Good luck dude! 
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?in24.3k
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!in797
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!in48.3k
@rgdraw Thanks man ^^
"...made of non-fresh flesh, skins, bones and sort of machinery and strange mechanisms, the trickster have the ability to shapeshift and look like whatever being (or non-being like robots) that exists in all universes..."
He’s pretty cool so far! I feel like he should have some jester motifs, since he’s a trickster. Like pointed feet, or shapes that resemble the jester bell hats.
(Not to mention Clowns and the general clown hierarchy have become pretty synonymous with evil over the past decades.)
@skullguzma Thank you for your input and kind words, I take it in consideration in my design (already ^^).
Pretty cool so far! Also, kind of random, but I like the presentation of your artwork with the ArtWar logo and your character's details. I'm looking forward to see where you'll take this guy.
@cedricgo Thank you ! Well I really want to do the illustration already...I'm bit lost with my quicky colour choices (but I will find them one day, I hope haha)
"Despite being a villain...he likes to control his own kind as well, while he takes a lot of vicious fun giving new powers to semi-gods and even gods themselves...destroying entire earth, universes and galaxies; playing his own die game : Game of dimensions"
Slowly working on this...still not very convince on some colour choices...
Coming back to scratch...there is too much things I don't like about this character anymore...
Although, none of this thumbnails are to my liking...I need to push a lot of concepts, and first of all simplify this...I was going too deep on my concept but in the end I had very hard time finding how to ilustrate my first villain...(and also 1 very distinctive power on the canvas...)
Now I'm thinking doing a child or a woman (or even maybe a mecha/mix/fuse)...still very confuse where I want to go...we'll see ^^' (with many many thumbnails)
Thanks @Pregium for the good insights about it (silhouettes and powers).
We have to keep in mind, judges need to understand in quick moment what the power ability is from our heroes/villains; the first of all concerns.
Hi,
Going off of your initial statement I think the fantasy theme fits better, Where you thinking of a more of a creature or more along the lines of a beast master (the salesman for the trading of souls). A sci fi soul trader with its own army could be pretty cool.
Out of the newer designs I like the giantess description.
Enjoy the exploration!
Hey,
Oh yes, I really think you're right on the point, that fantasy theme suits better here.
Even my supposed "sci-fi" corner is not really one ^^' (more a mix of different eras...)
Right now I'm working on doing some different sketches for the Barbarian...and I maybe we'll stay with her (if she does not dissapoint me, of course haha).
But yes the Giantess could be nice (and others...the choice was hard to make, for sure).
I really do enjoy too the Chaos Knight and Pure Evil Child...but I can't find any good thing to do for an illustration (or not enough skilled to try out...hum...).
I can’t explain why, but I like the silhouette of #5, there’s just enough contrast in it for it to be easy to read. She’s got a nice triangular composition, which creates contrast between her upper and lower half. , and essentially draws you towards her head (Focal point) as a result.
I agree with @skullguzma about the silhouette. but i think as you said to combine your favorites would be really cool! they defiantly stand out!
@skullguzma & @Gil_Ascher & @michaelmuellerart Thank you so much for your feedback !!!
And I agreed #5 was the best...but it was still missing some things.
Combinations between many concepts (mostly 1, 3, 5 & 6)...and new stuffs, like the giant Fork-Spear or giant monster arm...
oh i love the colors of the first (purple&red) fork looks awesome! and the two designs that you chose work really well!
Thank you very much @Gil_Ascher !
To be honest, I'm still undecided...for colours and even what character to choose from.
Here is a variation from second design (I didn't like the upper body/face etc...and weapon changes).
