Thank you! I finally cleaned that up. Meanwhile started 3 more ..I have a habit of taking too long to finish a piece, then I lose interest in it and just start something else. I found 8 from recently i started and abandoned, that are decent enough to not delete, but not finished. There’s also been a number of drawings I felt I “outgrew” - became better before I finished them, and it would be easier to start from scratch than fix them. Anyone else thinking that?in24.1k
Lady Death Fanart Collectible: Part 6 Polypaint and base Hi, it’s time to share with you another part of the process to create this fanart piece. Polypaint As this is my first collectible fanart I didn’t have previous experience with polypaint so I tried my best and played a bit with it.I wanted to give a ghostly and eerie look to Lady Death, she is beautiful and deadly, but at the end of the day she is a woman that died and was reborn at hell as an avenging spirit, that’s why I gave her skin tone a bluish very cold tone.As you will see I gave myself some creative freedom to deviate from the traditional color scheme that this characater has in comics and illustrations.To add a bit of sensuality by painting some freckles on the face and the chest. The dark nature of this character was the perfect excuse to gave her a kind of goth make up, very dark shadows around the eyes, blue lips and fingernails. I know that the original character includes sexy red lips but I wanted this girl to have a sexy but at the same time creepy look, that’s why we can see some thin veins emanating from her eyes. The biggest chromatic change I did for this character is at the hair. Lady Death has a characteristic white weavy hair but in my fanart I decided to gave her a very saturated blue color.The reason behind this wasn’t only an aesthetic choice. I want that the face area strongly pulls the attention of the viewer so this area needed a stronger contrast. Another reason is that I want her to have a more modern look, as I mentioned before, I’m strongly attracted to women with goth/punk look. I gave myself half an hour or more to analyse the work of experienced sculptors that create collectibles and I discovered that the use of darker values on the skin is often applied to create a greater sense of volume and three-dimensionality. I found that areas with heavy ambient occlusion are the perfect places to paint with darker colors in order to increase the separation between different forms. Even though she has a bluish skin tone, I used a bit of warmer hues in areas that, in real life, tend to go towards red and pink, this is very obvious in the nose, cheeks, and knuckles. Thinking with a logical mind it’s completely absurd to have warmer tones on the body of a zombie like creature but I didn’t want to limit myself by using only blue tones, it looks boring and artificial. In real life these colors are created by blood vessels in areas where the skin is very thin. ** Scythe **for her weapon I applied a cool gray with some warmer variations, this color scheme is influenced by the work of H.R giger. Base I’d like to talk about the design for the base which, to be honest, I forgot to develop along with the character.My main idea with the base is to show that Lady Death inhabits a very sterile and arid land, at the end of the day she is at hell.You can see a that she walks over dirt and rocks, a sign that she’s surrounded by death and loneliness. As part of the landscape we can see some bones and skulls to reinforce the idea of lack of living creatures, yet we can see three hands that try to reach her legs.This hands represent that all creatures are subordinated to her power and seek an evil blessing with a simple touch of the princess of the damned.1- The hand with skin burns represents the souls of those who are newcomers to hell, tortured souls that suffer for the sins comitted on earth.2- The hand with greenish rotten skin and pustules is the reminder of the decay that has infected the souls of those who have been trapped and have forgotten their humanity3- Last but not least, the hand of a demon shows that even dark creatures and entities bow before her presence. The cherry on the top, at least in my vision, are the simese twins that emerge from the ground, this malevolent creatures remind us that in hell there’s only perversion and any trace of innocence is lost. Thanks for reading till this pointI’m really happy to be very close to finish this creative journey, last but not least it’s mandatory to talk about splitting the sculpture in several pieces to be printed, this will be my last entry before showing the final rendered images. See yaMay Zbrush be with youin1.4k
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Hello! My name is Vithor, I am from Brazil, studied Design at a local college worked as an illustrator for more than 10 years. I took a time off around 3 years ago and am trying to get back in my art shape and maybe become professional again. Here are some recent pictures: You can find timelapses for most of them on my instagram: www.instagram.com Vithor Albertim (@vithor_albertim) • Instagram photos and videos 123 Followers, 638 Following, 19 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Vithor Albertim (@vithor_albertim) Comments and critiques are always welcome.Cheers!in785
Thank you @daceronine! If I remember I save in google cloud, I will have to stick a note to do it more often. Lamp is from life. Poses are from refs but I look at refs for a while and then try to do it myself and look it up if needed. Outfits and rest is from imagination Something went wrong while installing system so we will have to wipe everything again... pc works but something is wrong. We will wait till internet is done and I will save everything on cloud this time Threads came out in eu. It's been 3 days and I had more engagement than after half a year on instagram. It feels really nice I hope it stays this way A portrait of old dude. It's the same character I posted a while ago. Inspired by Bayard Wu work. At first I thought of him as a bear but I named him Fenrir and I think wolf suits him better. Eye gave me a bit of hard time but I think it is fine now. I focused on face and forgot about area below. The way I draw hair clashes with greying hair. I had the same problem while doing Lohse's white hair. Does it looks like it is greying here? I love how desaturated red looks blue there. I keep lying to myself that I will use different color scheme but It all comes down to this blue and yellowish one it is just flipped this time Have a great day!in47.6k
8 days later
looks very nice!
