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?in24.1k
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!in790
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!in47.8k
Hello, wom1998!
Your work is looking pretty good so far. I would start concentrating on the wings and bring those into focus. After tightening up the wings, re-assess the piece and decide your next step.
I have to kind of disagree here. Not that what you're saying is wrong, but that I think Wom1998 is looking for advice on the general direction of the piece, rather than the polish and rendering part of it.
I can see why you're looking for direction, cause I am kind of lost myself when looking at this. The wings show that the character is angelic, yet he wears quite regular clothing, or perhaps a bit more gothic from the middle ages variation from that. The background doesn't give me that much either, it doesn't tell me where he is or what he is doing.
As the piece stands, it's not saying very much. What is your original vision for it? For example, do you intend this to be a sort of angel that is coming down from heaven? If so, perhaps adding a sky-looking background would help. Or is he landing close to a town or just the ground? The pose isn't very effective at telling us what is going on either. I think you'll have to think a bit about what is actually going on in here before getting back into it. So, maybe this is an angelic warrior that has just landed at hells gate. In which case, you can have a more aggressive pose that shows the angels fierce expression, with wings arcing to dampen as much of the fall as possible. The character could hold a sword or something that would help it fight, and the background could be that of hells gate or something alike.
Either way, this was just an example, and I am not advising you to actually do this. But, that you think of a scenario or story, that will make it far easier on you when making it!
( Jumps aggressively through window ) THEREEES NO NEED TO FEAAAAAAAAR EXOFLEY IS HEREEEE!!!! ( trips on ego ).... Ahem. I do believe you beckoned? By the gods traveler! it seems your in quite the bind, don't worry I shall assist you!
Overall Concept
Now mah' main man @achronic just threw down a knowledge bomb I was about to drop let's see if I can give bring even more insight to this. From my perception before I even read your spiel I could tell you'd forgotten your general idea and that's fine. It's good you stopped now to reflect actually because theres a saying that kind of goes like this.... " If your having a problem in the third act the problems in your first". Generally what I mean is your initial concept is what's holding you back right now.
( I want of you to think of a story regarding this piece, something else holding this piece back for me are the wings. I feel like you added them but you really didn't remember why you wanted them.)
- Now tell me, When you see this what do you think of? as it stand right now I can't really think of anything but once I start taking contradicting elements away from this piece it comes to life. Say for example the wings as I just said. I see a thief running away from pursuers or a messenger delivering some extremely important information. Take from it what you will but taking away elements can give you a better idea of where you currently stand.
( When I was giving those examples I also noticed how lacking your facial expression is, It too adds to the confusion of the viewers perception. Overall I want you to take elements away and think about concepts and think about how they'd affect your work.)
- you can also add elements but right now I think it'd be better taking away at the moment but as always I wish you the best on your artistic journey throughout the realm of Cubebrush!
Exofley, Signing out.
@exofley @achronic Hey guys, thanks for the advice. I've been kinda into speed painting lately as it yields quick results and gives a snapshot of my current skill. This painting started as a speed paint, so far I've only put in 1.5-2 hours. However, I decided to pause and put some thought into it because I really didn't like the direction I was heading. As both of you pointed out, the character has no purpose and is very bland. Exofley, very insightful comment regarding the wings. I actually just quickly added them to try to add more to the painting. My original vision was to make this like a desktop wallpaper: textured, plain background with a lone character. I don't want to add a full background, both because this is going to be more of a quick painting and because it ins't in my original idea but I will definately spend some time brainstorming about this characters story and purpose.
Thank you both for your input. 
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