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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Hi Ivan! Welcome back. I’m just starting out but I hope your journey takes you to awesome places. And I hope you're doing fine. Can’t wait to see how much you learn and maybe share some tips along the way. ¡Pura Vida!
Thanks Charlie and welcome to Art school! I hope you find your time here worthwhile! ^^
Hi Ivan! I am still a beginner but I have recently got into portraits and have been enjoying them quite a bit. Take this process with a grain of salt as I am very new. My process begins with finding a good reference with strong lighting where at least one ear is visible. Then I do a value study over the reference. Marking light areas, shadow areas, then cast shadows then halftones then highlights. Then I do the head construction. Then I block in the values using the reference and my study to guide me, then render. I'm not sure if that's the type of process you were looking for but that is what I have been doing and been successful with
I see! Thank you for letting me know! As of now, I'm watching a lot of tutorials on youtube on how to draw heads and trying out what works best for me. As of now, I'm trying to avoid painting and mostly just doing linework partly because I'm afraid of rendering and often ended up ruing the whole thing once I started adding paint to it.
Thats lovely! Really like the vibe on this one.
And regarding the perspective study: you dont really need to add shading/colors at this point, its more about getting used to drawing things with a correct proportion in perspective - I believe you are doing good, but maybe you could add some weight to the line. Keep up the good work.
Also, you said you are scared of ruining the art if you keep going - I feel like that all the time. I think it is probably because of the lack of consistency, so I never know if the art its gonna turn out to be great or horrible and I KNOW for a fact that there is a BIG chance of not being good - Im still learning after all. Thats when I DO keep going, because thats the "only way" to improve. You have to remember that making mistakes (and then having feedback) is what allows you to get better and overcome this lack of consistency and confidence. Its hard, yes, but always look back and compare your work from now to your work back then - sometimes its hard to see but as long as you are trying, you are improving (this is just a personal opinion and a way I deal with this, please dont feel the need to take this as a rule).
Thanks, Danillo! As you just said, while working on the perspective room drawing, I got way too caught up in making my lines perfect that I ended up using the line tool for the most part of it which thus resulted in the lack of different line quality that probably would have improved the piece a lot more. I really appreciate the constructive criticism and will try to apply this to my next work!
I try doing another one-point perspective drawing and allowed myself to have more freedom when it comes to doing things. I tried to get away from using the line tool as much as possible and challenge myself by adding characters and parts that don't completely follow the guidelines such as bending the stairs a bit to the right to try to create the illusion of having more stuff/pathway to the right.
