Here is day 2 of cylinders, my lines are still pretty shaky but ill continue to try to improve them. Will find some good reference photos for the skeletons soon so I can mix some in the daily practice eventually.
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 ! Welcome Aboard !!
last two days of works, decided to throw in skeletons since ill be able to work on cylinders anyways. I definitely still notice the shaky line problems (i even catch my hand drifting/shaking) and I'm not for sure the perspective is 100 percent obvious. but ill just have to take time to fix it. if anyone has any advice or issues to point out pls do. Thanks.
Welcome to the forums! I look forward to seeing more of your work. One thing I would recommend to help with the perspective is to draw the elipse of the cylinder all the way through the form. It will help show the form and help you understand it better in space as well. Keep it up!
The good thing about studies/practices is that you don't have to be worried about how messy it looks. I think if you want to build line confidence then just do quick strokes even if they end up overlapping or look crazy. When I try to do precise lines is when I start having shaky lines also.
haven't been practicing over the past few days due to a recent passing, and since I'm low on energy I figured id just get some cylinders in at least as i try to get back in the groove. I'll also be leaving my "station" soon as I'm leaving on a trip. However Ill just practice in my notebook while I'm gone. Also thanks for the advice so far. 
I'm trying to take it and put it to practice.
Nice practice! One thing that helped me with cylinders when I first started was taking a can I had by my desk and turning it in space. I still do that quite a bit to help with the perspective! Nice work!
after a long trip and being super busy i was finally able to sit down and draw. Here is some more daily practice stuff.
I like the dynamism in your poses. You are doing well. Keep it up!
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had a long day at work today so tried to do use the cylinder shape for a couple objects to make it more entertaining. I'm not exactly sure when i should move on from the cylinders and skeleton portion to the proportions part of the daily practice. Especially since its hard for me to tell progress i make on something like cylinders. if anyone more progressed or further along in their art journey can give me an idea that'd be very helpful. Just so I can set a goal and make sure not to spend too much time on this part of the lessons if its not needed. Thank you
My personal opinion is that there is no such thing as spending to much time on module 1 or 2. These are the foundational skills that will apply to everything else you do. The better that you get at these the easier everything else will be. If you are not having fun with it, definitely move on but you can always come back. I have been doing this for a bit now and for each character I make I still do a cylinder study for. You might find that enjoyable and challenging to move to the cylinder studies over a character. Basically if you arn't having fun move to something else but always, always come back to practice the basics. In my opinion a cylinder is one of the most important fundamentals you can learn, and understanding it will come back over and over and over and over again. One thing that I would recommend when doing the cylinders over a figure is to draw the contour lines over them, this will help you understand the shape a lot more and it will be challenging I imagine. Keep up the good work! I love how you are thinking about these limbs ans cylinders!
Thanks for the advice, but yeah its not that I'm not having fun it was just something i wanted to get some clarity on. I think ill take your character/cylinder studies on as well. Ill probably spend 2-3 more weeks on just these 2 modules and then add on. ( if I'm staying consistent ) Thanks again for your reply, I appreciate it. It helps me more than you might think
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No problem, if you ever have questions don't hesitate to ask me. I'm a beginner and had many struggles in the beginning with these things so they are very fresh in my mind!
and here is todays, anyone know another site besides deviant and Pinterest I can find some more good references? i wanna stock up on a lot. thank you
todays skeletons
Those are the places I get my references besides the reference packs on cube brush. You might try to see if there are any free packs anywhere. I know Rachel Bradley was offereing a free pack for a while, I'm not sure if its on cube brush though.
