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!in48.3k
Ahh sorry I didn't get back to you! Had a couple days break 
I love the idea of it grasping the phoenix so easily and without effort at all, really shows the immense power behind the creature. The new additions does help give it more depth yes, the trees and birds work well. Good job so far!
If you had the living biscuits squeezed out of you you'd probably look a bit derpy too lmao Looking great!
I'm not sure if I've already told you how fun I found the face of your phoenix but, Hey look amazing xD
There's a really good story telling with the add of the 2 people on the front,
I'd say you could push the render of the mountains a bit further, they look a bit disconnected from the rest of the background. You could also tweak the vegetation on it's back a bit, you could check alpine landscape.
But really cool project
That's awesome! Poor phoenix though XD
I'd say it's lacking a lot of detail, as it looks a bit unfinished. For what it is though I enjoy the concept and you've done a pretty good job of indicating the scale and mass that this creature represents. The bits of dirt and rocks on the left are a super nice touch as well, as you need some smaller elements to contrast with the bigger ones. I do still feel sorry for the bird lol
Damn, now I begin to feel sorry for that bird myself 
but this is (Art)war after all, so... sorry team fire 
Thanks @Oceane_Roh and @nesokaiyoh for the feedback. I totally agree with you guys. I will try to work on those mountains and details and see how far I can push it, as my time budget is quite low atm 
If it helps, I would always recommend using some reference. For instance, aside from just colour and some vague shapes there is actually no detail of the rock looking like rock, maybe experimenting with some textured brushes would help that. Same goes with the grass patches. A good indicator of scale is always trees, and while you do have some small ones right at the top (ngl I didn't notice them until I looked really close for this feedback), it could benefit with many more, perhaps on the side of that arm, shoulder and head.
Heya! Thanks @nesokaiyoh. Yeah, the grass was actually on my list, I just didnt know, how to approach that properly yet. As for the rocks, I will try to experiment a bit. Thanks for the suggestions, I will try those 
Baby step update: Worked a bit on those mountains and details
If you don't know how to paint something, look at something that imitates that thing irl! (Yes I'm referring to reference again it's highly valuable lol) Take a look at the Chinese floating mountains for example, knowing how to break down something in real life to use in something imaginary is a very useful tool
@nesokaiyoh Those mountains are gorgeous!!! I tried around a bit with textured brushes and color range selections, but I still dont feel like I can achieve the same quality of texture. But thats ok I guess, lotsof stuff still to learn
Anyway, did some details and structure in the grass as well as several rock-regions.
That's perfectly alright, being able to imitate complex textures with some digitised brushes is really difficult, takes a bit more than just the single brush too. Often when I paint rocks of mountains I'll use a whole range of tools, several chisel style brushes, some soft brushes for colour transition, lasso and shape tools. But either way, you learn through experimenting, so even if it didn't go well I hope you gained something from it!
@nesokaiyoh definetly gave me some perspective on how to approach it, and I'll try more of that in the future, so big thx!
For this project though, I fear there is too little time right now I can put into it, so i will probably keep things simple for now.
tiny update:
Honestly what you've done for this one has also been challenging and very ambitious, so you should be proud of that in and of itself! You've done well with it too, and been consistent with the updates and work
Some final adjustments, adding a splash of blue light from the sky here and there and shadows to the trees. Maybe barely noticable, but I lifted the values on his arm a bit to seperate it more from the foreground. Maybe I could do that a bit more but well,... I think this is where I leave it for now.
Thanks @nesokaiyoh when I look back at my struggle colorizing the crude lineart, I am really quite happy with the current state, even if a lot more could be done.
Thanks everyone for the invaluable input and feedback!
You'll only get better with each and every piece you do, and even more so when you push yourself and your abilities to the max. Maybe come back to this in a year and redo it, see how far you'll have come?
