Snakker's sketchbook - My Art Journey

[gregorya]

Yeah, but it costs like 900 bucks and won't cover updates beyond a certain point,

It won't cover the updates? That doesn't sound good.
That's a nice sculpt. For the first image, Is the ear backward?
I like the sketch. I think the shaded leg should be a little lower.

[snakker]

@mitsuki-youko @Kaz_0 @gregorya Thanks for the kind remarks!
Yes, first view is from the side/behind left ear.

As for perpetual license "This will include the new ZBrush 2023.0 features, including the Redshift Bridge. To use the Redshift Bridge, you must subscribe to Redshift separately.
Perpetual licenses (including upgrades from earlier versions) are only sold for the initial ZBrush 2023 release. They do not include feature updates that came after that, such as 2023.1 and 2023.2."

[chomper2010]

Nice portrait study, I really appreciate how you go about forming the planes of your faces. Just looks really nice, and the way you draw the eyes always impresses me. Really cool to see you exploring 3D, seems like you are already getting the hang of that, excited to what else you experiment with! Keep it up!

[queeniemp]

I haven't seen your work in a while and damn you improved so much! I like the 3D practices too

[snakker]

Hey thanks! @chomper2010 @queeniemp

Tried painting this one with the least amount of strokes as possible as an exercise, lots of problems, but it was fun, will try another, also, I used a lot of strokes XD

cheers

[Sthingz]

I haven't stopped by recently, so I have missed so much of your work. You did a really fine job with your paintings. I love how much detail you give to the eyes. The only thing I will point out is the placement of the mouth in your second painting, the one from Vogue. If you pay close attention, the mouth should extend further right. If you drew a perfectly straight, vertical line down from the edge of the orbital bone, that's where the right corner of the mouth should land but it comes short; hence, the mouth looks off. Apart from that, everything else looks fine. I am sorry I can't provide much more feedback since you are more advanced than me in the subject of shading; if anything, I am the one learning here. On another note, your 3d renders are impressive and so are your sketches.

[mitsuki-youko]

ooh yea this looks great for the least amount of brushstrokes!

[daceronine]

These look great! Both the doctor painting and the 3D exercices! The ear insides seems really detailed!

[gregorya]

I like the challenge of painting a picture with only a few brush strokes. The lighting looks great.

[Pattu_w]

That's such a good base for a full render, this exercice looks challenging as hell, good stuff!

[snakker]

@Sthingz @mitsuki-youko @daceronine @gregorya @Pattu_w Yo thanks for all the kind remarks! I always get so much motivation here

@Sthingz Thanks for pointing that out! I thought I got everything on the second iteration but totally missed that!

Yeah, this exercise is pretty nice, was motivated to do this for a while, but never got to it. First time I saw something like that was a youtube video a few months ago but it was done in traditional, something like looking at a still life of a fruit and trying to paint it with a limited number of brush strokes

haven't done more yet, just a figure sketch practice. Gonna do more though, it's pretty fun and I feel it's a great exercise to focus on simplifying and deciding what's most important to portray

cheers!

[snakker]

I have to admit, I really enjoyed the brushes in krita last time so I'm doing another portrait study with those brushes. so far so good, done with the sketch

cheers

[mitsuki-youko]

noice! this looks great!

[snakker]

Thanks! @mitsuki-youko I had a lot of fun doing this one, intentionally left it a bit messy and with some of the linework on top with low opacity, I played around with saturation on the color choices of this palette going a bit intense on some of the colors and then kinda toning it down each time as I shaded it

cheers!

[daceronine]

Nice as usual man. Though there is little contrast between the hat and the hair, at first glance I thought she had really round hair. Not sure what the correction would be though, maybe some higher color contrast for the hat?

[snakker]

Yeah, I kind of noticed that actually, might be making the hat color a bit different also the texture, maybe a slightly less saturated and homogeneous color, also increasing the size of the hat and leaving some more ambient occlusion between hair and hat, I’ll have to play around with it once I get a chance

Thanks!

[alejorey.1995]

I like how you intentionally play with the color saturation and finish creating your own palette with complementary color harmony

[gregorya]

I like the colors of the portrait. Did you add lighter colors for the strands of the hair? I like it.

[snakker]

@alejorey.1995 thank you!
@gregorya thank you! yes, I started with a bigger darker shape and suggested the hair with lighter colors and thinner brush strokes following the general flow of the strands

Been away for a congress these days will be back to it now

cheers!

[rhian]

This is gorgeous! Love that you kept it loose and expressive