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  • 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. Thereā€™s also been a number of drawings I felt I ā€œoutgrewā€ - became better before I finished them, and it would be easier to start from scratch than fix them. Anyone else thinking that?
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  • Lady Death Fanart Collectible: Part 6 Polypaint and base Hi, itā€™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 didnā€™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, thatā€™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, thatā€™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 wasnā€™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, Iā€™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 itā€™s completely absurd to have warmer tones on the body of a zombie like creature but I didnā€™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 Iā€™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 sheā€™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 thereā€™s only perversion and any trace of innocence is lost. Thanks for reading till this pointIā€™m really happy to be very close to finish this creative journey, last but not least itā€™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 you
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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) ā€¢ 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!
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  • 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!
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Mar '18
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Hi, a lot are complaining about Photoshop being used in the YouTube comments this includes me, could you instead of using Photoshop use Krita? https://krita.org/en/

It is a free and open source GNU GPL software dedicated for drawing that everyone following your tutorial will be able to get even on Linux. If you use it this will allow us to use the same tools as you, the same brushes and interface so we will be able to progress faster.
Krita is more powerful than Photoshop for drawing (and much more than Photoshop CS2 2005 that you are recommending us to get as a free alternative) because it is built by digital artists and not photographers and it has a powerful brush engine with more settings than Photoshop, several brush stabilizer, optimized interface and a right click brush marking menu. It has a resource manager with a collection of brushes directly available by default made by digital artists like David Revoy that is part of the team: https://youtu.be/GHRwnVMwTE4

We don't need to learn software that are popular (Photoshop is popular for drawing because Krita is sill unknown), we want to be good at drawing and because some like me are very bad at drawing using different tools makes it a bit more challenging to follow you (the strokes don't look like yours).

Same applies for the sculpting part, you can use Blender sculpt with Dyntopo and a red matcap (the red matcap is available out of the box in Blender) instead of ZBrush and asking everybody to get a trial version. The interface and real time area topology reconstruction with edge collapsing is more intuitive and efficient, it does the reconstruction locally while you sculpt and collapse the edges, it never crashes or generates holes like ZBrush DynaMesh does and the goal of the course is to make a sculpt in 3D not to master ZBrush. Using the same brushes as you would be better.
Demo of Blender sculpt with dyntopo + red matcap (available by default in Blender) + AO: https://youtu.be/vB7kPWjBgQI

And this is an advice for your future tutorials in general, if there is free software that can be as good or better like the two I have mentioned above please use them. We don't necessary want to land a job and we can adapt with tools AAA studios use later on.

Mar '18

He uses what he uses because of an industry standard and his own prerogative. But what software you choose use, instead plugging in a hostile manner, to get the assignments done is totally fine. I personally use sketchbook for my android for my drawings then use photoshop for values. I used infinate painter for my perapectives assignment. It's just to understand that some command placements and options may vary. But the teacher having to use a different software so students don't have to pay 10 a month for photoshop, or adapt the lessens to a software they're comfortable with is beneath him. You know that but that's for anybody who would be curious in the future. And this. Learn photoshop, the zbrush, whatever these apps are, clip paint,
etc, every other industry standard you can. Not because of comfortability, but the more programs you know the more you're worth on the job and saught after.

marcCoffee drinker @ Cubebrush
Mar '18

@dbekhouc We chatted before but just so everyone knows - The reason I use Photoshop and ZBrush is because those are the main tools most industry artists will use during their career.

I'm not going to argue there are extremely valid alternatives out there, that's true and students should definitely explore them if they're interested, but more likely than not PS+ZBrush is what you'll be using.

I always prefer taking the safe route and going with what is currently in place, and what is likely to stick around in the future.

Besides, Photoshop is not only a painting tool, like we cover in the course, it's great for vector art, photo manipulation and a number of other applications. I would be doing you guys a big disservice by not teaching it. ART School is not specifically for future painters either, it's for any art-related career, with a focus on digital art.

When working freelance, the tools you use don't matter as much, but most career artists are working in-house where the tools do matter. Those tools are Photoshop and ZBrush.

I would almost recommend you get a Photoshop subscription before you spend money on a tablet. Photoshop definitely has a bigger learning curve, so the sooner you start the better :smile:

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marcCoffee drinker @ Cubebrush
Apr '18
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Hey all! Just wanted to drop a quick update!

I'm still hammering on Term 4 and this sucker has been taking a lot longer than anticipated, the anatomy class in particular. It took over a month on its own just to record th econent so it's delayed everything (it's good though!).

Just wanted to let you know I'm not slacking! I've been working on this multiple hours every day minus a few exceptions (tax season, etc) and I want to make sure I release something you'll enjoy! Still got a couple more days to spend on it but it's coming soon, it's my most fun term to work on so far :smile:

Thanks for your patience!

Also, we're not there yet but once all the terms are released (and to help with the final projects), I'll be doing weekly hangouts/streams so we can all get together and interact on a more personal/direct level. Really looking forward to it!! :blush:

K back to work.

Apr '18

Any chance to get into the online steams, the special date for sure, thanks Marc.

Apr '18

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That is awesome Marc !! Can't wait for the streams! And don't worry about the Term 4. The longer it takes, the better it is! Much love <3

18 days later

marcCoffee drinker @ Cubebrush
Apr '18

Rendering everything for Term 4 now, should be up soon! I definitely underestimated the amount of talking/editing this one would require so sorry for the wait, it's been a while!

2 months later

marcCoffee drinker @ Cubebrush
Jul '18

Hey all! Once again, apologies for the wait I've been working on Term 5 every spare minutes I have!

Business is always first however and it's been a crazy past couple weeks with new hire interviews and our marketing director going on maternity leave - my work load has been significantly higher than usual and it's really slowed down progress.

