Iuliae Art Blog

iuliae 2018-07-27 17:53:17 UTC #5

Value study, the lion was about 2h, the angel I think 5h.

zanben 2018-07-28 19:40:46 UTC #6

Welcome to the forums! It looks like you have a pretty nice start to your work here, I'm excited to see where you go into the future!!

cedricgo 2018-07-29 19:18:58 UTC #7

zanben pretty much said what I wanted to say... so I'll just say to keep it up! You seem to be on the right path.

iuliae 2018-08-06 15:34:16 UTC #8

@zanben @cedricgo Thanks a lot guys!!

Here's another value study. My hand slipped, I went way too literal and it took me ages. I'll definitely try to keep it more simple the next times.

iuliae 2018-10-03 10:01:23 UTC #9

I've always wanted to copy some of my favorite classical statues, so since I'm in value study mode I thought I could make a series or something like that. There's always a lot to learn Ratto di Proserpina by Bernini, wip.

cedricgo 2018-10-03 12:48:12 UTC #10

Oh nice! It's looking pretty good so far. I'm looking forward to see where you take it.

iuliae 2018-10-09 11:00:14 UTC #11

@cedricgo Thank you, glad you like it so far!!

Posting my progress since for a few days I'll be away from my pc and unable to continue. I'm already around 5 hours in... I thought there wouldn't be something worse than the lion mane, but her hair definitely is. I tried to keep it more loose at the beginning but ended up going too literal again. Hope I'll able to be more quick with time and practice.

iuliae 2018-10-20 09:52:57 UTC #12

My progress so far. I'm gonna stop with this for a bit since Battlerite launched a new Art Contest and I wanted to participate I'll post some thumbnails and my references for that soon

iuliae 2018-10-20 14:46:24 UTC #13

As promised here are the references I've collected this far for this work:

I wanted to do something splash art-like with Poloma Halloween's skin. These are some thumbnails:

What do you guys think? Personally during the process I was already thinking about going with the 3rd, but I must admit that now I prefer the 1st pose. 4th is really Halloweenian too so right now I'm thinking 1 or 4.

cedricgo 2018-10-21 01:23:23 UTC #14

My first choice would probably have been 2 as I just love those type of strong, balanced compositions. But my second choice would be number 1. It seems like it could turn into a really dynamic piece with a good sense of epicness. Number 4 looks like it could be a fun light hearted concept with which you could really play with the atmosphere. So I guess it depends on what you would prefer to do.

iuliae 2018-10-23 20:51:03 UTC #15

@cedricgo Thank you for your feedback!! Yeah I totally agree with your reasoning, and so I decided to go with the 4th, so I could do something funny which also really relate to the Halloween theme.

This is my progress so far:

Tomorrow I plan to finish the base drawing and setting the mood, possibly start painting too. I want to add some references to the other heroes inside the cauldron, maybe avoiding to make it look like she cooked them (even if a friend told me he would dig that lol).

cedricgo 2018-10-23 23:19:07 UTC #16

Ooooh, it's looking pretty nice so far. I maybe wrong, but I think you could push her right breast up a little bit. It seems to me like it's not quite in the same perspective as the rest of her body right now. But maybe I'm wrong XD It might be worth to just try to see. Other than that I'm looking forward to see where you'll go with it!

iuliae 2018-10-24 19:31:20 UTC #17

@cedricgo Thank you! Yeah I think you're right. I tried to fix the lineart a bit; eventually I'll tweak it a bit more during the rendering process. I always find breasts a bit tricky.

Final lineart:

And these are two quick mood setups:

Originally I wanted it to be exclusively purple-green, but I admit it looks a bit too confusing with her hair since it's the same color. So I'll probably go with the blue one.

iuliae 2018-10-25 19:30:24 UTC #18

Progress

cedricgo 2018-10-26 00:41:27 UTC #19

It's coming along pretty well! I love where this is going

iuliae 2018-11-05 17:29:52 UTC #20

Aaand it's done! You can also check it out on my Artstation page.

The rendering part was getting pretty exhausting in the end but it was really fun and I'm satisfied with how it turned out. Here's also a gif process:

As usual C&C are most welcome

iuliae 2018-11-21 18:37:37 UTC #21

A little something to try out a different style. Wip

Also I'm really happy to say that my illustration was chosen as one of the three Grand Prize Winners in the Battlerite Contest! Check the contest page here to see the other entries

cedricgo 2018-11-22 00:47:49 UTC #22

I like that different style. She looks lovely!

And congatulations for making it to the top three. I think it was well deserved

iuliae 2018-11-29 16:15:57 UTC #23

@cedricgo Thank you!!

First Pastel Girl done I think I'll do a few of these to keep experimenting a little.

iuliae 2018-12-14 11:47:42 UTC #24

Second one in progress!

At the beginning I wasn't sure of the pose, these are the sketches I did to find the right pose which would communicate the right character:

And this is the final in flat colors!