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?in24.4k
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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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!in804
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!in48.8k
In this art journey, I think it's important to remember it should be mostly about “enjoyment”, regardless of “rate of progress”.
There is also something to be said about progress not being linear. By this point I’ve almost finished all of the anatomy topics, I know the muscles, at least on a technical level, but there’s so much I keep forgetting where they connect and go, which is frustrating, but just means I need to practice it more. Still, even with all these mistakes, if I compare some stuff from before anatomy terms and after, there is definitely a net positive, even with all the mistakes that continue to happen.
Heck, at some point I literally burned some works I did because they were absolute crap (when I was much younger). I now regret doing that so much.
Just by going through your insta, it’s clear you’ve progressed through the years, and regardless of the rate of progress, just going through your works is a lot of fun. I 100% guarantee you will look back fondly at some of the works you do today, regardless of their completion, and regardless of the technical level.
On a different topic, I kinda skimmed through it, but isn't a "diagonal vanishing point" just a normal 3rd point? Probably missing something, might have to reread it.
Perspective drawing is hard, currently struggling with it myself. Having to refresh myself a lot as it's been some time. I think your latest perspective sketch could be improved by setting the scene within the eye's natural cone of vision. This is complicated to explain with words so here is a video that briefly describes how it works. In short, it should help the shapes look more natural, like a photo. Keep practicing!
@daceronine I can agree with that fully. I just have to keep from giving myself a hard time when I'm feeling low energy. And remember ot be nice to myself.
I also agree with that. Learning and improvement is iterative and repetitive. There's always something else to be learning and improved in art.
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What is it with being a young artist and destroying your stuff?! I also did that. Mostly with my sculptures, as an "additive performance piece" - LOL. So stupid.
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I don't disagree that putting in practice and time making things has paid off. But with that time I have also become painfully aware of the shortcomings of "whatever aspect of my work that I'm trying to improve."
I may have misremembered it and I'm not even sure if that link is what I was thinking about. I have a book called "Vanishing Point" that mentions it as an additional point that is used within the established VPs to draw squares and appropriate proportions in perspective. I need to spend some time rereading that book... But this work week is shaping up to be a busy one...
@br00dley Thanks for the suggestion. It is a bit on the complicated side, but worth looking into. I also found reference to the CV in my "Vanishing Point" book and will review it there and play around with this in my practices.
Honestly I was the same for me for almost 10 years and even now I sometimes feel that feeling of unworthiness. At some point tho it just clicks and suddenly you know how to draw one thing. I think the most important thing if your struggling is to review the fundamentals again or maybe go over the lessons again. I know that i re watched the anatomy lessons a couple times over and once I do I start to notice how those things also apply to how things look in the real world. like @daceronine said everyone's journey is different and everyone goes at their own pace and sometimes you need to backtrack to go forward. Cant wait to see more and also the bottom view is such a compelling and difficultly angle to draw so props to you on that.
25 days later
Holy crap, y'all!
Things have been busy, but I've managed to keep working on stuff. I've been fairly busy, though most work sessions were fairly short at only 15min. There were a few longer sessions. There's a bunch of stuff and I'm pretty tired, so I'm not going to comment on everything. In general, I spent time...
- trying to figure out how to best manage multiple views to help my vision issues. It was interesting to split the screen and work like I would while in something like Blender.
- considering some things that just didn't make sense to me
- realized that I needed to do some more head studies with trace overs (like what we did with figures in Term 1). Why wasn't that part of the actual course?
- working through some perspective conceptualization
- I drew the heroes (The Slug & Hydrant) from a VTTRPG session using the "No HP Bookmark RPG." So much fun.
- there's a couple attempts at imaginative portraits. The woman was a fun sketch that started as one eye and drawn outward. It was fun, but I know it would have been better using the constructive methods.
- trying to figure out what software will let me easily add diagonal and special vanishing points (i think Clip Studio Paint might be the best, but Autodesk Sketchbook Pro has some cool rulers in it.)
Alright. Given that I am only working on Term 2 Week 4 material, do you think I am ready to move on or are some things that are REALLY going to be blockers to me working through the next section? (Though, I do want to do more work on that last 3pt Perspective project, cause there's a lot more work to be done on it.)
Cheers everybody! I hope everyone is well. It looks like I have a ton of posts to take a look at, so I hope to do that starting tomorrow.
Peace!
-Jim
Oh shet that's a lot of work! You're really on the grind man, that's nice to see.
I don't think there is anything "blocking" you to move on, if you completed the exercises from the companion guide, you can move on, and if at some point you feel you are starting to struggle, you can always do a side step to reinfornce a specific topic. The journey is not a one way street after all, we have all kinds of deviations.
