Hello all, not much to show this time in quantity. Moved on last week to the rest of the arms and hands. So the follow along will be here.
Hope everyone is happy and healthy. Have a good week everyone. 
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?in24.6k
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 youin1.5k
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.in22.6k
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!in827
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!in49.6k
20 days later
1 month later
Hello, hope everyone has been doing good. It’s been a while since I went and watched a lesson so I felt the need to watch the rest of the anatomy lesson and whoof. The leg man lol. A lot goin on there. 3/4s view was particularly difficult for me. The follow along is below.
Here are some practices, hands are still hard sometimes, obviously not perfect. But I can feel progress which is good. As you can see I was only focusing on what anatomy classes I had done so now that I’ve watched the lower body I’ll always be incorporating it now. Unless I feel the need to work on specifics like faces, hands, etc. 
Lastly I started a few pieces, finished one abandoned another and currently working on another but I don’t have many more ideas in what to do and I dont know if I wanna add color.
This one I finished.. Got the guidelines of the character and realized I was drawing something similar to a manga cover I like so I decided to reference it when I had trouble, the hand really. Guess I had it stuck in my subconscious though. I took the straight black shading of the hand and tried just using that for the a lot of the piece. More for style since I’ve seen Tite Kubo do the same for some of his art and I like his art a lot. I think I like it, I’m not going to make it an unbreakable habit though. 
This is the one I’m currently working on. It’s got more goin on and I want to add more. Just to add some stuff around his hands. But I dunno if it’ll be too much so I’ll see if it’s worth adding later on. I want to do something with the ellipses behind him too. But I’m not 100 percent sure what. So I’ll have to think. Also going to add ripples around the monster since it’s coming through space and I want some effect around the hole it’s coming through. Also gotta check the clothes folds and make sure they’re correct since I didn’t reference so I’m going to look around for references for that. Also wanna try something more expressive for the next character. This guy is nonchalant and cool so I think his expression is ok but just a note for the next. 
The third one I had a throne room scene where a king got blasted through a wall into his throne room. But I didn’t really know what to do with it anymore even though I liked where it was going. I should probably restart it but I can’t seem to get myself to do anything with it. In fact the previous two pieces were done after I stopped working on the throne room. So it’s been sitting dormant for a while.
Anyways just wanted to do a checkpoint type post again. I saw that many of you were doing pretty good in your art. It’s good to see y’all’s hard work paying off. hoping for everyone’s continued success. Until the next time, take care.
23 days later
Hello all, hope everyone is doing well. Doing a progress post. So shortly after my last post I got in a pretty bad mood about my art and I was getting super frustrated. It’s was too be expected I suppose since I had just started legs and started doing full body studies. Regardless I tried slowing down, not completely stopping but I did cut down the volume of my practices and only did a little bit. I couldn’t completely stop because I did get the into the mood to draw and i don’t really like taking full on breaks because I feel lazy. But once I would start I’d end up getting frustrated so Id stop for the day to not get myself too worked up. This went on for a while like 2-3 weeks I think, I had gotten super busy with work as well during those weeks so that didn’t help. I am back on track now I think. Did some practices the past few days and was chilling through it all. I’ll post the practices from the beginning then kinda in the middle between then and now and then the most recent practices
These are the early ones, there isn’t much because of what was previously said.
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These were some from last week, better and there’s a little more but I was still getting that feeling of frustration. 
These were yesterday and the day before. 5/26 and 5/25. With those 2 sectioned off heads being from the weekend when I just pretty much didn’t draw at all. ( usually don’t draw much on weekends ) 
Not much here but if anyone has any useful tips or advice/ critiques they are welcome even though it’s been about a month since I finished up the anatomy lessons I don’t think I’m much further than where I started. I’ve noticed or at least feel like I’ve slowed down a lot. Spending a lot more time on lessons, I don’t think it’s a bad thing necessarily as long as I’m staying disciplined and working on improving.
Well that’s it, not much I can think of adding at the moment. I hope everyone has been seeing some progress big or small in your work. And if not hopefully the people around you can point it out for you. The pressures of succeeding can be a lot sometimes but try not to get overwhelmed. ( guess this goes for me too )
Take care everyone, till next time.
Yo, hope you're feeling better now, all of these look pretty darn good.
For the most part they have good form and gesture, if there's any feedback I would give, it would be to work on the lineart sketchiness. For the most part sketchiness is fine while... well... sketching, but once you finish the sketch, try doing more confident lines over the sketches to refine the lineart.
Keep it up man, there is definetly improvement there.
Thank you, I think I am lol. But yeah I agree, I’ve always had an issue with sketchiness. I tried to fix it for a while but slowly stopped. I do make an effort when doing bigger pieces and not just practices but it takes a while. Since I’m about to start some practices right now so I’ll do what you suggested and put some line art over the sketchy part of the practices. Build some line confidence.
Thanks a lot for the critique
1 month later
Hello all, watched the Color and Light 1 class and did a few practices this week for it. About to do some more here but remembered I haven’t posted. So here I am. I don’t know how well I did with the color here. I did try to use that adobe CC palette generator but it was messing up on split screening so I opted to use procreates. And I used the split complimentary and it only gives the 3 unlike adobe cc which gives a while palette. I’m going to try to mess around with the stuff again but for now I was just using what I thought would look decent. As well as making sure to use at least the 3 colors that the color picker gave me to the best of my current abilities.
