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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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  • Here is some more recent stuff, I need to make more body studies
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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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  • 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.
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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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  • @patrycja.lerch Thank you I created another variant, which might capture the witch look I was going for better
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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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  • Havent done much this year since I am focusing on learning programming and deving my own Indie Game . But here 's a New Year Piece 2024 , she 's the mascot for my Game Studio - Lucid Realm : Lucid Chan ! LucidChan_v001_sketches.jpg3072x4352 973 KB
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Oct '22

Din't have too much time to study today so I spent most of the time I had trying to get more of a feel for gesture drawing (It is highly addicting!)

Tried to increase the timer to 2 minutes just so I can take bit to actually study the movement of the form before starting.

I'm noticing some patterns in the shapes that work vs the ones that don't work but it´ll definitely take a lot of practice to commit them to memory (and to be able to apply them on the go).

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Spent the rest of my time just casually studying line-art.
Things like hands, faces and hair tend to trip me up when doing lineart so I tend to skip out on them. It is 100% something I will need to work on soon.

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Oct '22

Nice work! Those faces though :joy:

Oct '22

Yeah... :sweat_smile: I really din't feel like trying to make faces in line-art :joy: it is still a big weakpoint of mine.

Still just practicing gestures with the occasional line-art dipped in when I want to change things up.
I want to revisit shading and light studies since I haven't done them since my 2nd month of drawing but it will probably have to wait since I'm having so much fun with gestures and line-art at the moment.

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Oct '22

It isn't super creative but I'm in a groove of making gestures and creating line-out out of them at the moment.
I keep being surprised at how much you can push/bend legs and still have them work anatomically. Kinda crazy.

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Oct '22

A bit of a cautionary tale.

I've been having issues with pen pressure and keeping consistent gradients for a while.
I have to push pretty hard to get an opaque brush to apply the actual color i selected and when i started out 6 months ago I chalked it up to not understanding the brushes i was using.

Today i finally thought about it again and i realized something was wrong with my tablet pen.
After checking the settings i realized that at max i was getting 65% of the maximum pressure when pushing as hard as i could.

I opened up the pen and blew into it (to try and clear out anything that might be stuck) and lo and behold it now hits 100% pressure with half the force.

I'm not used to the pressure being this hyper sensitive so it will probably take a while to adjust my muscle memory.

I don't have any studies for today because I have been spending the entire day trying to figure out how to adjust to the new pen pressure so here is some Asaro head studies I did last night.

Oct '22

No crazy updates since I'm still desperately trying to adjust to to my newfound pen pressure.
Been doing Asaro head studies as a way to get used to the pen pressure.

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Oct '22

I can imagine the struggles with adapting to the new pressure. I'm sure you'll get it soon. Nice updates once again 🙂

Oct '22

Thanks.
It´ll definitely take a while to get back up to speed.
I'm just doing some simpler things like gesture drawing and sketching heads at the moment since it lets me focus on trying to get adjusted to the new pen pressure.
I should be able to assume proper studies soon thought :+1:

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Oct '22

Starting to feel used to the new brush pressure.
Still just doing whatever studies I find easy and comfortable so I'm capable of focusing on adapting instead.

Oct '22

In my quest to become used to my new brush pressure I have gotten really into doing portraits.
I used to focus really hard on one thing at a time, just grinding away at value studies or anatomy for a month at a time.
Right now I'm really just enjoying taking "side trips" to study whatever infatuates me in the moment.
I should probably do some more finished pieces of art, but there are so many things to explore, and polishing things for hours feels like wasted time when I could be exploring more. :sweat_smile:

Am I wrong in thinking that i learn more by not polishing things fully and just focus on each study until it reaches a stage where I feel like I've captured the essence of what I was looking to do?

(old still life studies from June. I did 3-4 of these a day for 3 weeks straight until i started feeling insane from it)

Oct '22

Still just doing head studies at the moment. There are so many different types of heads to explore!
Mostly just trying to separate the form into light and shadow since it feels like it holds the most information.
These take around 40-60 minutes so it is definitely not fast, but I'm spending a lot of time just trying to gauge the planes and values.

In terms of gestures things are progressing slowly but i´m having trouble separating overlapping forms (and I kinda feel like I tend to over-abuse wrapping lines to show direction instead of capturing it in the general flow)

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Oct '22

hi there ... if u want to construct humans on ur own the books of Andrew Loomis helped out many artists before

Oct '22

Thanks for the recommendation.

I read "drawing the head and hands" by Andrew Loomis a few months ago but I din't fully grasp most of it at the time.
I'm definitely thinking of going back to reread it now that I have more of a grasp of some of the fundamentals.
Are there any of his other books you would recommend?

(Still just doing studies from photographs since I don't feel confident enough to study without reference at the moment. Tried giving them a bit more polish today)

Oct '22

No major updates today.
Just reading Loomis and trying to take notes.

I tried doing some studies and after feeling frustrated about one of them i decided to just experiment with it using a textured brush.
The anatomy is way off but i sorta ended up liking the feel of it.

Oct '22

hi ... when i'm wright the other two books are "successful drawing" and "figure drawing", both covering the fundamentals ... David Finch showed his way of using the head method in one of his youtube videos ... it was quite easy to understand, probably easier than Loomis texts tho

Oct '22

Thanks a lot. I´ll be sure to check out those books as well.
David finch also looks very interesting, i'll be adding him to my list of things to watch during lunch :smile:

I got through "Drawing the Head and Hands" by Loomis and started trying to re-enforce the structures of the planes of the head by doing trace overs on photographs.
Definitely feels like I could use it.

I'm using Marco Bucci's "Understanding and Painting the Head" video course to go over individual parts of the head whenever I have questions about something specific.
I find it quite nice as a supplement to Loomis's book since each part of the head is split up into 30m videos with live examples on how to paint the planes.

(I din't have that much time to draw today since I had to read so much :sweat_smile: will continue tomorrow)

Oct '22

Continuing the grind to reinforce the planes of the head.
Struggling a bit with the chin & complexity of the areas around the eyes.

Oct '22

Still studying the head and reading up on everything I can.
I've been having fun trying to capture likeness of some more recognizable faces.

Mainly having trouble keeping proportions and distances between the planes which causes the faces to have resemblance but look off.

This took around 2 hours (Still feeling pretty slow)

Oct '22

In my quest to try and get better at drawing faces I've been experimenting with breaking down famous faces into simple shapes.
I feels like the simple structures of the face holds the secret to creating good faces (and achieving likeness)
I don't care too much about achieving likeness but it bothers me that I'm not capable of doing it well :sweat_smile:

Here is Emma Watson (which once again shows that I have trouble with proportions and spacing :pensive: I need to get better at planning out the face and measuring before i start)

Oct '22

Still just doing basic 20m studies and trying to get the essence of the faces down.
Starting to feel that I'm becoming a bit stagnant in my studies so I'll probably be changing my focus to revitalize my energy.

Definitely feels like I've picked up a bunch of smaller knowledge bombs in the past week that are helping me create faces better/faster.