Hiii guys, this is so far , at the end ill explain all my artistic inpiration inside the mexican art culture, im experimenting with using transparency in my illustration, do anyone know if it is allowed?
(is not finished yet)
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?in23.9k
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!in782
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!in47.0k
Looks really cool! I'm with br00dley that she's holding the gun in a weird way, but if it's something traditional, happy to learn something new! Aside from that, her right arm is a bit longer than her left and the palm is bigger as well.
Looking forward to the finished piece 
As for the trasparency - last year (or was it 2 years ago?) someone had asked and it was allowed, however there was a catch. PNGs are bigger in file size and get downscaled automatically (to less than 2048px). I don't know if the site now supports bigger file sizes, but just make sure to check the size of the uploaded images.
Thank you!! im glad yoi like it , i think the file is needed in jpg , so maybe i wont be able to use transparency , but thankyou for the support
Think the blue works the best with the yellow top. Really like the pattern work around the frame, it's a nice touch.
Thank you!!!, im happy someone liked the frame
28 days later
She is La adelita Carmen G. "La eterna"
She is a mexicann woman ,nobody really knows what era she belongs to, since she has very futuristic technology, but she likes the clothes from the time of the Mexican revolution (1910), she was based on the adelitas, since they are one of the representations of strong Mexican women. Also, as part of her identity, she is body painted as a catrina ,as a representation of death and what it means in Mexican culture.
She does not consider herself a vigilante or a superhero, but she is obsessed with what she could be ... that is why she travels to emblematic moments of Mexican history not to change them, but to know what it could be in the event if history was different.
-1-the hat is inspired from "talavera" which is kind of painting.
-2-She has a catrina make-up.
-3-The weapon she carries is a modified rifle Winchester 1895 that was used in the Mexican revolution, this weapon is capable of shooting plasma "chile de arbol" bullets
She also has some molotov bombs made from famous liquids form Mexico such as tequila, Mezcal and salsa.
-4-Her clothes are a combination of adelitas clothes and regional Mexican dancers.
She also carries a engraved belt ,that let her travel in time , she just configure a date and the year appears in the center of it.
-5-Colors of the Mexican flag.
Artistic inspiration:
For this illustration, I had a very clear vision that I did not want it to look like a video game or that style of illustrations, Mexican art was my inspiration, the murals, engravings, posters, etc.
So my illustration was intended as a mural or poster (as shown in the image), like much of Mexican art, it has an explosion of colors, textures, which can be difficult to read, but the detail and the way of telling a story or representing a scene in Mexican art has a lot of movement and color.
This second image is my vision of the illustration as an old engraved poster.
This is the final illsutration in png
The explanation will be in the next post
Title: What could it be...
Author: Wlfrano G
In this illustration we can see my character the delita "La Eterna" in one of her temporary trips, in this case she traveled to the Cholula massacre that took place in 1591 where a group of Spanish conquerors attacked the indigenous Mexicans without warning. ,where they did not have help and were celebrating, for this reason "La Eterna" decided in one of his adventures to help and to know what could be of this event with her help.
I had planned to use a png file for the end, but unfortunately I could not compress my illustration so much without losing much quality and within the necessary measures of the file, a blue similar to the background of the web page acts as the back of my illustration.
(The png file is in the previous post)
Nice character and illustration! Best of luck to you for the contest
Stil think the idea with the peperoni is so cool 
Maybe you could define the hat (backview) a bit more, just a little bit more contrast?
What I really like is your choice of the background colors, it makes her pop greatly^^
thank you, yeah i also was thinking of the hat hahahaha ill fix it 
I almost forguet to tell you, that my illustration was also made to be be admired with some good mexican old songs, to get that strong feeling, here are some good songs to hear with my illustration, hope you like the combo
- La mentira ,Alvaro Carrillo
- Sabor a mi, Eyde Gorme
- Nuestro Juramento, Julio Jaramillo
