Art Friday : Dan LuVisi’s Portraits of Movie Characters & More!
Dan LuVisi’s stunning portrait of an unmasked Predator first caught my eye in Issue 7 of Artzmania. This artwork is part of his BLACK series in his deviantART gallery in which he paints portraits of some of the most recognisable faces from movies.
© Dan LuVisi
The Predator is just one of the three works related to the Aliens vs Predator universe – the other two being a Alien Warrior and a grim Colonial Marine – I just love the glistening carapace and salivating jaws of the Alien Warrior 
© Dan LuVisi
Since then, he has gone on to paint the three major characters of the recent Batman movie, The Dark Knight for his BLACK series, two of them being the Caped Crusader himself and his arch-nemesis The Joker (below)
© Dan LuVisi
There’s other movie characters in his gallery, of the charmingly eccentric Captain Sparrow and of King Kong locked in mortal combat with a ferocious V-Rex. There’s tutorials for this particular piece if you’re interested in the techniques used in creating this piece.
© Dan LuVisi
Gamers aren’t left out either – there’s Master Chief from Halo as well as Army of Two and Crysis art amongst others in his deviantART gallery.
© Dan LuVisi
Now if you’re thinking that Dan LuVisi only does portraits of characters from popular culture, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by his original pieces like this oddly attractive shark-headed humanoid – I’m still trying to figure out where the tentacles come from
© Dan LuVisi
Or this lopsided fight between a heroic knight and a massive dragon/T-Rex hybrid.
© Dan LuVisi
Check out Dan LuVisi’s deviantART gallery and view the above pieces in their full resolution. Don’t forget to visit his blog too – there’s a cool warrior panda concept exclusive to the blog
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Awesome!!! and his collection on deviantart is really wicked!
still a long road for me to draw like that.
btw i couldn’t find the tutorial anywhere on his deviant art page,
could u hint me where it is
Hi Dian, one is the King Kong tutorial, the other is for the V-Rex. You need to download the images to view the actual tutorials.
Enjoy!
Wait… when you say paintings, do you mean actual paint and canvas kind of paintings? If so, wow!!! Just WOW!
Nope, it’s a digital painting. But still awesome IMHO.
Danny, is my oldest son. I’ll give you all a hint about his artistic talent. Although he has been blessed with atristic DNA he has been drawing from the age of 5, 5 to 10 hours a day, everyday. He is a self taught artist who wants to be the best. I purchased a electronic palette for him when he was fourteen years old; he just took off with it. He will be releasing his first book soon on the Last Man Standing concept. He has many job offers to be a company illustrator but continues to choose to be self-employed to protect his work and creativity.
I’m very proud of him, this is all he has ever wanted to do. Practice, pratice, practice…
Dad, Dan LuVisi
Danny, Great work. Even though I’ve seen these pictures more than once, they don’t seem to get old.I hope you an insperation to many people because you deserve it. OH Yah, and Mater Chief was SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your Bro, Troy
The Predator and the alien one was so cool but i like the predator one more Bye