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
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
studies studies juri study imagination, how I feel before a speech imagination imagination study something I drew for my presentation also drew this for my presentation, didn't fix the one hand being bigger than the other imagination + study study studies study study, I need to fix the face a bit based on screenshot from anime but in my style study. except for the eye study studies studies study. changed some things tho imagination imagination imagination study studies, except top right samurai based on anime screenshot wolverine studies, changed some of the poses a lil, not very good at all, but first time i drew the character ever. semi study studies study imagination imagination imagination , for first time ever i tried to draw over 3d model for middle pose, I dont like the result tbh, but it makes it much easier than coming up with it from memory.imagination, except right figurestudies imagination + studies, coming up with action poses r hard, these are not dynamic enough, I will redraw better ones in future. imagination , imagination imagination study, except for eye imagination imagination imagination doodles except for the two chrollos imagination storyboard thumbnail, idk if i ever shared this. my storyboards end up being a little detailed since i usually just draw in one layer.in22.0k
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!in789
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!in47.7k
Well even though you were using a reference this is still cool. The colors you picked are great as well. Now I can only guess what your process was but one thing I notice is that it doesn't seem as if you changed your brush size much during the painting process. Guessing you painted right over a sketch as well. Correct me if I'm wrong. I would say finish the line art first. Have a kick ass drawing before moving onto painting. You really want to capture everything you can before moving on. Another thing I would say is that you don't need to use custom brushes at this stage. Photoshop defaults will do just fine. Since your starting I can recommend a lot of different videos to get you started.
Marc Brunet Getting started video is good. you have to pay but worth it in my opinion.
CRTLpaint is another great place to look at when getting started.
There's a lot others as well...
If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask.
This is a good start. keep up the good work.
Hello Malcom 
, Thanks!
So, yes I only changed the brush size some times, thanks for the advice. Yes , I painted over a sketch , okay I would do that : D !
About custom brushes , actually I don't use them , that is my first time. ( also for paint over a sketch )
Normally I only use hard and soft brush , but I wanted to use only one brush and see the result. Since my drawing is bad I always start without lines , but I think that avoid that its not the right thing to do.
For the process :
My usual process : Silhouette with grey > Softbrush ( for darks ) > Softbrush ( for lights ) > Hardbrush until finish
Them come like this :
( Feel free to critique this as well ) ^
For this Videl process : Sketch > Refined sketch ( no so much ) > Sketch in multiply >Fill with grey > Flat colors with a solid brush > Texture brush until end.
I have some questions :
1 - Do you have any tip to using lines in photoshop ?
2 - Do you think that my process is ok? or do you recommend to change something ? ( both )
3 - I always use reference , do you think that is good to do some studys without them ?
4 - Its okay to use only one brush ?
Thanks for the critique! I really appreciate.
About the links : I alredy bought some Marcs tutorial and I will buy this : D for sure
CRTLpaint : I already use this site and helped me alot : D
Thank you!
The portrait is awesome.
The answer questions in order
1. For line arts, you can use a brush with hardness at 100% or you can use the softbrush
Example here of an old drawing I did only using the softbrush only
2. As far as process goes, keep playing with more. Different ones have there benefits and work in different situations. I recommend finishing the drawing step only so you see the whole picture before painting. Takes time but it can be worth it. If anything, keep exploring. Your way isn't wrong. Just keep gaining experiences to make other ways less stressful 
3. Well if your not using reference your just practicing your imagination which isn't a bad thing. You'll figure out pretty quickly what your still not good at and whats not defined in your visual library yet. So I totally recommend doing things from imagination from time to time. A good way I found that can help you improve fast is to try and attack the piece first without reference and when you have a question to a problem or your unsure about something then use reference. Or you can still use reference from the beginning all the way to the end. There's so many ways to study and learn but it's up to you.
4. Yes, it is totally fine to use just one brush. A lot can be done with just the soft brush. For hard edges, just make the brush size smaller. If that's to hard you can always use lasso tool.
This character I did was done only using one brush Aris I just used the softround brush the entire time.
Hope this helps. Your on the right track. Look forward to more work in the future.
Thank you! I will put all the tips in a paper.
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