20 Stunning Illustrations of Surreal Female Characters
Artists and illustrators often display their artwork hoping of not only showing their abilities and skills, but also to inspire creativity amongst its viewers.
In this showcase, you will witness a wide range of creative styles, featuring female characters as the subject, by some of the world’s most talented illustrators, artists, and designers.
1. Sadness by Tang Yuehui
2. Pink Sugar by Olivier Ponsonnet
3. Boudicca 3060 A.D. by John Kearney
4. sweet as candy by Neville Dsouza
5. Floating by Sue Marino
6. Anna Marie by Michel Victor Oliveira
7. The magic light by Natsuki-3
8. Cookies (part of the Painting I collection) by Antoine Helbert
9. Character by Richard Wright
10. Beautiful lilac by Tang Yuehui
11. Strange Autumn by Maria Alaeva
12. Queen Triffidia by John Kearney
13. Fiery birds by Maria Alaeva
14. Karina’s Familiar by Sue Marino
15. Open Green by Andrius Balciunas
16. Morgan le Fay by Diane Ozdamar
17. Tomb Raider by Mike Thompson
18. Pandora by Marta Dahlig
19. Biker Eyes by Andrea Bertaccini
20. Submergence by Daniel Conway
Which one is your favorite illustration?
Which one among this collection inspires you the most and why? Do you have other favorites not mentioned here? Share them in the comments!
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30 Comments
Ryan Rampersad
July 18th, 2009
#7, the magic light is my favorite. I like the lighting.
Janiczek
July 18th, 2009
Oh my!
9, 14, 15 and 18 are my favorites … especially 15 is way too real not to be a photo :D
Seth Etter
July 18th, 2009
I really really like the very last one, Submergence. Awesome concept and great looking art.
Astrid Garcia
July 18th, 2009
For me it has to be Character by Richard Wright. So photo-realistic and I love the texture of her skin and the artist’s ability with light.
Santhos Webdesign
July 18th, 2009
These are just to awesome! 15 and 19 look so real!!
Matt S
July 18th, 2009
I love Submergence the most out of all of the above images, it’s really great. The others are really well done as well, but for me, Submergence takes the cake; really good list, thanks for sharing!
mrids
July 18th, 2009
so nice and graceful illustrations…some of them looks so real..!!
donohue
July 19th, 2009
WOW！how wonderful
samuel pushpak
July 19th, 2009
some real talent..
LuViWeb.it
July 19th, 2009
It’s very difficult to chose the best one.
this image are all bountiful!
I like the green tonality so Sadness by Tang Yuehui, the first one, is probably my favourite.
I have also appreciate The magic light by Natsuki-3, for the light (in fact),it transmit me a feeling of inner calm
SteVon
July 20th, 2009
1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15 are HOT! I especially love their lips–you have great technique for their lips! Highly kissable and yummy! The cleft below their nose on the top lip is really sexy—denotes women who really love to make love! They are usually experts at pleasure, too. Skilled lovers!! should know. Congratulations on such fine works, Lilian!!
~SteVon (Inventor of the Slightest Touch.)
Phaoloo
July 20th, 2009
Ya, there are stunning :D
Moneca S. Real
July 20th, 2009
Beautiful Lilac by Tang Yuehui
gorgeous
Mihai
July 20th, 2009
You forgot to add the femals from Need for Speed :P (last 2)
ntiremedia
July 20th, 2009
the womens of NFS are stunning no one cab for get them Mihai
Jessica
July 20th, 2009
‘Submergence’ is definitely my favorite. Surreal to the fullest.
Binoj Xavier
July 21st, 2009
Dazzling!
Jacob Gube
July 21st, 2009
Thanks for you comments everyone, my favorite one is Sadness by Tang Yuehui. The one issue I had with it was that the frog on the right was too prominent, unnecessarily detracting away from the subject.
Also just some news to get you all excited: seeing as many people enjoyed this article, Lilian is going to be writing more articles here on Six Revisions, bringing in his taste and talent for digital art into the mix.
Rajesh
July 21st, 2009
awesome collection.
my fav one is Morgan le Fay
Joni Heikkinen
July 21st, 2009
Great collection! These are really beautiful and inspirational pieces of work. Please do post more articles like this!
I’d like to share one of my paintints with you guys, hope you like it http://koornac.deviantart.com/art/Autumn-girl-77865667
Adrian
July 21st, 2009
My favorites:
#1 because i like the leaves and the picture has a (kind of) sad mood but the person doesn’t look that sad. It is kind of like the person had been sitting there and eventually got tired of it.
#7 because it was probably really hard to make the light from the butterfly affect the person’s hair like that, especially the bottom. Also the person’s head has an (i think) irregular shape.
#20 because it is wierd like that it would never happen in real life. The person kind of looks like a fish.
Jens
July 23rd, 2009
Nice collection but hmm SixRevisions go for illustraction art? I though this blog is for Web developer and designer? The reason I RSS this blog is I can found the best developer/design tools and tips, if I want to find some illustraction or art related, sure there are other better blogs and web site for me. It’s like you subscribe an SEO blog but he write an Logo design article, I don’t think reader would want to continue subscribe it. I think SixRevisions should focus on what you doing which you are doing great right now, not putting everything into one place and become a yahoo.
kittu
July 24th, 2009
1 – d sadness in her eyes is potrayed beautifully
7 – for her innocense
17- tomb raider is anything but tomb raider!!!!
olunatic
July 27th, 2009
what program do they use to make these kinds of things?
Jacob Gube
July 28th, 2009
@olunatic: Probably Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or a modeling/animation/rendering software such as 3D Studio Max.
Eiya
July 31st, 2009
5 and 18!
IF only I could do those…it would be wonderful..
Pedro de Castro
August 2nd, 2009
20 is captive. everything is in the right place. and the colours… great!
fazulas
August 3rd, 2009
really or fiction??
cool!!.
Ashely Adams
November 26th, 2009
One word to describe the collection is beautiful….Even Queen Triffidia and Karina look stunning…I loved the intricate designing done on beautiful lilac….There are better graphics for Tomb Raider…The innocence and purity of magic light has touched my heart….And last but not the least, I was bowled over by the idea and graphical output of Submergence; surely the best was reserved for the end…..Thanks for this lovely post….
XY.XX
February 2nd, 2010
Compared to the “20 Stunning & Surreal Illustrations of Male Characters” post that Lilian has posted later, every picture here look alike. Or rather, every face.
No, this is NOT criticism of the artists. I do think they drew them very well, and it shows that they were obviously aiming for one thing: To depict the most beautiful woman in the world… with the very best of their abilities.
Though they did it with immense talent, the fact that twenty of the best female character art in the Internet portray young, attractive women is a bit of a problem. Don’t get me wrong, I actually think this is more of a reflection on society’s view on the gender, or what it wants out of the gender.
Ok, I’m betting you don’t know what I’m talking about. Look for the “20 Stunning & Surreal Illustrations of Male Characters” post within this blog, and browse through the works. Observe the variety of subjects in the paintings, which vary from age, looks, status, genre, etc. etc. And the works seem to be full of sophistication; some displaying a deep study of the subject … or as Lilian pointed out in the title “Surreal”.
Now compare to the works in this post.
The jury will now decide… happy brain-storming.
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