Nice work on the commissions. Were you commissioned to make the Total Drama characters into football players?
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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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.in22.6k
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!in49.7k
13 days later
Sprint Retrospective #3 of 2024 - (29/1/24 - 11/2/24)
One month down... damn that's too quick! Oh well, let go thru this retrospective.
Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work
TD (Total Drama) Commission
Completed the boxing commission right on time!
Next up is 2 TD comic comms - so one of the goal of this sprint is to complete the draft and get approved by commissioner.
Artist Study
Started studying on this artist "Carazar" - https://www.instagram.com/carazarzone/?hl=en
Key notes taken
1. Strong and expressive gesture
2. Simplified Basic shape
3. Focus on simplicity and expressivity over complex detail
Gonna keep studying and trying to incorporate some of his style into mine.
I'm basing my approach on an SPRINT idea - to get the best idea, remix and improve.
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/remix-improve-sergio-oliveira-pmp/
Drapery
May did some random doodle there and here but not an actual study/practice session on drapery. Maybe, it's better to just doodle for the time being.
Others
Completed my Total Drama facial reference - using Courtney character.
Will most likely use it as reference for generated TD facial work in commission. Should be easier to practice facial gesture.
Goals for upcoming sprint
- Complete draft of comic comm
- Continue studying on Carazar
- Practice more on cartoon drapery
That's all from me. Have a great and productive day! 
Good work on that comision and studies!
Aye, it's impressive a whole month has already gone by. Heck even know I feel like it was just the start of Feb and it's already the 12th.
Nice work on the facial references and the studies. The comissions look good as well.
10 days later
Sprint Retrospective #4 of 2024 - (12/2/24 - 25/2/24)
Not gonna lie, this hasn't been a great month for me. Not art-wise but more personal-wise. Gonna keep it short, I have broken up with my girlfriend of around 6 months (ironically after Valentine day) so this whole 2 weeks is basically recovering and coming back to focus more on myself.
The feeling that I have spent a lot of my energy only to go down to nothings just irks me so I was mostly chatting to my friends and family about my future action.
Combined with additional works from my company (i blamed myself, not them, as I seldom dive to work on technical problem till it's finished, much to the detriment of my personal life), this week is basically 0% art this sprint at all.
However, I still want to make this blog to highlight that sometime, we need to focus more on our personal life than our art. If we are not happy personally, how can you ensure that you will do your best work?
But yeah, I feel I have recovered both physically and mentally to be productive both in my career and art hobby. I have fully moved on.
Yeah sorry to not make an art blog but like mentioned, I want to blog to acknowledge that sometime it's ok to not do art all the time. Focus on your primary needs and happiness and your art can flourish and be enjoying.
Goals for upcoming sprint
- Complete draft of comic comm
- Continue studying on Carazar
- Practice more on cartoon drapery
As always, thx for the positive comments and hope you guys have a great week!
Hey, sorry to hear that man, I know how hard that is (both love and work). It sounds like you are recovering and looking ahead, which is great to hear.
Bests of luck and best wishes. Looking forward to seeing the next sprint!
sorry to hear about your breakup 
but its good that you have the "if life gives me lemons, make lemonade out of it" attitude.
looking forward to see whatever your next post is about - art related or not
12 days later
Sorry to hear that. Hopefully, you'll get better.
Sprint Retrospective #6 of 2024 - (26/2/24 - 10/3/24)
First of all, thx for the kind comments regarding about my personal life update. I'll be lying if I said "I'm fully moved on, guys. Now back to work!" as my lifestyle have to adjust by the fact that a part of my life has been taken away; for good or bad purpose. So I feel sluggish as I'm slowly coming back to myself by the minute.
The good news is that I have a cruise ship this weekend. First time ever so I aim to make it just RELAXING - NO ART WORK!!! If i do art in the ship, it's because I saw something interesting - not bc i want to study. 
TD Commission
The bad new from the cruise ship is one of the commission has a deadline which is St Patrick Day. Luckily, I finished it.
Aside from the head, most of the drawing are by my interpretation, not from actual TD work. This is based on a mix of Total Drama reference and other artists who does TD in their own way - Hence the art study of Carazar.
All in all, I need to adopt a "Fck you. I'm doing my way" altitude when doing art to be not only more myself but also be expressive and efficient too as I'm not relying too much on reference.
