@Oceane_Roh @nesokaiyoh Agreed. Making lizards part of the Earth faction could work. I'll take #2 and #5 and expand on them later.
Btw thank you for the consistent feedback so far. It certainly helped. ^^
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?in24.5k
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 youin1.5k
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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!in813
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!in49.1k
You're very welcome
This is what make this challenge so cool !
Your character looks like boss from Hollow knight.)
Finished expanding the illustration thumbnails. Safe to say I'm gonna go with the first composition. I had more fun playing around with the first sketch's compositon while the second one was trickier.
Yeah your first thumb is really cool ! We can really feel the speed and the power !
Phew. Spent last few days rendering the Thunder-Beast. Tried to paint the beard to be cloud-like, but not sure if it needs refining. Critique is welcome.
It kinda look like a candyfloss bear, but hell yeah that's cool !
It does look a little like candyfloss, 
I'll have to tweak that. But thanks!
i like the look on this and the colors, the soft feel to it works well for me top part almost feels like a cloud. (views rough concept it is a cloud nice work!)
Started work on the submission. Merely sketchwork, figuring how much detail to apply to the lizards and tweaking the composition. Not sure if I should edit the aspect ratio to be wider and more cinematic.
I will always say yes to wider aspect ratio lol
But in truth it could help your composition more, that burst of speed from your dude right across the picture like that
Changed the aspect ratio. Definitely helps. The composition feels less constricted now. Thanks @nesokaiyoh ^^.
Finished rough sketch. I will clean up the sketch next. Any constructive feedback on my rough sketch is appreciated. 
hmmm, this is cool, what gets to me is that this enemy is more of the focus than the hero in this image, i'd say if you can lessen his appearance and enhance the hero more might be neat maybe raise the hero and put this enemy more under the hero sliding off to the left of the shield and towards the ground. That is just me, i don't do much drawing so, take it with the grainiest of salts.
I understand what you mean. The focus might change later though when I start rendering colours and values. I plan my champion to be bright and glowing as it's powering through, while the lizards will be darker tones and possibly blurred the further they're away from the champion. I might remove detail later if necessary. Thanks for your input. ^^
Finished clean version of illustration sketch.
Okay... so overtime, I've grown to dislike the basic shield design I used so far. I've decided to redesign it before continuing the illustration.
I knew it needed changing, but I couldn't decide how. After browsing through several Greek shield references, I thought of shaping the shield to look like moth wings, while trying to keep it visually Greek-influenced. I drew up several variations of this idea and wondered if anyone agrees/disagrees with this concept.
2, 7 look good
Updated Thunder-Beast with shield redesign.
ooooh I love the new shield, the moth inspiration is a nice touch !
Thank you! Glad you like it.
That guy is awesome! I really like the new shield too
Thanks man!
Been a while since I commented on here, but I've been creeping xD
I like the shield design, it resonates with your moth man! The pink fluffy beard is nice too
Thanks @nesokaiyoh ! I've been creeping your thread too. Your champion's stunning and getting a lot of attention. It might be a winner. 
Team lightening! The idea of lizards and moths as mortal enemies is great. Also, the wider aspect ratio looks good.
Don't get my hopes up lmao I didn't enter for the prizes (won't complain if I get further than the first round tho) Thanks so much for the kind words!
gj! very original concept ! exellent rendering of details.
however is it possible to get it in a more dynamic position? if it's too late for a big change like that ... just make sure the legs make more sense. now they don't seem to connect well to its body and they seem a bit too small? just imo....
gl and keep it up =)
Yeh, it was a little tricky trying to pose his limbs since his beard kind of obstructs view of his body a bit. A design drawback. :x
It's not clear in the B/W clean sketch but a little of his back thigh can be seen. His pose might be tweaked later in the rendering phase. Thanks for the critique!
ah really loving those dynamic comps really cool! 
seems you also going more for creatures atm ^^
A WIP shot of my illustration. Very rough, applying local colours and figuring out which colours to use for BG elements and the lizards.
oh he fast
Ohyehhefaaaast. 
WIP #2. Focused on focal point, establishing key shadow, ambient occlusion, secondary light, etc. BG grayed out for easy viewing.
WIP #3. Foundation is pretty much set. Now I'm painting over the characters, polishing and adding extra detail. The cloud beard will be worked on soon, I left it alone which is why it may look odd. Deadline is approaching!
Pay no attention to the derpy-looking lizards in the BG. They are not ugly, they were just born that way.
WIP #4. More rendering and polishing. Painted cloud beard and smoothed out details on BG lizards. If anyone see anything looking odd, feel free to comment.
Oh no, I feel so sorry for lizard guy he's hurting bad xD
Heheh. Well, it's his own fault. He should've joined the Lightning Army.
Did a little extra on the surrounding elements. Attempted to fill in the empty space behind the BG lizards to make their army feel bigger. May need more tweaking.
BG needs more work, but it's getting there! My brain's feeling heavy from looking at this image all day every day. 
Again, C&C from anyone is welcome.
I relate so much to heavy brainage. Been working on mine a solid two weeks and I swear some my own head has turned to mush lmao but it'll be worth it! You've come so far and done so well xD And it's really really looking fantastic! I like that you made their army seem bigger, but I think you could add some atmospheric perspective as his lightning trail from the sky and the sky itself feels a bit 2D
