phizzle12 - Art Journey

[patrycja.lerch]

Looks great! I love the wings!

[mitsuki-youko]

that upsidedown dynamic look is super cool

[phamster345]

Thank you @patrycja.lerch @mitsuki-youko!!

So far, I have doing some simple color theory tests with my character for my next drawing, which will focus on movement. I'm trying to be a bit bolder with my colors, but I'm still nervous on how far to take my colors.

[phamster345]

I finally finished my composition based on movement. It was tricky getting the right silhouette for her while also trying to convey her in movement. I also messed around with the screen tones and other features on Clip Studio to make the image pop a bit more. I also observed how other comic book artists, like John Byrne, convey movement with a good composition, especially when the panel was big and/or a splash page.

I've also been practicing 3D sculpting on Blender whenever I can. So far, it's forcing me to look at and review faces, so it is nice to get a refresher while I'm trying to get more used to Blender. This face is based on Gomez Addams from the Addams Family live-action films. I like the film's morbid sense of humor, and I really enjoyed the Wednesday Netflix show too. I still got some work to do on the face, especially the hair and ears.

[phamster345]

I finally finished sculpting Gomez Addams' bust. I also really enjoy experimenting with the lighting on Blender. I think I'm more determined to get better at sculpting and using Blender.

[daceronine]

wow that looks really well sculped. And the lighting really makes it shine.

[patrycja.lerch]

Nice work on sculpt!

Composition looks great and character is lovely! Flower grabs a lot of attention, color is too strong and its unique element. You could add more and change color so your character pops more. Great work!

[phamster345]

Thank you for your comments @daceronine @patrycja.lerch !!
In retrospect, regarding my flower and flying illustration, the flower's color does take too much attention away from my character due to its saturation, so I should be more careful about that.

Here is my composition focused on variety. To be honest, I was at a loss how to add variety since my character has some stripes and circle motifs already. So I try to add in some background elements that hopefully aren't too distracting. I also try to see what kind of effects I can utilize from Clip Studio, making me realize that there's a hundred of other tools that' I've neglected for a long time lol.

[snakker]

cool dynamic pose!
I think something is off with her torso and maybe her left upper member would be shorter looking than her right due to the angle and foreshortening/depth.

cheers!

[phamster345]

Thank you! The torso was pretty tricky for me. It still looks kind of weird, whenever my eyes settle in that area. By "left upper member," did you mean the left side of her chest?

[snakker]

No no, I mean her left arm and forearm would be shortened due to the effect of depth, kinda like looking at something close up with a wide angle lens

[phamster345]

Oh ok I see what you mean. Thank you for clarifying! And I do agree it could be more shortened due to the effect of the depth that I went for in the illustration.

[phamster345]

To start a post for the new year, I wanted to share a face that I created in Blender. Retopology requires so much patience... I also sculpted the body, but I want to do the retopology on that one first before posting on here.

[phamster345]

Retopology Part 2. The process is making me go

[phamster345]

So I finished the retopology, but when I compared my retopology with other YouTubers and other 3D artists, I find that my retopology is flawed with a lot extraneous edge loops. Furthermore, I learned that the approach to retopology for 3D animation is different. I was interested in 3D art because I was interested in making 3D figurines. But after doing some more digging on retopology and 3D animation, now I'm thinking about doing some 3D animation, which means I might have to redo the retopology to make it optimized for 3D animation.
So I feel like I'm at a crossroads on where to go with 3D art at the moment since I'm more used to creating 2D art, and there are A LOT of tools and features on Blender.

Here is my original sculpt along with my retopologized 3D art.

[snakker]

This looks cool and also complicated XD So retopology is like simplifying the polygons?

cheers

[phamster345]

Based on my limited knowledge, yeah. Based on one of 3D Animator Dikko's video on 3D modeling for animation, animating the figure would be more optimized if the polygons on the figure were arranged a certain way. I followed another approach from Bran Sculpts, but I was overzealous in how much polygons I was adding to my figure during the retopology phase. So I created way more work on myself unfortunately, and this has led to some odd areas in my model where some polygons/faces look unevenly spaced.

But this has been a good learning experience for me. I'm still afraid to jump into 3D animation frankly, but I also can't help but feel excited about the possibilities of what else I could do with it.

[mitsuki-youko]

I'm still afraid to jump into 3D animation frankly, but I also can't help but feel excited about the possibilities of what else I could do with it.

you can start with something really easy like a bouncing ball

That's where I started ^u^ (not to say my 3D is all that good but thats where we started in 3D animation class)

I basically just move things around and then keyframe em XD

The task here if i recall properly was just to animate a ball with a tail jumping across something so that you could challenge yourself to animate the movement but I went ALL out XD

This was the final i think.. been like 7 or 8 years since i graduated lmao so dont quite remember, but ofc like always I went all out XD and it was super fun but most of it was just literally moving around spheres, cylinders, rhombus's

Here's some more 3D I did - but these are all rather simplistic, like maybe you can try just animating a few fingers or just the hand and get the hang of it most of the time i literally just moved the arms/legs/ slightly rotated the body and that was like half the movement https://youtu.be/E4xPMOioLfw?feature=shared

but good luck! 3D can be really fun! you can sculpt better than i can

[phamster345]

Wow, these are amazing ! I really enjoy the mixed media approach in the last one, mixing live action with 2D and 3D animation.

Yeah, I should start with something easy in order to not get too discouraged. I guess the other challenge would be trying to balance doing 2D and 3D art

[phamster345]

While I'm setting aside my character model, I decided to return to illustration. I plan to redo the flower composition (the one where my character was flying past my flower). I am modeling a 3D flower, partly for reference and partly for practicing on Blender so that I don't get rusty with the program. I still need to add some more branches.