• Gave myself 5 days to do something. This is what I managed to do. I'm trying to get better at illustrations, but I have patience to work on something for 3 days maximum :( Splash_Process.jpg5000x3140 2.21 MB Splash_Process-6.jpg3896x2429 2.83 MB concept list char copy.jpg5388x3000 1.7 MB
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  • Did a character concept for a course.https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P6gm3y - more:) list1.jpg3541x1920 2.82 MB
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  • Day 4: Star Wars May The 4th =] Queen Padmé Amidala in my art style! First time drawing her and I really enjoyed making this one! Used watercolours, ink pen, acrylic markers and gold paint for accents on my Canson mix media sketchbook. I hope you like it!
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  • A creature design from a while back
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  • Here is some more recent stuff, I need to make more body studies
  • It's been a while and god, it is so cringe to go through all previous messages xDmy study.
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  • 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?
  • 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 you
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  • memory 2min gartic phone, used ref 2m gartic, used ref for pose 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic memory memory memory memory study memory memory memorymemory memory memory memory memory memory study memorystudy study stylized left memory, right study study memory memorymemory memory memory memorymemory memory, porportions r offmemory memorystudystudy memorymemorymemory memory memory memory memory memory memory memory, right leg is a bit broken The feeling of only getting 1 - 3 likes on a social media post will never not be discouraging. But nothing is discouraging enough to make me quit drawing. I think the strategy of drawing a lot of stuff and waiting a while to post is good though rather than posting it immediately and then feeling that sadness on the next set of drawing
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  • Long time no see! New artworks produced lately
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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.
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  • Neon Gambit This is a fan art of my all time favorite character Gambit from the X-Men.I made this a birthday gift (26.04.2024) to myself and honestly I really do like how it turned out in the end =] I hope you like it as well =]
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  • Art Blog - April to September 2023 Suffer a little burn out. Look at some memes. Here's some art from in between. critique.jpg1333x5736 1.77 MB
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  • And some more! Been painting over them a bit more this time. Some variants I tried for the old guy using mainly the liquify tool. Someohow looking a bit like Owen Wilson (not intended :D)
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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!
  • @patrycja.lerch Thank you I created another variant, which might capture the witch look I was going for better
  • 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!
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  • Havent done much this year since I am focusing on learning programming and deving my own Indie Game . But here 's a New Year Piece 2024 , she 's the mascot for my Game Studio - Lucid Realm : Lucid Chan ! LucidChan_v001_sketches.jpg3072x4352 973 KB
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  • Long Crested Eagle studyI had so much fun making this one and honestly I love that Eagle! It looks so cool! Used for this one high quality watercolours, high quality watercolour sketchbook/ cold press and it was 300 grams paper.I hope you like it!
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I would suggest to use a bunch of reference for a complex scene like that. Also to save time you can use simple 3D blockouts that you can create easy in sketchup, modo, etc

Anyway it makes in my opinion no sense to try such a complex scene if you still not have a good understanding on the fundamentals.
For examble the perspective from your character dosen't really match with the perspective on the ground where she stands. That's why it looks very odd.

So I would generally suggest to try to breakdown your biggest mistakes and than to practise this a lot with studies and try from time to time to apply it on your own pictures but with a way more simple scene.

I hope it is helpful for you.
Cheers!

Your colours work well in this piece and I can defiantly see that this was an ambitious piece for you ^_^

For the critique I would say that your proportions and perspective need alot of work, As her arm left arm is in a different perspective to the rest of her body. What I would recommend is going and practising more on your anatomy. But if your looking to continue this piece I highly recommend finding or taking photos of someone in a similar pose for reference.

The other comments hit the nail on the head with perspective.

But one thing I would add to their critique is this:

The eyes of the viewer will be drawn to areas of high contrast. In this piece, the windows of the buildings are very light and the "walls" of the buildings are very dark, so the two right next to each other have a lot of contrast. Therefore, when I look at your artwork, my eyes get stuck there. The central focus of the piece is on the windows rather than the character, where it probably should be.

In this little tweak I made here, I blurred and darkened the background a bit, making the windows less of a focal point. Then I highlighted the character and foreground with the dodge tool. I feel this makes the character stand out more and really makes the details you put into her outfit pop. My fix is pretty messy, but I bet if you took these ideas and made them your own, it would improve the piece a bit! Anyway, great work! Hope I could be helpful in some way :smile:

You should try implementing 1 point perspective into the drawing to give it more depth.

Some really awesome critiques! I want to thank you guys for taking time to paintover for this artist. I also checked out the other pieces in your blog (since everyone is 100% on this thread). Some of your colors are really nice. Playing with "special" brushes is nice, but I would focus on implementing the basics before you get fancy! Great effort and vision.

I have never been part of such a supportive community. Id like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for putting in the time to help a young, inexperienced artist. Thank you so much!

@shiv0r Thank you so much for your help! Im absolutely using what you taught me in later pieces. The way that your sketched out the character using blocks and basic shapes was also incredibly helpful. I'll start working on understanding perspective in humans more. I think I have a basic understanding of proportion but I need to learn how to put people into pictures with background. This will definitly be a big help!

@tree_head Yes! Thank you for your help! I need to learn how to put people into scenes. Do you have any tips for that? Should I start learning how to draw backgrounds?

@unilluminated Thank you so much! Youre absolutely right! I will try to focus my contrast toward the focal point from now on.

@thunderdumpling Ahaha! All those years I ignored perspective are really coming back to haunt me, huh? :smile: Do you have any tips on how to set up perspective lines digitally? I cant exactly use a ruler with my tablet.

@beauviarts Yes yes yes!!! If I havent said it enough I'm so incredibly thankful to find a group of such talented artists! I want to get better, but no one ever points them out!!! Thats put me in a slump, so all this feedback is re lighting the fire inside me! And yes! I really need to focus more on the basics, you are absolutely right! Ive been trying to follow in the footsteps of amazing artists without even setting a solid foundation for myself. I need to take some time and really focus on perspective.

Yeah I have the same issue with not being able to use a ruler on my tablet. My biggest issue with using a tablet is that it takes time. What I do before making a digital painting, is that I loosely draft on paper and then recreate it. It really helps having a draft as a reference. As for making perspective lines, I just try to make them as strait as possible.

I mean, you could use a ruler with your tablet. A tablet and stylus are still physical objects that interact with a physical ruler. If yohr tablet is a screen, this is made even easier.

In terms of purely digital solutions though, some applications let you draw perfectly straight lights with the brush tool by clicking to make a mark, then holding shift down and clicking elsewhere (point A to point B). Paintstorm has rulers and perspective built into it, and if you want a solution for every application, then Lazy Nezumi Pro works. It's a bit pricey (like 65 USD or something), but it is a program which can be used with theoretically any drawing/painting software (it has specific integration focus on photoshop, but is marketed to work elsewhere and I've used it with Paint Tool SAI). It has a robust set of stabilizers, rulers, patterns, etc. And is worth Googling.

If you want to get really low tech though, Google something like "perspective grid" or "perspective grid template" and then copy the image, paste it into your art app, and resize it to suit your needs.