Welcome! Really cool work so far. That first piece is awesome, it's got depth, and a strong focal point!
I think that beam of light may be a bit too strong. The very visible rays of light indicate there are a lot of reflecting particles in the air, so maybe you could add more fog to the pic between the creature and the foreground? I think it could balance it out and add even more depth. Or maybe tone down the light and make the pic more low-key overall.
These are just suggestions really, i don't think i'm not very good at giving critique
- 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?in24.1k
- 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
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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!in789
- 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!in47.7k
Hi Roman!
My opinion regarding the first one: I can't really tell what the monster is. The interior seems okay, but the creature makes no sense. It seems deformed somehow, and the mouth doesn't seem in the right place. Also there is the awkward connection to the neck, assuming it has one, and no difference in values to flesh out the creature's limbs.
There is also the matter of reflected light: while there is very strong light from the top putting the planes of the forms of the creature's body which face downward in shadow, there should also be light reflected from the sewer/ tunnel walls which would light to a lesser degree those same plane aforementioned. This should, I think, provide for a variety of values that would make the creature's limbs if not completely visible, then at least recognizable.
Also, before you put in all the grey tones to blur the scene, draw the outline of the creature and see if it makes sense and if it is recognizable. Blurring a drawing doesn't make it mysterious, it just makes it confusing.
As for the second painting, and while a lot of people seem to do this, I think you should try to finish your drawings/paintings. Putting something off as a WIP is merely giving in to the fear of not being able to finish it right. I get that too. But it is better to finish something badly and recognize not only what you're weak at but precisely what you're doing wrong and what misconceptions you have of a form/object in you mind, and then replace those with correct technique. If you're not very good at hands then draw them the best you can. Then study and try to improve. You can look at reference pictures and use them to finish the paining. Never impatiently smudge an area, but take your time and draw clearly defined lines.
Imagine you were writing an essay or story in a new language you're still learning -- which is exactly what drawing is: a language for story telling using lines and values rather than words -- Imagine you've learned some of the basics of that language, but not all, and that you wanted write an essay. A few paragraphs in you felt tired or disappointed, and one more paragraph in you couldn't think of a way to express an idea. Now instead of stopping, looking at a dictionary, or a textbook, then writing on a scrap paper, and rewriting as necessary, you just sort of smudge things by writing somehtn dfkg, rixykaroud krooq lkjiitaa felkafu dafagdif lofig, dafigdf lsusdabnh dadidodooozzzzzzz....
If I am to give an advice that I think is most important, and I by no means imply I know all there is to know about art, but lets ignore that for a moment and assume I do know what I'm talking about; my advice would be not to smudge damn it!
If you reach a spot you can't draw yet, get you sketchbook, look for pictures online or at your own body, and draw them in the sketchbook. Once you've found something you can use then redraw it in your painting/illustration. Of course the thing you should aim for is to be able to analyze figures as a collection of interconnected simple forms and be able to draw anything form imagination.
Also, still concerning the second painting, the colour looks sickly and too pale. Mark Brunet (Cubebrush on youtube) published a video where he shows how to paint skin; take a look at it it's very well explained.
The neck seems too thick and the ear is too far off to the right.
Final advice: Learn to draw in line before dabbling in painting. Learn to draw the figure convincingly in lines and values and you will be a terrific painter.
Best of luck.
@anir Wow, man! Thank you for this detailed response. I totally agree with you about first one. Too many things that I missed, especially silhouette, like...HOLY MOLY, WHERE I WAS, WHEN I BEEN DOING THIS! And overall design now looks too awkward. Although, it's good feeling, cuz I was proud of this work and now I like "meh, this one not so cool as I thought, I need to go further ".
As second one...I get your point, but there's a little misunderstanding. I'm not a "smudge/blur guy" (may be little bit, but still not so), rather I don't like super polished stuff and with this piece I wanted to achieve raw aesthetic, smth like alla prima paintings. Also, this looseness is like a tool of composition: the farther away from the focal point, the wider become strokes. Pale colors and low contrast is also my personal preferences (but, yeah, still sick). With other I completely agree...Oh..c'mon! I agree and with your comments about smudge, colors and detalization, but it's little complicated in this case. This piece was experimental and I tried to find balance between what you say and what I explained above. Simply, between polished and bright look and raw and dull look. So, All things, that you said, is fair, but need to be slightly adapted for my aims. By me, of course.
Yeah, I need to learn more about drawing, but...MAN, I'M SO IN LOVE WITH PAINTING STUFF! Lol, I know, still should learn fundamentals, anyway...Thank you again, really glad to read your thoughts with such a scrupulous breakdown. It helps a lot to figure out what is what.
@ESL Cool, glad you appreciate this. No, like COMPLETELY NO, mostly I picked colors from imagination, so it was very challenging too.
smth different, few works from my ongoing personal project.
Better resolution, if someone interested.
Few more. Better Resolution.
@ragamuffin Maybe later, with new pieces, it'll become more clear, but for now as it is. I'm working on it, anyway, it's all about balance, as always. Thanks!