Final Design Phase WIP
I want to make sure I know what her armor looks like before moving on.
This is taking longer than expected but I think it'll save me time in the end.
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!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!in48.1k
Thanks for the feedback! I did try to keep the hat on #4 but unfortunately it doesn't look good as a whole 
Geez time went by so quickly... I really hope I can make it in time
lovely stuff :3
I'd just be careful you don't take away too much of the cool stuff from your previous sketches. it feels like alot of the shapes the broke up the silhouette have been removed or made smaller so she just feels less interesting than those previous designs (which i think are fantastic btw)
It's definitely looking good, but again I would never ever think this is a bee keeper from her outfit. Probably more of a witch honestly or something from Bloodborne lol I'm excited for your final piece! (yes time is ticking lmao)
I find it hard to complete illustrations from scratch to finish without failing a lot. The only one time I did a full illustration is a fan art of a character from Aion, but it took me 2 months back and forth. This time I'm trying to reinforce what I've learned last time and apply it. It's especially hard because the design is my own, also its a full splash instead of a bust drawing. As hard as it is, I'm learning a lot and I think I can pull it off with even more effort.
Illustration Phase: setting up Heavy WIP
In this stage (the hardest stage imo) I'm mostly setting up layers and moving things around
to see what works for the final image. I will adjust the design as I go to make her more "bee-like".
The next step would be to color the image and add more lighting to it after everything is clean and properly set up. I'm hoping to complete this step on the 1st, leaving at least 5 days for rendering and adding details.
It's looking great!!! And you can do this!! 
Good luck!!
You can definitely do it, and being able to do something like this will likely open your horizons even more to bigger and bigger pieces. The bust shot is beautiful, but it won't be nearly as impressive as your ability to complete a large full scale piece
Update: the illustration is coming together, and right now I'm improving the design. Hopefully I can colour and render within the next few days!
Illustration Phase: adjustments+color and light WIP
Turbo mode on... I will start rendering once I have everything I want in place.
Making good progress so far. The colours are gorgeous on your character and I love her design. Gives me young witch vibes. The trees framed around your character is a nice touch too.
Although, those black swarms don't really look like bees. Are they just placeholders so you know where to place your bees?
Thank you, and yeah I'm like 30% done only 
I got stuck last week so I'm a bit behind schedule. I'l probably have to pull all nighters for this...
Ouch. I don't think you're the only one at least. I'm seeing a bunch of new entrants pop up in the last week out of nowhere that just recently started. You've got a leg up on them at least. 
Don't strain yourself too much. Hope you can make it man!
Thank you, I'll definitely try my best 
Illustration Phase: Final
I know you're adding effects and what not, but the bg to me feels really unfinished (whether that's intentional or not) but it looks kinda strange when faced with a really fleshed out and finished character, and I know it's too late to point this out as well but she seems to be on a different plane to the trees themselves, like in a different perspective.
Either way, good work so far and I hope you can finish it before the deadline
