• 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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  • Day 4: Star Wars May The 4th =] Queen Padmé Amidala in my art style! First time drawing her and I really enjoyed making this one! Used watercolours, ink pen, acrylic markers and gold paint for accents on my Canson mix media sketchbook. I hope you like it!
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  • Here is some more recent stuff, I need to make more body studies
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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 there! I'm Elrodeon. I started a blog last year in the hopes of posting regularly.. However that failed miserably! Good start I know. Despite that I still wish to keep a blog/journal of some kind in hopes of tracking my own progress for myself and anyone else who'd care to look. I also hope to get better with the aid of people's criticism on this forum.
Anyways I'll post some of my most recent paintings down below.


The picture of the red haired man above is one of my own characters called Kaito Kago, he's a martial artist living in a dystopian England in the year 2059.

I'm hoping some people will at least recognise this character and she definitely isn't my own! Warchief of the Horde and Banshee Queen Sylvanas Windrunner ~

Assuming you got this far, thanks for checking out my stuff <3 I really appreciate it and would definitely welcome any criticism that you could throw my way! However neither of the pieces above are finished yet. I'll be sure to post back here when I make any new pieces or finish these!

So today is my actual upload day. I upload on my deviantArt over here every Friday https://elrodeon.deviantart.com/art/Crucible-Squad-WIP-717935243
Today I uploaded this picture here.


It's a painting I've made for a friend for some of his original characters. They're a part of the same universe as the character in my previous post: Kaito Kago. These teenagers are all a part of a squad called Crucible squad, which was created to rid the world of 'evil' cultists. However they were manipulated by a rather controlling leader who had very strong world views.

I started off with a rough sketch of the characters. My friend had already run me down on their different personalities, quirks, appearances and mannerisms. Therefore I had a decent idea on what to do for each one. We also spoke about poses for each character so fortunately for me a lot of work was already done for me in terms of coming up with poses, appearances and positioning.


So by now I had already began reworking into the central character Angela and gave her a stronger, cleaner outline. Along with this I wanted to work on my colouring/shading and so I also attempted to colour her. However despite this it was clear I needed more practice and proper teaching/techniques to use.
Therefore I took a break to research a few different shading techniques before moving on.

firstly I changed Angela's hairstyle as my friend told me he'd prefer her to not have the large pony tail as he wasn't too keen on the look, therefore I simply removed it. After that I began to get to work on my colouring and decided on two light sources first. I chose both of them to be coming from below on opposite sides of the canvas and so I tried to reflect this as best as I could with my shading...I am somewhat pleased with the result, I believe I could've done better however by this point I really just wanted to move on with the piece and onto the next character, therefore I left it how it was.
To further this I wasn't entirely happy with the background either so I went ahead and changed that.

next time I hope to have the character to Angela's left and right completely finished, those two being called Verme and Luca respectively.

So I haven't been able to do too much recently. Despite this I still have some things done and instead of uploading my progress of the previous picture I wanted to try and make another one - potentially working on a bit more of a dynamic pose than my usual.
I started off getting the pose down; using this as a reference:

Wooh! Superhero landing!


So then on top of that I began to work touch it all up and make that rough drawing look like a proper person. Fortunately since this is my own original character I know what he looks like and so designing him wasn't an issue.

Since this was only a quick drawing to work on my poses I wasn't too concerned about too many details within the picture like the shoes. However I do need to do a few studies on proper boots and shoes as I do struggle with getting them right

Then finally, I added a quick background - once again not focusing too much on it as I wanted this to be a quick little piece. On top of that I added some base colours down onto my character before briefly added a bit of ambient lighting coming off of the magical fumes around him, along with the magic in his hand.
Overall I'm happy with the piece I was able to work with a pose I wasn't entirely comfortable with at first. I also feel that in this piece I stayed true to my self and didn't try to fit into another style, which I am also happy about. However, I could definitely go back and add more to this drawing in terms of details, line, tone and shading and might revisit it at a later point.