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?in24.2k
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.in22.1k
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!in47.9k
There's a lot I can help out with and most likely they would be video based but...
What you should do is give us a photo or artist or artstyle you want to achieve....it'll be easier to help out with
for instance I learned to draw from manga. Manga has so much line art, perspective, poses ect. in one book and it's could potentially be from your favorite artist......
I learned to draw by studying manga from the manga NEGIMA by Ken Akamatsu
So I had a goal to be as good as him.....and while I was learning from the comics I was looking at other artists....maybe I like how tetsuya nomura does eyes, or how Anthony jones paints form and light or how Tobias Kwan paints arms....but I had images and I knew what I wanted to achieve
While I was at my beginning stages of learning I didn't stop to learn anatomy or color ect.
I really didn't worry for that...all I worried about was the "art of drawing"
So if you can potentially show me what you want to accomplish it'll be easier to help out with
Nice drawing. If you want a serious jump start into being a better artist. Follow Noah Bradley and do one of his online art camps. https://artcamp.com It can get your momentum going.
I didn't copy anyone's art style, this is my artstyle actually. So kinda practicing to improve my art to become more semi realistic and realistic style. So thought that i can get some pointers since im mostly weak in human drawing and anatomy itself. And thanks.
If you want to give your manga based artstyle a semi-realistic twist, then try to create some realistic looking drawings, you can just choose some nice pictures from google and try to draw them as close as you can, do that with at least 10, then go back and do one of your manga style draws and you will be amazed of the improvement.
The thing is too many people start with manga because is really easy to get a nice finish that regular people will wow at it, but the manga artists start from art schools where they learn to do realistic art, and from that realistic they abstract it into manga, but at the core there are the basics from traditional art.
So go back do some traditional art, real life based and then apply your knowledge to your manga art style.
Hey Aeriaarts!
I agree with tenshin78, it's always good to first learn realistic anatomy and faces before going manga again. For example, I think the nose is too big and low and the ears are not correctly placed. By learning anatomy, this will improve. My compliments for the eyes btw!
Best of luck 
Overall nice sketches the anatomy stuff has been mentioned and more life drawing helps everyone at all levels. The latest sketch is looking nice critwise I would add these points.
The iris's seem to be different sizes and your pupils are more of a oval than a circle. ( if your going for cat eyes look at reference to sort the pupils.)
You have nice line weight variation in the face but unlike your previous drawing you haven't transitioned this into the hair and jacket which is a shame. Line weight helps define form.
If you are looking at a more realistic style then yeah do sketches going for realism then slowly reduce the detail. Experiment with how much you can simplify the realistic drawings. That should help your knowledge of what is needed to nail a persons likeness and get down what you feel is the key information you want to keep.
Is it still acceptable if it's Semi Realistic? cause im just like trying to target Semi Realistic first while practicing to draw realistic drawings
How you want to learn is completely up to you. We are just making suggestions to help with maturing you as a artist. The reason I suggested learning and practising realism then experiment with removing detail is to find what it is you feel is needed for an image as an individual. This is because the essence of semi realistic is realism simplified.
There is a base principle that if you wanted to create character with stylised proportions you have to know how real anatomy and proportions work to cement your creation in reality making them believable. This is the same . I'm not saying don't draw your own style and only draw realistic. Keep drawing, keep creating but add in realistic drawings into your study sessions and you should have study sessions.
ok got it
16 days later
I think this is a really big improvement! I don't feel put off by the 'wrong anime feel' at all with this last one
Keep going at it!
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