DSG 264: Creature: Banshee.

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Today's topic is: Creature: Banshee.

[Phuzion]

I think Banshees are the coolest, creepiest, and flat out freakiest things ever! I've had this fascination with them ever since I was very small and first saw "Darby O'Gill and the Little People". Anywho, here's my 45 minute sketch... I think I'll hit this DSG up again before the day is out ;p Can't wait to see the others.

http://www.savagesunarts.com/DSG/Banshee.jpg

[Bob Loblaw]

Why oh why did I come to this page before heading to bed? That is the stuff nightmares are made of. :whoa: Thanks a lot phuzion, you bugger.

[nBT]

im back y'all, weekend at my brothers place.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Club/4968/banshee.html banshee info
phuzion: :cool:


http://www.mattijsart.com/dsg/dsg264banshee.jpg
my banshee. i absolutley dont like the face&hair so i might alter it. it looks like an indian!

[talmir]

Pencil sketch, I tried coloring it but messed up pretty bad.. if anyone would like to color it I would be gratefull.
http://pc.is/admin/pics/sketchsmaller.jpg

[Beatnik]

Portrait of my exgirlfriend used for reference.

http://zmans.com/misc/dsg_264.jpg

[Hazzard]

http://aaronsart.5u.com/images/banshee_copy.jpg


In Irish folklore, the Bean Sidhe ("woman of the hills") is a spirit or fairy who presage a death by wailing. She is popularly known as the Banshee. She visits a household and by wailing she warns them that a member of their family is about to die. When a Banshee is caught, she is obliged to tell the name of the doomed.

[forkface]

http://www.magneticinkcomics.com/dsg/banshee01.jpg


Phuzion: GREAT colors.. nice mood

Beatnik: love the expression on the face


Hazzard: like the way you handled the hair and face.

great work all

[scumworks]

It's been about a week since i've last posted on dsg... and I do belive photoshop are holding a grunch against me for neglecting it.
I know she don't look evil... but she has a very EVIL SMILE... that is when she grins :p

Maby i'll refine her a bit more later... aaand maby not.
http://www.scumworks.com/otr/conceptart/banshee.jpg

[PJM]

my second attempt at posting. what a palava!

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-11/496397/banshee.jpg

[Hazzard]

Hey PJM go to 50megs.com and set up your own account then just use the photo page to dump your work for this forum, its realy easy.

Hey Scumworks I like it. Nobody says it has to be evil. If you read under my banshee I got that from a sight about banshees and if says that she is a ghostly female. I think a delicate ghostly grim reaper is just as good.

[littlemac]

phuzion that is the best dsg i ever saw. flaberghasted.

[Vincent]

Here's mine, dunno shit about Banshee's, but after seeing the first one, i loved em allready...
Anywee, hope it's sumthing... was pretty fun doing it, since i also don't draw girls very often...

http://members.lycos.nl/vincentbisschop/Banshee.jpg

[Hunger_Artist]

http://www7.oekakibbs.com/bbs/HungerArtist/data/49.jpg

http://www7.oekakibbs.com/bbs/HungerArtist/data/50.jpg

http://www7.oekakibbs.com/bbs/HungerArtist/data/51.jpg


I was under the impression that banshees wail before catastrophes and such, so I made a little sequence around that

[Hazzard]

http://aaronsart.5u.com/images/banshee2_copy.jpg

Thought id do anotherone before I took the trash out. Didnt like the hair on the first one looked to similar to what everyone else is doing.





Hunger_Artist that made me chuckle. Reminds me of ghostbusters with the librarian ghost scene.

[brianl]

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/artbybrian/forums/banshee.jpg

edited to add:

a little more paint...a little playing in Painter and Photoshop...et voila! Differant, but I think it's a little creepier:D

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/artbybrian/forums/banshee2.jpg

[Scrubbin Bubbles]

Hunger- I like the loose style on the last one

PHUZ-scary, Nice color combo

BrianL- reminds me of old sci-fi/fantasy comics like Fantastic Tales and whatnot

[j1w0n]

http://www.chimaeradesign.com/~ccoff/notebook/banshee.jpg
still working on marker technique. doesn't she have lovely highlights? :D

[dDesign]

Great Topic today.

http://home.t-online.de/home/Dirk-0815/ban.JPG

Great work everyone :eek:

[nBT]

http://www.mattijsart.com/dsg/dsg264banshee1.jpg
2nd enry
took me like 2.5 hours

ah well time for bed

nBT

[Crave My Nightmares]

http://redmarionette.com/BansheeDSG.jpghttp://redmarionette.com/BansheeDSG.jpg

My first DSG. Been following for a while though. Love all of the artwork on here. it is so motivating! So motivating I finally motivated myself to the store to buy a tablet. Here is my first try....