Damn Adam! Awesome fold practise! The dress looks so realistic! Good job!
Can you by the way recommend resources that were helpful to you in learning the technical skill of painting form and rendering? 
Cheers, Mau
First, thank you! It felt good to make some progress on something again.
As far as resources for rendering / painting form / etc, I spent all weekend thinking about this. I've had a lot of practice. A lot. Thats probably where I picked most of it up through the years. Lots of studio art classes. Lots of sketching / drawing / etc.
As far as actionable advice, I don't know much about your process but I will try to suggest some things that I actively do.
I'm going to link you to a chalk sponge brush that I LOVE. Not great for getting sharp edges, but is very helpful for blending values. I do also use soft round and some of marc's brushes depending on what I'm doing but this is a specific tool I'm using.
Get that brush here - it's free.
Any time I'm rendering I have opacity Jitter on, but I also adjust the master opacity of my brush to get more subtle blending if I need to. I usually keep it between 60-80 when doing this, but have taken it as low as 30 if I really just want to barely adjust things.
As far as form goes, I think that really was just logging hours. Observation. I was fortunate enough to have a lot of studio art classes where we used live models. Copying photos is fine, but I made more progress when I was observing in person. Still life paintings aren't really covered in the beginning like they were for me in college, but before we painted the human figure I had a whole semester of still lifes we did that forced us to observe the relationships between objects, the light, the shadows, etc. Using a variety of textures surfaces.
I'm toying with the idea of recording myself tonight to maybe re-examine my process to see if there's anything else I'm doing that might help others. In the mean time if I find something useful I'll make sure to share it.
Anatomy Exercises / assignments.
I found that some muscles on the back don't really match the simplified version that was presented in the video. Specifically the rotator muscles on the back attached to the shoulder blade. It severely threw me off when trying to recreate the muscles over the top of pictures of people as those shapes just don't match up at all to the little rectangle. So I did some more indpendent research and then everything seemed to click. I did the multiple angles last week. The singular back view on the right was this morning and has been more challenging for me to pick up with all the different overlapping muscles. Going to continue to practice these but will focus more on the clothing / zbrush classes now and hopefully make more progress.
that looks really believable! especially the shirt 
also your insights about your rendering process is awesome to read, I'm not really thinking much about that yet, but learning more about how other people work is kind of inspiring(? can't find good words to describe it, more like "yay I'm not alone in that process of learning stuff"-feeling)
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my question so thoroughly!
In the past few days I've observed some youtube artists use changing opacity settings in their work just like you recommended, I'll make sure to try it out!
The point about live models is a very interesting one, I can imagine that seeing things in actual 3d space is a lot different than from foto reference! Thanks for sharing these insights!
Thank you @yaigrie and @mau.wamp! Happy to share about my process as much as I am able. Before starting art classes I have gotten super frustrating watching art "tutorials" where it's more a time-lapse and the artist doesn't share any helpful information in the video. Spent a lot of time analyzing footage until I found Marc's short tutorials that are amazing and very helpful.
Sharing my new daily warm up / practice routine below. Folding in the anatomy i've learned along with gestures and head practice.
and my second clothing attempt on a nude model.
Will attempt a full image from reference later this week.
Nice heads and gesture practice! I feel like you could go darker with the shadows in the shirt and pants while it does show some form it looks a little flat to me in some areas, but I may not be taking into account the lighting. great practice overall though!
very nice! I like the additions you added to the clothes.
6 weeks of daily practice.
Wow, that's really cool to see your whole work in one image! Great idea!
It really shows your dedication and hard work in order to get better!
Keep it up, Adam!
I've been continuing my practice. However I've spent a good amount of time these past few days making multiple attempts at the zbrush assignment to do a creature bust. Not only was I feeling uninspired, but the program itself has been difficult for me to grasp. There is SO much you can do and it's hard to figure out what setting I've toggled that is messing me up. Thank goodness for google. Anyway. Here is a WIP on that creature bust. Finally going in a direction I'm pleased with!
looks great so far! I like the scale texture you have.
Great work in progress, Adam! I can imagine how difficult it is to start working with a new program...
You did really well!
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