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  • 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?
  • 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 you
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  • Long time no see! New artworks produced lately
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Hi everyone, I’m Julia!
I’m a 2D animator aspiring to be a big time cartoon creator. I have a Bachelor's in Motion Design. During my senior year, I focused on character animation which ignited my childhood dreams of making cartoons that brought me to where I am now. My weak point is drawing hence why I am taking this course. My goal is to be able to draw confidently and learn as much as I can. I look forward to working and growing with you all ! :heart_eyes:

eyyyy welcome to the forums!! glad to see another animator here! :smiley:

Welcome, hope your journey goes well! Can't wait to see how you progress! I just started myself, I will surely check in often to see some of your work.

Yes I do! It's @not_dunn_creating But I'm so awful at keeping up with social media. I think the last time I posted was over a year ago :confounded: I have to start keeping up with it. If you want to see more of my animation stuff my website is www.julia-a-dunn.com. What about you?

Thank you, yours too! Ive actually been enrolled for about a year now but had to stop because of a work project I had (and the fear of posting my progress on here). But I am only on term 2 anatomy. Wait til you see how much you progress just in that short time. It's crazy!! Definitely excited to grow together. I will check in with you as well!

I post my art on IG https://www.instagram.com/mitsuki_youko/?hl=en

(tho rn i post more wip's on my art school forum: https://forums.cubebrush.co/t/mitsuki-art-school-journey/11056)

Here's a website i coded for my story (Still WIP in terms of the art.) https://mitsukiyouko555.github.io/hackwebcomic/

and I post my animations and music making stuff on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2_j3oXTtc4KbePI4jvSdyA

I checked out ur website and its pretty... interesting XD i don't like horror tho but ur stuff is still pretty cool. was that done via vector graphics animation or was that more hand drawn? :smile:
(Actually looked at ur resume page outta curiosity and noticed u rigged a lot so figured its probs Vector motion graphics.)

I've only done that once since it wasnt rly my type haha :stuck_out_tongue: but if ur curious i posted it here: https://forums.cubebrush.co/t/mitsuki-art-school-journey/11056/16

Also "not_dunn_creating" is such a good play on words with ur name XD

19 days later

Thank you! I am actually rebranding my stuff to not Dunn creating. My website expired last week so I'm taking my chance to redo it all! I am planning on starting a YouTube too so it can all be under the same name !!

My animations are a mix of different things. I had a private mentor teach me character in college through AE which is ENTIRELY different from harmony. So I can do really basic bone rigs that act more realistic, 360 rigs, rigs that are more fluent/have more freedom, and im also learning master controllers to do tilts and stuff. It's really great to have the knowledge of the 360 rigs. It takes a lot to make but so beneficial in the animation stage! Some of my work is also hand drawn and majority is a hybrid of both.

I really like your character designs, I love the color choices! Is making comics/mangas what you want to do? I know you said you don’t like horror but im sure you have heard of Jung Ito? He’s my absolute FAVORITE artist. I (almost) own all of his books. Would be awesome if you did a horror crossover in your style. I love mixing pretty with gore/horror. My traditional art is really gorey. I like showing the “beauty” and emotion through gore. :skull:

Oh haha thank uuu :smiley:

i think ive heard of jung ito.

your art is very cool :smiley:

9 days later

Term 1- Nude Figure Drawing

Skeletons - I did 100s of these, over photos and freely. It has helped grow and improve my eye for proportions!

Barbie Figures

Gestures - 1min and 30sec

Full Figures

2 months later

I must say... I could NOT comprehend perspective for all the years I have been an artist. Always wanted to know how to so I could make awesome backgrounds for my animations. Marc said two words and BAM! Totally understood everything.

Mind. Blown.

But anyways, this is my witches lair. I had so much fun coming up with all my potion ingredients :skull: I still feel like something is missing. It may be the walls and the ceiling. Should I make it wood like the flooring? Or maybe when it's colored it will fix it? :no_mouth: