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?in24.1k
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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studies studies juri study imagination, how I feel before a speech imagination imagination study something I drew for my presentation also drew this for my presentation, didn't fix the one hand being bigger than the other imagination + study study studies study study, I need to fix the face a bit based on screenshot from anime but in my style study. except for the eye study studies studies study. changed some things tho imagination imagination imagination study studies, except top right samurai based on anime screenshot wolverine studies, changed some of the poses a lil, not very good at all, but first time i drew the character ever. semi study studies study imagination imagination imagination , for first time ever i tried to draw over 3d model for middle pose, I dont like the result tbh, but it makes it much easier than coming up with it from memory.imagination, except right figurestudies imagination + studies, coming up with action poses r hard, these are not dynamic enough, I will redraw better ones in future. imagination , imagination imagination study, except for eye imagination imagination imagination doodles except for the two chrollos imagination storyboard thumbnail, idk if i ever shared this. my storyboards end up being a little detailed since i usually just draw in one layer.in22.0k
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!in785
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!in47.6k
oooh, im liking this. Gonna go look at your facebook thing (if I can find it).
Some amazing sutff right here !! Love the fact that you're doing so much fondation stuff !
looking forward to see more art from you, the first androgyn boy looks so simple yet so cool.
@stealcase I edited my first post with my fb link if you've not founb it yet and thank you very much!
@byot Thank you so much. Yeah I love to improve my foundations and practice that most of my time which results in me not really having any "finished" artworks that I could put into my portfolio page, haha^-^
Also I'm trying to visualize the most with as few strokes as possible if you know what I mean 
DS #536: Today I picked up on gesture studies again. I feel reaally really rusty and have to keep doing this everyday from now on...
Too many "useless" strokes and not enough flow
Tools: Pentel Brush Pen on paper
really awesome stuff! your pencil sketches are so sick, those eyes and heads super good keep it up~
Man this is the sort of stuff I wish I could make myself do. Studies, new techniques, not worrying about final results just trying to get better. 500+ days is very impressive, you're an inspiration.
That's what I call dedication 
I really love the first painting. I like the way the bright way figure looks on the dark background. It gives a very supernatural look.
And great work on those studies. They look very nice!
@thor6136 Thank you very much Will do
@karidyas If you really want to here's a tip: Do art only for yourself. If there is something that you're interested in at any moment, may it be art related or not, just put time into research and learn it. Take notes, etc. Draw it onto the paper to not only let the information run through your head but also through your hands onto the paper. Makes remembering twice as easy.
And the most important thing. Keep it as dirty as you like. You dont have to make an illustration with your studies. You're trying to get information in and most often in a short amount of time. Just do it for yourself and dont worry about the quality. Once you're about to make an illustration you have the information in your head and can afford to put more time into making it "clean".
Tl,dr: Study for yourself to improve not only as an artist but as a person.
Also if you want to "create" a habit of studying/drawing everyday, you have to force it at the beginning. (For a habit to stay you need to do it 20-30dayish). For me: I also had to force it at the beginning because I wasn't used to drawing sevarel hours a day, but now because I developed this habit, I just do it, haha
@cedricgo Thank you, mate! Yeah was trying some weird new stuff with that painting^^
DS #537:
Tested sketching on my new Ipad Pro 12.9'' and I love it because it's so close to Photoshop on my desktop.
Gonna have to try and work around with the brushes and settings.
All done from imagination so not really good stuff today.
Tools: Ipad Pro 12.9'' + Apple Pencil
Nice studies and sketches dude, would love to see some more elaborate pieces as time goes on!
Thanks for taking the time to write that, it means a lot. Just drawing whatever I'm interested in at the moment is great advice and I see a lot of people doing it now that you point it out, that would definitely make the drawing habit easier to stick to. Inktober will hopefully get me into it, though I managed to drop the ball pretty quick last year. Just gotta keep the drive, and this blog I can see being very helpful for that. Thanks again
I love these scribbles and the looseness of your lines. It's my favorite way to draw, but I tend to end up with nothing particularly finished afterwards. I'm glad to see someone else sees the value in it. Keep going. =)
@gardfinvik Thanks dude! I'm planning on doing some portfolio pieces during this month. I really hope that I can get enough time to finish them^^
@karidyas If you're in a phase where you are used to drawing without having to force yourself you need to start on working on fundamentals. - Build the passion than build the foundation - Haha^^
Also ART is just like a language. Like before learning to form sentences you have to be able to build words and before that you have to know the alphabet, etc.
