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?in24.2k
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!in792
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!in47.9k
This one was a study that makes me think I need to fix some resolution settings or something, as the edges of the blue and red parts were a lot cleaner on the psd. file and even on the jpg when looking at it afterward.
I was trying to just do 4-5 colors on each, and then mess with the opacity of the layers when needed, trying to just do a quick study, not hone in on the details, and move on.
This was mainly an experiment in layering and clipping masks as far as the technical aspect. I tried to use that to get the nice clean borders, but you can probably see with the blue/red border, that didn't go as well, because rather than clipping everything to the foundation of the blue layer, I wanted to clip a few things to the planet shape, and so couldn't clip that edge of the planet to the little triangle area I had made. Any advice for that and getting clean-cut diagonal lines?
My other main questions regarding this would be about how the upper and lower edges of the red/blue seem to fade into a different black, but it didn't appear that way when I was working with it.
Also, for the effect with all the little embers in the red part of the piece, is there a way to do that more efficiently rather than just making a bunch of little dots/swipes all over the canvas?
Would also love any general feedback.
This is my pen control assignment for today.
For straight lines, I found that if I turn the canvas/screen so that I'm drawing horizontal lines, they come out straight much more often. Is that a handicap? Or should I lean into that?
Circles are nowhere near what I would like, but I found having the canvas flat and sideways instead of tilted for those worked a lot better.
For the bottom part...any recommendations for a brush that recognizes pressure for flow but not opacity? Couldn't find any brushes that did just one but not the other.
Hey there, can’t even give you a proper like as apparently I’ve exceeded my daily limit 🙃
Anyhow that’s a really cool study. I think the changed results could be from jpeg artifacts, either save as higher quality or save as png and see if that’s what caused the issue. For diagonals, if using a brush, you can use the same brush, change to another color or background color and paint out the part you want to wliminate. Otherwise, a super easy way is using lasso tool and clicking on points to make shapes then filling in them. For speckles you can make or search for a “speckle brush” if you need some speed
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I was going to point out that you can create your own speckle brush from an image of a few speckles, but snakker already pointed that out (I need to read better).
Day 3 of pen control practice. I'm feeling better on the lines, but the circles are still crap.
Question regarding that: Do you usually try and keep the rest of your hand from touching the screen when drawing digitally, or do you let it sit there and sort of anchor you?
Another landscape study. I tried to do this one with only the one color, plus black and white. I can definitely see some Jpeg artifacts coming through that I guess I missed.
I don't like this one as much as my previous ones, but I completed it, and I'm moving on.
And wait...is .png usually better quality than jpg for exporting? I thought it was the other way around (I exported this one on the highest quality jpg)
Hey there, PNG is definitely better quality (lossless flat) whereas JPEG is lossy (compression artefacts)
I love that otherworldly landscape! I think using different shades of white to grey would help convey more depth to the globes in the background, nice job!
As for anchoring, I do in fact place my hand on the surface and let it slide on my hypothenar eminence wearing a drawing glove and when on the go, well no glove 
When I go for fine details I anchor onto the surface or the edge and hold the stylus closer to the tip (closer to the action means more control) and when drawing expressive broad strokes I change my grip - haven't completely decided on holding in classic draughtsman grip as I don't see much point to it in digital honestly but I grip much looser and sometimes from farther back the body of the stylus depending on the kind of stroke I'm going for. Basically experimenting. As for the origin of the strokes, I do make it a point to prop up my surface and use my shoulder as much as possible for art, wrist and elbow only when rendering and detailing
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Thank you so much!
I actually had my "training" via Mission Rennaissance where you start out with a big pencil and a nice huge pad of paper, holding your pencil so that you can't really do much wrist movement with it and it's all in the shoulder. I still try to take the spirit of those techniques when applicable, but yeah I agree--doesn't really work with digital art as often.
Just realized when doing my pen control for today that I forgot to do the dividing lines yesterday. So I did it twice today.
I'm definitely noticing that when I go for stronger strokes I get straighter lines, and that with circles, when just going for a circular chape in the general size of the outline rather than trying to follow the line exactly, I usually get better line and shape quality.
I think I'm seeing some slight improvement, so I'm definitely encouraged!
I started the image manipulation, but can't remember how to just select and manipulate the different parts of a single layer on their own, so I'm rewatching the tutorial to try and get a handle on that. Might need to bleed that into the weekend though.
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Nice keep at it. I do note some overshoot with your line practice, just something to look out for if you are aiming to improve accuracy
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Thank you!
I'm definitely aware of the overshoot. I've noticed at this point if I don't overshoot, I tend to swerve when trying to stop and don't make a straight line, so that's something that is definitely going to be a more gradual process.
