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  • Day 4: Star Wars May The 4th =] Queen Padmé Amidala in my art style! First time drawing her and I really enjoyed making this one! Used watercolours, ink pen, acrylic markers and gold paint for accents on my Canson mix media sketchbook. I hope you like it!
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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?
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  • 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 you
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  • 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 drawing
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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!
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  • 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!
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Apr '20
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Hello everybody! I've just graduated from game design courses and my portfolio is not really at the state I've liked it to be. I'm also having second thoughts about going in a career of games but I still want to do art. I might want to do more in the lines of visual development!
I'm a pretty reclusive person so to break that I've decided to do this!! :mask: I've always wanted to share my process/thoughts on drawing and liked to hear others' thoughts/ feedback about it so any of it is welcomed!!

I'll mostly be doing sketching exercises and rarely my own pieces BECAUSE I LACK THE SKILLSS but I'll do WIP of it.

My fundamentals are still lacking so I'll try to brush up on that too! :blush: :apple:

Sorry if the posts I post are longwinded and repetitive. I guess when writing these I'm also trying to reinforce the ideas into my brain more lol

Apr '20
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Here are some head practices I did, I decided to practice this because I really have trouble figuring out the perspective of heads. I can't really trust the perspectives I assume the heads are in, it will be wrong once I broke it down.

I believe the gesture of the head is somehow messing with how I see the heads in perspective normally thus I decided to practice using Andrew Loomis method's more and use the features of the head and its as the guide.

I also don't know if this is right but when practicing do you guys normally stick to a certain style of drawing so you'll be more consistent or be wishy-washy as long as you got the fundamentals down and it looks good, it's okay?

Practiced figuring out the perspective of eyes too. The pic on the bottom right is just a breakdown of someone's fanart that I did on impulse lol ( her art is very nice! @_tuu0 on twitter)

Apr '20

Hey Kodaigon!

These are looking pretty good! If you're still not feeling confident, I'd recommend watching Marc Brunet's video "Learn to draw the head in any angle". I already knew the loomis method before watching it, but I felt like watching someone else do it really helped me!

As for style, I don't really intentionally try sticking to a style when practicing. If I'm practicing, I'm probably focused too much on what I'm studying to really worry if it's my usual style or something more realistic. It's practice after all; no one's expecting it to be perfect!

I've also found this 3D head really good for practicing. I hope it helps!

Good luck!

Apr '20

Great!

You should try doing some illustrations for you to also practice doing a more finalized work. You will learn a lot even if you don't like the result.

Keep doing these exercises!

Apr '20

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Ah thanks so much Shellac-Belly <3 !!

I'll watch that when I have the time. To be honest, I've spent a lot of my time watching art youtube videos but they are not really that effective on me :'D It's probably because of the Dunning Kruger effect. After watching them, I tend to focus less because I feel LIKE I ALRDY KNOW. ( = u =\) It's really a bad habit but I'll get over it hopefully. T uT

Ah, I see! Yeah, it's better to focus on one thing at a time. I'll work on figuring out my style next time. UuU

Yeah, hey actually I was searching for a 3D head that's like that. Omg for so long. I got so desperate that I tried to make one on my own lol. Not, that I managed to :'D.

Man thanks and you too! :grin:

Apr '20

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Right!

I should but I think the fear of failing is stopping me from finishing. I'm trying to get back into them but it's all still WIPs hahaha cause I'm stuck. I'll work on them again once I brushed up on my foundations more.

Yes! :raised_hands:

Apr '20

Another sheet of head practices. Decided to learn more about planes and eventually light and form T u T.

Spent roughly 2 hrs on this... I feel so slow ;;

Apr '20
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Another set of head practices. Should sketch more heads from photographs after this. I realized I'm still not too familiar with head forms... T-T

There's also one more thing I find oddly fishy. For some reason, I sketch better on paper than digitally with my tablet. I guess when I sketch I can kinda ghost over the paper to feel out the forms before laying down my lines but digitally I can't do that... That's why I have so much difficulty figuring out the perspective of my forms. I don't really have a solution for this but doing more sketches digitally and slowing down more will probably help... :crying_cat_face:

Apr '20

Hi!

I think these are started to look pretty great!! Sketching from photographs would probably be a great idea though!

I hope you don't mind, but I had some time and decided to redline over your sketches because the top left head was kinda bothering me but I couldn't figure out why. I think the inner circle probably needs to be moved back to touch the outer circle. The brow angle also seems too steep and the eye too low. I put both of our drawings over a photograph to check.