Before you can work on designs (my current state) you have to be able to draw in perspective, paint your values properly, etc. pp. freely to express your designs through your drawing/painting. I really hope you understand what I mean 
So in short: Build up your passion first (drawing, painting, sculpting,...) and then if you're comfortable in using your medium, work on all your fundamentals to be able to draw anything you have in mind (lifelong process) .
But I'm just a noob. Started to draw seriously with my first "Daily Sketch" so take my advice with a grain of salt. 
Keep at it!
@stealcase Haha thanks man. I love scribbling, too. But I'm currently trying to get rid of my habit to draw "unclean" because I never draw over them again to clean 'em up, haha^^ Cheers!
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DS #538: Trying out an ink brush on my iPad Pro which is similar to a ballpoint pen.
Wanted to draw something clean straight onto the canvas.
Still working on my shapes und lineart...
Compressing the file made the lineart really pixelated and blurry... hope it's okay on this site.
Tools: iPad Pro 12.9'' + Apple Pencil
DS #539:
Tried to get more practice with the iPad. Today's topic: Rendering practice - face study
Need some more time to get used to the brushes and need to work on my rendering workflow... My workflow is a mess haha... Haven't done a rendering study in a long time
Tools: iPad Pro 12.9'' + Apple Pencil
DS #540:
Started reading some 'Halloween' stories today for the Crimson Crucible Challenge 6 and got really inspired by Lovecraft's short story 'The Cats of Ulthar'. May be starting a project based on some elements of it.
So I sketched out quickly a scene that I had in mind before losing it. Gotta adjust the background though for better contrast.
Wrote a lot more into my mindmap in 'Mindnode' to keep it all organized.
Working titles and possible end titles: The Boy and his Cat - The Boy's Cat - The Cat's boy.
This may finally drive me to creat portfolio pieces. Kinda hyped. Gonna be (hopefully) a fun project!
Worked in Photoshop today because I don't like to render with the Procreate brush (yet) until they fix the 'glazing' option, haha^^.
Tools: PS CC, Wacom Intuos Pro M
DS #541:
Did some environment colour studies today because I want to get back into environments and noticed that I have to improve my fundamentals... So tomorrow will probably be fundamental training day haha^^
I notice that it wasn't a good idea to stop painting environments from life/photos >.< I feel like I lost several months... Well, time to get back into it!
Also worked on that Boy and his Cat project a little bit. Tried to force a little bit more of that perspective. Also noticed: Was hard to draw the character into perspective, especially the legs. -> need to draw more perspective grids and fill them up. D:
Also: I may turn the boy into a girl. I want to have him/her to have long hair and he/she should wear a lot cloth. May be creepier in the end.
DS #542: As mentioned yesterday I was focussing on basic stuff today.
So I did some gestures and perspective stuff.
These ones were 1-2min each
A 'from life' sketch and some perspective stuff.
But my main focus was animation today.
Got back into it after a couple months, finally. I wanted to force myself into thinking more in 3D space. Got the app 'Animation+' on my iPad and just went for it.
Had a lot of fun doing these. Got my brain really heated up haha. God practice!
Got some more for tomorrow and will do them everyday to keep my brain warm.
Tools: iPad Pro 12.9'' + Apple Pencil + Procreate + Animation+
DS #543:
Having fun with animating more than anything else right now So just a quick study of animals today and more animations.
Tried to work on my painting workflow. Needs some work, still.
Just trying to move the figure and the camera.
Tried to animate small 'scenes' with a moving camera.
Tried to animate the figures 'standing up' plus added some extra special effects practice.
Tools: PS CC, Wacom Intuos Pro M (for painting); iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + Animation+ (for animations)
