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?in24.0k
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.in21.8k
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!in784
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!in47.1k
So here is probably my last update for the year. I have challenged myself in order to monitor and check my progress. The rules were - I am not allowed to use any reference (wanted to see how much my inner library improved) and finish within one session, accepting the result as it is.
Results - OMG I hate it 
More constructive thoughts:
Good things - I think my feeling for proportions has definitely improved, anatomy of the body is so much better even without looking at the reference. In all, I just wouldn't be able to draw that just from my head when I started.
Endless list of things that need more attention:
Head construction is still on a bad lvl, and needs more practice.
Face anatomy - I am partially (but only partially) pardoning myself for how bad it looks as I haven't gone past the nose with my lessons. But yeah it's bad
Shading - Has it good and bad moments, but generally, I should just do it more often to practice, and next time remember to add highlights 
Oh and I should probably also start drawing hands and feet with at least a minimal amount of detail
Hair - I am not even getting there it will chase me in my nightmares.
That's it. As much as it is a bad drawing I am better than when I started. It's something 
Any other thoughts as always welcome
That's not bad for drawing some challenging angles with no references. looks like you have a good idea what to work on too!
17 days later
Hi! First update in a while - the portrait. I have to admit it was a big challenge, effects - not perfect but I would not be able to draw it 6m ago so I'm pretty happy 
I have learned a lot through how to work with some of setting and brushes in photoshop
I have given up on the sweater cause it felt a bit too overwhelming to draw it with all those little details - challenge for the next time.
Critique very much welcome.
4 months later
Hi... Long time no post, long time no draw. I was meant to come back after 3 weeks but somehow there was always something, somewhere... Or just a plain lack of will to draw? Anyway, today was the first day when I collected enough willpower points to set up the station, sit down and get back to drawing. As it is a warmup since January - I started with getting back to gesture. It's a mix of 45s-10min. `Hope I'll be back soon
Welcome back 
It's always tough for me to get back to drawing when I take an unintended break from it, so kudos to you on taking the first step! Hope to see you back soon as well 
Here is step 1 for the assignment with 3P perspective drawing. I was really struggling with the idea for the project as wanted it to be different from the one that Mark has done in the video (although the vanishing point through the gate will definitely be used in the future!)
So at the moment, this is a sketch phase - but I thought if anyone will find things that need correction that is the best time to do it now.
My most concern was how the towers are tilting with going toward the right VP - but looking at the guidelines I couldn't find any obvious "booboos" - so maybe it is just the fact that it is a bit close to the VP and therefore just distorted this way?
The other is the top of the towers - which is supposed to be a round top - does it look believable? Or should I try to redraw those?
Thanks for any tips!
Cheers gang!
ooh these towers look so interesting!
Pretty sure this is just some perspective shenanigans, probably because the frame is out the safe triangle marc's mentioned on the lesson, but it does make the image feel more dinamic tho, but i'm totally inexperience when it comes to perspective stuff.
@mitsuki-youko Thans!
@Pattu_w Thanks for confirmaiton! I'll just get to cleaning this up then!
18 days later
Took me a while but here is a finished piece.
I usually leave pieces half-finished so I really wanted to go through with this one and accept the result. Internally deal with the fact that I don't know much about colours, light etc, but I should not be afraid to use them. I hope I'll be able to finish some more artwork in the future and that it will be my first step to be braver with my pieces
As always critique is very much welcome!
Looks great! I like the atmosphere
I think colors and light came out nice
The pieces look great overall. Just 1 q - what's the main light source and where's it coming from?
@patrycja.lerch - thanks!
@Gordon003 you got me... 
the moon is only figuratively where it is. I know I cheated but I didn't know how to draw it the proper way - I wanted the moon there for composition but then didn't know how to do back sl angled light. I just couldn't imagine it. I will probably re-draw it when I'll make it to the term with light and understand how it behaves in this situation a bit better. I know I've been cheeky 
Nice painting OP, hope u doing well
There is some critique hope you don't mind.
At first impression, the far left of building felt like dropping(?) like Italy Tower of Pizza. It does felt not synchronize with other building. The dark value possible too dark below gate
Then I look at the top sketch its actually following the 3 point perspective and its much synchronize.
I try brighten bottom part using Photoshop Camera Raw Filter and only recognize there is fog(?) at the below and some plant too. So yeah maybe decrease dark value at below building. Now I felt building are more synchronize, I'm not sure other people impression but it pop well a little for me when brighten a little.
Other people might give better perspective but that's my critique, very nice painting btw.
Thank you so much for the critique! It does look much better when brightened - something to remember for future trials And yeah I felt the perspective looked a bit odd while it was in making - I'll have to play with placement a bit more before fully committing.
Many thanks! Hope I'll be better next time 
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