- 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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Hey @chiara.arcidiaco,
Welcome to the forum 😀
I hope you have a great time with all the lessons and with Art School. It is definitely super fun and if you keep at it, you'll see progress in no time.
Just as @mau.wamp, your first assignment looks great. Just keep the updates coming 😬👍
Here we are again Today I continued my figure drawing studies and I approached the proportion topic for the first time, so I tried to replicate the image in the video lesson in order to understand how the proportions work (I have to admit that I use the symmetry tool but tomorrow I would not cheat, I swear
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Than I went back to the basic structures. I have to say that I had difficulties in drawing the box shape for side reference, if someone could give me some tips I would be so glad about that
In this case I tried to use the oval shape and I have to say that it works pretty well. Than I tried to draw the structure without the model below and to add some details, let me know what you think about it! Have a good day
Hey Chiara,
Congrats! These turned out amazing 👍
In the grid proportions piece: don't worry about having used symmetry, but I do recommend trying a few times without it so you can train your eye on how to achieve that yourself. The woman figure is really, really good! The man figure feels a bit blocky (with a lot of hard edges) and the forearm appears to have a weird shape that follows the pelvis. But other than that, you nailed it 😬👍
About the basic structures: it's actually a nice thing that you were able to go to the circles instead of the blocks in this case, it just adds to your "set of tools" being able to use whatever you need depending on the situation, and the result here is awesome! Congrats.
Keep the updates coming!
Hi guys! Today I have finished the nude figure drawing lesson approaching the gesture drawing, even if I was struggling at it that I had so much fun! I didn't think that it could be possible hahah
I had so much struggles most of all because I continue tracing over and over lines and the final result is very messy, but this one turned out well.
Than I try to do something different with male/female figure studying the side and back view. My figures are always a bit blocky (most of all the male figure) but I have to say that I learned a lot this time.
The only thing that I have to say is that the side view in both figures doesn't convince me al all, tell me if I'm not the only one to think about it
Also I don't like the female face at all, but in this case I tried to focus more on the body than on the face.
Last but not least I did a study figure trying to measure correctly every part of her body.
I had troubles using the pencil so I decided to trace lines in order to know esactly where I had to draw, and then I slide my drawing over the model to adjust it a little bit. I have to say that I am pretty happy about the final result, but of course I admit that I cheat a little bit
Have a good day!!
Good evening! Today I worked on gesture drawing and I think that I get better in every session, pretty happy about that even if I have to work a lot with that.
This is one part of my 30s and 1m sessions
I also worked on figure drawing trying to use fluidify as less as possible. The first one is a 20 minute sketch and in the second one I spent a little bit extra time to figure out a polish lineart (I don't like it really much, I also don't know which brush I prefer) and try to add the background and a little bit of shadow and highlits. That was really random I have to say hahah due to the fact that I don't have studied that chapter yet, but I would appreciate some comments from you on what I could have done better.
Than I approached the perspective for the first time and I tried to do some quick studies in order to understand how it works.
Hi Today I started working on the 1-point perspective assignement and here is a quick sketch, just to understand what I want to put in this room.
I have to admit that I'm not feeling comfortable at all with this topic, but I hope to get better soon.
I had problems doing the ceiling part and I tried also to give depth at the window but I couldn't manage it. Let's try tomorrow
If someone could give me some advices or notice and tell me if something doesn't work I would appreciate it Have a nice day!!
Hey Chiara, this is looking really nice, I like the addition of the earth in the background!
When it comes to that pipe, I think what makes it look 'awkward' are those intersecting lines. The way you have them right now makes the form look like its almost semi-circular rather than a cylinder. Try drawing through the object, make those intersecting lines a complete circle (or ellipse for this example) and then draw your final clean lines over the top. You'll see that those intersecting lines should look like they continue around the form and not finish at the boundaries of the viewer.
Here is what I mean
Also something else I noticed while doing the drawing that wasn't imediately obvious at first, was that we are looking at the pipe from below so therefore we see the intersection from underneath. So we see more of the underside and less of the top.
Hope this helps