For me the composition is already pretty neat.👍🏼
Maybe the people int the back could pull like a cart with a big hunted prey (eg dragon) or something like that. Just an idea ^^
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?in24.0k
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!in784
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!in47.4k
Mmm yes. I think so to.
Feels a bit like the people in the back needs to be put into context.
She's clearly someone imporant among them and that's her thing, but the rest kind of lacks a purpose. At least, for now.
I initially planned on doing something more akin to a sunrise.
But then I saw the potential to put a hole in the clouds and really create some vertical depth through them, so I switched to putting the sun up there instead.
I've also adjusted the positions and size of all the characters to better match up with the perspective.
Yeah... I totally went for the "paint until it works out" approach.
The 'happy accident' of finding the opportunity with the hole in the clouds is brilliant, it acts as a sort of 'halo' to the champion and makes us focus more on them. I love it!
Thanks!
It's almost funny how I didn't see it until just now, considering how I already knew I wanted to have the clouds go round her like that.
I tried to get as much done with the little time I had available.
Grey is such an amazing "color". One second it's warm, another it's cold. When the colors clash, go grey and now it works. I know the theory behind it, but seeing it in action wlays blows my mind.
I think... as soon as I've gotten far enough, I'll start merging layers and just paint on top.
I want any sharp edges to have been made with a brush, rather than a mask. Makes it look less digital to me.
My tablet (it's one of those screen based ones) doesn't seem to accurately show colors to me, so I have to double check them on a different screen afterwards. Turns out everything was a little bit too green. Way more than I intended to.
The lack of cast shadows makes the characters feel disconnected to the piece, but I'm leaving them for later. If you look at the area around her shoulders and head alone, I think you can get a pretty good feel for the target quality of the piece. I'd say I'm aiming to get it all to a level somewhat above that.
Before I get started on polishing, what's left to do are:
* The two guys next to her
* The ground beneath them
* Cast Shadows
* Bringing all the pieces together (making sure everything feels like it exists together or something like that)
* Final Polishing and fancy effects and whatnot
He looks kind of funny rendered out.
Some awesome work here and a very professional way of approaching your design. Thanks for some in depth explanations, i think its the best way for young artists to learn the pipeline. Awesome!
Slow progress. I've been lazy.
I'm not sure why I've slowed down so much.
Anyways, that's the update this time.
@oleg.evglevskyy Thanks man!
I haven't had the time to check out everyone else's work as much as I did previous years, so I'm trying to compensate by leaving stuff for people to engage with, should they come by my page.
this looks just greatt 
great perspective and render so far 
I really like the style you have developed
I've been going over all the overlooked details in the foreground.
Her spear(?) started to look real nice with the banner in the wind.
I'll have to do another pass on it with the final details, but that's for later.
God... only 10 days left or so. I'm actually starting to get worried 
@gabs-fg Thank you. The style was a result of me wanting to have a painterly look to it and a brush that happened to have just the right properties for this specific task. Glad you like it (so far)!
Looking at your process is so helpful! I'm glad you're explaining your thoughts 😄 I'm sure you get into the top 30 👍🏼 At least 😉
I'm itching to just merge all the layers and just paint on top, but I still think there's some work left to do that'd benefit from the piece not being merged.
Size and positions of characters have been adjusted once again - perhaps for the last time.
I regret trying to eyeball it all in the first place, rather than using a perspective grid. The added shadows instantly connects the characters to the ground (as expected), and I'm kind of feeling like adding some mist here and there to create more depth between the characters.
Becase the clouds had so much brushwork details, they created a lot of noise and drew attention away from the shieldmaden, so I softened them and will aim to bring back some of the details to the clouds in the center.
Lots of very dark spots, such as the top corners and all over the shieldmaiden. Both are something I think makes the piece look a little muddy. I'll have to check that too.
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And I also shrunk the mountains. It made a huge difference and I suspect they (pronoun for mountains??) were the reason the depth of the piece was thrown off somewhat.
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Bruh, I wish I got into top 30. That'd be so cool.
Glad you're enjoying my talkative side.
For today's update, I've done some more tweaks to the shieldmaiden and fixed her hair.
More importantly though, I've polished pretty much the entire sky. Mostly focused on getting that almost divine look to the clouds around her head and bringing back some subtle texture to the rest.
I wasn't quite happy with the mountains and the forest, so those two recieved a paintover. They seemed a bit too dark and the lack of intentionally implied detail messed a little with the depth of the image.
I'm feeling quite good about all the things I did today, so I'm probably not going to touch those part any more than this. Now they're finished.
Moving forward, I'll be working my way from the "army" in the midground and make my way to the front and finish it with details and some adjustment layers.
Turns out I was right about adding in some mist and how it'd effect the overall image.
I had a hunch that it'd strengthen the depth and mood of the image and it did.
With the addition of painting in the grass, it all just comes together neatly.
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There are a couple of things I might add, depending on how good they look:
1) "Foreground grass" - maybe a few strands that pop up in front of the camera to further enhance the levels of depth.
2) Random flying stuff - perhaps some leaves or grass strands being thrown around by the wind. If placed right can enhance the compositon of the image.
3) Dandelions - The rougher drawings had flowers in the laurels, so maybe I should look into bringing some back? They're also a very summer-y flower, so putting some down around them would not only add more stuff to the piece, but also help enforce the depth.
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Thinking about these kinds of things should prevent me from aimlessly cluttering the image and ruining what I've got going.
Not much left at all now, as the next one might be the final.
Quite exciting to see things coming to an end!
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And that's a wrap!
After doing some minor tweaks and final detail work, I reached a point I'm happy with.
I tried out some of the stuff mentioned in the last update, but they didn't quite have the desired effect on the piece.
I had a lot of fun working on this and I'm very happy for the nice comments people left.
In the previous years I participated in I was a little scared of drawing environments/scenes, so this year felt like a good step up and confrontation of my fears.
Hopefully I'll be able to participate next time again!