I really like the line work on your finished drawing! It's really nice and has a sketchy but clean feeling. I think maybe the eyes feel a little awkward because either the upper lid is too big, or the distance between the eye and ear is too small. I tried transforming the eye a little but couldn't really decide. Everything else matched up perfectly though!

Also I really love those eyes in the middle!

Keep up the good work! I think you're improving a lot.

Apr '20

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I used to have a hard time learning from videos too, but then I got a boring job where I could watch them all day and I guess a combination of being bored to death and watching them nonstop seemed to make something click for me lol

I'm so glad that 3D head helped! I remembered another one I've used that's for studying the planes of the head and lighting. There's male and female versions.

Apr '20
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Hello! :raising_hand:

Yup, I don't mind go ahead! I really appreciate any breakdowns. We can learn together :raised_hands:

I don't really quite understand what you mean for the side profile breakdown, but from what I understand, the outer circle is there because it's supposed to represent the flat surfaces of the sides of the head, the cranium. It comes from cutting the sides of a sphere.

The drawing I did is completely in side view. So technically, I don't think the inner circle needs to be shifted back to touch the outer circle. If it is shifted back the ear position will also be wrong. I think only when the head is turning right, will the inner circle touch the outer circle :confused:

Sorry if it's longwinded, my English is not too great. If I can I'll get back to you, once I got it figured out.

Yeah, thanks so much! Actually the sketches down in green are all traced from references. I'm not that good TuT. It's just there to help me figure out why something looks right. They are references from my favorite artists ( U Kyung An- this artist is so good https://twitter.com/annim1011 her studies I froth lmao ) The or art books ( ANDREW LOOMIS/ MICHAEL HAMPTON ).

I agree, I really have an issue with 3/4 even though it's one the easiest profile of the head I can get right but I don't know what goes wrong when it goes wrong lol. I think it's because I distort it too much once it turns.

Thanks so much for the kind words. I definitely feel like I understand more now a bit :ok_woman:

Hope you're doing good too!

Apr '20

Hey!

omg I was totally doing the profile wrong the whole time and didn't realize it until you mentioned it! I think I've been seeing this image and thinking it was a perfect side view when it's not. Thanks for correcting me!

Also the shoes studies from Kyung were really cool! Thanks for showing me their work.

P.S. Don't worry about your English! I taught ESL for a while so I really don't mind, and your English seems really good anyways.

Apr '20

Hello!

Haha I see XD I don't think that guide is wrong, it's just different, it just have a bigger chopped of surface. I think guides change depending on how you understand the head shape and there are many kinds of head shapes. The most important thing is I think is to understand why the guide is designed that way :confused:

Proko's Loomis head video is pretty helpful in showing that XD, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC2ZppKHCqU.

Yep! No problem glad you like their work XD

Aye! thanks so much! T U T :ok_woman:

Apr '20
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I originally sketched this in my sketchbook lol and I wanted to draw it again but digitally. I really can't figure out how to draw the other parts well. I guess I will just come back to it another time.

I liked my sketch more T^T
I always wondered why whenever I do something on paper, it will always look many times different than when I do it digitally AND IT'S ALL BASE ON HOW MUCH YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR OWN DRAWINGS UGH.

It's like what Steven Zapata said in his rendering demonstration, you will have to draw things in different sizes to know what you do things by habit or understanding UGH.

STEVEN ZAPATA PENCIL RENDERING DEMONSTRATION

I'm trying to change my mindset but it's hard to stick through because I love to just draw freely. I'll work some kind of process out so I can feel less disappointed in myself whenever I do this sigh. TT

Apr '20

I wanted to do some breakdowns of bodies with perspective in mind. It's always pretty frustrating to me that whenever I use references, I don't really understand what's going on in the picture. Eventually, I'll end up copying it instead of understanding what's going.
Usually, after such drawings, I'll feel pretty empty :confused:

My impatience also makes my drawings much worse, it leads me to rush which kind of leads to bad drawing habits? Like drawing without a clear goal or purpose and all the skills you end up learning becomes just flat, dead lines.

This happens to me so much and I've always felt bad afterward. It made my future practices worse even if I've drawn more. The drawings were rushed and I never take the time to process my drawings.

Ugh, it kinda sucks to think that these problems are something you set for yourself without realizing. I guess writing in forums like this help you reflect more and hopefully make the problems you have more tangible and fixable :persevere:

Never give up, keep going :weary:

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