marurenai

I am an artist that use both traditional and digital media, among my favourite subjects there are portraits and fanart 

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  "Springtime in Kyoto"

An early morning view of Kyoto, a place I wish I could visit sometime, For now, I content myself with google street view (many thanks for its existence, to all the people working for it). In this way I was able to discover this vista down a slope in the Higashiyama district, that enchanted me and prompted me to make this painting even if I was worried because landscapes aren't my forte and I knew it could take me a lot of effort and time...

Used photoshop cs5 and wacom bamboo tablet (all painted from scratch)

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"Sprigtime in Kyoto wip "

 I am working on, for me, a challenging and time consuming subject. For now here I post this wip, a line art sketch, and soon I hope to be able to show you the final piece: a   digital painting in full color :)

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Some steps of the making of my portrait of Amelie (see my previous post) :)

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Hi All, I've just finished this little digital painting... a studio from a screenshot of Audrey Tautou as the title character from the film " Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain" directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (swipe to see the reference), One of my favorite movie of all times. I am very fond of its magical atmosphere, created also by the wonderful soundtrack by Yann Tiersen. Used photoshop cs5 and wacom bamboo tablet.  

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Just a simple portrait of an albino girl from my imagination , hope you like it  :)

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"Winter dusk lights"

I love to paint portraits, but in this I wished to concentrate on landscape and architecture instead. I choose to depict Shirakawa-go, a beautiful Unesco world heritage site in Japan, with its beautiful wooden houses with thatched roofs in the gassho-zukuri (hands in prayer) style. I wanted to transmit how, in the middle of winter, with a lot of snow, the lights from the windows give a sense of human warmth..although I've never been there....(to paint it, I used several photo references found on the web).How are your winters? Where I live, it snows very rarely and just a little bit...

Used photoshop cs5 with wacom bamboo tablet 

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"Kindness"  Kindness is like a warm light in the cold darkness, love for our neighbor is what keeps us going and even more in these difficult times, that's what I tried to depict in this picture. I started to work on it about an year ago, and I manage to finish it now..

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A portrait of Thorin II Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) I did in 2018 (Pencil sketch, watercolour and photoshop , A4 circa)

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"Thor"Hi all...long time no see...I hope you are well...It's a lot of time that I am not active on my social media accounts. From now on I hope to be here more often...Before posting new stuff I need to finish to post my old works, So here is a portrait of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) done by me in 2018 and a few "steps". (used ps cs5 and wacom bamboo tablet, see reference in my previous post).

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Thor

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A portrait of Thor (Chris Hemsworth) done by me in 2018. I made this as an exercise in changing the angle of his face from the photo reference here showed beside..  

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"Light" I'd like to dedicate this painting to morganemgl on instagram :). Thank you!  

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Hi, Long time no see.... I hope you are well :) This is my finished piece "Mermaid"( I posted some WIPs on my instagram ). I also recently made an ARTSTATION account, you find me at Maru Renai :)

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a step-by-step video about my work process on this portrait of WW (in my previous post) All started with a very quick tiny sketch with a ball-point pen (biro) and it continued with some changes using ps cs5 (tablet wacom bamboo). Hope you'll enjoy!!! :)

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A Wonder Woman painting I did in 2017, done with Wacom bamboo tablet and Photoshop cs5  :)  

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"Firefly" Hello! Long time no see....I hope you are doing well :) From now on, I'll resume my activity on Tumblr and other social media (DeviantArt , Instagram and Facebook ...). Here's an other one of my old works, posted on Deviantart in September 2017. In this painting I aimed to evoke a summernight  mood, let me know if I succeeded... 

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Moana

My tribute to the Disney movie🌺

I portrayed Moana, Maui in his hawk form and some of the many animals of the hawaiian sea.I have chosen to depict the animals as baby-creatures (in order to do so, I have done some researches on their actual appareances...)All painted in Photoshop cs5 with wacom bamboo from scratch, 2017 year.

In my previous post you can see a close-up. :)

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A preview detail from my Moana painting :) All painted in Photoshop cs5 with wacom bamboo from scratch.