I have started to learn about human proportions. I feel like I have at least a bit of a good grasp on this, though feedback is spprectiated. I want to learn to do this quite well.
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
I just wanted to do a quick post here to provide an update as to my gesture drawings. I have been improving quite a bit ( for my pace at least ), and am starting to love the art process now. I'm slowly gaining more confidence through endless practice!
I got some brand new references for the gesture drawings, since the references I was using were getting stale. It also let me quickly learn and adjust to new gestures / angles which weren't in the old references.
I have also begun the assignments for digital production ( photoshop ).
I am working through the lecture on perspective and will begin practicing and learning as I go.
25 days later
Been through a lot since the last post..I'll post more in a bit
9 days later
Alright...it's been a while. I simply couldn't figure out how to do the last one for the 'image adjustments' task, so I decided to just post what I have now and move on. At this point, all I have left is the perspective assignment of the room, and then I'll shortly be onto Term 2 ( which is quite exciting! )
For this one, I went for the castle ( and ALL images were my own! - I didn't want to search the internet for hours and hours looking for good photos )
1 month later
..Well. Okay, this year has been quite hard to get through. Again, I had to go through a lot to get to this point. I just wanted to quickly do the perspective assignment so I could get it done and get back into my groove with TERM 2
Alright. I have gone through one of the classes, I'll try to do the rest by the end of the month. Here is a quick update on my progress with the gesture drawings
Hello joe, u have a good grasp of "overall" gesture, i'm sure u will improve if u trace confident line on top of ur itchy lines . u will find patterns and how some curves well placed will definied the gesture and it will make sens with anatomy. After identified thoses lines u will start to replace ur itchy by those confident line u have grasped who definied the gesture. Keep it up 
25 days later
I have begun studying facial anatomy, and here are my initial sketches for each ( including the full head itself - from my imagination ).
Great studies! Especially your noses, they are so hard... 
Also, the style of the full face is really interesting.
Two small things though: the lashes on the left eye look kind of unnatural (they should "bundle up" some more). The mandible of the full face is way too long, but would work perfectly for a caricature.
Thanks Julia, your comments really helped. In the photo reference for the left eye the lashes were quite long, so in the photo they were natural. Perhaps there's a 'threshold' of the length of the lashes which if crossed make them appear fake ( or maybe that threshold changes for each individual character's eyes )
Yes, the mandible is quite long.. . For me, I wanted to let go a bit of making things super accurate and stylized since it was from my own imagination ( for photo references though accuracy is key )
24 days later
I have begun learning 3-Point perspective, and this is my first real attempt at sketching out a simple drawing with basic shapes, forms, and lighting. I'm sure I've done a lot of mistakes which I can't see with my own eyes, so I'd be happy to learn how to improve. Also, happy holidays!
I took the feedback of creating thicker lines on my gesture drawings to add some depth, and I feel it worked out quite well. I also took more time in this session, and that certainly made it a lot easier to actually look at each reference image and force myself to learn to break each figure down into the most basic forms, shapes, and lines I could imagine.
As always, I appreciate feedback. Happy holidays
I think the improvement is really noticable. Your lines, and by extension the gestures themselves, are getting much cleaner. Good work
Thank you! I suppose it's all about the accuracy of the proportions and ultimately being able to fully visualize the human body and breaking it down into simple forms / lines now. Line quality is also something to work on.
Hi Joe.
Wow your sketches is really good.
I also just started and must say I have already improve a lot.
looking forward to see more of your work.
16 days later
This is just a simple post. I've been on the edge of burnout for weeks now and so I'm making the decision to take a complete break from social media for a while. I want to really take the time to get back to my senses and find out a strong 'why' for what I want to accomplish in my lifetime.
Art School has been fun. I'll keep on drawing and learning, but no social media usage. This break could be a few weeks, a month, a few months, or even longer. And that's okay. Sometimes in life you need to make tough decisions. I want to thank everyone who commented on my posts with feedback, it really helped me out and I'm grateful for all of it.
With all that said, Goodbye
I get some of the feelings you have, so best of luck to you during your break. I hope you eventually come back refreshed, no matter how long it takes you
4 months later
I'm back! I've just finished my university semester and I'll be taking things slow, posting an update on my work once a week. I feel the best thing would be to just restart the assignments for Term 2. I'm starting with this sketch I made today of a face. Maybe things will pick up over the summer, but whatever the case I'll be mindful of my energy and will pace myself effectively. Feedback is appreciated.
Welcome back!
