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?in24.2k
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
memory 2min gartic phone, used ref 2m gartic, used ref for pose 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic memory memory memory memory study memory memory memorymemory memory memory memory memory memory study memorystudy study stylized left memory, right study study memory memorymemory memory memory memorymemory memory, porportions r offmemory memorystudystudy memorymemorymemory memory memory memory memory memory memory memory, right leg is a bit broken The feeling of only getting 1 - 3 likes on a social media post will never not be discouraging. But nothing is discouraging enough to make me quit drawing. I think the strategy of drawing a lot of stuff and waiting a while to post is good though rather than posting it immediately and then feeling that sadness on the next set of drawingin
studies studies juri study imagination, how I feel before a speech imagination imagination study something I drew for my presentation also drew this for my presentation, didn't fix the one hand being bigger than the other imagination + study study studies study study, I need to fix the face a bit based on screenshot from anime but in my style study. except for the eye study studies studies study. changed some things tho imagination imagination imagination study studies, except top right samurai based on anime screenshot wolverine studies, changed some of the poses a lil, not very good at all, but first time i drew the character ever. semi study studies study imagination imagination imagination , for first time ever i tried to draw over 3d model for middle pose, I dont like the result tbh, but it makes it much easier than coming up with it from memory.imagination, except right figurestudies imagination + studies, coming up with action poses r hard, these are not dynamic enough, I will redraw better ones in future. imagination , imagination imagination study, except for eye imagination imagination imagination doodles except for the two chrollos imagination storyboard thumbnail, idk if i ever shared this. my storyboards end up being a little detailed since i usually just draw in one layer.in22.1k
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!in794
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!in48.1k
Got a bit more done today. Finished up my character head studies, I had fun with them. Also had some fun creating some brushes this evening while I was just messing around.
Was going to do all realistic faces for this section, but they took a lot out of me and I didn't want to put it off another day so I did throw Midna in to have one simpler one to end off on. I had a good time doing them though, looking forward to getting more practice as I move through these exercises.
Thanks for looking as always!
eyy these brushes look really nice 
Thanks @mitsuki-youko They were a lot of fun to make. I didn't make any very original but it was fun to mess around with them, excited to see if I can actually find a use for any of them haha.
Well, lots of things are going to be changing in my life coming soon and I'm trying to come to terms with it all and focus on the bright side of things. Easier said than done some days though. Been working to get myself back up at 5 AM and start trying to knock out some of my assignments then and working to find time throughout the day to do some other practice.
We'll see how that all turns out but for now here's what I've got. I unfortunately don't have enough time this evening to do anymore of the assignments so I just took some time to work on volumes. Hoping to get some more time for facial features tomorrow or Thursday.
Anyways, here's the work.
Thanks for looking, hope you all are well as always.
15 days later
Just a bit of an update. Recently I was forced to finally walk away from a company that I helped build. I've spent three years of my life, putting my own dreams on hold to try and create something that I thought we all had wanted and have something that could support us all.
I was rehired at an old job that I didn't ever want to go back to and am now on a completely different schedule and an erratic schedule. Plus, a pretty steep pay decrease and much less freedom. I've also been picking up any odd job that I can because of my financial state.
I didn't want too, but I dumped a lot of my own money and time into trying to save the company, I thought we all wanted too. I was wrong. Now I really don't have any way to move to find another job or any other options at this time for work in my area, so I've been trying accepting this new life of mine.
Its been very frustrating for me to look back and see all the hard work over the past three years amount to nothing, especially when I could've been spending that time doing something for myself.
I've been channeling that frustration into trying to create business of my own. I figure I really don't have anything to lose anymore and getting something started now is better than waiting.
It's basically taken away all of what little free time I have now, so art school is probably going to be on hold for a while as I try to get myself back on track and try to build something that will allow me to regain some of the freedom that I have worked so hard to gain over the past three years.
I really don't know if it'll amount to anything, but I'm giving it my best shot. I have to. So this might be my last post for a while, but I will return when I can. Hopefully, it'll be with happier news.
Anyways, I guess this is good bye for bit everyone. I hope you all stay well and find even more success than what you've already found.
So thank you and again, I hope to be back sooner than later. Thank you as always for reading.
Oof.. So sorry to hear that 
It always sucks when stuff like this happens and its terrible.. I really do hope you find your footing soon and I wish you the best of luck and hope you can get to a better place financially soon..
Hope to see you come back one day! Good luck!
Sorry to hear that
I hope things will work out for you! Good luck!
2 months later
Sorry to hear mate, good luck! Remember even Steve Jobs went through hell and came back stronger, you can do it!
cheers
2 months later
Hey everyone, thought I would post a little update considering its been almost 6 months. A lot has changed and I've been very busy over the past few months. My business idea is still going strong, I've been working on the webpage and now having to figure out logistics and all the legal aspects of launching the business.
Had hoped that it would be ready to open this year, but the more work I do on it, the more I find that I simply don't know and have to spend time reworking and learning new things. It's been a good experience, I don't know if I've ever been as productive as I have been in pursuit of this so that's a plus.
I don't know if it will all work out, but its been a good experience and I'm getting to a point in the development where I'm able to have more freetime so I've been picking up my drawing studies again. They're nothing special but its nice to draw again. I've been working on basic construction of forms and trying to slowly learn some anatomy for characters again.
I plan to start posting here again in the future, with actual art school stuff and progress. I'm not sure who all is still around but I hope you all are still finding success and are still working on your dreams.
Anyways, that's all from me. Hopefully next time this will not be a 6 month gap in between. Best wishes!
-Alex
yooo welcome back!!
Hope it all works out for you and looking forward to see your posts again
Wish you all the best! Hope everything works out for you 
Glad you have time to draw again
2 months later
These were interesting enough. Great job
Yooo Chomper, these look sooo good, I LOVE how you draw your figures!! the blocks and spheres look so aesthetically pleasing omg XD
and yep i feel ya about how there is little time to draw aside from weekends and some weekdays after work :3 progress has been slow on my side too haha but so long as we are improving i think that is good
These look great!
2 months later
Figured I'd dump a couple of the things I've been doing over the past couple weeks. I need to go back through and export some of the other quick studies and stuff I've been doing but figured I 'd post something again.
Last time I posted I'd been working on a sort of recipe for myself, I think I've got a working-ish one now so I've kind of backtracked and have been testing it with some of the term 1 exercises and trying to better polish it. The results are varied but I'm enjoying myself.
I've been using the Pomodoro Method that Marc covered in one of his videos and that has really helped me to get some mileage. Most of the studies that I've done have been completed in one (sometimes 2, for like clean up or if I wanted to experiment with shading) sessions of the pomodoro, so I feel like that is some progress, even if the end results aren't always great.
The study of Alain has taken up most of the past 2-3 days. I had shortened time to draw so had to split him up and the details really messed me up. Still fairly how happy with how both of these studies turned out.
Anyways, I hope you all are doing well.
Wow, thats a lot of great work mate
Cheers
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