- 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?in24.5k
- 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
- memory 2min gartic phone, used ref 2m gartic, used ref for pose 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic memory memory memory memory study memory memory memorymemory memory memory memory memory memory study memorystudy study stylized left memory, right study study memory memorymemory memory memory memorymemory memory, porportions r offmemory memorystudystudy memorymemorymemory memory memory memory memory memory memory memory, right leg is a bit broken The feeling of only getting 1 - 3 likes on a social media post will never not be discouraging. But nothing is discouraging enough to make me quit drawing. I think the strategy of drawing a lot of stuff and waiting a while to post is good though rather than posting it immediately and then feeling that sadness on the next set of drawingin
- studies studies juri study imagination, how I feel before a speech imagination imagination study something I drew for my presentation also drew this for my presentation, didn't fix the one hand being bigger than the other imagination + study study studies study study, I need to fix the face a bit based on screenshot from anime but in my style study. except for the eye study studies studies study. changed some things tho imagination imagination imagination study studies, except top right samurai based on anime screenshot wolverine studies, changed some of the poses a lil, not very good at all, but first time i drew the character ever. semi study studies study imagination imagination imagination , for first time ever i tried to draw over 3d model for middle pose, I dont like the result tbh, but it makes it much easier than coming up with it from memory.imagination, except right figurestudies imagination + studies, coming up with action poses r hard, these are not dynamic enough, I will redraw better ones in future. imagination , imagination imagination study, except for eye imagination imagination imagination doodles except for the two chrollos imagination storyboard thumbnail, idk if i ever shared this. my storyboards end up being a little detailed since i usually just draw in one layer.in22.4k
Alrighty, so I did technically start back in october, but it got very spaced and inconsistent due to me being out of commission for two weeks. Suffered an eye injury ontop of being pretty sick. I tend to overdo things so I tried toeing into this as light as possible. Trying to do the daily practice and one exercise per day, or at the very least achieve one or the other. That was really dependent on my work schedule plus whatever happened to pop up throughout the day.
10/25 - Daily Prac
10/26 - Daily Prac + Exercise 4
10/27 - Pen Con + Exercise 5
10/28 - Pen Con + Daily Prac (partial)
11/9 - Exercise 6 - Yeah this was a mess. Idk what even though I know what not to do, something about being timed just makes my brain panic. Definitely need to spend some good time on gesture drawing lol

11/10 - Pen Con + Exercise 7
These are looking very good so far! The figure from reference is pretty much spot on. I like the way you added the facial features as well, I really don't know much about how to go about them and just wing it for now I also really like how you very subtly apply different line weight at the legs to emphasize the closer one, and that minimal slanted line for the tibia that just vanishes downward implying the rest is really nice. Maybe the figure's right forearm is slightly laterally deflected, might be because the highlight tricked your eye or you could draw a slight line of emphasize subtly the brachioradialis (I know anatomy but not much about drawing yet so take anything I say with a grain of noob-salt)
Keep it up!
cheers
12 days later
Thanks! Gonna be honest the line weight for the legs was not intentional, but it's interesting to notice after being pointed out lol. Admittedly been a little bit of a lurker when it comes to interacting on other's posts, but I've seen the work you've been putting in and it looks nice! Actually need to catch up, pretty sure I'm about 10-40 posts behind on most people's updates Looking forward to seeing what you've tackled the past 2 weeks!
Yeah honestly this is the third figure I've practiced for measuring, and getting that constraint box is still a bit tricky. Though I'm using not so conventional means for getting those measurements, so I think all in all it's good for what it ends up being
Think the hips/waist area tends the be the most consistent thing accuracy-wise since it's marked with that first solid reference point. Though limbs are kinda hit or miss since I just have trouble getting a good idea how to measure then place the joints accurately. I will say at least for the right elbow joint [Left from our angle] I intentionally misplaced it since for some reason that gave me a better visual reference for the left side box constraint. Though that's probably something I should steer away from doing in the future lol
Thanks for the kind remarks
Gotcha about the figure, it's also good that you're aware of weak spots and things you need to improve. I think it's also equally important to receive positive reinforcement on things we do well, as I feel it's quite typical for one to be very self critical in art
cheers and keep it up!
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