• Gave myself 5 days to do something. This is what I managed to do. I'm trying to get better at illustrations, but I have patience to work on something for 3 days maximum :( Splash_Process.jpg5000x3140 2.21 MB Splash_Process-6.jpg3896x2429 2.83 MB concept list char copy.jpg5388x3000 1.7 MB
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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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Hi all!

My name's Chris (Nyx), I'm 20 and I started doing art in the fall of 2021 and had no prior experience. I decided to try out art in my senior year of high school and decided I wanted to go forward with it. It's been nose to the grindstone since then. I took two semesters of a graphic design degree to learn some basics and as of now I've switched to an unrelated digital degree to allow myself as much time as possible to improve before I graduate.

My current goal is to improve enough in the next year to be able to at least apply for the student illustrator internships at Riot and/or Blizzard. My ideal career would be as a freelance splash art illustrator and character artist. With these goals in mind, I decided to work on this art program as well as multiple courses over on Proko. I'll probably post work from all my courses here so I thought it would be worth mentioning.

My self-proclaimed art parents and inspirations are Alex Florez, Gu Weiz, and Bo Chen.

Thats all from me, I hope we can all help each other grow and reach our own individual goals!

This should be most of the work from Term 1 completed except the 1P Perspective, which is still WIP. I've been working T1 for a bit but since I was in physical classes progress was slow, close to 3-4ish months. Since I've got more time, I can dedicate alot more to these projects.

I struggled with this one for a bit just because I didn't know what I wanted to do! A snowy cabin? Maybe a townhome in the mountains? I went with a gloomy citadel-esqe type of castle. Looking back at it now, I see some room for improvement, especially with the lighting, but it is what it is.

When I started out, I thought gesture drawing looked sorta weird to be honest but its quickly become one of my favorite exercises to do. Although I didn't have much time, I tried to do 1-2 sessions per week at least. In comparison I've done 8 sessions this week lol. It's a lot of fun. The set directly below this is my first session from 2ish months ago, 1 Min poses.

I changed out my ref database for 3 new ones this week to keep up with my pace so I've got a bunch of variety and I sprinkled in what I thought would be some more challenging ones. These poses are from today, 1 Min as well.

I was definitely feeling that sci-fi influence from the example when I was thinking of what to do. I wanted something that looked more like a ship interior with lots of techy bits and bobs. I decided to go with a sort of cryogenics feel with lots of tubing and pipes and some visible hallways. It's going good so far so hopefully I'll be able to finish it soon.

These are some random works and WIP's from my courses on Proko.

3P Perspective

WIP Greyscale Painting

Planes of the face

That was a lot, but I didn't want to just leave this thread with an intro. I'm also not the most confident about posting my work so it's a bit less painful if I post it all at once, right? Yeah, no, still self-conscious lmao, but please do leave any feedback, critique, and/or comments, it's all greatly appreciated. I'm going to get some rest, so have a wonderful rest of your day!

Welcome to the forums Nyx! These are looking great! I look forward to seeing more of your work!