First sketch:
Best regards and good luck to everyone!
Jonatan
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!in798
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
As usual I did simple 3D scene which will serve me as a base for painting:
I pushed 3D stage a bit further. Now I'm quite happy with the camera angle, composition and lighting so I think I will take it from here and start painting.
WIP No.4:
Last WIP... this year :).
I roughly thrown new idea on the canvas and now I'm freaked out... because I see a real challenge before me. First - because painting water is challenging (for me at least), second - because making all this whirling, watery madness... readable, will be challenging. So... it's time to dive deep into the maelstrom of internet, pull some useful references out of deepest deeps, learn something useful and... maintain hope that the power of water will guide me thru and in the end I will be able to paint something eye-pleasing.
Anyway - best regards and happy New Year to everyone! 
That is an interesting approach. I look forward to watching it develop.
Thank you @phume10. I'll do my best to develop it into something worth to look on. As for development - here is new WIP:
Coming along nicely, I do not envy the amount of water rendering you have given yourself!
Oh... nooo... and I thought it will be so easy...
I don't think I ever done any image that contained water but I thought to myself - "I will paint a lot of water. The more - the better. I'm so smart and It's such a smart approach because painting water will be so easy. I'm so sure of it!"
Heh, just kidding :). Yeah, like I wrote in previous post - I'm freaked out... but also excited. You know - the challenge and all that... It can't be that bad 
Thanks for stepping by!
Regards
Jonatan
gl with the water render.( im gona need it to 
) one thing im curious about is the swirl around her. not sure whats going on there. anyways cool approach 
What's going on is... she's using the Force (Water Force) and... I thought it will be cool approach . But alright, alright - let's make a solid answer to a serious question.
So... first - I thought it will be cool approach. I wasn't entirely joking about that because I'm using this swirl as compositional element that brings main focus where I want it. Which means her upper body and fisherman (he will appear more or less as in initial sketch). I'm using it also as storytelling element that shows more clearly where this impertinent fisherman and his stupid boat eventually end up.
Second... yeah - she's using Force - I wasn't entirely joking with that either. I want to show that she can bend water to her will and shape it as she please. Here comes a secret, so... don't tell anybody . I would like to test how it would look like if she would shape that swirling water into some elongated fishes - like eel or moray eel. There might also appear some watery tentacles or big toothed mouth behind the boat. But I must test it first because I'm not sure if it will look as cool as I would like to and... because I'm not sure if I can DO it as cool as I would like to.
I can only hope that all this will be more clear and readable when I will put more work on this.
Thank you for kind words by the way .
Also - I really love your approach to this War of the Elements. You have extraordinary drawing skills and really big vision (I didn't give likes under all (probably) your WIPs for nothing).
Regards
Jonatan
sound like a really good idea! iam also exploring some supernatural water effects .. but i think i will first see how the waves works first and push it abit to the "unnatural realm " and the water creature is also a good idea thinking of LOTR where Gandalf is making waterhorses.. anyways good luck 
I had some struggle with my laptop recently. In fact I still have - until I will finally finish moving into a new machine... which is extremely painful and time consuming - I hate every second of setting everything up...
But I managed to find some time to work a bit on this (despite laptop-struggle). I started shaping the water around her. Rendering is very basic so I treat it more like a place holder and basic shape holder. I also modeled base for painting fisherman in the background. More will come.
Regards
Jonatan
11 days later
Finally I've got some time to get back to it. Not much of painting today - mostly I played with values and saturation. I also tried other colors for her hair but eventually I stayed with green. More will come.
20 days later
A revelation came to me today when I looked at the deadline clock. Don't ask me why, I was convinced that I will have whole weekend to finish this. Yeah... I was wrong... it will be intense. This is how it looks today.
Totally get your trouble @jonatan-moonchild
This is looking good already (despite certainly many details you need/want to add)
Best of luck with little time left !!! (I'm the guy in the same boat 
- no pun intended of course )
Thank you @mr_dessin. Yes the need of many details is more than certain. So I better get some sleep and prepare for the final battle!
Just try to avoid mermaids from the northern waters and you'll be good. I've heard that some of them are not as kind as the first look could suggest
So... This is my final. I hope I uploaded it in time (of course I had to do it the last minute... :/).
It was great time as always and I enjoyed every minute that I could work on it.
Thank you Cubebrush team for another great Art War, and all who participated - it was an honor! See you all next year .
Best regards
Jonatan
12 days later
