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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?in24.2k
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
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 drawingin
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.in22.1k
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!in794
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!in48.1k
1 month later
Another Month has gone by, I doubt myself constantly and I'm starting to lose focus on why I even wanted to learn art in the first place, but that's okay because I've got Art Quest, a neat little series of short books that work kind of like DnD and help you build habits and improve art in a fun way, I've also been watching The Secret City, which is a show from the late 80's teaching kids how to draw, someone was kind enough to upload their recordings on youtube and I throw it up and try to draw along as best I can, I have a few other books all from Mark Kistler and I'm hoping to go through them eventually.
Here is most of the things I've drawn for the month, I also have a little notebook thing that I can fit in my pocked if I go anywhere and draw on the fly.
I've kept up with the schedule for the yearly paln Marc released, this month I'm looking forward to start my studies on the human head and hopefully get back at drawing human characters, I guess I've grown too self concious about my skills despite trying my best when I first started out, its not like I hate to draw or anything its just I don't have the confidence to truly draw the things I want and hopefully I can work on that as time goes on, thanks for keeping up with/checking on me and remember to draw 20-30 minutes a day!
Or hours if you're in this course, we're going pro eventually right?
Hopefully, but it will take a shit ton of time and practice, as a wise bald man once said "when everyone falls, be the one standing" or something like that, don't remember really, but it does feel wise
Awesome, keep going at it.
As for going “pro”, the most important thing is to practice those fundamentals and enjoy the ride as it usually takes time. Patience and perseverance are your friends. I am personally not aiming at being a professional artist as a main goal - rather if art pays for me that would be a bonus - it’s more of something I feel passionate about doing, and that connects me to my inner child, a wide community and a legacy of past masters that I am enjoying immensely as I go about it. My experience in professionalism rather stems from academics as I went through med school and dermatology which took a good 12 years if my life (6 yrs med school, 1 yr as an associate professor - a ‘sabathical’ - 2 yrs internship 3 yrs dermatology) to finally become a specialist and start getting paid. So I know about patience and perseverance. But I also find that if you really enjoy something it should feel more like being anxious to learn more each day and you really enjoy yourself a lot. It’s all about enjoying the ride!
Definitely practice those cylinders, cubes, spheres and figure drawings
Cheers!
29 days later
This month had a disturbing 50/50 on good/bad things that happened so I'll spare the mental health dump and try to figure out what it is that I during these trying times.
I'm keeping up with the yearly plan no problem, all the gesture drawing was done and the more I do it the more I start to notice certain details on the model's anatomy, still don't know if I'm doing it right so I'm looking into the topic a little more as I tackle this month's 5-minute poses.
I can finally start on draw-a-box's next lesson, my bad pensmanship brings me down but then I remember I drew this so I'll power through somehow
I'm mixing art quest's "personal project" assignment thing with the yearly plan and I started on a room in 1-point perspective that I have to finish but it seems a little intimidating when I think of all the details I could be adding
I also came back to art school and I'm trying to watch the anatomy 1 video and have started doing some sketches of the human head base thing that make sense to me, so I think I'm ready to move forward.
Head anatomy yeah! I just finished that term and after a month of these head practices it’s getting easier. Just keep at it! Practice those circles and measurements! It really does help.
1 month later
I don't feel like I got a lot done this month but I did manage to get the gesture drawings, I'm not sure how I'll do April's 10 minute gestures because I'm not sure on what else to draw during the rest of the or what to look for, 5 minutes was already too much time but I guess I'll do my best, I've also been trying to get through the Anatomy 1 class and its kind of hard to wrap my head around. It did get me to look closely at facial features so at least they're sticking out to me so when it comes to drawing them it should be easier in the future.
These are some of the sketches I did this past month, I don't know if lining things up like this counts as perspective practice but it sure helps me draw in 3d
I also learned how to play Settlers of Catan and then learned to hate it
Looking good, volumes are clear and the perspective on various of these pieces is looking good. Head constructions also looked good
If there is one thing I would recommend as an experiment - as it all comes down to personal preference in the end - it would be to try out changing your drawing tools
For example, you can try out different types of paper (newsprint, large format sketchbook, simple bond paper etc) and different pencils (maybe a 6b or charcoal even) and consider drawing really big. As big as you can go. Newsprint is cheap and can be very large, you just need to find a way to stand it upright and draw from your shoulder.
cheers!
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