Have also started the 2nd comms which is a comic comm. I have livestreamed to them on Discord all of my draft and it has been approved. However, don't think I can do livestream at 1am anymore as it's affecting my sleep schedule and consistency so it has to come to an end unforunately.
Carazar Study
None. Blame my inconsistent sleep schedule.
Cartoon Drapery
Again, nothing. Blame my inconsistent sleep schedule. Perhaps, it's best to stop studying till i need it again.
Others
Decide to do random fashion doodle.
Also had a chat with art friends; both on discord and IRL. As an artist who does cartoon, I always have question on finding my personal study - like I still want to do TD but MY WAY OF DOING TOTAL DRAMA. Some way where somebody see a TD work and can see "Yeah, that's Gordon003 work alright.
Via our discussion, I realised that I do have my own TD style but I sometime stop myself from going further as I don't see it as TD. All in all, I need to:
- Keep trying random stuff (no matter how stupid it is)
- Have a look at other established styles (Simpsons is my 2nd pref)
- JUST FCKING DO IT!!
Overall, it was fun chatting with my art friends to get their own perspective and see for myself how to apply it to my work.
Goals for upcoming sprint
Gonna keep it simple and focus on 2 stuffs
- Art Comm
- Art Study
As always, thx for the positive comments and hope you guys have a great week!
Thx for the kind comments @daceronine, @mitsuki-youko and @gregorya
I have that altitude because there's nothing you can change from something massive before. What happens happened. Only thing you can control is now and the near future. Never heard that phrase before but I get it now.
Hey, good to hear you are moving ahead. I agree that there's not much to it other than pick up and keep moving ahead as well as we can. Been going through some rough stuff myself, so I can symphatize on how it can be tough, but it's still the best to do.
Good work as usual too, I think I recognize that sequence for the com of the girl getting "slept" from a past post? looks familiar.
As for style, I get what you mean about people recognizing your stuff at a glance, though I don't think it's something to worry about too much. I believe "style" comes naturally as we slowly practice and combine things from different authors we admire. We start off emulating other artists closely, but as we move along in our journey we naturally diverge into what we like to do.
I noticed this with the stuff I do, as I started emulating Toriyama, but been slowly drifting unintentionally as I try other stuff. It Still looks a lot like Toriyama style, what with the banana hair and what not, but I also is starting to become a bit different as well.
Same with what I see with what you do here. I'm not all that familiar with the TD style to be honest (didn't even know it was it's own category), but I can say you have a knack for doing girls in a particular way even within what I've seen from it xD
Glad you're moving on. Good luck with your sleep schedule, and commissions. Nice sketches.
14 days later
Sprint Retrospective #7 of 2024 - (11/3/24 - 24/3/24)
Just when I thought I finished one holiday, I got another one coming up! This time, I'm going back to my parent home country, China, to meet up with other family members and commemorate my grandpa who sadly has passed away when I was young.
Alas, that's mean that I won't do much art study for next sprint- just travel and chat with others in my poor Chinese speaking skill lol (I don't speak Chinese despite my background because my English back in primary school sucks which requires more attention than Chinese).
So we may have an idea of my upcoming schedule.
Anyway, let go thru my past 2 weeks.
TD Commission
Haven't done much as I was pretty busy most of the nights and haven't got the energy to work on this.
I'm planning to chat with my commissioners about my holiday leave and upcoming schedule.
Carazar Study
Continued my artist study. Starting to feel the study effect on my doodle as I feel more flowy and more gestural - especially with my fashion doodle drawing which is coming next.
Still planning to continue studying this artist till I'm satisfied that I got everything possible from that artist.
Others
Continued with my random fashion/sport doodle. Starting to rely less on being accurate as I just go with the flow of the pose/expression - much like the art study I have done.
Yeah, feeling like I got my style as I started to rely less on reference and just go what I had in my mind/feeling instead. Of course, I still use reference to make sure I got it mostly right but I feel it's my interpretation - not what the defined style demand so.
Goals for upcoming sprint
Given that I'm going back and staying in China for the whole sprint, I'm going to do something special.
DO NOTHING!!!
That's right! Fck all of you guys! 
I'm going to China and just enjoy practicing my awful Chinese skill. Wish me luck!
But nah really, thx for the positive comments and I see you guys when I'm back!
The Total Drama studies look good. Have fun on your trip.
