krass.
malst du sowas auch auf leinwand?

Merci! <3
Hihi ja theoretisch male ich sowas auch auf Leinwand!

I love this artwork of yours. The artistic 'voice', or the style i am seeing is stunning. You've made her look cute yet devilish, like she is setting a trap and ready to pounce. Thanks for sharing :)

I like to imagine Harley as "Super-Bipolar". I feel like it's one of the darkest characters in the whole Batman saga and I wanted to make it a little bit more violent. Happy with how it turned out and that you like it too :)

HI,found you through SteemArtists :) Followed & upvoted

Glad to hear it! Got a good community developing there. Looking forward to chatting witcha :D

Wow that's a very impressive piece of photoshop art, way out of my league, fantastic in fact. Out of interest how long did it take to complete? Upvoted and followed looking forward to seeing more.

Thank you for your kind words. It took me around 6 hours to make this! (includes making the animation and writing the post)

nice! you make the process looks so simple... yet I bet is very difficut to make this

Thanks! Yeah, boiling down a couple of hours of work into a short clip is an interesting phenomenon of the last few years. As a video editor it's a fun process for me!

very cool especially the progress shot. I would really like to try something like that on an actual used deck of cards!

Yea that's not a bad idea and I have thought of that in the past. Each card has an individual illustration. With 52 cards I'd be busy for a while though, I'll think about it again. Thank you!

Cool work. Reminded me of one of my favourite ever takes on joker theme. I like the beautiful step by step animation at the end of the post, lately I was thinking of creating something more interesting than my usual gifs and you got me even more eager to experiment.

Thank you @shinyforest, I always look forward to your critiques and comments! You're gonna come up with some cool stuff, I'm sure! Again, I recommend the Adobe Suite if you are serious (why so serious?) about pushing your video editing. Would be happy to assist if you get lost.

Wow schaut echt geil aus!

Wie entsteht so ein Bild eigentlich?
Hast du das zuvor genau vor Augen (im Kopf) wie es aussehen soll, oder entsteht das erst während dem "machen"?

Merci!
Teils Teils! Manchmal weiss ich genau was ich zeichnen möchte, da hast du dann ein Bild vor Augen. Mit genug Übung sieht das was auf dem Papier übrig bleibt dann in etwa so aus wie du dir das vorstellst! Manchmal hab ich auch null Plan und fange einfach an. Die meisten Sachen enden zwar im Papierkorb aber ab und an ist was feines dabei. :)

Find das wirklich interessant :)
Mach weiter so, gefällt mir gut!

Ist inzwischen schon etwas weitergegangen :)

Very talented. Thanks for sharing

Thanks girl!

Wonderful

Cheers luv! The Cavalry is here!
Hmm....needa add Tracer to my list of characters I wanna draw.

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It really is a good group guys!

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@echosupport spelling!
Thanks.

Nice job.

Thanks dude

I love poker I like that letter

thanks dude