@nesokaiyoh thank you! I'm definitely inspired by shadow of the colossus for this, but I'm also trying to avoid making it look like it came right out of that universe lol.
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!in48.0k
I like that you're pushing against it then, imo the sheet you posted 7 days ago does look like it came right from the game which honestly is impressive in itself lol I'm excited to see where you push it though
Almost forgot to do some work on the symbol! I'm having trouble deciding if it should be a hole or maybe the paint reads better. Kind of leaning towards the paint but still on the fence!
The paint was inspired by Horizon Zero Dawn's Banuk painings (really beautiful symmetrical designs and colors, check them out!)
on the topic of paint on rocks, does anyone know a solid technique for making the paint look like paint? Can't seem to achieve the same level of realism as something like this:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F63%2F4a%2Fe4%2F634ae4bfa00ec2d85fd571a3fd4c093c.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
That has a lot of photobashing, and textured brushes (I photobash concepts too so it's a skill I'm familiar with). He probably imports photo textures and paints over them using lasso and textured brushes. If you want to learn that kind of technique without photos, then Shaddy safadi is a good bet. Look him up on Google, I learned my textured painting from him too and it;s definitely worthwhile. (The videos are free on his website!)
so I've come across a huge roadblock. I'm not sure if it's a virus or not but I went to go and uninstall a questionable program I had on my machine and it took on a sort of "if I go down, I'm taking you with me" nature and uninstalled half the programs on my computer (Office, all Adobe programs, chrome, and a lot of other important programs).
Fortunately, it didn't damage or remove any of my documents so I still have all of my ART WAR work, but I'm going to need to repair the damage and so my next few posts will probably be delayed. Going to need to re-install all of the programs that were lost and figure out what happened and whether or not I have a virus. Reconfiguring all my photoshop settings to the way I had it before is going to be really arduous though, haha. Definitely going to reinstall photoshop by tomorrow and get that back up and running so I can be back in business ASAP!
Before I continue I'd love to upload the WIP for the final concept page. I decided to choose tribal paint for the emblem, but it felt out of place by itself on her stomach so I decided to add more paint on the rock formations on her back. I think I may also add some to her skull if it doesn't get too crowded on the design. Gonna add little bits of paint on parts of the design to make it feel more complete.
Let me know what you think!
WIP:
Sorry to hear about the computer stuff, I've been having a lot of trouble myself, had to reset from the harddrive twice and completely uninstall and reinstall Windows from my SSD. Had to install everything so many times and it was still crashing, figured it might now be a RAM problem so I took one out to test individual crashes lmao been lucky so far. Either way there's no rush and you don't have to post every single day, seeing your effort and attitude towards though is really nice and admirable.
I think it's looking lovely so far and I enjoy the design, I hope you can sort out the problem soon and properly get back into it!
I hope you will overcome your trouble 
The tribal paint are a nice touch to your design and it's very original !
This is looking super nice!! Shadow of the colossus vibes for sure. Can't wait to see where your final illustration goes!
(Sorry to hear about your computer troubles 
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@josierichmond thank you! 
Having a bit of trouble with the final illustration thumbnails as I need the pose to display the emblem on her belly but can't come up with any good poses, and not sure if I should downsize her a bit and maybe put the emblem on her head somewhere instead.
also computer crisis averted! Friend helped me out :>
Well she's massive, so a good port of call is to use a lower perspective or even a worm's eye view to give a good shot of the belly! That's just one idea though
Very cool concept! I really like the skull mask, gives a very eerie and strong feeling, good luck with the illustration 
Hmmm. A low angle shot is definitely a good idea, or even putting some of that war paint on her mask? Or even at the bottom of her legs where humans could have painted it on?
Now for the part I struggle with the most... illustration thumbnails! I really struggle with values and composition so any suggestions are much appreciated. <3
So during the thumbnailing process I kept asking myself if the design felt good and I kept feeling like there was something off about the character so I decided to go back to the design and fiddle around with it. Doodled up something I love a lot more than the current design that feels more like nature/earth element than the first design. 
Aaaand some color variations:
Thumbnails I made before the design changed:
Going to use the far right one as the final image, just going to expand on the force attacking.
(also fun little edit, my favorite song to listen to while working on her creation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNzbwP4UaBE )
Wow this has changed a lot since I was last here! This new design is amazing, certainly better than the original (although it was bomb too) and really loving the grass waterfall thing.
