- 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?in24.6k
- 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 youin1.5k
- 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 drawingin
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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!in826
- 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!in49.6k
haha I wish i could use myself but in quite a big guy so I really don't have the form to take inspiration from myself I do search pinterest endlessly for reference photos so if i were to use myself as a reference I would have to take away from myself haha
Yup I mean I've taken sculpting class in real life at school so maybe 3d will come back in the future.
More anatomy tweaks fixes and adjustment. IDK how to really draw magic so this is an attempt (also the reason why the canvas is so wide is because I actually drew this on my pose practice doc so if I cropped it down it would cut off all my other work.)
ahh yea I shuda stuck with them. I just couldn't figure out how to make them glow and got frustrated. Yea I'm trying to limit my line art because I'm not the strongest at line art in general and I've always wanted to have my art style closer to Marc's where there is some line work but its mostly a painting. I honestly think line art is way harder than painting you can see every mistake in your line art.
anyway I didn't really want to do much today I had a long day at work so I more just doodled. I'm still have a bit of trouble with the arms but I think I'm slowly getting there give me your tips if you guys have any.



Nice work on your mage girl. I like the lighting around the magic sphere.
I see what you mean by the arms. The girl's arms do look a little longer, the third and fourth picture looks good. the fifth one's arms look a little too small.
The portrait looks pretty good. Your character sees the projectile coming and looks more like he's ready to stop or counter it.
@mitsuki-youko @gregorya Thanks guys yea im kinda surprised how the hands turned out that lesson helped a lot
oh for sure it was my birthday so we had some drink. If only I could apply that without getting intoxicated haha
OK sooooo I really don't like how this one is turning out. I've redone the face multiple times but it always comes out looking wrong it honestly could be because its surrounded by line art scribbles but something about this picture has me scratching my head. maybe its the colors or the composition or just the pose IDK but I think I might just call this one a flop and just stop. If you guys have any suggestions let me know or critique it and tell me how to improve on it or I should just move on haha.
Nothing wrong with that. If you're not feeling it, no need to force it. You can always retry again.
And since you asked, I can usually rant for a bit when it comes to some of this stuff xD.
I guess there are different technical points that could be worked on, some of them minor, some of them bigger.
When it comes to action, exageration and foreshortening help a lot, so exagrating the pose and expresion almost to the point of deformation, could help. You focus on what you are trying to convey, and then try to see how the different elements help convey that goal. For example, from my understanding, he's being attacked and is seconds from disaster, since his expression should show he has no recourse. So perhaps exagerating to pose to show "vulnerability"/"tension" and the expression to show "shock" and "fear".
Talking about foreshortening and action, you usually want to keep the camera close to make the viewer feel like they're in the middle of it, which makes things more exciting. Keeping the scene inlcined also helps.
Also for action, you usually also want the lineart to be part of the expression, usually you can add action lines across the lineart to make the flow more evident. Same goes for coloring. There's also a bit of white around, but I take it the piece is simply incomplete.
All in all, here's a quick example to illustrate the whole foreshortening and action stuff using your piece as a reference.
There's no horizon, so can't really tell if it's standing or inclined, but the gesture is as diagonal as possible. The front is open to seem like he's vulnerable (open vulnerable, closed protected). Then there are the obvious points like the hands foreshortening and exagerated expresion, almost comical. I also put the fireball closer to give it a bit more tension.
Granted, these are just general tips, there are no hard rules, and your work to the eyes of someone who hasn't been looking at it for hours looks pretty good.