Chiara I agree with Peter, it's nice to do the overall paint with a soft brush, but at some point the painting needs some crisp details. It's ok if you don't like some sharp edges, those could always be smudged with a blend brush. 
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!in800
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!in48.4k
I really love this environment. And please be gentle with yourself. I know days can seem shitty and hard, I feel them too. But take the work at the pace you need to. I took the schedule Marc built and altered it a bit.... 
Days like Mon & Wed. where it says gesture and anatomy. that can mean the human form or an environment. Both have a gesture and an anatomy to build them properly. And then after first hour I make sure to do at least 3 of the blocks from each day. And I get to fill them in however I like, and I know that all the work means progress. Having it freeform has allowed me to create what I like but still move through the terms at a good pace. I give myself the room to grow, and not force myself down a path.
There are some days were I do all classes all the blocks. Others where I do all personal all day. each Hour I complete I fill in what I did, and then change the color to bright blue.
here is a completed week.
this way I can track my progress and really feel good about what I am doing. And as long as I can fill in the color on 3 or more blocks a day I know I am moving forward at a good pace.
I hope this helps you. Like I said, ....be gentle with yourself and don't let the journey get you down. You are doing great.
Ohh @ghostmonst3r this is a very good time table!! Even If usually I don't work so much on my personal art, actually it depends if I have a specific project or not. like some weeks I just focus on a project 7 days on 7 hahah but now I don't feel so, good now 
in terms of be satisfied with my art.
I should maybe do something like you've done, and also think what to do because I've finished to watch all the class lessons and I'm a bit lost right now probably I will restart to follow the important topics and going into deep.
And thank you for having shared this!! it has helped me and maybe could help somebody else watching this topic 
So today a bit of anatomy. Some fast sketchy ones and then 2h hours of hands and feets, never done anything like this before hahaha it was actually really funny
And then I tried to study the works of "Sakimi Chan" that I've found on the cubebrush's tutorials. Maybe her girls are too hot for me but I love how she renders them. What turned out was not super good (like her face is... no comment hahah) maybe I will buy one of her tutorials one day.
Hi Chiara,
oh my good you are so hardworking and productive... I'm so ashamed that I'm still not really making progress because of time constraints, but I'm so happy that you're making so much progress.
Yes Sakimi chan's drawings are also not quite mine but her way of coloring is really great, I had already thought about getting one or the other tutorial from her but I'm still inconclusive. I think at least you did a great job for the first try.
Don't find that her face has gotten bad either. In any case, you have captured the body plastically well, Maybe deeper/darker shadows would be better for a deeper plasticity? Anyway you did a super job here and your understanding of anatomical drawing has become damn good😭🤩
I am always up for some collaboration for fun projects too. I would be up for working on some things with you, if you feel you may need a push to come up with something new. I can feel your energy. You are feeling a bit lost. I can tell because you are unsure of the art path you may want to take. Everything sounds kind of exciting but your not sure if that what you want to do. 2D game art? Tattoos? Illustration? I have seen you get excited by a lot of things.
Going back through the lessons I think would be a good idea. Maybe take them in subjects, instead of terms. like go back and do all the stuff on perspective and environment, then maybe just do anatomy, then zbrush only, etc.
I am entering into a Legend of Zelda art challenge this month, and you know I am always doing outside courses mixed in with my stuff here at ArtSchool. You are always welcome to join me on those projects. Just hit me up and ask me what outside stuff I am doing, and if it sounds fun, I can fill you in on details.
You are working so much on your art! Really cool. Your anatomy studies look so good!
I only have time to work on my art after work.
thank you so much @Vampamingo!! Even If I'm not feeling as productive as I would like hahah
And don't be harsh on you with progress, I think that everyone has that feeling inside. I think that the importance is to try to appreciate the journey even if it's just at the beginning and you can't see lots of changements, just my opinion And for the plasticity probably you're right, thank you for the advice 
And yes @ghostmonst3r it would be a pleasure for me to collaborate together!! Also doing some challenges like the translucent character challenge on the forum gives me an intense creativity boost
And thanks for the advice, I think that I will focus during some months until the end of the year on character, evironments and, other things hahah and then understand better what I want and start creating my portfolio, hopefully
@IndrawnArt the fact is that I lost my job with coronavirus and It's actually difficult to find another one in this period, so this is my main thing right now 
I would like to do even more but, I don't know my crativity has decreased during the past few weeks. Hope to get it back hahah
Today some forms and light studies and some man made structures. I also went back to my sketchbook (I haven't touched traditional for a while ) and maybe finishing it before 2021. Hope that you will like it 
and if you have any advice or ideas on how to fill it I will totally appreciate that hahaha 
Wow Chiara your volumes read so well it almost look like a render from 3d software 
and I love all these buildings, they have a soul <3 I think environments are really your thing! (your anatomical studies weren't bad at all! xD I just think it hmm... shines through what you like doing most)
Those buildings are the best! 
Especially the two horizontal panels. Oh, that looks like such a cool environment.
Also, you made me feel guilty for not having a sketchbook. I don't like doing traditional art 
I, like Peter, think environments are your strongest suite so far.
really love those little buildings and structures
Rabbit turned out really cute and mannequins are pretty good as well for anatomy I think you need to study front legs some more, especially how tibula is placed in the leg, rest is really neat.
For environments check Tyler Edlin, he has nice style and make only them, Idk how good his tutorials are tho so it's for you to explore the subject
Hey Chiara,
I'm sorry that you lost your job due to the pandemic. I just wish that people would be more careful and wear their masks to protect themselves and the other people around them. I could only shake my head in disbelief yesterday while drinving behind a "party bus".
Oh well. We keep us sane with our art, right?! Your studies are amazing! Proko is always a good source of inspiration and he's so damn good at anatomy it's insane. XD
Keep it up!
Yay! You started using sharper edges for the foreground! Maybe push the atmospheric perspective more?
Very nice landscape, Chiara! I love that you added some moss on the tree trunks.
The mountain in the background seems a bit too saturated for being that far away.
Thanks for the kind words guys
Here I post some quick studies of this week, I'm posting them right now because I was pretty ashamed hahah I need to work a looot on this things. Also I can't draw for long times this week, I don't know I just feel tired, always hahah I think that It's because I care about it a lot and this cause me more anxiety than other topics.
If you have any advice I will appreciate them as always!! But I wanted to say that they're not mean to be "super polished" but just quick and loose, nothing else to say
Chiara strikes again with the environments!
