Vanitas - Drawing Contest [4 entries]

Winning entry, with a score of:

72.7%

Contest goal:

Digital Drawing: In the world of arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with Northern European still life painting in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other places and periods.

The word is Latin, meaning "emptiness" and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of vanity. Digitally draw your own interpretation of emptiness.
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Reference photos are allowed (no copyrighted images), but links should be mentioned in your SBS. Include links for all images.

Status: finished. Check out the winners below!

Suggested by: lobusdexter

MossyB: More info: A vanitas painting, while possibly containing lovely objects, always included some reference to man's mortality ( 5 years and 3262 days ago )

downoffthedragon: MossyB is right. They almost always included a skull somewhere in the image! Actually, I can't remember a Vanitas painting that didn't include a skull. ( 5 years and 3262 days ago )

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Time Catches All - created by IDt8r

Favs: 8

SBS: 12

Hi-res

Rank: 1/4

Score: 72.7% (43)

14850 views

(5 years and 3253 days ago)

4 Sources:

12 Comments

Time, Catches, All

Crime - created by roon

Favs: 2

SBS: 7

Hi-res

Rank: 2/4

Score: 70.9% (36)

8591 views

(5 years and 3249 days ago)

1 Source:

1: for skull

10 Comments

Crime

ephemera - created by yahidithmonnalisa

Favs: 2

SBS: 11

Hi-res

Rank: 3/4

Score: 67.6% (28)

10734 views

only reference used was the skull. (5 years and 3249 days ago)

1 Source:

1: skull by topcacham

3 Comments

ephemera

Vacant thoughts - created by dollmommy

Favs: 2

SBS: 1

Hi-res

Rank: 4/4

Score: 66.3% (2)

10862 views

This is my first try at a digital drawing that was done with nothing but basic brushes and allot of experimentation on how to achieve certain looks without using styles, filters, or layer fx.
Was a real challenge but I do think I will try something like this again,
Hope it turned out ok, (5 years and 3250 days ago)

5 Comments

Vacant, thoughts