• Gave myself 5 days to do something. This is what I managed to do. I'm trying to get better at illustrations, but I have patience to work on something for 3 days maximum :( Splash_Process.jpg5000x3140 2.21 MB Splash_Process-6.jpg3896x2429 2.83 MB concept list char copy.jpg5388x3000 1.7 MB
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  • Here is some more recent stuff, I need to make more body studies
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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?
  • 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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  • Long time no see! New artworks produced lately
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  • And some more! Been painting over them a bit more this time. Some variants I tried for the old guy using mainly the liquify tool. Someohow looking a bit like Owen Wilson (not intended :D)
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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!
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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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  • Havent done much this year since I am focusing on learning programming and deving my own Indie Game . But here 's a New Year Piece 2024 , she 's the mascot for my Game Studio - Lucid Realm : Lucid Chan ! LucidChan_v001_sketches.jpg3072x4352 973 KB
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Hello, I'm Sam. I just turned 30 last month. and have been drawing for quite a bit chunk of that time, even though I don't really have that much of a formal education.
I have been an art teacher at private studios teaching children for over eight years now so I do have some basic fundamentals, but I'm at that point where I can only go so far without constructive critique and better fundamentals so I jumped on this deal when I saw it.

My posts will generally be long-winded as I will put in all my thought processes and revelations along with my assignments to help me digest the assignments.
Hope to make some friends here.

I don't own photoshop, but I have Clip Studio Paint that was gifted to me by a close friend some years ago, so that is what I'll be using.

  1. I have practiced drawing straight lines and ellipses with pencil and paper but somehow never thought to do it with my computer. The first thing I noticed was that I have a lot less control and accuracy with the stylus.
    My tablet is an intuos 3 and the nib of my stylus is a little wobbly so I have to exert pressure to draw.
    Another reason was due to the fact that I was looking at the screen and drawing on another surface. I also try to lock my wrist and pull the stylus with my elbow and shoulder like with traditional drawing, but that just kinda made the wobbling worse.
    My hand also stuck to the tablet surface when I exerted pressure and tried to pull unlike with paper. This took many, many undos before I actually had lines that I was semi-satisfied with.

  2. For this one I decided to rotate the canvas and draw from left to right instead, and the tilt of the stylus in this angle allowed me to be a lot more stable with my lines. I still had to press pretty hard for it to work though, therefore the little wisps at the end that's just too much work to erase.
    I had to make sure I was sitting in a good posture and use my elbow to ensure that my lines are straight. Usually my lines are better from top to bottom traditionally, but it seems like it's the opposite digitally.

  3. It was generally smooth-sailing for this section. I only really had to go 3-4 tries per circle to kinda mostly get it. Again, this assignment is much easier on paper and I noticed that the right side of my circles are more wobbly as I really had to draw with my wrist to maintain accuracy instead of using my elbow and shoulder.

  4. I used the flat marker from CSP to do these lines as they were the closest brush I found. These were not very difficult, but it still took a few tries to make the transition of the gradient to be as smooth as I liked. In hindsight, they can be much darker towards the end.

I have to admit that I totally cheated with the first one. I used a colour picker to see how close I am with the colours and tried to match it. Most took more than one try but there were one or two that I was lucky with. The last one was the most iffy to get right. I couldn't get the saturation to match as close as I'd like, eh, oh well.

Hey Sam,

Hope youre doing well, I just turned 30 in August and am doing term 1 as well.

The assignments you have done so far look really good!

Keep it up and goodluck with the rest of the assignments

Thanks @chad-25-philander! I noticed there's a few people in their thirties here haha. Good luck with yours too!

Combining Images:
Honestly, this was very tedious without photoshop. I had refused to buy it after they started the subscription model and it was fine since I had a CS5 on my old desktop.

Here's the before and after:

Hiya, Sam! Welcome aboard :smiley:

Assignments look good.
I really like how you brightened up this castle, fits in well.

Welcome aboard!

Totally agree with echoriel, you did a great job blending the colors on the castle to fit the scene. I would say that the alpacas could use work, they stick out like a sticker right now. The focus and pixel density of the alpacas and the background they are on is inconsistent, I think that fixing that would probably make it blend well.

Keep at it!

Yeah, the alpacas bothered me a little and you described it perfectly. If it's not too much trouble, do you have any tips on how to fix it? I don't really understand the part about focus and pixel density.

Ooo boy, these took way longer than it should. I had to manually splice some of the apples together and tried to keep the highlights and shadows of the new apples consistent to the ones in the background. I also did my best to place the new apples in places that would mostly make sense. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah sure thing! Pixel density is just the relative resolution and compression of an image, since we are dealing with digital media this is a really common problem when trying to photo-bash and you will always deal with it.

So when something is sticking out like that, in this case the alpaca are too sharp and in focus compared to their surroundings, try doing small blur passes on your alpaca until it looks better. If you are in photo shop, using a small gaussian blur effect should do the trick. When you start up the gaussian blur window (Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur) you can click on the image right at the border of your alpaca so that its blown up in the window. And then fiddle around with the radius setting until the alpacas are blurred just a little bit less than that tree, and just a little bit more than the rock just in front of the white one. It will take a bit of fiddling and back and forth, but it should clean it right up.

I hope that helps!

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Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me @PeterH ! It was simple and well explained and I learnt a lot from it. I'll keep in mind pixel density from now on when I combine images and now I noticed I could have handled the details a bit better regarding this with the rest of the image. I didn't keep the working file, so I only reworked the alpacas, but already it looks so much better! So thanks again!

It seems like once a week is the most time I can commit to classes without burning out. At the same time I'm also a little concerned that I might be progressing way too slowly compared to the schedule that Marc recommended, eh. I'll still do my best though.

Old to young was much easier to do than young to old. I had to lasso, copy paste and soft erase the edges a lot. I remembered that our noses droop as we age, so I made sure to resize both noses to make them younger/older.

This one was so time consuming to make! I had to frankenstein her together since I don't have liquefy. I'm not too satisfied with the mouth and she looks hella creepy, but I did as best as I could and I think it turned out sooomewhat okay.