Haha hi again!!! 
Thank you so much!
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
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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!in792
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!in48.0k
You're welcome, can't wait to see more 
Oh this looks fun! I like the kind of "superman physique" in the second set of sketches, I think you've done a great job there.
Thank you! Actually good point with the superman physique since the character's on the Heroes side, I'll make sure to keep it! 
i love that you took the time to do preliminary studies. keep up the great work!
Updates. Did one last random culture and pattern studies.
As well as sketching parts of the character to get to understand his anatomy and joints clearer.
I personally enjoyed building him up part by part from my own understandings rather than making random silhouettes, it just makes a bit more sense for this character, and to me.
Don't get me wrong, mass silhouettes are a good way-to-go as industry standards don't take my approach for granted! 
I'm always more of an animator-kind of artist rather than an illustrator, so as much as I would love to do more pose sketch, well, I already have enough information to piece everything together and start a clean character front back now lol. Til next update! 
This is really interesting, I like what you're doing with those studies! You could do even more of those I wouldn't mind! It's so cool
It's going to be gorgeous. it has to, with all those sweet curvy lines!
Awesome job on the call outs and function drawings the character is coming together quite nicely
@rgdraw @hirtenmaina @Fris Thank you friends I'll do my best as well as enjoying the most out of this challenge!
WIP front THETA
He's a 'sun energy', technically a living power source in a mech.
Later will generate some clothing designs and variations of his face mask. Also needs distributing level of details and resting areas properly.
Currently not satisfied with his arms, still adjusting it's length and bulkiness.
Enough info to start planning illustration, until next time will see some back view, colors and composition!
It look so cool! Nice progress on this!
18 days later
Okay so unfortunately I was busy somewhere else with no internet. I'll just update what I managed to do from the past 2 weeks. Here's what I got:
Here is the semi-final version of THETA front and back.
Here's a rough layout of his final character sheet. I still have some spare space to add his skills ( some Gravity force control and he can shoot THETA beam, like his name suggest), I'll leave this part aside for now and focus on the illustration. When I doodle some better supplementary stuff I'll just keep replacing elements here until it's complete.
So, heading to the illustration part:
I had a big struggle for days choosing thumbnails cause all them have different strengths and weaknesses.
My ideal picture in general is: The character standing in an orrery room doing his gravity skills, IF can show sky with constellation would be extra great.
Some of my analysis:
-1- Is easily the 'safe zone'
-2- Gets that powerful dynamic angle and beautiful circle composition and overview of the orrery room, but I was doubting the high angle gives that 'intimidating' feel that doesn't fit the character's passive vibe.
-3- Got a really peaceful desert surreal feeling that makes the character look big and passive, but is it too passive? As much as it fits, this is war.
-4- Different from the rest, this one he's using his Theta beam to explode some object coming towards him. Though shows the aggression really well, it doesn't fit his personality, and I find a bit too ambitious with all the actions and especially the lighting from the beam. I know my place...
-5- I really love this one to be honest, really nice pose, but to be fair this one is too erm...delicate lol. And I'm afraid it has no space to give the background some story.
So here's what I decided to do: I combined 2 and 5.
My best effort to get THETA to float in an orrery room with sky and constellation, and him passively doing his gravity move (have the planet hit some obstacle to suggest he can destroy things), while keeping his heroic character in control.
I got the color key, and correct some perspective issues.
Hopefully I can push it to the finish stage within the remaining two weeks, I really do cause I'm pretty much in the danger zone now. Oh well, best is not to panic.
At this stage I already forgot about this being a contest, I just want to do this character justice.
Thanks guys!
Oh my goodness this is absolutely wonderful and I love it. The colours seem really thematic, I really appreciate how much detail you're going into explaining your process and thoughts on how the piece has evolved.
The only thing I can think to say is that the hand positioning in the colour preview makes the character almost seem passive, which maybe for an "active superpower" isn't ideal, but then you have the orbs providing the motion plus you're clearly experimenting with hand positions anyway.
Not really got much to contribute other than a lot of enthusiasm for where you're going, this is awesome.
Ouch! 2 weeks without internet, I know how that feel man! But welcome back
And damn that looks awesome!
I love what you choose for the illustration, great work!
Thank you for the heads up a smallest suggestions can be of big help!
WIP
I spend a whole lot of time doing what I called volumetric base, especially for the character. Though boring compare to other stage, this will help in the long run for someone like me.
Again, thanks guys!
Those thumbnails are beautiful!
He looks awesome, I wanna play a game as him! Good luck and happy painting ^^
