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  • Day 4: Star Wars May The 4th =] Queen Padmé Amidala in my art style! First time drawing her and I really enjoyed making this one! Used watercolours, ink pen, acrylic markers and gold paint for accents on my Canson mix media sketchbook. I hope you like it!
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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?
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  • 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 you
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  • 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 drawing
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  • 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!
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May '21

You're making a lot of progress! I can definitely see a lot of improvement.
I think one of the main issues is that you're trying to go too fast. Try to slow down in the beginning and analyze what you're doing. You're talking about working on the mouth but you still have questions about the basic head structure and nose.

Aside from that, here are a couple of points for the proportions:

1. It's great to see that you've started drawing the cross, your circles look a lot better. But be careful because you're mistaking it for the eye line. Once you draw it out, erase it and then start drawing the lines for the head.
2. Remember the line in the center of the head indicates the middle. This includes the middle of the chin. It took me a while to realize this when I was learning...
3. Follow your guidelines. The nose should be within the lines.
4. Remember the side of the face is flat, so the edge of the circle should be cut.

Your noses aren't that bad, it's the construction underneath. I took the same nose you drew and placed it in the correct proportions.

It might help to draw over a few pictures of heads like you did with the body earlier.

Hope this helps!

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Thank you! it helps a lot!! I didn't erase the cross because I was too lazy lol, I will start doing it from now on I just hate erasing stuff it takes too long in my opinion that's why I was trying to minimize erasing but I will do it from now on! And yes I agree I'm trying to go fast :sweat_smile: that because I want to get good asap but I will slow down. Also, is there an exercise I can do to practice drawing accurate circles without the cross or square?

May '21

The best way to get better quickly is to fully understand what you're doing while you're learning. If you do all this practice now, but it's full of mistakes, you'll be wasting your time because sooner or later you'll have to come back and re-learn everything correctly.

Practicing different elements correctly one by one in a large volume like you've been doing will benefit more than rushing through topics without taking the time to understand how to do everything. Hopefully that makes sense :laughing:

For circles, I think it's best to practice with a guide until most of the circles you do are close to perfect. Then practice drawing without the guide until most of them look perfect. While doing this, go back and correct them. You could also do

When drawing the heads, don't draw the guidelines until the circles are close to perfect. I'm sure you can tell when a circle doesn't look right, so just erase and correct the mistakes until it does looks right.

May '21

The first 4 heads i tried in more complex angles with reference but then I saw the the tips to improve heads so I started to draw the easier heads instead

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LesleyCarol

Thank you so much! I will definitely slow down from now on until I understand the thing I'm doing :smile:
I will try to focus on the circles on the warm-ups exercises tomorrow :smile:
I will still try to post 10 more head before sleep.

May '21

I don't know exactly whatyour head drawing practise looks like, but I do agree with Lesley, that slowing things down, will most likely help you a lot.
I have the feeling that you are trying to do everything at once (basic form of the head, facial features, etc.).
It might help to break down this big skill of constructing a human head, down into smaller managable tasks, so you can focus on one thing at a time and do it well.
For instance, what does drawing the basic form of the head entail?
- being able to draw a circle (great, focus on that and only that until you consider it good enough to move on)
- determining a side plane for this sphere
- drawing the center line of the sphere
- attaching the jaw
- drawing in the nose, hair and eyebrow line
- getting the proportions of the head right

See there is a lot of stuff you could practise :grin:

I can only speak from my own experience and I do not practise nowhere near as long as you do, but I focused on these skills mentioned above drawing 2 heads max within 60-90 mins every day, continually comparing it with a reference image and even measuring out the proportions. Its the reflecting, the thinking about what you've done and the comparing with reference that makes you LEARN things you're practising.
Volume is important, but making the same mistake over and over again, because you dont think about what youre doing is a waste of your time... :sweat_smile:
Work hard, but more importantly work smart, mate!
You've got what it takes! :clap:

May '21

Thanks a lot for that! I will definitely work slower, how I work the head is I start with the proportions of the head (the circle for the head, the middle of the circle, the side plane, and then I draw the chin), and then I do the anatomy stuff usually start with ear because that's easier for me and then go for nose since that's what I'm practicing now. I try to go for at least 2 papers worth of drawings so its like 40 heads (10 on each side) I work that much because o have a lot of free time now but on June 1 I'm starting a summer job to buy the whole art school (because right now I only bought 2 terms) and a drawing tablet, so I will probably wont draw as much but I will still try to draw every day :smile:

May '21

I did some warm up and i decided to focus on individual things :smile:

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here I focused on circles tried to follow the line of the cross and then I fixed the errors with a pen