Ok, so here is today's progress. I'm using a linked psd, to make changing stuff easier.
Any thoughts? 
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!in48.4k
Your character's posing is a little awkward because it feels more like a front view morphed into the perspective you're working with - and it's a difficult perspective. I'd use some blocks to define parts of the body in that perspective first before going too far on the rendering with her
Well, I tried and brutally failed. 
I hate to say this, but can you please help me out with it? I tried putting her in boxes, that were in the right perspective, but if I fit her into those same boxes, she became way too deformed...
"Failing" I would take lightly haha you've chosen such a tough and difficult perspective! I respect that you've done so much with it honestly. And of course I can, I'll do a draw over for you (a little less rushed than the previous ones ehe) and I'll break it down so it can help you understand how it looks in this perspective, and hopefully help for future pieces too
Thank you so much. Until then I'll draw something else fast, so I can turn my thoughts away from this. It's honestly pretty tiring.
Mainly because the character is based on my girlfriend and we recently broke up, which hurt me quite a bit... 
Ahh well I'm sorry to hear that. Find solice in the fact you will at least learn a lot from this artistic experience, even though your relationship didn't go well. Here is the bit of help I can offer, I'd spend more time on the sections but with there being a deadline and my own painting unfinished I can't spare too much currently. Either way, I hope this helps a little. If you need extra ref, I recommend looking up the perspective and foreshortening tutorials of Krenz, he's a master and simplifies them quite well.
Anyway, the point being you need to start off with big, simple shapes that fit easily into a perspective, boxes work well as they fit it perfectly. Humans are more complex, and I'd suggest you study more on applied humans in perspective rather than just going at it blindly. A good book on that would be "Perspective for the Comic Book artist" by David Chelsea. That's where I learned initially!
About the drawover, I featured two slightly different poses on the right there - it's difficult emulating your pose because it's uncomfortable to stand like that irl, and jutting out the far hip is really difficult to show in a perspective setting. So I modified both a little, made it easier even, as I struggled a little initially. When it comes to people in perspective, I think of three large boxes, one for the head, torso and legs although arguably the torso can be split into two as the ribcage and hips operate separately of course.
Another thing about your pose, I assume you were going for some kind of contrapposto, but both sides of her body were leaning at the same time, which again is actually really unnatural and difficult to do irl, so I gave her a proper contrapposto (i.e. if you're unsure what that is, it's where the figure is leaning on one hip, with a shoulder tilt meaning one shoulder is raised, there's an example below)
With contrapposto by the way, it can only be opposites of the body, the shoulders tilting upward on the left, leaning on the right hip or vice versa
I wouldn't worry too much about getting either the pose or perspective right though, it's already really distorted on that side of the painting, so I had to normalise it a little in order for it not to become a fish eye. You can tell it's distorted by the way the box leans in the upper left, that's where the distortion gets bad as it's out of the proper range that works well for 3 point. When you move out of that field of view, things get really distorted and warped, it can look well in certain aspects but the entire piece needs to be consistent in order for it to not look out of the ordinary. If that makes sense? lol
Yooooo! Thank you so much, you helped me a lot. Even if I won't be able to apply these (which I'll try) to my current drawing, I'll surely utilize them in the future.
Thanks again, especially for the detailed feedback <3
btw I draw this in the meantime
Well, the deadline is gonna kill me
I don't have much time, so I had to hurry. Since I cannot afford to start over the character, instead of directly fixing the perspective, I fixed the pose, so it should look more natural now. 
Holy s...!!! I AM FINALLY FINISHED! This was a pain. This could've come out much better if I had the time, but meh. Either way, thanks @nesokaiyoh for your help!
It turned out so well! It's no problem, I hope you use that info for future work too! And always plan background first before you draw the character poses xD
