The Seven Deadly Sins: VANITY by BlacKeri

2D • Fantasy • posted on Dec 19, 2004

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Description

..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 :/ Anyway, I hope you like it, comments, critiques, favs welcome! Coming next (someday): Envy :] PS. No I am not really religious, I just found the Seven Deadly Sins a really inspiring subject.

Comments (147)

PC1989

7:39PM | Mon, 01 August 2005

Beautiful! I love the other ones in your series as well. Keep up the excellent work, im anxious to see your next ones. :)

Ionhelen

7:30PM | Mon, 05 September 2005

Hey you!!! Great to see a fellow DA artist here. I've always loved this work. God bless, keep it up!

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AGentleMuse

10:10AM | Thu, 29 September 2005

Gorgeous!!!

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jjean21

8:31PM | Mon, 21 November 2005

The symbolsim you've described is marvelous and this work is even more so. Your talents are such a gift and your work such a total pleasure to view.

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annita

2:30AM | Wed, 05 July 2006

This is just perfect. What a awesome image. Real piece of art. I love it!!!

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MidnightPlatinum

1:41PM | Sun, 16 July 2006

Very good! Excellent color and background. Image seems to maybe be a bit too fantastical for its message though. It could almost use a darker touch to dampen its image, its almost too fun of an image!

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Aral3D

7:27AM | Wed, 16 August 2006

Absoloutly charming!!!Really well done no doubt and stunning the symbols you used explain perfectly what vanity really is!!!Excellent one of my fav of course!!!!

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Kaerobani

1:20PM | Sun, 10 September 2006

stunning artwork!!1 love the details :)

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Strangechilde

3:25PM | Thu, 12 October 2006

This is very striking-- arresting even. I love the colours, and the background blows me away. Your hard work certainly was well worth it!

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shanpoo

9:56PM | Wed, 15 November 2006

Fav image! This image is the coolest I have seen in a long time! All the gorgeous details and such beautiful clarity. You are extremely talented...Shannon ;} excellent render and rating!

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Josel007

6:11PM | Mon, 27 November 2006

Wonderfull, congratulations !!!

paradigm

5:51PM | Thu, 30 November 2006

So many pics on Rendo but how much is ART? You're an inspiration THXS!!!xxx.

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shahlaa

7:39AM | Tue, 05 December 2006

This is art in it's finest form, wonderfully done!

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kenmo

7:58AM | Tue, 02 January 2007

Simply mind blowing....!!!!

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mikeerson

1:13AM | Wed, 03 January 2007

I found you on the art charts... Cool series you decided to create with the seven deadly sins. I Think you did a great job on all of them.

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hhemken

11:10PM | Thu, 04 January 2007

The dress! Tell me you didn't do it with the cloth simulator or I'll shoot myself!

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DennisReed

6:56PM | Wed, 24 January 2007

An absolute Gem! Bravo!

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MaydaMason

8:59AM | Tue, 30 January 2007

i really love her expression and hairs! the overall purple palette fits perfectly to your message!

ladyaquarius1962

9:00PM | Sat, 03 February 2007

I love the purple hues...

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Tangaroa

6:52AM | Sun, 11 February 2007

wow, this is beautiful, clever, and just a wonder to behold.

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HADCANCER

3:51AM | Sun, 18 February 2007

simply the best

DINGOH

2:00PM | Wed, 28 February 2007

Wow, she is SO beatiful

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mickeyrony

4:03PM | Wed, 28 February 2007

Oh mirror say me which is more Beatiful..... And well you have the answer . Bravo it veiled now .She is sublime and this color monopolizes us for appreciated more and more Tank you mile time at you((5))..................................((Oh miroir dis moi qui est la plus Belle..... Et bien voila maintenant tu as la ronse .Bravo elle est sublime et cette couleur nous accapare pour l'appri de plus en plus Mercimile fois toi((5))

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