[awalloffire]

Beatnik -The creepy level is way up there on this one.
Brian - I think I like the first one better, all the lines in the darkness.
http://www.portfolios.com/Pics/walloffire/walloffire_1_p.JPG
I sketched out this elaborate composition and said "funk it" and did this.

[Silvrain]

http://silvrain.com/DSG264-Banshee.jpg
I had fun doing this one, oh yeah.

[j1w0n]

Phuzion- awesome, and creepy. the lighting makes her look like she's standing in front of the stairway to hell AND heaven at once. despite the fear factor, if i saw her in the streets, i'd still walk up to her and poke her in the boob. i have no choice. it's my duty.

BrianL- "Scully? Stop screaming! X-files isn't going back to the way it was. I'm sorry!" ;)

Crave My Nightmares- a very nice first. looking forward to more.


i don't feel comfortable telling people where to improve, since i have plenty of room for it, too, and no one else is critiquing anybody.. so i'll just Self-Critique
- i've been looking back at this thread a lot today (i have no life.), and i think i figured that my marker technique is just too messy and i'm not thinking enough about where light would fall. the pose is kinda whacky on it too. i was going for awkward, and it went TOO awkward. haha. there's always tomorrow.

[Bob Loblaw]

This is the ghost of Rhiannon Lahey. In life she was a blessing to the eyes and ears of any observer. The fairest in all the county, she also sang like an angel. Now that once melodious voice pierces the wilderness with its relentless howl as she wanders the land searching for the jealous suitor who murdered her.

http://www3.telus.net/badddspellah/Stuff/Banshee.jpg

I'd be lying if I said Phuzion's bang-on rendition had no influence on me.

Hunger_Artist. Hunger_Artist! Who are you?! You got so much style it veritably leaps of my monitor and pokes me in the eyes!

brianl love the wood-cut aesthetic.

Everybody. Everybody. Ya'll gots the scary imaginations.

Over 'n' out!

[Bob Loblaw]

scumworks, a little C&C: I know you portrait is that of a ghost but it looks like she's missing the top of her head. Unless I am mistaken and its a cranium-less ghost who walks the earth to steal the craniums of the living! :eek:

[ClocktowerArtworks]

Loblaw...that banshee is fucking frightening. i love it.

phuzion...incredible...great.

hunger artist...this is by far my favorite of your dsg posts.

everybody else...great stuff today. i really enjoyed everyone's work.

[terp]

stuck at work, but wanted to chime in.
phuzion....damn, that's cool.
and bob...i love the colors + mood....sweet....

[jfarsenault]

awesome stuff guys!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jfarsenault/images/Untitled-2.jpg

[Grimlohk]

Beautiful work with those ugly women all!

.http://home.comcast.net/~grimlohk/bansheesSorrow.jpg
First time I've motivated myself to draw anything in weeks. :/ Im a slacker

[Sapphire]

It's just a line drawing, but may add value and color later, I don't know... but it took walking through soaking wet paths at 10:30 at night to the library and back to bring you the image, so I might as well post it. Here ya go!

http://sapphire-art.50megs.com/images/bansheedark.jpg

[Phuzion]

Nice turn out everyone!
Bob Loblaw: Oh hellz yes! I love the face, and the vapours escaping the mouth! Killer lighting too. Props man.
Grimlohk: Very nicely done. Scary how she's ripping herself apart or something.
Beatnik: Really nice mood! Creepy as a motha f@#$a! Nice "raw meat" colors too.

[barcode]

http://www.rpi.edu/~steadi/dsg/banshee-02.jpg

[William b. Hand]

Fine Stuff Everyone!

I find it very interesting that so many of them ended up being purpley...
I actually painted this in blue and creamy colours, but landed on this finally.
There was an odd little offshoot tweak that I did that I might post later... I dunno.

http://homepage.mac.com/forumdump/.Pictures/Banshee%201.jpg

I gotta try and do these a little earlier in the evening... I just am so easily distracted. It's when I should be sleeping that I'm able to focus, ha ha.

(*sigh*)

[Mykro]

http://members.fortunecity.com/mykro1/banshee01.jpg
Ok. Today I broke through. After weeks of noodling around, I finally got comfortable with painter. I'm such a happy dude right now. Thanks dsg!
I also find good entries come post-coitus

[Bob Loblaw]

Mr. William b. Hand --> holy guacamole!

