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?in23.9k
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!in782
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!in47.0k
13 days later
WIP 07
I didn't have too much time to work on this since my last WIP but I did this line art:
to solidify silhouettes and define details (and to cast rust out of my pen), as well as flats underneath to make making selections a little bit easier. Now all I need to do is combine WIPs No.6 and No.7 and then... push it towards awesomeness as much as I can - piece of cake 
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Regards
Jonatan
I like how accurate it is. 
Thank you @posashkov. I did this 3D scene to support accuracy:
In fact I'd prefer to push 3D work far more than this, but since the rules says "3D can be used as a base to get the sense for lighting / forms, but not visible in the final (you can paint over it, though)", I'll stick with this.
Regards
Jonatan
You've got an ambitious illustration. So many characters and also the background. I hope you will make it in time And i really like that guy lying on the table 
Thank you @meonika!
I'm full of hope too. Considering that the army above (created from followers below) is seen from the distance and the followers are hooded (I'm trying to play it smart ) there is a chance for get it done. As for background - I simply love doing environments. I had so much fun doing "Worlds" Challenge here... Without environment the scene wouldn't be complete for me.
Thank you once again.
Regards
Jonatan
It turned out really good @jonatan-moonchild !
So much detailing everywhere wow....I'm speechless.
Best of luck to you 
I like your background but i think the head is a little too big or so his shoulders are too thin or it's me xD it's a detail the whole makes good
Sorry for the late answer - not long after fever of final hours of the Challenge I was attacked by a fever of different kind and I found myself in the bed completely immobilized. Fortunately I'm starting to feel better now and so I'm getting back on track.
Thank you very much @mr_dessin . I'm really glad that there is something likeable in my final delivery .
@kantan thank you for your kind words.
Head too big you say... hmmm... maybe you right... I have to look at it with fresh eye after some time. As for thin arms - the whole idea for the image was like this: that creature on the table is old. In the end of his days actually. So he gave himself to the Sorceress of the Heart (my main character) and she took the essence of him, transformed him, and granted him a new life. But there is a catch - he will join army of phantom creatures (at her command of course) seen above in the background. And so... as he is old, his muscles are in regression and his limbs are thin. If it's not obvious from the first look, then it's probably my fail as a storyteller. Maybe I should focus more on exaggerate his age (wrinkles etc.)... I will try to do better next time .
Anyway - thank you both for visiting and taking time to leave a comment. Especially with this amount of amazing artists taking a part in this Challenge. It is very kind of you and very much appreciated!
Best regards
Jonatan
Hello! The idea is interesting and the way you've planned your background it's solid!
I like the rendering on the rocks, the faces, and the cloth that covers the corpse.
But while there is a decent amount of contrast in your concept art, your illustration could definitely use some more.
As I said other than the contrast it's solid. Keep it up!
Thank you very much @konhgard for kind words and suggestions concerning contrast (your example is a little bit overkill in my eye but yeah - I see your point). There is a chance that I will add extra work to my piece and I will remember all advices that I received here.
As for graphical presentation of your idea (I saw that you used this method in other threads) - I have no particular problem with that but... well... I did it by myself in other thread here - I posted simple overpaint to show what I mean and... I received a very polite (it's a very cultural society here) suggestion that it was superfluous (description is usually enough and not everyone wants to have in their own threads art other than their own). Of course I removed my overpaint immediately and decided never do it again.
In this case - it wasn't necessary (description would be enough) but like I wrote - I have no particular problem with that. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and fresh eye. I guess all artists suffer from "blind spot effect" - when we stare at our work too long, we stop seeing weaknesses and areas of improvement. So... fresh eye of another artist cannot be overrated.
Best regards
Jonatan
No worries mate! yeah after staring at the same picture for a while you can't really tell what's going on. I will remove them as well.
@jonatan-moonchild This looks great. I have been trying to get a less saturated palette for my drawings recently and somehow they often become bright and flat. The elegant design of the sorceress is a nice contrast to the minimalist background.
Would there not be a rim light on the underside of the arms and along the hips to thighs? Or the top edge of the altar left? Wondering for myself as much as you.
That's absolutely true. It's amazing how different our work look when we take a step back! Sometimes I feel like I'm walking in the mist and only sometimes when the mist is getting a bit thinner I'm starting to see where I'm actually going .
Thank you very much @tyepo for kind words . I'm really glad that you like it. And rim light - you are absolutely right! How could I miss it?! Thank you for that .
In general - I wanted to spend some extra work on it but I needed to take a step back and give it some time. Now it's starting to calling me and all your suggestions are boiling in my head. Once again thank you all: @mr_dessin, @posashkov, @meonika, @kantan, @konhgard and @tyepo for stepping by, for supporting words (+5 to motivation), and for your precious observations and advices - I will make a good use of it, that's for sure!
Best regards
Jonatan
Hello @jonatan-moonchild ,hope you're getting better now...a fever because you have seen too much good arts here maybe ? haha
Looking on your painting with a fresh view...maybe the phantom army is a bit distracting here...or maybe not that's never easy to point what is good or not...
Or maybe there should be more people in that army ?
Some of thme maybe look a bit too small in compariosn to tohers ?
(we sure can't be in your head for sure, to see your own point of view).
Still, don't get me wrong... I really like your work (and the army is such a very little detail haha) !
Will you participate in the upcoming (in few months) "Worlds" contest too ?
Certainly!
As for the phantom army - there absolutely could be more of them. But... you know - first of all I wanted to have main characters done (as best as possible). If the Sorceress is in place - she can make them more after all
If it will happen - I will be there. I took a part in first "Worlds" Challenge (here is my thread if you would like to take a look: https://forums.cubebrush.co/t/final-worlds-2d-stolen-earth-jonatan-moonchild/3690) and it was great! So... see you there
Best regards
Jonatan
It would have been nice with more army people...but also less distinguished (in the fog or something...to be less distracting from the rest)...just a little stuff I thought about (but probably wrong haha).
Sure I already see your fantastic work on the first Worlds contest !
Really impressive detailing (again and again ^^).
Can't wait to see your future own world
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