• 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
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  • 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?
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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!
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  • @patrycja.lerch Thank you I created another variant, which might capture the witch look I was going for better
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  • 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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Dec '16

Hey there, I'm Elrodeon and welcome to my own little world here!
I'm an 18 year old who's currently studying in college. I don't study art although it has always been something I love to do, and something I want to take further.
I also love making worlds and writing stories, and so you will mainly see drawings and paintings of my characters and worlds. (Using traditional and digital art, although mainly traditional for now) Unfortunately due to my studies and other hobbies I won't be pumping out endless amounts of drawings and so you can maybe expect to see something every week or so.
Furthermore I would really appreciate it if you could leave me some feedback on my art as I do feel somewhat lost in this huge ocean of amazing talents and would love some direction as to where I need to improve.
Many of the pictures I will be posting are works in progress.

This is a quick sketch I made of two of my characters, I'm aware some of the proportions and stuff are a bit off, but I just wanted to get the general idea for the picture before continuing.

Here's another picture of one of my characters, I painted this one using watercolors. Although I feel I need to work on some of my strokes and tones, any tips or pointers would be appreciated.

This is a piece of fanart I made for the character Morgana from League of Legends, I did this one using oil pastels and watercolour to fill in some of the gaps to give it a grittier feeling.

Here's another oil pastel drawing I did of the champion from League of Legends: Gnar. However Unlike my previous one I pretty much copied the pose in his splash art, although I still like how it came out.
Last but not least here's a picture of another character I've made. I did this one only using watercolour pencils.

Dec '16

Hey Elrodeon! Welcome to the forums :smile:

It is great to hear that you love creating worlds and writing stories, that is the love for creation, which is what everyone of us are so deeply invested in! You did right by come by this forum, as there are indeed many skilled individuals here. I would love to leave feedback on your future stuff to help! :smile:

I understand that you don't have much time to post often, but I think it is sort of important to keep a blog alive. Right now, you might be connecting your love for creating stuff, directly to this source, and if it doesn't do well, it might affect your belief in, or love for creating. And this might easily discourage you! So just as a first feedback, I think posting weekly is a bit risky!

Now, there are ways of getting around this. I myself, am having an art related education, yet, because of the week-long creation process we have for each project, I usually don't have until the end of the week. This is why I am desperate to anything I can get my hands on, and post even silly sketches to keep the blog living and breathing. Luckily, I enjoy drawing on the side, so it isn't a hassle for me to make something while waiting for a bus or something. I assume this applies to most people in this forum, as we all enjoy sketching! :smile:

I won't have much time to browse the forums until Wednesday, so I just wanna leave an art hint that I found to be incredibly important; Master drawing before going into color. Now, by this, I don't mean quit coloring until you can draw. What I mean by this, is to try to learn things such as anatomy, proportions, values, line weight, foreshortening, perspective, etc before fully committing to spending a lot of time learning color. Art can easily be a journey of self discovery, where you draw for yourself and learn things on your own. But, this process can be enhanced by the immense amount of information floating around on the internets today, and I very much recommend you to look into that kind of exercise, before learning yourself to color. I remember being the best person at drawing that I had ever met, and I remember getting myself a tablet. I spent a very long time desperately trying to apply my drawing skills, and paint, yet everything I did seemed bad. A year must have gone by until I realized that, I was far from good, I was far from what was considered good enough to create even an unimpressive painting. I spent a lot of time considering why this was, and I always thought that I simply had to learn to "paint", and it was very discouraging. However, the moment I realized that I had to learn to draw properly, was when I instantly started improving. Hopefully this tip can help you, as I really wished I had that back then! :smile:

Dec '16

Thanks for the reply and welcome ^.^

And I hear you, creating smaller sketches and stuff to keep my blog alive shouldn't really be a problem as I can't help but sketch if there's a pen in my hand.
It's become quite a 'hindrance' when I'm trying to study! xD
And I hear what you're saying about learning to draw better before delving into colour. I believe I was aware of this I just didn't really want to delve into it too much as I'm always too eager to get to the colouring process.
Once again, thanks for the feedback and hopefully I'll have some more stuff up here by the time you check back!

Dec '16

I've made a few quick drawings in my spare time of some basic anatomy of the arm to get a better understanding of how to draw it, along with this I've made some quick figure drawings from images I found of people posing .

I also made a drawing of one of my characters using some of the things I learnt from arm anatomy, however I want to move onto other pieces of the body after this and really try to perfect different parts of the body from all angles.

