Shadowness - fantasio

The mindsight wallpaper

Mon, 23 May 2011 07:09:28 -0400

This is a personal wallpaper version of a cover work I made for the band "The Mindsight" http://themindsight.com Yes sometimes I´m so completely insane to put a little work on top to create a nice giveaway. Usually this is a nice way to gain traffic to the musicians website if they host the 1920x1200px version, I don´t know if they´ll put it up someday, if so I´ll add the link. Maybe some decent interest in a high resolution wallpaper can make them do it;-) Copyright Notice:_{© by Oliver Wetter / Fantabulous Visions* 2012
All rights of this gallery are reserved to fantasio / fantasiox / Oliver Wetter and may not be used without my permission. It's not forbidden to use one or more of my work on websites, blogs, etc, BUT its not permitted to submit it anywhere and show it to others, claiming as YOUR work!
Thanks for your appreciation.}

Bladerunner

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:29:56 -0500

Its a mix between Sculpture (Microscope, CD-player, DC-adapter, sewing-machine parts, findings, clay, etc) overpainted with physical airbrush in Gold / Bronze, photographed and arranged around the exisiting imagery, used with permission from Istockphoto (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-3736351-beauty.php). The background and gear is from my own stock. Actually this was done for the cover competition at "Advanced Photoshop Magazine", made runner-up amongst 9 others in a following issue feature and was cover of French "Advanced Creation Magazine". Print available here: http://www.deviantart.com/print/24476001/?

Neko the catwoman

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:14:50 -0500

Another Fantasio-Girl, references used for this digital painting with the help of Poser, our cats and inspiration from various Neko cosplay. My aim was to create a hyper realistic Neko ^.^ Close ups here:

Android legacy

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:38:34 -0500

Another collaboration with photographer Louis Konstantinou for an exhibition project in Greece 2012 and another Fantasio girl! Inspired by the -Amalgamate- work of Michael Oswald http://michaelo.deviantart.com and the movie Tron legacy, I found the pose of the model Gianna perfectly fitting to illustrate some kind of augmented reality in a Tron -colored - environment. I always wanted to do some Android, Fembot, Gyndroid or whatever-they-are-called-painting so here it is;-) The title Android Legacy contains some subject to think about as also the google-screen she seems to be typing on: The electronical powers that surrounds are useful and lead to an advanced lifestyle, but makes us also slaves to the technology. This image does pretty much show that we can be sophisticated and perfect as we want to, but depending on a search engine because we forget so much. Personally I think the internet and technology is a useful addition to our lives (if we have one) but its important to NOT be its slave ! And no: its NOT Lady Gaga, please read the credits! Technique digital painting / Photoshop CS5 / 20 hrs. Credits: Photography by Louis Konstantinou: http://louiskonstantinou.com Model: Gianna Vlachou Scrap sheet of the general process here: Wallpaper here: http://fav.me/d4ffai0

Fata Medusa 2011

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:11:40 -0400

Welcome to the realm of the Gorgon, this is where reality melts away and your nightmares become real... This one is a collaboration for an exhibition in Thessaloniki and Athens in 2012 with http://luez2.deviantart.com - http://www.louiskonstantinou.com and http://katkill.deviantart.com as model. Additional stock is used from http://madetobeunique.deviantart.com for the 3d- model snakes. Hopefully time allows for more collaborations of this kind. Its real fun to have such an opportunity to create a story around an existing image. More info on the exhibition as soon as I get them. Print will be available later here: http://fav.me/d4cjal5

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Wed, 18 May 2011 03:51:33 -0400

This is a tribute / collaboration to one of my favorite artists, if you havn´t recognized the creature by now, its a recent work from http://pascalblanche.deviantart.com -> http://goo.gl/TMjdI I have to say I´m a fan of his great creature -designs for a good decade now! On facebook he posted some WIP pictures directly from within zbrush the other day, which presented the rough base for my creation, which I´d like to share with permission from Pascal. With the coloring I went for another tribute to a master of 3d illustration, named Steven Stahlberg. The inspiration for the idea was the eighties movie "the gods must be crazy" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/ where a traveling Bushman encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects. I liked the idea of having a Shaman or Oracle worshiping modern products as something magic, which is similar to how children perceive our technological environments. This should also make us think about how dull we are to our everyday technology and appreciate our achievements a little more. Or to say it with the words of the blue-red spider: "with great powers comes great responsibility."

Explant

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:41:39 -0400

Call of Cthulhu

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:33:52 -0400

Inspired by H.P.Lovecraft, this is my rendition of a seductive Cthulhu empress. Also this is a part of another series i´m working on since a few years, called "transgenetic metahuman" Illustrations of human species that is crossed with either plants, animals, or insects to survive on another planet. Call it the next step of evolution. Reference used from my own of the recent trip to Vienna Pose inspired and referenced from http://menschenmaterial.deviantart.com/art/1-69016440

Motherplant

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:15:48 -0400

Another piece for the transgenetic boy-and girls -group. A digital painting based on a reference image from Stefan Soell, used with permission.

Cyberpepper

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:14:07 -0400

This is my little tribute to Stanley Lau´s (http://artgerm.deviantart.com) pepper character and also contribution to http://PepperProject.deviantart.com My work was featured in the Pepper project art book, which can be purchased here: http://www.imaginaryfs.com/shop/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=5 My idea was inspired by Klimt and Brom, but what i wanted to achieve was an art-nouveau styled cyberspace fantasy - in which pepper feels and act like a pin-up queen. close-up view recommended, have a look here: http://fantasio.deviantart.com/art/cyber-pepper-closeup-77124358?q=&qo=