Not much to report here just some shiny material studies I did some time ago. Not going to lie reflective materials are very fun to color, but oh so difficult. 
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?in24.5k
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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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.in22.4k
5 months later
Your shading is on a whole nother level. What exercises did you undergo to get this good at shading? I would love to know considering that I'll be tackling this subject in the next couple of weeks (I tried out shading but I lack a basic understanding of it). I look forward to learning from your work 
You should post more often, it's inspiring
cheers!
Thank you! Honestly a lot of my knowledge comes from years
of trial and error and just picking things up as I go. Most of the studies I do are simply
observation of how light interacts with objects as well as, watching a lot of
speed paints to see how other artist’s paint light and shadow.
I’d also highly recommend looking at how light travels from
a scientific perspective. I’ve found that looking up videos on the science of
visual light helped give me a better understanding of how light and shadow works
in an actual environment.
For example: Something like metal tends to have light
reflect and bounce off of it as opposed to a softer material like cotton where
the light is absorbed and scattered.
This isn’t a very
well-illustrated example but as you can see when light hits a very hard surface
said surface tends to reflect the colors of it’s surroundings. While the soft
fabric is absorbing the light. In other words, shading a hard reflective
surface is very dependent on the object’s environment and light sources.
Usually when I’m painting, I also like to keep the shape of the object in mind as well as light
tends to bend with the curvature of the object. Light can be used to help
emphasize the 3d aspects of an object.
(This was an old study I did awhile back on old armor, I never quite finished with the details.)
For my most recent materials study I used this
tutorial as a basis which was extremely helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYii8KopsQg&list=PL_hkSLWIKnoM7Rff5Tk1gY3dySLhudHgB&index=11
I also find it’s helpful to plan your light sources during the early phases of the process, it
helps me visualize where everything is going to go before, I get too far into
rendering. I also tend to experiment with different layer types as well since
they can give a cool effect. (Like with the green claws in the earlier study.)
I also to do a lot of black and white sketches/renders to help me focus more in my light and shadows and less on the colors. Looking up a reference for light and shadow is also
very helpful when I’m not sure how to light something. I tend to do a lot of
sketches with one or more light sources to practice.
I apologize of this
was a bit of a long haphazard explanation, I don’t have an exact process as to
how I paint things or plan things. I’m still learning and figuring things out
as I go. 😊 I hope this was helpful but, if not, I
linked a bunch of videos that certainly helped me out with my lighting.
Lighting:
Painting and lighting specific materials:
Thank you so much! The last couple of months we're crazy hectic for me but, I do want to make it a point to post more often for the new year
Wow, thank you for sharing, will definitely be looking into these!
Cheers
So I found an old folder full of drawings I did on my old tablet and I thought it would be fun to redraw one of em. It's really interesting to see how far I've come almost a decade later.
Top picture was done in 2016. Bottom one was 2023.
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