Black Widow

Black Widow dwells in a deep dark cave, where she takes her drugged, posioned &/or hypnotized victims - none of them would even know how they died until they're dead! Being half-human & half-spider, she has 4 human arms & 4 spider legs.

This illustration was inspired by Arachne. In Greek mythology, Arachne was a famous, talented & overconfident mortal weaver who challenged Athena to a weaving contest. The goddess, enraged at Arachne's insulting depitction of the immortals in her tapestry, cursed Arachne & turned her into a spider.

Phase 1

Inspired by the story of Arachne, after leafing through my beat-up mythology book - I put a Black Widow & her victim on paper.

A spider has 8 limbs. So I divided the 8 limbs equally, my Black Widow, being half-human & half-spider. I drew her so she has 4 human arms & 4 spider legs.

Her victim has dead staring eyes. I chose to give him the expression as one being in a trance rather than the look of horror.

Phase 2

Outlined figures in ink.

Phase 3

Added more thread-like bonds around the Black Widow & her victim.

Phase 5

Rendered rock formations.

Phase 6

Rendered body, head & hair of victim.

Phase 7

Rendered upper torso, head & hair of Black Widow.

Phase 8

Rendered lower (spider) half of Black Widow's body.

Added texture to all thread-like bonds.

Phase 9

Added semi-solid rounded backround.

Added Gothic rose & skull decorations.

Phase 10

Rendered background with pointillist technique, starting from the solid black outline then gradually fading into white into the center.

Phase 11

Rendered roses & skulls.

Finished.

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1. Coroflot
2. DeviantART
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