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The Portfolio of Janis L.C. Viens
A recreation of a scene from The Matrix with Neo and Morbious sitting in a dark room, but in a geometric style with limited colors

Movie Project

Franchise - The Matrix

Medium - Adobe Illustrator

Date - February 2019

A part of an assignment for Foundation class, where we boil down a scene's colors down to the bare minumum. One of the films we were allowed to use was The Matrix, and I took this simple shot and made it into a cubist's dream.

A lanky, classy lady with a spider motif

DnD Character 3rd

Creator - ???

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - August 2019

Part of a series of commissions for a client for their roleplaying characters.

THAT frame of King Harkinian from Link: The Faces of Evil

The King

Franchise - The Legend of Zelda

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - August 2020

King Harkinian from the Zelda CD-i titles. Redraw of a particular frame from one of the game's cutscenes.

Shu Shirakawa with his hand outstretched to the viewer

Shu Shirakawa

Franchise - Super Robot Wars

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - March 2021

Very dramatic portrait emulating one of the in-game frames.

Jody Summer from F-Zero with intense comic-shading

Jody Summer (Or Summers?)

Franchise - F-Zero

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - September 2021

Portrait taking inspiration from F-Zero X's artstyle with heavy comic book shading.

A poster of the No Straight Roads cast

NSR Encore

Franchise - No Straight Roads

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - October 2021

Art piece for an open art collaboration between fans and the creators of NSR to get their works featured in the definitive edition of the game.

Chef Saltbaker from Cuphead's DLC brandishing a knife with his head erupting into salt pillars

A Dish to Die For

Franchise - Cuphead

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - July 2022

Caute Cave Mortem

Peppino Spaghetti from Pizza Tower sticking his hand into an oven

It's Pizza Time

Franchise - Pizza Tower

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - December 2022

Wanted to do something a bit 'unique' with this piece with the letterboxing. The letterbox being the interior of an oven that Peppino reaches into.

Various characters arranged in a circle with a corresponding color. Heavy Weapons Guy, May, Cherry Hunter, Vector the Crocodile, Glacius, Spider-Man 2099, Hex Maniac and Princess Peach are all present.

Color Wheel

Franchise - Team Fortress 2, Guilty Gear, Streets of Rage, Sonic the Hedgehog, Killer Instinct, Spiderverse, Pokemon, Super Mario

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - June 2023

A twitter challenge where a user requests characters that correspond to a color and fill the wheel out one by one. I used a limited color palette for each to better accentuate each color on the wheel. Really made me appreciate limited color schemes for art.

Stars and other celestial objects, and Happy Chaos, being sucked into the angelic, seraphim-esque eye of Asuka R. Kreutz, all done in a neon light style.

The Gravity

Franchise - Guilty Gear

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - August 2023

Gravity holds all the answers.

Kragg from Rivals of Aether rolling off of a cliffside and emerging from rolling into a jump.

Wall Runner

Franchise - Rivals of Aether

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - January 2024

Experimenting with motion in posing and other editing in post to give this a unique painterly feel.

A castle seen next to a sudden bolt of lightning

Pizzascape

Franchise - Pizza Tower

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - February 2024

Wanted to paint something simple and also utilize what I learned about negative space from Pizza Tower's level title cards.

Large jewel headded ghoul looking at the viewer with both hands clutching rolls of dollar bills and babes on his shoulders.

Don't Be A Fool...

Franchise - ANTONBLAST

Medium - FireAlpaca

Date - May 2024

Beware the Jewel Ghoul! Patreon Poll winner for May.