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?in24.0k
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.in21.8k
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!in784
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!in47.2k
Hey Chris! It's looking good. I think you could push the values a bit further, like when you really zoom out and look at the piece as a whole, the face and horns don't really stand out they kinda just merge into the background while the hand in the front and torso part stand out a bit more because of the contrast with the rest of the painting. You could maybe make the darks and white in the eyes more intense. Remember if you have a strong back light don't forget to add in the rim lights and cast shadows for the character as well as the environment it can really add interest to a painting.
Also check out these two links if you haven't already, they're pretty helpful. Hope my critique helps, good luck! 
http://muddycolors.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/composition-basics-value-structure.html
http://muddycolors.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/composition-basics-temperature-structure.html
Hey thanks a lot, friepotatocake. Love the name btw
The critique is very much appreciated, and I will most definitely take a break and read through those articles post haste.
I've since added some colour to the piece, and I think I may have corrected some of the issues that you mentioned regarding the values. Haven't got around to the eyes yet though hehe.
Man are you sure you should still be competing in the amateur league? I think it's time you challenged yourself. If you want to be a professional illustrator then your going to have to learn how to compete with those creating professional work. Your going to have to do it anyways so today might as well be the day, let those around you push your work further, be the weakest link in your group it helps you develop much faster because there pulling you all the more further. But enough of this inspirational jazz lets get right into this shall we?
Texture and Rendering
- Now like usual I'm low on time so I'm going to make this brief like boxers. Texture is one of your strong points you need to play to your strengths in competition while also adding an element of unique-ness. You did very well with the texture on the skull but comparing the skull the rest of the body it looks like you got a little tired and didn't feel like putting in the same effort. make sure you're following through with the same quality through out the piece. for example the left hand looks very un-renderd I'd fix up a bit, you have the skill to do so. This critique isn't about a lack of skill on your part it's on the lack of effort finishing out a piece... a problem many artist have including myself.
(I wish you the best on your artist journey and in this piece and always remember FINISH STRONG!)
Exofley, Signing out.
Dude.
First off let me say a brief but very appreciative thanks for those opening words. Secondly, thanks again haha. Third if it weren't for the rules stating only artists who make a living off of their art are eligible to enter in the Pro League, you would definitely have convinced me to do so. But you are totally right, I will definitely aim to challenge myself more, enter some professional level competitions, whatever I can find, I'm not really sure where to start looking haha.
For real though, whenever I see your critiques I always know I'm in for an in depth, but concise analysis of the picture, and they are tremendously helpful, so thank you again for that! I am most definitely going to be mindful of keeping that quality throughout the piece.
No problem man I really love your work it's simply amazing, don't sell yourself short and keep up the great work!
I think you should try to go even harder on the rim light. It'll probably help define the shapes of his upper body even more.
It also seems that you're going for a sort of oozy quality for the melted part of him. Consider replicating a little of what you can see on this artwork from Hearthstone. Your style is very different, so I don't think it's smart to try and copy it, but I think studying how they've used light can be beneficial in defining shapes and textures, especially on his lower body, where the values are very close to each other.
I think what I like the most is his expression, pose and the colour palette surrounding his face. The red blue and red on his upper body works really well together. I also think the transition from torso to his lower body is especially good, you've definitely nailed the, sort of, melting strings, between his body parts. Good job.
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