Secret Santa 2024

Secret Santa 2024

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Secret Santa 2024



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Title: Secret Santa 2024
Pixel Artist: Umbohr  (Level 7 Merfolk :: 12166 points)
Posted: 12/17/2024 14:25
Statistics:  23 comments    71 faves    0 avatars

Secret santa 2024 gift for MagickBird, who likes spooky stuff, vampires, espionnage, detective, mystery, game aesthetics, ui portraits, night, industrial theme, sceneries, wood, and winter.

References:

Initially wanted to give the character another coat, but ran out of time and it remained a study of painting by Romaine Brooks, (which i discovered with this piece, go check out her other works) : this one, with the face derived.

The dead vampire was also drawn after ref, which i can't find back for some reason? Will update as soon as i find it. Changed only the angle of one leg iirc, and the colours of.

Vehicule was inspired by this one (TW: reddit)

For the general moodboard i then used multiple top down pieces by alcopopstar and brullov


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Korban (Level 5 Artificial Intelligence) @ 4/9/2025 01:12

Idk why I hadn't favourited this yet. One of my favourite pieces.
EDIT: Apparently I **have** favourited this, but just wasn't showing for me. Good! :)


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VoyPix (Level 2 CGA) @ 1/25/2025 09:14

This is simply a masterpiece! 


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Theoden (Level 11 Special Agent) @ 1/21/2025 03:59

Amazing work!


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Umbohr (Level 7 Merfolk) @ 1/19/2025 06:59

AAH you're not the only one that see a giant corpse... Maybe i should venture in that area some time, i love the idea and it always make for cool aesthetics


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Weerdmeester (Level 8 Mongolian Death Worm) @ 1/6/2025 02:51

For the longest time I thought there was a little naked junkless dead man staked... and then next to him a giant naked junkless dead man staked. Made for quite the storyinterpetation . Nonetheless, this is absolutely beautiful! I'd love to see more!


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MrQuetch (Level 6 GBC) @ 1/2/2025 17:05

There's so much storytelling here! You did an incredible job! I love how you captured that film noire style - my sisters really like this kind of stuff (I'll have to show them).


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shm31 (Level 7 Baklava) @ 1/1/2025 07:06

I wishlisted it in my heart :)


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amberMechanic (Level 5 Harbor Seal) @ 12/30/2024 04:55

I love this. Really great use of shapes to convey the different materials and light effects and shape the composition and the emotional tone at the same time. Everything's doing a lot of stuff at once. It's definitely one I'm going to be studying for a while!


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Umbohr (Level 7 Merfolk) @ 12/30/2024 01:14

@SediceBisonte I need to update the description with my references. Mostly the body gesture and coat were all stolen from artist Romaine Brooks, the face was a slight variation of another painting. The vehicle is based on an actual photography, but i'm pretty sure it wasn't really fonctional :D Glad you like it!


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Umbohr (Level 7 Merfolk) @ 12/30/2024 01:04

The junk might be in the box or not. Maybe the box contains only the clothes or the poor lad. Maybe the junk never existed in the fist place. Maybe we'll find out ?
@gawrone
@specialmin


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Umbohr (Level 7 Merfolk) @ 12/30/2024 01:00

I had a lot of fun combining your likes, made for a perfect little prompt  I'm glad you like it, i'm actually considering building upon it now... we'll see 


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Umbohr (Level 7 Merfolk) @ 12/30/2024 00:59

only one suitable place for the mixels 

Glad you like it Al!


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specialmin64 (Level 7 Assassin) @ 12/29/2024 09:15

"Agent Billingsworth, do you expect me to believe this man's junk was erased by alien vampires and teleported into this box? A regular cardboard box?"
-> No, he sleeps like this every night [Hostile]
-> I didn't say that [Lie]


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Flinigan (Level 6 Bird) @ 12/28/2024 22:07

amazingly composed


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MIERDINSKY (Level 10 Pixel artist) @ 12/28/2024 14:05

Simply beautiful. Brilliant!! 


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Irenaart (Level 10 HP Lovecraft (Author)) @ 12/28/2024 09:18

This is one really elaborate scene. It looks fantastic, each part of it takes its share of attention. If I have to choose, I would pick that lighted snow part with that strange car/sled, and those 2 illuminated figures. So atmospheric.. Extraordinary..


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Reo (Level 11 Sphinx) @ 12/28/2024 05:30

Absolutely wonderful


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gawrone (Level 11 Pixeljoint) @ 12/28/2024 04:29

Where is the JUNK?!


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rogue_frog (Level 4 Deputy) @ 12/27/2024 22:31

I love this so much


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SeDiceBisonte (Level 8 Spaceman) @ 12/27/2024 15:35

Wow! The face on the left is what I'll particularly be studying but everything about this is phenomenal. I love how the characters look in the scene, I love the design of their vehicle, I think the world suggested by this mockup is fascinating, and the game is one I'd love to play.


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b236 (Level 11 Bonsai) @ 12/27/2024 13:30

one of my favourites!
there were so many great game mockups... i would love to play a game looking like this.


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magickbird (Level 7 Underboss) @ 12/27/2024 11:20

SPECTACULAR!!!! The amount of details is insane and you managed to include so many aspects, I'm mindblown haha

I love absolutely everything about it: the mood, the setting, the range!! Also really love how the word "breaking" looks 

Just can't stop gazing at it, thank you for this truly incredible work <3 <3


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AlexL (Level 5 Irish Elk) @ 12/27/2024 10:33

Epic! After looking into it, I think I know where you are considering to put as mixel haha


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