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Victor and Nora - Finished by ~No-Sign-of-Sanity:iconNo-Sign-of-Sanity:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Fanart > Cartoons/Comics

©2006-2009 ~No-Sign-of-Sanity
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EDIT #2: Image updated... again - I've adjusted a few more things to really push the transparency of the reflection and really make the hand in the foreground pop. Thanks to both *Indigo-Ocean and *zimm for their very helpful thoughts on how to improve this piece. Okay, that's it now, I'm not touching it again!!! :shakefist:........................... ;p

EDIT: Image updated - I woke up this morning and I saw a few things in the image that needed a fixin'... so... I fixed 'em ;)

Okay, I know this looks almost identical to the WIP progress version of this piece I posted before, but believe me it’s much different. There’s a lot more depth to both the textures and the characters, and I’ve got the pencil rendering calluses on my fingers to prove it! So, let’s just call this Mister Freeze v2.0 ;)

For those not familiar with the character, Victor Fries is a scientist desperately in love with his wife, Nora, who was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease. Rather than watch her slowly fade away, he chose to place her in frozen stasis to halt the progress of the disease until he could discover the cure. When the head of the company that Fries worked for tried to have Nora removed from stasis, Victor desperately struggled to stop him. During the physical exchange Victor fell through a table filled with toxic freezing chemicals that freakishly altered his body chemistry. Now unable to live outside of subzero temperatures, Victor is forced to don a special cooling suit to stay alive, and has turned to a life of crime in order to continue to fund the search to find a cure for his wife.

I wanted to try and do a portrait of the man that focused more on his motivations than his nifty freezy powers. So here Victor is reaching out to caress the cheek of his wife thru the glass chamber where she is frozen in stasis before he goes out and commits another crime. I also liked the idea of her looking down on his reflection as though somehow she knows that he's doing this all for her.

This is just a two-part pencil rendering tinted and compiled in Photoshop.

A desktop version for your computer can be found here :pointr: [link]

"Mister Freeze", "Victor Fries", and "Nora Fries" characters © DC Comics
This image of "Victor Fries", and "Nora Fries"© Walter O’Neal 2006

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Victor and Nora - Finished by *No-Sign-of-Sanity is a prime example of why I can NEVER practice enough! Now what did I do with my pencils??? (Featured by `dholms)

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~Sapphires-Earthquake Jul 18, 2006, 2:11:49 AM
:) wow

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~Larsanders77 Jul 18, 2006, 2:38:44 AM
That is just very awesome. You did a great job on both expression, anatomy, detail.
Great classic style you got there, and I love the take on both characters.
I don't know much about drawing, but I know what I like. This is surely a gem!!

Great job mate!!

Lars

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*LissaMonster Jul 18, 2006, 2:39:02 AM
I think this is an exceptionally well-done execution of your concept. Beautifully drawn and, from the WIPs, lots of work! This is gorgeous!!

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~BacklashCBD Jul 18, 2006, 2:45:50 AM
This is much better man, im glad to see his eyes are not to red, the details and expressions are amazing. Awesome job. :heart:

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=Indigo-Ocean Jul 18, 2006, 2:48:33 AM
That is a really really amazing piece. You've done an all round fantastic job, but to me, the digitally added red in his eyes really lets the entire piece down. I don't think it's in keeping with the style and mood of the rest of the image, and I think it detracts from the image. It's not the colour so much as the way it's been done, it's too perfectly oval. You can also see that the colour doesn't extend to the frames of the glasses/goggles. The rest of the piece is so delicatly and beautifully composed, it's just a shame that such an obvious part detracts so much.
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~AlexBonaro Jul 18, 2006, 2:48:52 AM
amazing, i don't know if i faved the wip of this. Love the red eyes especially. funnily enough i only just now noticed that the arm in the forground is a reflection of the mister freeze guy (or vice versa). It seems completely obvious now. Great work. Some of the best pencil work i've ever seen. :+fav:
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~skincarver462 Jul 18, 2006, 3:20:35 AM
this work is as good as anything alex ross puts out

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=Themrock Jul 18, 2006, 4:07:51 AM
When there will be a "the best Batman pics"-voting, I will take this on 1st place.

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~icarus126 Jul 18, 2006, 5:20:37 AM
great work!

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~amazonwolf Jul 18, 2006, 5:47:39 AM
This is so wonderful. The textures are well done, and the reflection in the glass isjust perfect. I like that glove a lot for some reason, it's very realistic. The frost on the glass is an excellent touch too. Great job!

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