Seven Deadly Sins: VANITY (Fantasy) digital artwork by Marta Dahlig

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Seven Deadly Sins: VANITY by Marta Dahlig	« Prev \| Next » in Fantasy (3254 of 4588)

Date: 12/22/04

Size: 568x900, 157kb

Rating: 4.86 (32 votes)

Top 100 Rank: 33

Hardware: Tablet

Software: click here

Artist's Comment

..Or if you prefer: Pride - Mother of all sins.

First one of the, duh, Seven Deadly Sins serie.

"Vanity is an excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise."

symbolism?
It's all pretty obvious but I will explain some stuff which inspired me, to sound cool, mind you. :P

- As you can read up, vanity is linked with the color violet, so here you go the color theme.
- Peacocks remind me of vanity as well, therefore I have used a peacock feather as an inspiration for the "frame".
- You can see the background being desertish (plus the dead tree)... Vain people usually never see any beauty in the world, but only in themselves... That is why everything around them, sooner or later, dies - and that is what I have tried to depicture.

techy info:
lady's props based on my (pencil) sketch based on a couple o' refs, refs for textures.
you can see some art nouveau inspirations in the frame - my tribute to A. Mucha, as he is my idol

Generally it is my most thought-through and time consuming piece and I need to say I am satisfied with it
Around 60 hours or so, as some parts were hell to finish, seriously :/

Coming next (someday): Envy :]

PS. No I am not really religious, I just found the Seven Deadly Sins a really inspiring subject.

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Lise

Bitmap Bumpkin

03/26/08 - 06:02 PM (CST) [ Report Abuse ]

I have seen all seven of these now and I think they are all gorgeous... I have not seen such artwork since I don't know when... I would have loved to use these on a layout site I am a member of... And honestly, I do think that this one is my fave, though WRATH is kinda cool also.

Lise

Bitmap Bumpkin

5.00 Rating

03/26/08 - 05:57 PM (CST) [ Report Abuse ]

I love these pictures and I tried to use them on a MySpace layout site and I was told that they were copyrighted. Is that true and if so, how do I get permission to use them??? HELP

Jesse Kah

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