The first I know the anatomy is off and that’s the result of me not really using a reference for anything but the leg direction and by the time I noticed color was down so I decided I was going to leave it. All is pretty much bare bones besides the third and I didn’t try to add too much like light and shading because that wasn’t the point although I did start on her face and couldn’t tell if I was getting it right so I stopped. Pretty sure that shadow from her hair should cover that middle section of her brow as well but eh.
Anyways that’s all. Hope everyone is taking care of themselves. And having success in their studies. All critiques are welcome, thank you for taking the time to read these posts as always. Have a good week
Yo welcome back! For color studies I think these are fine, the only point that stands out is that though the palettes are fine and colors complement each other, there's not much distinction on the side of saturation or hue. Just like line weight draws the eye around the drawing and makes things easier to distinguish, so do values, tones and saturation for color. I personally do find these harder to manage, I don't remember how in depth Marc went over it.
Some of the exercices will ask to copy palettes from other artists, try to keep an eye not only for the color tone, but for some of the other values as well and how they affect your perception of the piece.
Hmmmm, I think I understand. So my range of greys/ saturation should be more diverse? For example in the last practice maybe upping the saturation on the corset piece and the gem as well as her hair? ( although I don’t know if i should have lowered saturation in any places for that practice ). Also if I had something with more presence I’d want to make it higher saturation and make it a bit brighter in order to bring some attention to it? Sorry if it seems like I’m not getting it. (potentially because im not) i had some more thoughts but i forgot them because my head is pounding currently and they’ve kinda been rolling in one after another. I’ll try fixing the variety issue here in this next practice and I’ll try to remember to post soon. Thanks for the help as always @daceronine sorry for all the questions. Hope you have a good day
That's right. You could change the hair or gem and eyes or both to get the attention
If you see your colors in greyscale they are in similar value and look pretty much the same. You want to have a focal point somewhere (usually the face but not always) because viewer doesn't know where to look at. Our eyes tend to go toward more saturated colors so want to use them on that focal point. You can use that one stronger color in other places but not so much so it doesn't take away from the main interest.
Marc probably explains it better
Hope it helps
@patrycja.lerch provided good sources to check out. If I'm honest, even though I mentioned it, I'm also just barely learning it myself, so I think you would better benefit from the videos. Colors are definetly a complicated topic.
That said, saturation and highlights are fairly simple to grasp, simply raise the saturation and brightnes around the are of focus, and reduce it in areas of less focus. Highlights in particular should be handled also like big "letters" calling the attention and driving the eye, almost like lines (though not necessarily lines)
Here's a very quick and rough example using that last piece:
Immediately your eyes should be drawn to the hair where I increased the saturation, I also "darkkened" or lowered saturation gradually to the bottom. The moon is a clear focal point so I added further effect so it stands out even more. Finally I added some "moon glow" around as highlights to kinda drive the eyes from top down and around her (though I rushed it).
There's a whole lot more which I'm still trying to get a grasp on, like warm vs cold colors, what colors mean and what palettes to use and so on, but this should give you an idea.
@patrycja.lerch now that you mention I do think I watched a video not long ago on Marc’s YouTube talking about how the face is a common focal point so I see now. Your explanation was more than enough, I understand. And I’ll check out those videos right after this. Thank you a lot for the help and taking the time to link the videos:)
@daceronine yeah that example helps quite a bit, thank you for doing that. while I was typing my response last night I couldn’t think of what to do with the sky even though I knew it also needed to be tweaked. The gradient effect/blending makes sense since the moons light would impact the visual. (goes for any lighting of course) I tried to stay away from using the lighting and stuff but that was obviously a mistake since those of course (like previously stated) influence all the colors like you demonstrated with the clothes too. Like you said colors are complicated so I still have a lot to learn. But you and @patrycja.lerch both helped me with a hurdle. There’s still the part where I have to put it into practice but understanding is half the problem. So thank y’all very much, I really appreciate the help.
Hope y’all have a good day.
13 days later
Hello been a couple weeks since I last posted. Didn’t do a ton of practice across the last 2 weeks. I did go out of town for a few days and didn’t get the chance to draw on two days I normally would have done some small practices at least. I will say though that these recent practices do seem to take me a lot longer. I don’t have a ton of time after work to draw but I can usually get all that I need to do done. But it just seems like I’m taking a lot longer. Usually starting one night, finishing the next night while trying to start on the next idea for whatever character I plan to draw next. Maybe getting a pose and some ideas of clothes. There was one day this week I didn’t work and I managed to finish the whole practice in a day. But thats the only exception. I’m sure I’ll get faster as I get more comfortable but still just an observation.
Anyways so for the practices I did do. They’ll be below, I think overall I improved a little bit. I did try to keep in mind the advice from last time and I think I did better. I’ll let y’all be the judge though. Before posting I took another look and I Think the range could maybe be better for most of these still. Specifically the 2nd one. Also The backgrounds are obviously unfinished so sorry about that but for some reason I just can’t bring myself to spend the time on them.
The one I think I did the best in was the 4th one seems the most interesting to me. I did have one more practice but I don’t need to share here I don’t think because It was one of those practices where u just can’t get any of it right so I already took my learning experiences from it and will be moving on.
But I think that’s it for now. I can’t think of anything else to bring up and if I did have something, I forgot about it. As always thank you to anyone who spends their time in here. Any and all feedback is welcome and I hope y’all have a great week. Good luck with your studies.
Oh these look great! Good job on foreshortening!
Love this one! I like the concept and colors
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