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?in24.4k
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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Color version seems fine head+neck, would be cool to see him with a touch of link from the Zelda games.
There is also, desperaux tilly from back in the day might give you some more ideas.
I couldn't really say if it's better with the neck or no. But I will say you should look toward refining 'who' this mouse is : P I'm pretty sure that sounds stoopid but, ask yourself what sort of mouse this is? Are they a bookworm, a tomboy, a boyscout, a Don Quixote? Defining they're personality could help in refining how they look. I mean I can see a bookworm or a dancer with a long neck, but that's just me.
If you want to keep the neck you need just stylize it more to make the gesture work.
And i agree with eckzein you need to give it more personality here for example one version you could go for:
Omg Shiv0r xD Looks good
The brief for the art war did state that you need to: "create the most epic champion the art world has ever seen"
Many people can obviously take this different ways, but for me the character would need to ooze power, or at the very least confidence and ability. I agree that your mouse needs personality, but I would push it more towards a warrior cast, at the moment he is reading more "travelling bard" to me.
To summarise I think he needs to radiate confidence and bravery (You don't need to deck him out with muscles or anything, that's not what I mean.) Perhaps look at the cover illustrations for the Redwall series of books. Whoever does them has a talent for making mice characters look imposing.
As for colour just look at real mice and pick a scheme you like. Maybe albino?
I really like what you have here so far, the idea, and the color scheme seem to be working for me. However, we sort of lose his body shape in the clothing. I find it might be a much more interesting piece to look at if you show some movement, and a bit of what's going on under his cloak. It doesn't have to be extremely detailed anatomy, but as of now he seemed a bit blocky in his shapes - from his cape/robes to his shorts. His costume/armor/clothing should enhance his personality, and here I feel it brings it down.
Keep working hard though, I think you're heading in the right direction!
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