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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4 comments:

  1. Dian, Friday, August 15th, 2008, 8:07 am

    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 :)

     
  2. Roys, Friday, August 15th, 2008, 10:17 am

    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!

     
  3. Kenny, Saturday, August 16th, 2008, 1:25 am

    Wait… when you say paintings, do you mean actual paint and canvas kind of paintings? If so, wow!!! Just WOW!

     
  4. Roys, Saturday, August 16th, 2008, 4:09 pm

    Nope, it’s a digital painting. But still awesome IMHO.

     

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