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Theodora mosaic

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Ican't believe I was able to finish this. It took me a lot of effort. Every detail is made digitally by my tiny hands XDThe the gold is made by a mix of textures I found on Google.Obv this is inspired by the famous byzanthine mosaic upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

Theodora was the empress, wife of Jiustinian. This mosaic is the twin of his husband's, both in San Vitale church in Ravenna. lamiaprofdiarte.altervista.org…

It was very hard to me, to do this piece, because I usually prefer the lineart more than the coloring. Here, colors needed a very special care. I challanged my skills and it was tiring! I am non happy about the colouring of the curtains, nor the floor.

I do am happy about the shadings on women's clothes.Theodora's crown was indeed the most fun to do: I love drawing shiny things, and there were a LOT!
Her dress is the most simple, even if she has to be the most important figure in here. Maybe it is on purpose: she is the only one who wears a simple tunic, but has a very big and shiny crown; that is in contrast with the others who wear very peculiar dresses, but have ordinary face and hairstyle.
I really enjoyed doing all the patterns on the women clothes. I often blame myself because I lack of fantsy in inventing patterns; now I have experimented a few, which I am going to resuse in need XD

I kept the hierarchical prespective (more high is the political role of the subject, more big his portrait will be).


I hope you will enjoy this, because to me was a great fatigue. As I finished, I felt like having defeat a big evil monster XDI'd also love to hear your opinion, in a critique or a comment. thank you!!
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