Artist Focus: thiago-almeida

Today's artist focus is one another person from DeviantART: thiago-almeida

He is mainly known for his highly detailed black and white sketches of various monstrous fantasy creatures or mechanical humanoid figures. However, I will be showing two of his less common pieces: full color artwork. There were many to choose from, but I went with two of pictures of the sci-fi bounty hunter Samus Aran from Nintendo's Metroid franchise. She is one of my favorite fictional characters due her not only having awesome armor but that she is a strong female character who doesn't exist simply to be eye candy like so many other women in video games.

 

This first picture is simply titled Samus. I really like the colors and lighting used here, with strong contrasts between both the warm of the orange and the cool blue of the background to the strong difference in lighting that really makes this piece pop. I must say I also really like the dynamic pose.

Thiago-almeida's second piece is titled Super Metroid, and features the monstrous alien Kraid approaching our hero in the distance. I appreciate all the detail put into the armor and think that the lighting is wonderfully creepy. It's sort of a cool, sick blue-green that serves to make the corpulent form of Kraid all the more intimidating. The fact that Samus is seemingly still unaware of Kraid adds tension to the piece that is lacking in the first image.

If you want to see more of his work I've included this handy link: http://thiago-almeida.deviantart.com/gallery/