Sad Dita in Snow

Title inspired by Fred Gallagher's Sad Girl in the Snow/Sad Kimiko in Snow piece.


Yep, this is the piece I've been cooking up these past weeks; since I was going for something heavily based on a similar Half-Life 2 promo artwork of Gordon Freeman, it took me quite a long while to brainstorm the whole thing. But now here it is, my latest artwork of the Half-Life incarnation of my beloved Dita Landucci looking rather melancholy, walking in the streets of a ruined City 17, and with the snow starting to fall.
And yes, the snow in my artwork reflects the fact that the winter/Christmas season is nigh.


By the way, aside from adding a little bit of transparent white over the picture to get that subtle hazy winter effect, I also used the gradient and the Gaussian blur tools in a rather clever manner to get the "foreground blurring into the background" effect here. It's not quite evident, but yes, it's there.


Can be used as a wallpaper, but beware of the extremely high resolution/file size when downloading.


Dita Landucci/Michiko Gotoh © me
Megatokyo © Fred Gallagher & Rodney Caston
Half-Life © Valve