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[Art Nouveau] Antoinette Lammers

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Vixenkiba Art Nouveau


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(Please full-view, because for some reason the smaller view looks completely horrible, haha)


It is done. I honestly consider this my best artwork in my entire portfolio, and I'm incredibly proud of it.

My mother is a concert pianiste, and her birthday is coming up next week, so I decided to finally draw this, since I finally felt confident enough. My mother also loves everything to do with art, and art nouveau in special, which is how I got the inspiration. That, and I got a LOT of inspiration from VikJones who has drawn several amazing art nouveau commissions of my TerrApocalypse characters. I finally created my own :love:

Almost everything in this artwork is hand drawn, except for the sheet music behind the dogs and in the bottom. I drew the piano keys and the background piano using the pen tool in Photoshop (without it I couldn't have done it), including every. single. string. You may count the strings if you like, there's the exact amount there that a grand piano has! All instruments were drawn with the help of photos, and the text in the bottom was created with the help of several artworks by Alphonse Mucha. I must admit that the lower part of the dress was drawn directly from one of Alphonse Mucha's artworks; "Music" (appropriate huh?), and I heavily referenced the pose of "Music" as well! The corners of the artwork contain my (and my mother's) dogs, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniël and a bastard-Kooiker. Oh yeah, and the reason for the violin and flute is that my mother is super skilled on those instruments as well!

The sheet music in the background is from Automne from the amazing componist Chaminade. While drawing, I often listened to this beautiful work as played by my mother on her CD. Sadly my mother's version cannot be found on the internet, but here is a version I found on YouTube

A special thanks goes to queenofeagles, keokotheshadowfang, DaffyDaydreamer, Lady-Abbington, and Eleynah who were there for most of the time during my streams to give me A LOT of advice on composition, colouring, extra details, and I don't know what, omg guys, without you I couldn't have done it! Streams are so motivating to me <3

I sincerely hope my mother will like it! (I bet she will!)

~Vixenkiba

EDIT: I had no idea about DA's print sizes... I now put a border around it so I can actually print it and send it to my mother!


Time taken: 30 hours
Number of layers: 76 (normally I only use 5, holy smokes)
Music listened while drawing:
:bulletorange: Automne - Chaminade :bulletblack: Antoinette Lammers - Stilleven (CD) :bulletorange:


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Love art nouveau style!