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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?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!in786
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!in47.6k
Welcome to the forums Ronald! Bests of luck in this journey!
Welcome to the forums!
Welcome aboard!! Welp, i hope it goes well, looking forward to see your future posts.
16 days later
Well, it's been a couple weeks so I figured I should post again. I kinda forgot how to post, soooo I just replied to my first message. Is that right? Well, here's the next thing I did!
yep u did it right 
these look nice!
Here's the next assignment. 
So, it's pretty obvious, and I'm not sure if it's cheating, but I used the mirror tool, so I essentially just had to draw one side. I figured since we were focusing on the sizing that it'd be ok, but I can see how not doing that would've been more beneficial. 
This was pretty helpful for me though. I've always heard about it but never practiced it before.
mirroring makes them look more stiff tho cus its the variety in poses that make them look gesturey but nice job i didnt notice it was mirrored til u mentioned it.
The hands and thighs/legs are a bit smol for the dudes tho but overall not bad
I thought they looked a bit skinny too, I'll have to keep that in mind and watch out for it. Thank you 
I've used the mirror myself to get the base done. It's very helpful, but if you were to eventually do pieces, it wouldn't work out too well, since angles and perspective have a huge impact on pieces.
It's also helpful to give it a try without the mirror to get a feel for proportions and alignments manually, since those skill will eventually translate into a 3D space. Of course your are bound to get disproportions on the first tries, but keep in mind it's just exercices, don't stress too much about the end quality, just on what you are learning from it.
Well, here's the gesture drawing. Although I did do the timing a bit askew. These are all done in 45 seconds. Overall, I'm fairly disappointed with them.
Anyways, I feel like I'm missing the purpose of this assignment. Like, I know what it's suppose to look like and what it's for, I guess my mind just doesn't understand how to make gestures or something. 
It's all about training observation skill and learning to work from references, as well as building your mental library.
A quick test to see how it's helping you is to get one reference sample, one of the ones you are using, then put it away and try to draw it from imagination like if it was a gesture work. Then bring the image back, and do the gesture proper by looking at it same 3 mins. compare both and I think you'll notice a difference even in simple doodles.
Sounds like an interesting activity. I'll definitely give it a shot. Thank you for the help!
Alrighty, tried more gestures. I think these are turning out better. Who knew practice helps? 
This time I also tried keeping my canvas smaller, so I'm not zoomed in as much. On the last 13 I kept the canvas even smaller, so I wouldn't have to move around it at all; helpful with time management and focus. I also put a line down the center of the canvas, and I found that really helped me with sizing and proportions.
Looking good so far, keep at it
Are you using the entire canvas to make those gestures?
cheers
20 days later
Got distracted by this game called Palworld. It's pretty addicting. So I thought I'd get back where I left off!
These were made in 30 seconds vs the 45 seconds I was doing previously. I did three sets, and this is just my last set. I think they look good, except for the part where they're not really finished.
I might move on after this one. Dunno yet though. I'm not really satisfied with my level yet. Although will I ever be satisfied? 
Umm, not sure what you mean by whole canvas, I do them in sets of 13 to 15, so I just put them all on on canvas. The last two pictures better depict how I do it. Is there a secret with this "whole canvas" you speak of??
Can't speak for @snakker, but what I understand, or rather what I do now, is that I'll add a layer, use the whole canvas space to draw, and when I'm done, hide it, add another layer, and work on the next gesture/sketch. By the end I can rearrange them as needed, making them smaller, moving then, etc.
Using the whole space allows me to do larger arm/hand movements and to visually focus more on the current gesture, which usually results in smoother lines.
What I did before, was just draw on a single layer, zoom in, and do all drawings one besides the other, trying to take up as much canvas space by the end. Some do gestures as long as there's space in their canvas.
I think either approach is viable, as long as you are comfortable with it.
The answer is yes and no.
No, you will always want to improve, to do something more. I can't think of a single pro who says "Yea, I've peaked, there's nowhere left to go".
Yes, you should learn to appreciate your own art, your progress and to be proud of what you do regardless of your level. If you put the effort and are working to continuously improve and express yourself, and more importantly, are having fun, you're doing it right.
Both are important in healthy dosis and very destructive when taken in negative ways. You will probably also swing back and forth depending on your mood and feeback received.
Alrighty, the next assignment is some figure drawings. When I overlayed the line work on the picture, it is pretty apparent I didn't get it right. While I think I did ok, there is definitely some improvement to be had.
I can't remeber in the video, if Marc did some guidelines for the body. I don't remember him doing them; thus I did not do them. It definitely made it a weird kinda challenge.
