Showgirl AU Lucanis Artwork!

[andromedaxyz]

 
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I wanna do a shortform video about this because I have a Tiktok, but that's a task for another day haha.

This is a new favorite. A new favorite out of ALL of my artworks. I love AUs that are a bit different and unexpected for my blorbos and those kinds of experiments tickle my soul. I love doing this Showgirl AU artwork I did to my favorite bi demi disaster assassin.

I found a pose for this one and thought, uh oh, time to add the 2nd artwork in my Glamcanis series. And here we birthed another baby. I've always wanted to present an aesthetic/sartorial side of Lucanis Dellamorte that's a bit more maximalist and queer.
This one is inspired by vintage performer backstages, Dita Von Teese, drag/burlesque aesthetics, and Adam Lambert (the guy that really started my hyperfixation for the Glamcanis AU). How can we ignore the crow feathers for the Antivan Crow.

A personal metric I have for an artwork is whether or not this is very close to a certain art style I'm aiming for, and I think this one passes the metric. I wanted to bump up the realism in the human form, as well as how the outfit details can seem it can look like something wearable in real life. For the corset details, I was debating whether or not to use a stock brush for the pearls, but it turns out rendering each pearl piece by piece makes the feel more realistic and makes more sense to the light and shadow. I'm glad I didn't take a shortcut for this one.
 

For my process, best I can provide is a reference board (Photoshop does not do timelapses I fear, and I don't wanna use OBS for this. I've recently downloaded a plugin, which in the future I'll use.). This helps for the painting style I wanna achieve, as well as the outfit and hair inspiration. I also needed this for rendering the scars, which I haven't done before.