Welcome aboard!! 
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
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.in22.3k
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!in805
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
Welcome to the forums! Good work on those!
Hey, progress it's progress don't matter the speed, you got this!
10 days later
TERM 1, Week 2, Combining Images Assignment
Managed to finish this one first, so I decided to submit it now.
As for Selections/Liquify/Healstamp and Figure Drawing assignments 1-3, unfortunately I couldn't start yet due to lack of time - once again life gets in the way.
I feel ya, life tends o do that. Any pace is fine though.
The brick castle fits in well, but the japanese style castle kinda feels out of place there, especially since the angle doesn't match the other castle, or the lighting. Still, the point was to get the hang of editing, cutting, pasting and fusing in, and it seems that was well done.
14 days later
TERM 1, Week 2, Selections/Liquify/Heal/Stamp Assignment
Finally, I found the time to do this one.
This is surprisingly much easier and faster than I expected (except for the apples - had to redo that a few times).
1 month later
TERM 1, Week 3, Daily Nude Figure Drawing assignments 1-3
Hopefully I won't take yet another 2 weeks to finish gesture drawing exercises...
16 days later
TERM 1, Week 3, Daily Gesture Drawing (30-sec) assignment
This is surprisingly much tougher than I expected - in the end this still took me 2 weeks and clearly I still didn't take my best shot.
Don't worry about it. Always happen to us when we see our most recent work and instantly point out mistakes and knew we should have done.
Rather than worry about not giving your best shot, you can reframe it as you tried it and the next time will be better. Hope that helps
Gesture drawing wise, I think you have the right idea (get the line of action) but I can see you drawing multiple sub-line (small line) to represent a bigger line. Just embrace your expressiveness and draw long flowing line.
Hey, thanks! Clearly I was worried (too much I'd say) about the results to the point that I forgot to - and I'm paraphrasing - trust the process and take baby steps along the way. So yeah, I'll keep this in mind.
9 days later
After over a week of hiatus (house got real noisy = I don't have time to practice/study), I'm back, trying to do the lineart assignments (where you copy 5 characters)... and I got stuck for the first time.
Mainly because I have no idea how to do it without succumbing to the temptation to trace - there's no point to tracing if you don't follow it with a non-traced copy, to paraphrase Marc in his recent video about tracing - and the impression I got looking at other students' portfolio is that they don't draw "over" the original illustrations. So, yeah.
It may well be that I'm just being too hard on myself again... (can't afford to go too easy either, though!)
27 days later
Bad news: decided to skip lineart copying because I don't feel confident enough - got stressed/distracted by the details. I'll give it a try later in week 7 (if I can, anyways).
Good news?
TERM 1, WEEK 4, Daily Nude Figure assignments 5 and 6 (1 minute)
Four months just to get to week 4... wow. Just wow.
Anyways, proportion grid drawing is surprisingly much easier than I thought - I didn't get it right the first time, but overtime I felt more confident, able to add more details.
That being said, doing 1-minute gesture drawing made me realize that the drawing tablet (which doesn't have a graphics display) I have simply isn't as good as one that does have a display (or at least that's the impression I get) - it's very likely I'll take another hiatus until I can buy a new tablet, and when I do I might redo some of the assignments to see how I'd perform.
noice! keep up the good work!
1 month later
Finally got myself a Wacom graphics tablet, and after redoing previous assignments, I'm pleased to report it's much better than the old Veikk tablet I used before - I don't need to constantly look up to my monitor any longer now. Anyways! On to...
TERM 1, WEEK 4, Pen Control Practice (exercises 1-5) + Pespective 1 assignments 1 & 2 (don't mind the typos regarding 1/2-point perspectives)
I had to redo assignment 1 because while I was re-checking the results yesterday, I found that I missed some convergence lines. I probably should've done exercises 6-10 of the top 10 daily exercises as well, but again, I'm not confident in my skills yet - exercise 5 is as far as I can do at the moment.
Good to see you are still working!
Unsolicited Advice: For copying/studying other people's work, you might want to try using a grid. On a layer above the image, draw out a grid of squares. Save a copy of that file, then add a solid white layer and hide the image. That way you have an image the same size as the original with identical grids on both. Then you go square by square and copy what you see. I learned that in art class back in high school and has been helpful when I'm trying to replicate something.
13 days later
TERM 1, WEEK 5, Nude Figure assignments 4 and 7 + Perspective 1 assignment 2 (simple structures)
Used measurement tools for both nude figure assignments. #4 is easy, but #7... although I was eventually able to match the figures with the references, I still haven't fully understood how to use 'em (especially measuring relationships and important lines - accidentally deleted the layer containing the halfway point, and I only realized AFTER I closed the file, whoops; at least negative spaces are easier to use). If you guys know how a simpler way to do this, please let me know (or at least provide an explanation to help me understand better)
Tried drawing a cylinder in 2-point perspective but it didn't go so well.
13 days later
TERM 1, WEEK 4, Daily Pen Control Practice (exercises 6-9) + WEEK 5, Daily Nude Figure assignment 6 (2 minutes)
Finally got around to doing exercises 6-9 - drawing the ribbons is certainly the toughest part. Also, doing gesture drawing for 2 minutes... at first I thought I didn't do them well enough, but once I compared the results to my 30 seconds and 1 minute drawings, I realized the progress I'm making (even if it's small - it's been months since I started but I'm still doing Term 1).
Anyways, it's time for me to move on to week 6 assignments (and also do week 3/5's copying assignment)...
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