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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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  • 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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  • @patrycja.lerch Thank you I created another variant, which might capture the witch look I was going for better
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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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  • Long Crested Eagle studyI had so much fun making this one and honestly I love that Eagle! It looks so cool! Used for this one high quality watercolours, high quality watercolour sketchbook/ cold press and it was 300 grams paper.I hope you like it!
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Oct '16
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Not sure if this is the right place or forum to ask...but...

I know it's basic, but super important. And my entire like (32 years), I never been able to draw a perfect circle that didn't end up shaky or curvy. Everyone I ask on how to do these, just say 'practice' yet I see 6 year olds can do these things, when after 32 years, I still can not. I can't help but wonder if there is a certain trick to it that people are just forgetting to tell me because they assume it's something I'd just naturally know how to do.

I'm using a Wacom Drawing Pad, and Manga Studio 5, so I constantly draw and undo circles for hours and hours without getting a single perfect one. I can't even begin to learn how to draw if I can't even get one of the most important parts of drawing down.

Also should note, I'm right handed.

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Your question is awesome bro!, this struggled me many times, and as now I'm happy with the circles I can draw they are still far from being a perfect one.

In my experience, there is no right answer, because there can be many reasons why the circle just don't appear, but the important thing is that simply is there no meant to be. Is not the faq that you can or cannot draw the circle, but releasing yourself from the struggle of it, This itself can be aplyied to the main proceess of Art. Creating a beautiful composition will not happen just with three quick lines, It's a pacient process where (As you draw) you must think before actually make another line. Don't move the pencil if you don't have at least an idea of where you want it next, and when you move it, it is tracing the path you want? if not, stop it! correct the angle and keep going but always without erasing what you did before, because that can be corrected in the future. That's something I have learned from the old masters. We want perfection, there's nothing wrong in that, but in order to archive it you must see perfection also in the most weirder figures, because world itself is weirder.

You already have the practice! now you have to add a little of consciousness into the equation and voila! you will have a perfect cicle! to resume, my best advices will be: Draw slow but with flow, don't finish the line if it is not going where you desire (Stop, visualize the circle and fix the angle of the line, and then continue the same line where you was, always without releasing the pen, we don't wan't to broke the line).

One last thing that actually happened to me. I realize time ago that my hand was to "Heavy", is not something people talk about because actually most people is "Light handed", so is hard to notice. Was kinda hard to maintain my hand pulse right because of this, so I actually have to kinda rise my elbow. Is uncomfortable at first, but it will come handy with practice, this way to draw helped me with my lines!.

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These are my clircles, they are far from Perfect circle made with a tool, but I'm okay with that because they have more rytm and flow than a "Perfect one", wich, at the end, is what makes my work recognizable. So they are more useful for imprinting energy in the composition!

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Oct '16

@shark There are some great tutorials over at Drawabox.com that might help. Are you ok with drawing boxes? If so you could always try that cheat and draw a square and then draw your circle within. If that is difficult you could divide your circle in 4 parts and then you just have to draw one part of the circle at a time. (This was such a great tip I picked up for drawing circles in perspective.)
I know your question is more about drawing circles freehand (I'm assuming) but why not use the circle tool in Manga Studio if you need a perfect circle? Personally that's what I do- I sketch everything out and then use the tools to give me perfect (?) circles and lines....
Good luck! :smile:

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I think everyone has said all the possible options

Practise, tools and tricks in understanding circles but what I myself thought as an eye opener is: 1.purpose and 2.how you use your arm while drawing.

First of all, what is the purpose of drawing your perfect circle? Does it really have to be a perfect circle or will any circle do just fine? @luurquiola has a great explanation and example about this.

One other thing Luurquiola mentioned was his 'heavy' drawing. I'm not exactly sure what it means but how you use your arm is quite important. When drawing circles make sure your wrist and elbow do not touch the paper. This forces you to draw from your shoulder. With your pinky (and maybe ring finger) on the paper as a reference. You will have more muscle control that way.

Doesn't mean you can't use your wrist or elbow at all, try for yourself what work best. Curved lines, details will most likely come from the elbow/wrist. Some say it has to do with workspace, but from personal experience, I never found that being the reason.