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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?
  • 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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  • Long time no see! New artworks produced lately
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Hiya, my name's Adriana. I'm a 26yo graduate student getting my PhD in neuroscience - but in my free time, I'm passionate about art. Between 2013 - 2019, I got into digital art and tried to take it up seriously, but in the latter years I couldn't find the time TT_TT Somehow though, I have more time and drive now despite having a full time job haha

My goals are to:
1. Re-learn how to enjoy making art for myself instead of seeing it as a chore/something that has to be done in a specific way.
2. Improve my illustration technical skills up to a point where I can do professional commissions for splash-art type art for YouTubers/Twitch streamers, or emotes, or icons, or to do freelance fantasy concept art of characters and landscapes.
3. This one's part of #2, but specifically I want to improve my painting speed and brushstroke economy.
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I skimmed through the Week 1 assignments because I already know my way around the digital medium very well, but I found the lessons and worksheets helpful nonetheless!

Week 2: Nude Figure Drawing

I'm doing these on pen and paper because I gave my drawing tablet away :cry: But I like being forced to be mindful of my pen strokes, it helps make them more intentional.

30s, 1min, 5min, and 10min gesture drawings:

Hello Adriana and Welcome to the forums. looks like a good start to me I really like how your last one turned out in particular.

Welcome to the forums Adriana! Going off of your gesture drawings and your art background, I can see you already have some experience under your belt! Let's improve a lot together here!

Welcome to the forums Adriana! PhD in neuroscience! wow that's impressive!! Bests of luck in this art journey!

Welcome those gestures already show a lot of skill cant wait to see more

Hi everyone, thanks for the warm welcome!!

This week it's just been a couple more gesture drawing sessions. I feel I'm starting to get an idea on how to capture the energy/overall gesture, but I still have a lot to learn and practice (especially in terms of drawing speed because I'm slow af)


Here I switched to Clip Studio Paint on my phone (lol) so the resolution might be whack (I have to blow it up to like 5k x 5k so I can zoom in and draw big). I'm also going to backtrack on what I said about skipping the week 1 pen exercises because I felt weird drawing on the slippery smooth screen and was using my wrist a lot.

My friend and I did a gesture/figure study of a character we liked, and I did Kratos cuz he has muscles on his muscles and it's fun to draw. It's hilarious though how I got less done in the 10min compared to the 5min :joy:

I tried to focus more on proportions and the weight of the pose instead of details. Although based on the overlay I still need to work on that lol pretty sure I also got the direction of the line of action wrong! This made me realize how helpful these overlays are, so I'll be doing more of those for my figure drawings.

Advice, suggestions, tips, observations, and critiques all welcome!! :space_invader:

I also realized I didn't include any goals on my first post, so I edited it to include some!

Yo good work! I think speed comes naturally with practice and time, though as you learn more, you end up correspondingly adding more technical stuff to your work, so time increases, but then also decreases as you grow comfortable with the pipeline. I guess my point is it will go up and down in time during your art journey, try to focus more on the result than on time (well except when time is a factor of course), and time will eventually naturally go down as well.

I'd say those are very achievable goals, bests of luck!