[plaf]

phuzion : scary shit, very expressive! *brrr*

bob loblaw : i think the green was a good choice. definitely eerie and scary.

william b hand : that's evil!



someone stop the hideous screamingggggggg

[Phuzion]

Damn William! That is some wicked shit! Very very cool. Awesome sense of action. Mad props duuuuude. Peace

[William b. Hand]

Here's that Offshoot Pic that I was threatening...

http://homepage.mac.com/forumdump/.Pictures/Banshee%20OFFSHOOT.jpg

Obviously I cranked up the contrast, and screwed around with the blur effect.

Phuzion - Awesome work!

Loblaw - Niiice. My favourite part of it is the foot of the dress.

nBT - Like 'em bothe.

Grimlohk - I dig it. Especially from the ribcage down.

Sapphire - Great face! Has the feeling of an old Faerie Tale illustration.


Loblaw, I think that's the coolest exclamation I've ellicited from anybody -- Thanks!
plaf, yar!
Phuzion, wow thanks!

[kungfu_chook]

william you have to have a go at making that work with 3d glasses, then it would be just way to scary!

hmmm have a link somewhere how to do it with 3d images, surely you could use the same principles.

Will dig it up.

[kungfu_chook]

here we go

http://pub125.ezboard.com/frustboychatfrm2.showMessage?topicID=310.topic


this is a probably a better one..........i just have any redblue glasses to test em

http://www.hollywoodindustry.com/2001/11_nov/tutorials/photoshop3dgoogly011023.htm

[devilbunny]

here's something strange and different i was trying out. didn't have time to finish it. oh well.
http://jenniferrodgers.com/banshee.jpg

[PJM]

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-11/496397/banshee.jpg

[trevor]

great work everyone
this is my first post (and first all digital painting)
hope you can view it
look me up at
www.games-match.com
and check out the first in my portfolio
for some reason i cant find the right link for the image
and i was wondering....
does anyone have some good tutorials for environments?
welll .... uh thanx

oh and mr hand..... you rock
great detail

[Beatnik]

Damn William that is awesome. I love the way you can see thru the skin like an xray or something. Very creepy and very cool.

Great participation on this one. It's nice to see the contributions have been steady. Glad to be a part of it... very inspiring group.

[William b. Hand]

kungfu_chook - Thanks for those cool links! I'll definitely give it a shot! :D

devilbunny - I was hoping you'd show up for this topic! Great hair and head -- I especially like the streaks of mascara down her cheeks!

trevor - Can't see your pic :( , but thanks for the compliment.

Beatnik - Thanks!

[OLSEN]

Phuzion: You should post here more often. I really dig your style. :)

Hunger_Artist: Love it!

Bob Loblaw: The green wash looks great, good stuff as always.

William B.: I like your first pic, good stuff!

I have a theory about the purple ones, im probably wrong about it but here goes:

The reason so many of them is purple, is that purple is the color you get when blue light hits a red surface. Purple=Moonlight on blood=scary picture.

Purple is also the color most of the western world connects to sickness, death and suffering, or so i was told.

great work all!

[nBT]

i think purple is also the colour of mysticism blue of spirituality and black being close to purple the colour of death

at least i use em that way

nBT

[hito]

late one... will paint over this sometime, soon I hope.

some obvious influences from earlier pieces.

Awsome stuff everyone!

William; Phuzion; Grim; Bob... absolute-spankingly awsome.

http://stu.aii.edu/~nll181/beansidh.jpg

[Sapphire]

Thanks, Mr. Hand, and mega props to you! Your image is spectacular... especially the first one. There's something sickening about that reddish hue tinted with green, and those teeth are so well done. How long did this take you?

[silentbrain]

http://64.191.99.205/~silentbr/dump/112003-dsg-banshee.jpg

Still screwing around with those textures. Dang I need a lot of practice. I probably should have remembered that I have some Silent Hill images with great texture use for this kinda thing...

Man I'm late...did my thumbs in class but then I got invited downtown for some drinks, and then we went to karaoke. First time doing drunk karaoke, and it is every bit as fun as they say it is, hahaha!

Damn you guys draw some seriously scary ladies...of DOOM!

[DV8]

Did the first one, then remembered that banshee's were FEMALE ghost type things :)

Number 27, slowly but surely getting caught up :)


http://www.mikephillips.ca/dsg/dsg_264_creature_banshee.jpg

[silentbrain]

go for it dv8, I'm rootin for ya! :D

[DV8]

Originally posted by silentbrain
go for it dv8, I'm rootin for ya! :D