Welcome, Ana! Hope you enjoy the program!
And worry about the assignments being interesting or not. Just keep posting here so we can all exchange feedback and improve 
Good work so far! Keep it up 😁👍
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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Thank you very much! ^___^ I'll do my best!
Hello and welcome to Artschool! It's nice that you decided to go for what you love and I look forward to see your progress
Thank you for the support! ^^ I am currently in the Drawing nudes chapter (1st Term). Probably will continue posting my practice next week.
Also, I just downloaded the Art course Schedules to see if they suit my timetable. I have no job this year and I manage to dedicate around 4h daily to the course, so I was planning to make one chapter every 2 weeks (that would be 1 complete Term per month, the complete course would be finished in one year)... Is it too ambitious or unrealistic? Could you tell me how much time do you dedicate to each Term?
Volume study! I struggled a lot with the first ones, but I felt much more comfortable with the last ones. Even the lines I made with the tablet are more firm and strong, so I am quite happy 
I am still struggling with the hip joints, I am not very sure of where to put them, specially when the bodies are twisted and they are not visible... In addition, I am not sure about the action line in the 2nd pose, or where to put the ovals in the man pose... If anyone could help me with those, I would be grateful (=______=U)
Also, I realized too late that I should not draw the cylinders when they are overlapped (sorry about this, the lines can be quite confusing when I overlap two cylinders...I went again over the first ones and corrected almost all of them, but one or two still have that defect).
I am not very sure about this one either... Maybe the arms shouldn't be flat cylinders:
I think he said it in the video for this lesson to draw a square/rectangle around the hips and ribcage. Then the shoulder joints go somewhere around the top corners of the ribcage square and the hip joints go somewhere in the bottom 1/3 of the hip square. He even showed when he put ovals instead, he thought about the squares for placement of the joints.
You've definitely got a clear understand of the volumes - you can feel each pose even when the cylinders aren't overlapped.
As @l0rclz33 said, using squares or rectangles can help a lot with the placement of the joints. The square/cube shapes can help more - I personally find it easier to split them, circles are more difficult. The hips lie about 1/3 from the bottom of the ellipse just outside 
I think i should have them higher than drawn, but the sentiment is there 
Its the same with cubes/squares/rectangles also.
I don't think it's unrealistic, but it depends on you, how disciplined you are and how quickly you will grasp and apply the things that are taught. As for how much time I spent on each, it's hard to say. I did it in a fluid way where I focused on the subjects that interested me the most or I felt would be the most beneficial, mostly anatomy. So I sort of went back and forth between the terms, if that makes sense.
Oooh, now that you mention it, I remember that he indeed drawed the hip points after drawing a cage! Thank you! (I am Spanish, so I sometimes miss some phrases in the videos... my fault). You're absolutely right, thank you! I will watch it again.
Thank you very much, Ashley! I will practice a little bit more!
Thank you! I thought about making it the way you say (fluid), but I know so little about everything that I decided at last watching the chapters in order... even with Photoshop I learned a couple of new things, so it was worth it, yay! ^^
This week is being a little bit messy, but I managed to practice some gesture drawing... (I am aware of Marc telling us that the absolute acceptable maximum would be 2 min timing per drawing, but I used some YouTube videos, which changed pictures each certain time, and it is so funny that I keep drawing with their 5 an 10 min poses too...).
Not a lot to comment about them, but I wanted to leave my progress here anyway... I consider a "succesful" one if I can understand the pose only looking at the drawing and not at the model. At this point, I struggle A LOT with 30 seconds sketches, I feel better about the 1 minute ones, and quite confortable with 2 min sketches. I am also horrible at drawing hands (=______=) We'll see if all of that improves with practice!
15 days later
Hi everyone... I am not dead, It's just that I got stuck in the perspective drawing of the room (too much lines, since I added a lot od shelves) and I unexpectedly got a new job, so I have very little time to digi in it. I am still trying to finish it and show it to you. Until then, I did some other perspective exercises on pictures, and I have a couple of doubts if anyone can help U___U Thank you in advance.
8 months later
Hi everybody... I am alive. I suddently had to take a very hard job for 7 months, and I had to stop the course progress because I was too tired to watch the classes withour falling asleep each time u_______u but I am back, and I want to push it and to achieve my goal, no matter how much time it takes. I leave here my perspective room exercise... It's not perfect at all, I still have lots of understanding problems. I post it without finishing it, because I want to practise perspective and not to get stuck in the details of the room.
I had problems understanding the perspective of the books that I was trying to draw in the shelves, so I did some sketches aside to undersand their final form. I will finish this piece in a future, but for now, I think it's time to continue and try with more perspective points...
Great to have you back!
and good job on the perspective assignements! 
Thank you a lot! I hope to continue without stopping this time!
