Some more head and eye practices that I did but didn't upload.
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?in24.0k
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
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 drawingin
studies studies juri study imagination, how I feel before a speech imagination imagination study something I drew for my presentation also drew this for my presentation, didn't fix the one hand being bigger than the other imagination + study study studies study study, I need to fix the face a bit based on screenshot from anime but in my style study. except for the eye study studies studies study. changed some things tho imagination imagination imagination study studies, except top right samurai based on anime screenshot wolverine studies, changed some of the poses a lil, not very good at all, but first time i drew the character ever. semi study studies study imagination imagination imagination , for first time ever i tried to draw over 3d model for middle pose, I dont like the result tbh, but it makes it much easier than coming up with it from memory.imagination, except right figurestudies imagination + studies, coming up with action poses r hard, these are not dynamic enough, I will redraw better ones in future. imagination , imagination imagination study, except for eye imagination imagination imagination doodles except for the two chrollos imagination storyboard thumbnail, idk if i ever shared this. my storyboards end up being a little detailed since i usually just draw in one layer.in21.9k
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!in784
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!in47.4k
I finally took the time to relearn and understand the body more by practicing proportions again. After 3 years of constant gesture drawing and practicing art, I still kept drawing bodies wrong. Now, I'm just really wondering what I am doing wrong so I just decided to go and look back at the basics. This is not my first time copying or studying human proportions so I don't know why is it so weird that only now I start realizing the mistakes I am doing compared to the previous proportions practices that I did.
Technically since 3 years ago till now I've always made the same mistake but the only reason why I notice them now is that I am conscious of these issues?
I guess now I only come to realize what conscious learning is about. In my previous times in studying proportions, I just drew them without questioning how it relates back to my understanding or to the figures I am drawing so no conclusions were made and not much was being learned. At least now, once I started to make comparisons and seek out the answers where my problems are, I can finally understand and fix them 
I don't know but it's just kinda frustrating to see how long it took me to come to this realization where I finally start putting more effort into studying efficiently or understanding what studying actually is.
And it only happened when I am desperate. I hope in the future, I won't just want to be better out of desperation cause it really makes me realize how much time could have gone by without me making any difference to my life 
Wanting to improve and asking myself how do I get better ( faster ), I wished I did that more 
Well at least, I realized it now T u T It's never too late to turn yourself around I hope.
Now I am just having trouble deciding what to improve on or what to do because I feel like if I focus on one aspect I will neglect the other. In the end, I ended up half-assing the practices I'm doing 
This is tough
If you guys can share any advice or about your own studying methods I'll appreciate it! 
I'm planning to get back to painting again and start working on more finished pieces. Hopefully this time I will get it done I MUST 
What you're going through definitely feels relatable and I think a lot of people goes through that step. And it's certainly a bit disheartening to feel like you've ''wasted'' so much time, but all those things you did still helped you built some skills.
For me, realizing my own shortcomings was what motivated me to want to improve. I think it's because we get told to study anatomy and perspective and all that stuff, but I think I never fully really got the whole reason why until I realized my own shortcomings. Once that happened, I started figuring it what I should work on and I also had a reason to do it, which I guess might be was what I was missing. Doing studies and practice makes way more sense when you have a reason or a goal, than just doing it because you think it's what you're supposed to do or what you're told you should be doing. So maybe it was a necessary step to go through in order to help you eventually figure out what you now want to achieve.
Don't know if that made any sense, but you have the rest of your life to improve. And don't be too hard on yourself. Use what you're feeling as a motivation to improve and draw all the cool stuff you want to draw! 
Hello @cedricgo, thanks for taking the time to write your reply! Yep no worries, it makes sense! It definitely made me feel better about myself 
Yeah, I agree! That's why I kinda feel like those artists who have original characters or projects will see the most growth? Because they always have something to go back to and improve on. While for me straight, in the beginning, I never really had a purpose other than getting better in art 
Sigh, I keep wishing I can go back and start off on the right foot but alas I can only move on. I will draw my cool stuff one day Tu t
Thanks again for the nice message! and I hope you're doing well! 
You're welcome! I'm glad my words could help you in some way
And yeah, I think having a project or even just a general vision of what you want your art to have can help since it gives you a goal or direction to focus on.
I wish you all the best for your art journey. I look forward to see how your art will evolve 
And yes, I'm doing well!
29 days later
Wow, I just realised I haven't posted in a while... Just an update, I've been spending a month or so going through How to Draw by Scott Robertson I can say that I now understand a lot more about perspective and perspective grids! I don't really have much to post other than practices I did from the book but hopefully soon. I really want to practice drawing motorbikes so I will mostly post those studies soon 
22 days later
Welp, I don't think I'll be doing those motorbike studies till I'm happy with my human studies. I feel like I'm closer to figuring out how to draw people better 
just by trying to memorize and understand the human proportions grid and applying them. It helps me relate back to the drawings I did from photographs :'D and how to build the body from the basic frame. So I'll keep working on that and post my more progress more frequently! After that start practicing perspective and keeping things consistent and then other stuff.
Other useful methods I think helped me:
- Comparing verts and horizontals and seeing how the different body parts relate to each other hmmm
-USING GRIDS TT IT MAKES COMPARING PROPORTIONS SO MUCH EASIER AND THOROUGH. Both vert and horizontally.
-Organizing the way you study and make sure the practices you do can relate back to back??? It's kinda better than just setting a goal for each practice :/, it helps set up for the bigger picture ( both is good too )
Some different practices I did 
Very nice studies!
12 days later
Thank you !! 
10 days later
My WIP OC design in awhile... Technically in 5 months... TU T Man time really flies and I realized how little art I've done for myself HAHHAHAHA Well at least I can tell most of the forms, head, anatomy, and perspective studies I've done for the past few months have come to use...BUT I feel like I could have done more:''''D. I really should do more art but having a full-time job really makes it hard. WELL, I'll find time to do when I can :''DDD
I'll post more of my practices and studies next time. I'm too lazy to take the photos hahaha 
1 year later
Jeez time really flies by so fast... I wanna start posting my art online again. I tried posting on instagram again but it felt to restrictive so I'm back here again. I hope I can stick to posting somewhere for a bit longer before disappearing. To be honest I still want to try to be able to do art as a job but I feel like most of the time I'm still treating it like a hobby which I only do things I'm comfortable doing. It's a struggle and I'm trying to overcome that by doing more finished pieces which i do more now but I still find it a struggle AA. It's like the art fundamentals just feel like it keeps slipping and I feel like I have to constantly brush it up but at the same time I need to work on making stuff.
I think I just have to let go on my insecurity of deproving and trust I can do things more. I'm working on a project inspired by Feng Zhu's junior concept art video. I think I'm still finding an idea to work on and then draw some concepts for it. So far I'm pretty happy with what I drew and just need to continue adding to the concept eh
I'm going to use it to practice coming up with stuff I don't usually draw like props and environments hopefully things will go well.
At the same time, I'm working on my painting skills. I tend to switch my practice up often but Idk if it's useful or not but at the same time I can't help it. I feel like practicing something consistently will work better but sigh.
Well I just gotta keep going. The only thing I need to make sure is that I don't just keep practicing so I'm trying to keep the 50/50 rule of practicing and making stuff.
So far this is the concept of the characters I want in the world. I think I should try something that's pretty anything goes lol so I went with fantasy. I still don't know what I am doing and I'm winging it half of the time but at least I'm trying to make stuff. How do people deal with the looming feeling that they don't what they are doing but still do it anyway. Well okay gotta keep going still I cri. 
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