Hello There Steemians!

I'm reposting this artwork as my entry for @lilyraabe's ART MIX-UP CONTEST, since this contest is about mixing art genres, well I just thought I have the perfect candidate for that, An animated GIF with music I did some time ago, yes the music isn't mine but by the Seatbelts as part of Cowboy Bebop's Soundtrack, I chose this specific segment of Space Lion as fits perfectly with my animation evoking those feelings of sadness and loneliness...

Here my Artwork, the silent GIF first, and then a link to Dtube and Embeded Youtube video.

Dtube video + music

Now more on the story of this piece, it started 1st as a simple sketch I had done in my sketchbook, this was being done for the ArtExplosion#22 contest.
The contest theme was "Vices"...and well I thought the smoking vice was perfect representation for it, I started looking for inspiration and references and well I came up with a sketch, here bellow you can see a still of it.

Which then was digitally coloured and tweaked a bit ending up in this:

I further made a GIF showing the different stages of the creation process, see bellow:

If I remember correctly I did all this in a rush because it was almost on the deadline for the contest...and predictably I wasn't fully satisfied with the results so after some days I revisited the thing and started to changes minor things, like colours, text position...and since I had recently experimented with doing an animated GIF that changed colours I thought why not do something similar with this one...


Well I didn't stay at just changing colours but went ahead and animated the smoke, which took me almost a whole day....then continued animating the eyes for a more dramatic effect and well it was really near to what I wanted...it just needed a bit of music and well, already told you how I came up adding that music segment.

I absolutely liked doing this and I hope doing more things like this with my own very music, of course this takes me more time but gives better results than usual drawings done in some few minutes or sometimes hours...

Feel free to share your comments about my work, what you do think about it and what makes you feel, that would be a really great feedback for me.

Thanks people!
Thanks @lilyraabe for your contest which made me post this thing again and give it a deeper look, this is really the direction I want to go as an artist...so expect more short clips like this 😀


Until next post...
Ciao 😉

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