• Gave myself 5 days to do something. This is what I managed to do. I'm trying to get better at illustrations, but I have patience to work on something for 3 days maximum :( Splash_Process.jpg5000x3140 2.21 MB Splash_Process-6.jpg3896x2429 2.83 MB concept list char copy.jpg5388x3000 1.7 MB
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  • Did a character concept for a course.https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P6gm3y - more:) list1.jpg3541x1920 2.82 MB
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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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  • It's been a while and god, it is so cringe to go through all previous messages xDmy study.
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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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  • Neon Gambit This is a fan art of my all time favorite character Gambit from the X-Men.I made this a birthday gift (26.04.2024) to myself and honestly I really do like how it turned out in the end =] I hope you like it as well =]
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  • And some more! Been painting over them a bit more this time. Some variants I tried for the old guy using mainly the liquify tool. Someohow looking a bit like Owen Wilson (not intended :D)
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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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  • Long Crested Eagle studyI had so much fun making this one and honestly I love that Eagle! It looks so cool! Used for this one high quality watercolours, high quality watercolour sketchbook/ cold press and it was 300 grams paper.I hope you like it!
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Oct '23

Helloo! My name is Hansen or Ben. I am a fresh highschool graduate going into university study very soon. For years I have wanted to draw but never realised the dream because I thought I was too busy with school and had a misconception that it was 'too late'. But, of course, we all know that's wrong!! In the past few months I have been drawing now, but I thought an art program wouldn't hurt to get a boost in the right direction! Here I will post my progress regularly. Critique me on whatever you feel like!

Oct '23

Nice! Wish I started this course at your age 🥲

Welcome aboard!

Cheers

Oct '23

Wow! Thanks so much for the warm welcome, you three! :smile:

Oct '23

Alrighty, nothing too crazy just yet, but I'm learning quite a bit! I got Photoshops 7 day free trial just for these,. I usually use Krita but if Photoshop meshes well with me then I may just go ahead and get it. But that's something for the future. I am going to try to adopt a teaching tone in my posts so I have a need to learn the content correctly. However, if you spot something wrong, absolutely tell me! :smiley:

My 5 minute observation are proving fruitful. There is so much more nuance to everyday things I never really paid attention to. Here are some things I've started to notice:

  • Materials and textures of objects are mostly seen/defined by light. Most textures are barely seen in shadows or further-away areas. This makes sense when thinking more dramatically. Think of a splintering wooden plank; you can only see the individual cracks and wooden splinters because of the small dark shadows giving it form.
  • Most things can be broken up into cylinders, cuboids, and cylinders.
  • Light is more complicated than just 1 light source. There is; Reflection from nearby bright objects (Bounce light I think it's called), other light source that may not be as bright or coloured differently, ambient light.
  • Highly reflective objects like mirrors and phones will cast a sort of "shadow" of light. They will project a light the same shape as the reflective surface. Like a watch for example, when sometimes the light hits it at a certain angle and leaves a circular projection of light on the wall.
  • Perspective deformation is incredibly important in describing the form of an object. A simple object like a pen changes dramatically when viewing the cap up close then horizontally far away. Similarly, a long horizontal object, like a ruler, when held up incredibly close, will shrink at the sides. I'm still getting used to viewing objects like this. I find it helpful to close one eye sometimes when I want to focus on the actual "2d" outline or shape of a 3d object!

I have also completed my first set of daily exercises included in the Photoshop video. The photo editing tools are extremely powerful and I feel like I have a good, basic understanding of how to use them.
I can change shadows, mid tones, and highlights and the values between them using curves.
Color balance can be used to correct color, bring more liveliness to human skin, or even completely change the atmosphere of a piece. There were many times were Mei (Bless her) was either sunburnt or completely freezing in a cold blue beach. :laughing: Tone/Saturation seem extremely helpful for mixing up and quickly viewing different color palettes. With the use of masks, these seem like strong tools.

I am excited to start the image adjustment class, I can see this being incredibly helpful for making custom references by mix and matching images. These are also be incredibly powerful tools to use in digital art itself.

Woop Woop!

Oct '23

Good work so far, just in case, I feel it really helps to prop up your drawing surface/tablet and draw with the shoulder, easing the grip on the fingers to avoid wrist pain and get better more flowy lines. Also to ghost your lines before making the mark, especially helpful for ellipses and circles to avoid microcorrections and sudden changes of direction like in the small circles on the top right and the left ellipse, respectively. Though your circles overall are kinda square and that's a good thing

lol reading what I'm saying at this abstract stage sounds more and more like rubbish as I go, not to mention I'm kind of a beginner still, but yeah!

keep at it!

cheers

Oct '23

No no, I understand what you are saying. I did the beginning part of this other course called drawabox and they say the same thing. To be honest, I think I forgot about ghosting halfway through haha, but now I know to keep it more conscious in my head. I draw with my should but I should definitely look into propping up my tablet, it's just flat and moves around everywhere most of the time (the grips are really old) :sweat: Thanks for the words! Woop Woop!

Oct '23

One accessory that helped me with propping it up is a Parblo Stand that came with a glove, I put my tablet there and it can be adjusted, doesn't move at all and works perfect

Got it on amazon, totally worth it if you are on a normal tablet

cheers

Oct '23

Sorry, haven't uploaded as frequently as I'd liked. Had super busy week and struggling to finish everything as I planned. I watched the first parts of the nude figure drawing video and just trying to do the assignments (1-3) like the weekly planner suggests.

Here are some notes:
The Line of action is super important in placing the rest of the figure or skelly properly. It's better to take a moment to think and truly understand where the line of action is.
The torso, pelvis, and head give more clarity to the line of action and overall gesture
The joints add that bit of nuance to the rest of the figure.
Gesture is really interesting and I am excited to learn more and practice it more.
I am a little scared to tackle anatomy later but I'll have to do it eventually, right? :laughing:

I felt a little stressed doing all of these assignments, even though it shouldn't be that much. I think I need to pace myself. Either way, I'm glad I got these done even when I didn't feel super enthusiastic today. I feel a little silly having trouble making simple skeletons like this in all honesty. :dizzy_face:
If anyone has any words, I'm all ears!
Here are the first few skeletons. I think I did these correctly according to the instructions but if you spot anything, do say!

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Oct '23

Looking good, having the references to compare would help

Cheers

Oct '23

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Definetly pace yourself and don't worry about it as long as you keep progressing along. Eventually you will come to some assignments that seem daunting, like, draw 10 heads. When I saw some of these I was taken back a bit since one head took me very long already.

However, it's one of those things where practicing the same thing many times helps you get better at doing it.