Selina

What way to kick off the blog then with a good old Digital painting. As a batman fan and Anne hathaway "admirer", what luck that the two have crossed paths as Anne stars as Selina kyle the Catwoman in next summers The Dark Knight Rises.

For this piece I decided to freestyle a lot so the costume and mask are a mesh of old and new with some rhinestones thrown in. As you can see Selina is staring at us as she spins around her finger what is presumably the keys to the Batmobile. Originally this was never going to be a part of the illustration but after finding my source face of Anne to be somewhat uneventful and realising that I had already gone too far to do anything about it I decided that adding her arm with the key to the piece would actually bring life to the character and fit her personality as the cocky master thief.

The use of pink lighting (which you will see a lot going forward) is to emphasize her alluring and sexual nature. I purposefully heaped it on like a visual perfume to drive that point across.

For the background I have used textured brushes to establish a cloudy atmosphere, the rest is a silhouetted  gotham done from reference of a chicago skyline, with good old bats pondering posthumously on his gargoyle.

I have to say this project was a lot of fun and I do plan on revisiting the Batman universe at some point in the future.

Time to completion: 10 hours in 4 sittings.