For sure! Join in! If we were super skilled we wouldn't be here in the Art School. 
The idea of the challenge was to learn to draw translucent skin on characters and help each other. We just came up with it during a live stream chat.
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?in24.1k
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!in786
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!in47.6k
So this is my rough idea for the challenge! 
And as you can notice my anatomy other than the torso part is still ehh.. >.< But yeah this challenge reminds of creatures from Marianas trench so yeah. Heavily inspired from an angler fish and other translucent creatures from the trench.
That's a great start Ivan! Will you be competing with Indra here for the creepiest sea creature? 
2 suggestions: her midsection looks extra long and I think you forgot the trap muscle where it connects the neck to the shoulder (which makes her neck look too long); also, maybe curve the tail a little more upward, so it's not pointing the viewer to look off canvas?
Love the creepy eyes and the hairstyle!
Not sure about competing but I'm a fan of creepy stuff so I'll definitely try. ^-^ Thank you for pointing out some mistakes, really appreciate it! Though that's not really the final concept since I kind of wanted to have her in a much more dynamic pose(for learning purposes).
Hello it's me again! ^=^ I just finished my rough draft the actual piece that I'm gonna work on for the challenge. I'm currently having a hard time working on the anatomy of top of the shoulders and her breast >.<. I would really appreciate it if anyone can help me adjust it incase I did something wrong.
"What's beneath"
My art creates nightmares or heartbreaks......that's goooood! Muhahaha. XD
@WeirdOwl Illustration FTW! Wohooo!
Yes. The pose is hard indeed. Gonna check some more reference to get it as correct as possible.
But rollercoasters are nice, aren't they? 
Okay! Thank you. His left arm or the arm on the left side?
I definitely have to study some tentacles.
Really cool start! I love that you used the angler fish as a reference.
Will you use the design you showed on her arm and throat everywhere or only on some body parts? Thinking of the "Rule of Thirds" the design might be overcrowded if you apply it everywhere.
@ivancatamora15 those are super cool!! The first one inspired me so much, great reference 
The second one, damn what a difficult pose hahah I never do this kind of stuff I think that the head should cover more the neck probably and keep attencion to the scapula and clavicle overall shape, I allowed myself to do this, hope that could help you 
Waiting to see your progress with this character!!! and learn about his background story more
Hello! Thank for for this awesome feed back!
I'm having a hard time looking for actual reference for some of the stuff which often ended up just hard guessing it. >.< This helps a lot! Thank you again
Not really sure what the "Rule of thirds" is since since I'm still in term 3, or maybe I miss it? o-0 But I'm planning to have different stuff for her chest, lower abdomen area, and face.
I think I will deviate from the deep sea theme here and go with the crystals 
Rough sketch for positions and overall composition of my crystal weredragon (don't make him angry)
I have to admit, that I'm somewhat stealing from another artist. This art has been my inspiration for many years and I always wanted to do my own spin on the idea. Let me know your thoughts/ideas/critiques.
I think we're doing good progress guys!
Hello guys! Here's my progress so far on the challenge. As you can see I take lil bit of a twist regarding her "Tail" in which instead of it just glows, it now also take shape depending on her prey. I also tried fixing the said problem earlier so I would love to get some feedback regarding the anatomy on her shoulders.
"Greed make mans blind and foolish, and make him easy prey for death."
Not sure whether this will help or not but personally I think breaking symmetry by adding some crystals throughout his body will sort of balance the piece, especially together with the crystal dragon. o-o This could probably help you point the eye of the viewer to the character first before the dragon.
For sure there will be some on the guy, I just haven't decided in which places yet 
As for your girl, I think I liked her first version of the face better. Sorry
No need to be sorry at all! I just figured that her having human face under deep waters don't quite fit well so I decided to step away from it. ^=^
Added some basic colour and shadows! 
Oh hello there. 
Oh wait...Marc said that I shouldn't flirt with others characters! 
Crystal theme! Love it. Can't wait what you'll do with these guys. Will the dragon be translucent, too?
I have to work kinda the whole day today. But I'm gonna do some studies in the evening and try to work on my challenge a bit, too. And I still need to prepare something for the LiveStream as well.
First off it looks really awesome and I love the idea that she can shape her tail into differents forms.
I think the deltoids of her tail (wow, that sounds weird XD) are a bit too flat and the different sections of the abs are kinda the same size in your image, whereas in reality they differ in size.
The deltoids on the main character look okay to me. Maybe the trapezius would reach up a bit higher towards her head.
Hope it helps and makes sense. ^^
Ahahaha! @IndrawnArt the goal is to make him very flirt-worthy. Too many pretty girls in the stream already And yes, the dragon should be full translucent, the guy—only partially where transformation starts.
Looking forward to see where you go with your sea creature.
