My PotO Drawings :D

Hello, I'm an illustrator and I'd like to share with you my PotO drawings

This is a very "quick" series (of the dresses I'd dream to make or finish!) with no line or specific shading I usually make these ones during my lunch break which is VERY long by the way >_<

Each pic took me about 30 min, they are all made with Photoshop









This one uses a longer technique

Beautiful work, Mary! You're very talented

R.

I agree, they are really nice. I'm totally in love with that Aminta one!

Thank you so much! You are two talented persons too!

The Aminta drawing is also my favourite. This is the first drawing I made for this series

Mary, those pics are beautiful! I especially love the aminta one; really classy and stylish. I can't wait to see more!
OG

Thank you so much! I have some other ideas to complete the series

Melly wrote:Thank you so much! I have some other ideas to complete the series

Are we allowed to know what those are, or are they secret?
You should do a big PONR one with the Phantom and Christine!
OG

Oh! I made a sketch of this! (PONR)
But I'm not satisified with this one yet

Well, for now I was planning to sketch this kind of thing (I'm in love with those TUTUs!)



I can't draw complicated pictures since I only have my lunch break to draw for me (and I still have commissions to finish - people asking their character drawn by me, etc... It helps me to finance the costume I make during the Week end haha).

Melly wrote:Oh! I made a sketch of this! (PONR)
But I'm not satisified with this one yet

Well, for now I was planning to sketch this kind of thing (I'm in love with those TUTUs!)



I can't draw complicated pictures since I only have my lunch break to draw for me (and I still have commissions to finish - people asking their character drawn by me, etc... It helps me to finance the costume I make during the Week end haha).

Aw, please show the sketch! The sylvan glade picture sounds cool. Are you going to focus on a particular production for that pic, or will it just be random?
OG

I don't have the sketch here since I'm at work (baaaad girl!) but it was nothing but "potatoes shapes that only me can understand haha"! If I think of it I'll show you, but for the moment my idea is to restart everything from the beginning I wanted the phantom to be barely visible, you know, with his black costume

Concerning the ballerinas I think that I'll draw only one girl with the flowered ark I'll use the same technique as the other drawings, with this kind of "pastel" rendering

Your work is so gorgeous!

I hope to see more stage-show drawings! The Wishing dress and the Amnita dress are truly beautiful!

I love your style. It reminds me of the new Disney Princess's merchandise. You're very talented.

Thanks a lot!

Yes, Disney inspired me a lot and these movies are one of the strongest reason that revealed the artist in me So it's a part of my general style

Et voila!

I've found the time to color the sketch I made some weeks before. I still need to start my ballerina now
Oh my... I WANT this dress O_O

Please god, don't let me find a salmon taffetas randomly >_<

Melly wrote:Et voila!

I've found the time to color the sketch I made some weeks beforE. I still need to start my ballerina now
Oh my... I WANT this dress O_O

Please god, don't let me find a salmon taffetas randomly >_<

I love it!
OG

I highly approve of you featuring apples in all your Aminta illustrations

R.

Oh, that one's gorgeous! I particularly like the use of highlights for the Phantom's cloak.

~LCD

Thanks everybody

(A phantom apple a day keeps the doctor away )

Wow, the Phantom almost looks like death behind her! :O

ML6 wrote:Wow, the Phantom almost looks like death behind her! :O

I've often gotten those vibes from seeing the scene, and I think it might be intentional from the costume designer. It's a robe traditionally associated with death figures, both in sculptures, in Grim Reaper depictions and in death personifications in popular culture. One example is Death from Monty Python's "Meaning of Life":



But I would assume the movie Amadeus, which ALW has admitted served as inspiration for him, also influenced the design. In the Don Giovanni (Don Juan) performed there, they have a long table with red table cloth, decked with finery. Don Giovanni and his servants are dressed in Renaissance styles clothes, and in enters a black draped Death (here in the figure of a statue whom Don Giovanni mockingly invited for dinner). The overall design is not too unlike Phantom's own Don Juan.



In Mozart's opera the statue descends down to hell through the floor, and drags Don Giovanni with him. Makes me wonder if the following scene of Phantom is a meta reference, since they too descend "down to hell":

"Down once more to my dungeon of my black despair, down we plunge to the prison of my mind...
Down this path into darkness deep as hell!"


But I'm digressing.... I'm loving the apple PONR new Don Juan illustration!

Those are all absolutely beautiful, Mary. I particularly like the pose in the first one.

CG

Operafantomet > thanks for these details this is really funny since I've named this illustration 'the Angel of Death on my deviant art gallery! I've always seen the metaphor of Death here. It's interesting to learn how ALW came to this idea

Thanks again everybody!

Given the sensuality of the scene, I wonder if there's a "little death" pun going on somewhere as well...

~LCD

LadyCDaae wrote:Given the sensuality of the scene, I wonder if there's a "little death" pun going on somewhere as well...

Maybe the new tour should throw a midget Don Juan in there just to make it more obvious

R.

And somewhere, Joel Schumacher is slapping is forehead and saying "That's it! I should have put the midget in the Don Juan scene--that would have fixed everything!"

~LCD

LadyCDaae wrote:And somewhere, Joel Schumacher is slapping is forehead and saying "That's it! I should have put the midget in the Don Juan scene--that would have fixed everything!"

Somebody stop him so I can do the slapping for him. I'll even bring my own hammer to do so

R.

After looking at your deviantART page, I soooo want to make Melly's costume from the Painful Day picture. Also, I'm in love with your art nouveau drawings. I just love your style.

I somehow missed all the fuss here.

Melly, you are quite talented! Love how much fidelity you have to the stage costumes while still retaining your own fun, distinct style. That last PonR one with the shadowing Phantom is really fantastic with the way you've employed the contrasts of warm and cool colors to depict the Phantom and Christine, respectively.

I look forward to seeing more of your work in the future and thank you for sharing

~Madame~

Thanks a lot ♥

(again) ^^

Hey I didn't post this here? It was for the Music day ! I'm late