Wow these are fantastic! Especially the value studies. Very well executed! Glad to see your work again after taking care of yourself!
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?in24.6k
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 youin1.5k
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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!in827
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!in49.6k
Finished both of the portraits.
I feel like the weakest part is the cheek/mouth area. Its hard to understand its form, so it ended up looking kinda flat, especially the cheek bone.
If anyone have critiques, please dont hesitate to say!
Very nice work! I think you did a really good job with these portraits! I can see how the portrait with the lady with the stick in her mouth would be hard to paint the cheek area well. You might already know about this resource but I find it helps me quite a bit.
These are very good studies. Keep it up.
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Great portraits @danilo_tedde, I esp like Nezuko. One thing I noticed about the 2nd portrait however is the right eye looks a little off. To me eye is too forward, it needs to be pushed back in a tiny bit it, it gives the feeling that the eye is surface level with the face instead of in a socket if you know what I mean. See below.
Other than this looks great, you have a really good understanding of values, I’m esp a big fan of your landscapes love it!
Oh I see that! I think I tend to do that on 3/4 portraits - push the eye too far to the side of the face making it look kinda "flat". Im gonna keep that in mind for the next portraits.
Thanks for the words and feedback, it helps a lot!
Imagine if both of them have red pupils.. 
Great work btw dan. Thank you for the suggestions too.. 
Well, its been a long time since I dont update this, but I've been drawing during this period. Im gonna try to be more consistent uploading the studies throughout the days, instead of just posting a bunch of stuff every 4 weeks (like Im doing right now lol).
If you have any feedback or tips that you think it could help me improve the studies, please dont hesitate saying!
Anyways, here are some portrait quick studies: 
Some 3 point perspective studies (still need to do more of these)
Here is a drawing that I liked and will probably finish in the next days/weeks:
And a full illustration that Im working on (and struggling a lot with the rendering)
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And a Jinx taking a selfie after... well...
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Overall, I would say that these are some really great and solid studies. especially the portrait ones. If there's one thing, these pieces could use some more contrast in values. Keep up the great work! :))
these are all great stuff!!!!!!!
10/10..
Cool picture, I especially like the pops of colour, really draws you into the eyes then the blood
You’ve really improved on your portraits @danilo_tedde. They look awesome
@000_peanut @alwaysneedsleep Thanks a lot!
@Apath TY! And yes, I can see that. Since I start with low contrast on values and work building it up, sometimes I dont push it far enough. I will try to gradually push a little bit more for the next ones. Thanks for the feedback!!
Wow, just wow! These portraits are so on point, you are totally nailing the planes and the values. These look so good. Likeness is good to I know the photo you used for the one in the bottom right! I really love your style. You are way beyond my level I have nothing of value to add just wanted you to know you are killing it. Keep it up!
Thank you so much Lock, that means a lot! I see you in most topics, helping everyone, its really good to have someone like you in the community!!
Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm still pretty new so I don't always have something to add. But I know the power of a kind word. I have people in my life who never believed in me and never supported me. Sometimes all it takes to be successful is a little encouragement. Keep up the great work!
I finally finished the cat stealing fish art. It helped me to understand better some parts of the process. The render was the hardest part by far - I felt lost/like I didnt really knew what I was doing a few times during the painting process. I feel like I could've done better, but overall Im somewhat satisfied with the final result since I didnt start studying color theory/composition yet.
Im starting to feel like moving to Term 3 now, will finish the last 4 and 5 points perspective assignments and move on.
Here is the final image and the process:
You are making excellent progress. I like the motion blur. It's a nice touch.
