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?in24.8k
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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looking cool man carry on
The new Design looks so much cooler ^^
Nice updates.
The one thing that is bugging me and has been for a bit are the hands, did you touch them at all. 
If you did the positioning of them is what is getting to me.
Suspecting you are attempting to mimic owl feet ? If that is the case then i suppose they are fine.
Love the new head updates also just one thing is the expression.
Curious what you want to or are going with for it? To the viewer it seems to be either a death stare or a blank expression atm.
^I feel it would add a lot more character to find something you are comfortable with.
Take my c&c with a grain of salt you can do what you want, obviously.
Decide what you want and what is best for your design.
Nice work and she is coming along, time to start finalizing her i think just so you have a good amount of time to unwrap and texture her, pose her and light the scene you want her in, if you are doing that much with her.
Best of luck.
neat! 
Gradually getting the new model mapped and into marmoset again.
I really like her wings! Maybe colors of your albedo map can be more saturate for a more punchy result.
@guillaume_depaepe I think i can fit a emissive and a transparency map for the wings so i'm going to make it pop with those.
9 days later
Amazing character, I'm really liking it. For the pose, maybe a traditional harpy attack pose? Something like this maybe? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eflDCoJ3bT0/TmZrlQPdv0I/AAAAAAAAAC8/pF2vhcGySh4/s1600/harpy.jpg
@joansantus Thanks, that's what i've been hearing overall for the pose just trying to get her into a more dynamic pose like that without messing up the mesh. Wanted to upload as a fail safe cause anything can happen in the last days.
I'm editing the pose at this point and making the final sheets better for the final submission post. I edited this post with the updated maps marmoset so there's not too many viewers loading at once.
I love this color palate way more. This project really came a long way. Good work!
this came out really great!
@briandolan89 @jeebs Thanks you guys This contest has made me never want to miss another 
. I've learned so much over this process and seeing people working alongside on their own characters is really a creativity boost.
10 days later
Congrats! Very unusual design, but lovely in it's own way
I'm already putting together my next 3D character and teaming up with a concept artist for that one I like making things that are non-traditional, this ones about to be the tamest of my work lol. I'm still probably going to do alot of demi-human mixes because i like being able to work on human anatomy but also non human organic materials.
