Welcome to the forums! I look forward to seeing your work!
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
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Okay, bit late, but finished the Image Adjustment Assignment, although did struggle with part 2, still re-treading old ground, but can safely say this is much better than my first attempt earlier in the year, so that's nice 
although struggled with part 2, think the colour image lost of its saturation in the final result. Hoping to complete and upload the next assignment Friday! 
The last image adjustment looks just about spot on, that's one a lot of people have trouble with and you did it really well!
Thanks, I have seen that people have struggled with the last one too, in fairness its not easy, I can still see the saturation in the umbrella is off showing the paint strokes, I think the trick is adjusting the colours individual through the various tools instead of trying to change the overall balance of the painting, it requires a lot more fine tuning, but overall was a fun challenge
Agreed, that last one is a bit of a pain, nice job
Combining Images assignment.
So not quite my dream house or castle, but I like industrial zones for some reason.
All reference photos from Textures.com
Very cool, I also really like industrial aesthetics.
Part 2 of the Combining Images assignment, not so pleased with this one, was hoping maybe I could get some feedback, I am getting this dark/cut outlines where I use the lasso tool, not sure if its something to do with the feather amount on the tool itself.
Hey there, yeah it could be from the feathering. You can consider also cutting, placing apples behind others and apply a bit of shading (ambient occlusion) with the burn tool to make it look more realistic
Second attempt, marginally better, went with using masks more this time around too. Could easily get more fixated on this but want to move ahead quicker so I can get to figure drawing before the end of the month lol
And I just realised the issue with the lines would have been from the original cutting the apples from the black background with the selection ever so slightly feathered leaving that outline!
Yeah, I wouldn’t sweat it too much. It’s definitely a useful tool to have for digital art, but at this point I think the most important thing is to know more or less how the tools work, not necessarily make perfect photomanips, unless that’s also a goal for you of course
More of a compulsion than a goal lol, truth be told I really just want to get to the figure drawing, but promised myself I'd do the introduction to photoshop assignments properly as I skipped them last time.
11 days later
Hello! Been a bit of while, I am still here, but I'm having to take on some extra responsibilities at my day job at them moment, which frustratingly has been cutting into my free time, but its only for another month or two at most. But I'm back here now! and I've finished the last two exercises in the Photoshop for Digital Production at last! See below
I haven't used photoshop for photo editing outside of photobashing for a project a few years back so I was quite rusty but am looking forward to the next project, which I believe is Visual Communication?
Very nice photo manipulation, and hope you get some more freetime soon!.
The visual communication doesn't have that much in terms of physically doing stuff, It's more or less just teaching you how the eye works, I don't fully remember, it's been like a month since last I watched it.
The main task you're given is to properly observe any objects in real life for like 5 minutes, and fully take it's information in, what color is it, which shape is it, or what simple shapes could you use to make that object, how does light move around that object, even look at it in different perspectives and such.
Good Luck onwards!.
26 days later
Hello! Just wanted to say I'm still here!
Work finally seems to have settled down, I also had a nice Christmas break and am looking forward to getting stuck into the New Year, although at time of writing that might seem a little late. But I took the time over the holiday to push myself back into my personal art and managed to start two paintings, where I have tried to apply what I have been learning on the course and outside of it Anyway next update should be some exercises from the Figure Drawing assignment, hooray I finally caught up to where I left off on my first attempt!
Have included the two paintings in the work in progress states for fun and in lieu of actual course work lol
these are sweet!
Heya!
Thanks man! Happy to see you're still around too! I did actually when I started the course really consider if I should show my personal work or not, but I was pretty proud of just the fact that I managed to start something, I've had a lot of problems with creating anything for fun for sadly quite a long time now, so I was just happy I managed to do something, might be a bit TMI lol But again thanks!
1 month later
Okay, wow that didn't go according to plan, I'm still here and updating with line of action practices, I actually had gotten quite far in this assignment, but havn't been updating, but I also got stuck with a perceived lack of progress, it wasn't until last night I saw on the discord that the general advice was not to try and get this perfect, so just going to upload as it is and push forwards!
Although, do you think my lines of actions could stand to be a bit more expressive? I think I'm following the spine too closely
Some more Lines of Action, I'm presently counting down the minutes till I need to start getting ready for work, time is presently just gone, 3am. Am getting quite into it, adding extra lines, definitely had more fun with those dynamic poses right at the end!
Some bonus cylinder
volumes practice, some odds and ends included from yesterday morning!
