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Submitted: December 19, 2004
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The Seven Deadly Sins: VANITYby `dahlig

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Fantasy

..Or if you prefer: Pride - Mother of all sins.

First one of the, duh, Seven Deadly Sins serie.

"Vanity is an excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise."

symbolism?
It's all pretty obvious but I will explain some stuff which inspired me, to sound cool, mind you.

- As you can read up, vanity is linked with the color violet, so here you go the color theme.
- Peacocks remind me of vanity as well, therefore I have used a peacock feather as an inspiration for the "frame".
- You can see the background being desertish (plus the dead tree)... Vain people usually never see any beauty in the world, but only in themselves... That is why everything around them, sooner or later, dies - and that is what I have tried to depicture.

techy info:
lady's props based on my (pencil) sketch based on a couple o' refs, refs for textures.
you can see some art nouveau inspirations in the frame - my tribute to A. Mucha, as he is my idol

Generally it is my most thought-through and time consuming piece and I need to say I am satisfied with it

Around 60 hours or so, as some parts were hell to finish, seriously :/

Anyway, I hope you like it, comments, critiques, favs welcome!

Coming next (someday): Envy :]

Update 19.01.2005: ENVY CAN BE SEEN HERE: [link] :]

PS. No I am not really religious, I just found the Seven Deadly Sins a really inspiring subject.

PS2. THIS DEV WILL BE AVAILABLE AS PRINTOUT AS SOON AS ADMINS ACCEPT IT

love 383 383

joy 141 141

wow 323 323

~Sherry492 Dec 6, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Impressive!i love you

~jkseraphim Nov 14, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

this is awesome! keep it up

~storminsky Oct 1, 2012

awesome!

~dondukesofdeviantart Oct 1, 2012

I think you took great PRIDE in bringing this beautiful artwork together...Love the dark and mystic purple in this pic...Beautiful girl, but way too much into herself...Never known anyone to make narcissism look so wonderful as this...I LOVE IT...I think we all have PRIDE within us when it comes to bringing out the best of ourselves...It's the way we go about doing so and how it affects our mental outcome when we show too much...Nothing wrong with being proud only to an extend...Anyway great work and love, love, love your depiction of VANITY here...Look like she belongs in a VANITY magazine or on the front cover...Nice pose, nice dress, nice everything.