With that said, recording is all done and I've started editing the first class last week so we're in the final stretch. Based on my schedule I should be publishing Term 5 on July 26 ... hopefully.

My plan is to start Term 6 as soon as I'm done with term 5. I normally give myself a break of about a week in between terms since it's really mentally draining but I really don't want to stretch the last terms into 2019 so no more breaks. Plus the content won't require as much research so things should really pick up for the rest of the year.

Ok back to it!

13 days later

marcCoffee drinker @ Cubebrush
Jul '18

Quick update! Good and bad news - I realized about a week ago that the first half of the audio for the animal and creature drawing class was missing so I went ahead and scrapped the whole thing, not much I could keep unfortunately.

I thought I'd be able to just redo the entire class it by skipping a bit of sleep here and there and make it on time anyways but it looks like that's still not gonna cut it after all and I'll need more time to work on it :cry:

The good news is that it's going to be significantly longer and better as a result :smile:

Like I've mentioned though, this should not impact the completion of the other terms and I'm still on track for wrapping it all up by the end of the year.

Sorry for the wait guys, I hate delays so I'm doing all that's humanely possible to get this to you asap without negatively impacting the quality. Couple more days, couple more days!

10 days later

marcCoffee drinker @ Cubebrush
Aug '18

Here we go - Term 5 will be released this Sunday. I think it's been worth the wait :blush:

Aug '18

Perhaps he still has some stuff to fix before releasing it

2 months later

marcCoffee drinker @ Cubebrush
Oct '18

Hey all, Term 6 coming October 23, only editing left to wrap up, just finished recording today!

Didn't go much faster than last term this time around despite what I hoped for unfortunately.

Here's a bit of context, for those who dare read through all this.

Once upon a time...

I mentioned last time I wouldn't take a break after Term 5 and jump right into this one which I tried to do for a good 3 weeks, but then I just couldn't. I reached my limit. I couldn't spend a single minute working on ART School in the whole of August, I just hated every moment spent in my office and I couldn't get myself to sit down long enough to get anything done. Working on ART School since September 2017 non-stop, I neglected my personal art to the point I did pretty much nothing for myself for a year straight, and I just burned myself out. I don't think it ever happened before honestly so I wasn't sure why the hell I was struggling so much.

My wife suggested I take a solid month break which I thought was crazy since I was already getting anxious with the lack of progress I was making, but a couple more days of pure misery really did it for me and I decided to go for it and take August off, work on my own art, try to feel better about myself and recharge my batteries. I'm really glad I did.

I took the month to draw whatever I wanted, catch up on other important life stuff and hang out with my family for a change. It didn't take long for the fire to come back and now that my personal art is back on track and I feel good about it, I'm actually really excited to finish ART School and put in work for your guys. The weekly live streams have also helped a ton, it's like therapy in a way, getting to connect with real people and seeing all of your progress.. Thanks for showing up each week guys <3 The streams never stopped for that exact reason as you probably noticed!

All of this to say I'm back now, after finding out I'm not invincible after all. Even better, I found out what was missing this past year - ART!! I've been overworking myself for years now so I figured I was just used to it, but if this pause made me realize anything it's that I'm only able to cope with work as long as I keep being creative and doing art for myself, using it as a way to unwind, escape. It's my drug of choice I guess?

I know a lot of you probably couldn't care less about any of this but the last thing I wanted was for the content to suffer because of my lack of.. enthusiasm (to put it mildly). Now I feel I can keep on giving it my all, so you can still expect top-shelf classes to keep coming for the next few months until ART Schol is a WRAP!

Enough of this rant though, I just wanted to say thank you for being so patient with me and that I'm really looking forward to the rest of the classes. The final project begins Term 7 and I'm especially excited about that since I'll be working on my own along with you all. I feel a strong pull to finish now whereas I used to continuously have to push myself, it's a good feeling :smile:, haven't had that in a while.

Once again, sorry about the delays and sorry for anyone who read through all this, time for a nice night of sleep and a full day of editing tomorrow.

PEACE.

-marc

Oct '18

The classes are fantastic and far more than you had initially promised before you started all of this. Its a blast doing them and I love the streams as well. Glad to hear you are feeling renewed!

Oct '18

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I absolutely love the art school and all the effort and support you put into this community! It's amazing!
Live streams are fun and helpful and I enjoy watching it live even if i didnt finish any assignments during the week. :+1:

It's great to hear that a month break helped you out to recharge and that you feel better now and ready to make more awesome content! :yay:

So keep it up and don't let yourself burnout anymore :sunglasses:

Oct '18

Thank you for your continuous effort, Marc! I really love what you're doing with artschool and I cant wait to start it again soon and go trough the terms! I'm glad to hear that you got some time to recharge your batteries, I think we can all relate to that. Keep it up and take breaks when you need to!

Oct '18

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It's no problem man no human can constantly work and stay consistant for working on just one thing for most of the time we all need to take a break sometime and great to hear you're back on your feet again so keep up the good work, cheers :grinning:

9 days later

marcCoffee drinker @ Cubebrush
Oct '18

Thanks guys, means a lot.

Quick update on the process - things are looking good - I just finished rendering Color & Light Theory 2 + Mech Design.

The only one left to edit/render is Composition & Storytelling.

I'm on track for the 23 end of day / early morning of the 24 if render/upload takes a while.

Cheers

marcCoffee drinker @ Cubebrush
Oct '18
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Uploading now :smiley:

Still need to upload and process, but should be up soon! Thanks for your patience again everyone, the last month has been pretty intense but hopefully you like the content!

Also - my voice was pretty much gone towards the end so it might sound a bit raspier than usual :grimacing: