- 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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The first thing I noticed is that her skin is quite grey-ish. Skins often have tones of red in them, especially on the nose and cheeks. Doesn't have to be a lot, but adding it already makes the skin feel much more alive.
The second things I noticed is her chest. The breasts feel like balloons, instead they should be hanging more.
Other than that, you did a great job with this. I especially love the way you've done her hair
did a quick paint over. some of the main things I would change from yours is:
-soften some areas of the skin. I like to use a soft brush on %50 opacity to do this
-darken the edges of the character
-change the colour of the yellow cheek to a more pale colour
-lower the mouth and jaw
-also the lighting on the cloth doesn't match the lighting on the face
The problem here is quite simple, it's a matter on how you're handling shadows. They look grey and washed out.
As shadows get darker they usually gain saturation. There might be some exceptions in cases of ambient lighting (Granted it wouldn't effect the darkest parts, more like the middle tones), like when the blue skies is reflecting off the brown color skin. And the reverse also holds true, as things get lighter the lose saturation.
It would be easier if I showed you in a quick overpaint.
As you can see the hair looks a little bit more solid, and the lighting ob the form of the clothing looks a lot more realistic. That's why you try and separate out saturation like this.
Hi there, nice work!
I also have some element placement points of improvement:
- Her left eye is quite far to the right (away from her nose), I wouldn't expect this in her face;
- Her chin is very small and high up;
- Her collar bones are way too apparent;
- I would expect realistic breasts on her, but these look very pumped up.
Good work on her clothing!
Props to tree_head for pointing out mostly what seems off, I don't have much to add besides the lack of skin color variation. This painting seems a bit confused, as in, whether she is pale or what. Even the palest of people have a fleshy pink tone to their skin, and it all varies from where on the body it is, to how hard the shadow is. Illustrative inquisi gave a good example of exactly that, and I suggest you to look at reference when creating skin!
Everyone gets coloring wrong when moving from sketching to coloring, for we assume that a darker color is simply darker--just like pencil and paper! but it is not the case!
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