If you have some spare time don't hesitate to define a tad bit more his hand sharpen and his weapon.
Architecture is indeed really time consuming, good luck with your studies and happy Christmas miracle!
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!in793
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
Nice one! One sugestion it might be good to work on focus point.
One thing led to another and I did not work on the concept sheet:
Fixed the tones to be more cohesive and overpainted some of the smoke and a lot of the lower background, because I felt the image started getting disjointed in values. Also thightened the weapon and hands a bit more and added some more flares of color here and there.
Dude that is Sick! I really like the way the cathedral in back is set up, it really gives some cool depth
looking great dude 
I'd reccomend clarify the silhouette a bit though, the arms are getting a bit lost at the moment. It's probably easiest to just do this with lasso, and take the opportunity to intoduce some varying levels of detail on the character, having alot of sutff being hidden by the mist, leaving only it's silhouette, sorta like this:
giving your character some nice clean sharp edges will help alot in making them stand out from the softer swirling background too
@barrysaraiva17 Thanks, man! It was pretty fun to try to balance the details and not have them detract from the focus on the character
@engineered Glad to hear that, I've always been a fan of 'arcane'-ish sci-fi!
@tck Thank you, means a lot I'm often a bit scared to not overdo the atmospheric depth and end up with too little of it The visual ref is much appreciated, things shall be tried!
One atmospheric perspective increase later that will not be too noticable without putting them side by side (I'll play around with it more but this version is a possibility):
Aside from redoing the knives (man, I did not like them before XD), I added some subsurface scattering to her coat between her legs - I kinda like it, but opinions are welcome.
Some Concept Sheet work-in-progress:
The pauldron and back-view are pretty much placeholders for now.
I'm not sure whether to have the sword ortho views or a side-view of her torso and head (the sword is pretty visible in the front view anyway), but I suppose it'll come down to mostly how much time I have left to work on it.
Happy Holidays, everybody! ^^
This is gonna look badass!
Nice work!
Possible final update time and almost made it for Christmas
I worked on something else a couple of days ago and when I came back to the illustration here, I realised I don't quite like some things... So after adding some more elements to the pauldron and arm, warping parts around, so on and so forth - here's finally a possible final submission (not like I'm not gonna decide to change a hue or something in a couple of days, but it's the thought that counts, right :D)
Concept sheet:
Illustration:
Amazing work on all of this dude!
Fresh! This looks edible too 
Few tricks for your image,
value check: On top of your artwork, put a black layer in saturation mode (it's non detructive like a hue-saturation layer)
Colour check: Add a curve layer, double click on it, select the middle eyedropper on the left of the curve (the one saying "sample in image to set gray point"), click the grayest area of your drawing. Enjoy the magic.
Cheers and happy new year!
Nice work! Sharpening the main silhouette did help to make it pop.
Congrats and good luck! 
Yup, what aeguilrod said is the same thing I'd reccomend. Best of luck.
Ok, I updated my first post with the final images and included some more backstory (everybody likes walls of text, right guys :D)!
Some questions: (that might be moderator worthy, sorry if they've been answered elsewhere)
1) As the submit entry button doesn't work for some people, I decided to just manually update my first post, is everything fine with that?
UPDATE on 1) I tried the submit button but clicking 'next' in the cropping part doesn't work, so I guess the 2 images in the first post will have to do.
2) We don't have to put FINAL in the name of the topic like last year?
3) When I was updating the first post, I noticed it says 'uncategorized', but that's how the automated 'join contest' button (or something along those lines) made the topic in the beginning and the topic shows in the Art War 2D category, so is everything sorted correctly?
Thanks @aeguilrod @spxcrs16 @matiaskandali @granfaloon (cuz I forgot to actually say thanks before XD) and everyone before that, it means a lot and the sense of community does make the contest a true delight to be a part of (plus - awesome characters everywhere)!
Good luck, everyone and may we meet again next year ^^!
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