5 months later

May '17

So... It has certainly been a while since I've posted anything up on here. I believe I lacked the proper motivation and mindset previously to be active an constant with my artwork. However I'm in a better place to do so now. Not sure if anyone will see this but hello if you've managed to find your way here, hope your day has been well!
I believe I have only really begun to understand what Achronic meant when he told me to learn to draw first before devoting my time to colour first. My goal right now is to try and draw daily. Even if it's something small I want to try and create something, be it on a little notepad or on my tablet. So, to start this off I'll post some lineart I did.

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As I don't feel confident enough to create fully original pieces, I decided to make a brief rendition of a genderbend Thresh from the game League of Legends

May '17
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I did some more...Stuff, i added some colour to the female Thresh piece I drew as I really wanted to see what it would look like with colour added to it.

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Can't say I'm terribly dissapointed with it, although there are a few things I'd change if I were to do it again... Like the fact that I completely forgot to draw the robe on the right side... Ahem.
However as stated before, I really want to learn how to properly draw first and so I made some sketches from photo references and another from a game.
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Jun '17
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I continued with the idea of learning to draw better, rather than diving into the deep end, assuming I can draw and then colouring. I believe something I previously lacked with my art work was detail. I left a lot of space blank where I could've added detail to try and make my pieces more interesting and pleasing to look at. As such I made my own rendition of the character Jak from an old video game called Jak and Daxter.

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I then began to draw my own character from Final Fantasy XIV, using a screenshot I took of him as reference for the outfit.

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Original sketches

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Final drawing (Still to make a background. Not sure if I will)

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Jun '17

Furthering my drawing skills, I've continued drawing different characters of mine or friends' characters. I briefly revisited some anatomy drawings but forgot to save them as they were just quick sketches ;-;.
On the other hand my new drawings can be seen below
Below is a drawing I made of my friend's character. She's called Jane Rosetta and has a rather 'complex' story that entails many tragedies, dark corners and regretted decisions. One of which stands in front of her in the picture

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Below is the coloured version I made of the picture. However I do believe I really need to work on my tone, colouring and shading as I don't really have much of an idea as to what I'm doing. But I just wanted to give it a go! ^.^
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Below is another drawing I made of another character who just happens to be Jane's sister: Angel Rosetta. Needless to say these two character really...Really hate eachother for one reason or another >.>
With this piece I wanted to just work on my lineart and try to make my characters look more interesting and I think I'm definitely getting better at it. Furthermore I want to tidy this drawing up a bit next.
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Jun '17

Instead of drawing my own character this time I decided to put a bit of a twist on things and draw my own rendition of an already known character. Jinx, the Loose Cannon from League of Legends. Once again I'm only concentrating on the lineart for now.

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Furthermore I made some rather simple drawings from real life studies and tried to represent those in a more stylized way. I didn't want to focus too much on any kind of details here and mainly just wanted to get simple shapes right. I also added small bits on like fangs, and elf ears as I plan on drawing an Elven vampire next.

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Jun '17

Eesh, 6 days since my last post. I need to stay consistent. I think every day is a bit too much and unrealistic so I think I will make a post every other day starting from today.
To start off... Someone on my Deviantart (Which is also under the name of Elrodeon) suggested that I colour the Jinx picture I made. And in all honesty it's clear that I have little to no idea what I'm doing when it comes to colouring, as such I believe a lot of my images look patchy and incorrectly shaded when I add colour and tone to them.

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This isn't to say it looks horrible now, but I am not overwhelmed by my colouring skills.
However it is evident that my drawing skills are improving and so that's a plus.
Next up, I furthered the last sketch in my previous post and turned it into a full image of one of my characters from World of Warcraft. A Night Elf Death Knight...
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I am much more pleased with the colouring and tone here, although I definitely spent a lot more time on this one than the Jinx one previously.
Further down the line I also made a drawing on a character from League of Legends (This game seems to be becoming a popular theme among my art) called Diana, specifically in her Blood Moon Skin. I then went on to colour it as well and I'm somewhat pleased with the results.

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I wouldn't consider this to be fully done yet as there are some parts I have yet to colour and shade. Although I'm not sure if I'll ever get around to it.
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Next up I'm going to start working on my own characters for a little comic I won't to make purely for my own entertainment and practice.

Jun '17

For the past day I have been working on some sketches and iterating on a design for a character's face that I intend to draw in a comic at some point. She's called Lilith and is a demo, banished by her own kind.
First, original sketches

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second batch of sketches
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First body sketch for what she looks like in her armour
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refined face drawings
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