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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?
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  • 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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  • 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.
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Sep '17

Woa, super cool!

Haha, i guess that is a sign you are good-when you have justified belief someone might want to steal your work:D

I wouldn't notice but i can agree with the feedback you got, i don't see what's wrong with the legs and i like Eva's pose, it's Liadri that seems strange to me.
And Barachiel's left arm... You can put an arm in such a position but it's far from comfortable. I guess, the egg should be more to the side of his body and his elbow might not be visible then.

Again, it's an awsome piece, do post the next wips, this is going to be epic in the end!

Sep '17
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Thanks everyone :smile: ! And sorry for the delay, I had no internet since the day I posted this aha.

@achronic Thank you very much and yeah go ahead, the world needs even more d&d art aha
@marc Thank you very much! I'll do my best
@Mocart Thank you!
@rokdem Thank you for the feedbacks! And in the end I redid completely Eva's drawing and pose and It is much better now. And I must agree, now that I look at Liadri, she will definetly require more rework and maybe a new drawing as well. As for Barachiel's left arm, I'll have to look and search for proper reference to make it look more natural when I come to that point. Thanks a lot!

Here's a sneak peek of what I am currently doing on them.

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I started with Eva, the beautiful elf sorceress (I redrew it completely and she fits better with the other characters):
critics from myself:
- the lighting is a simple layer with a mask, I'll have to paint it properly after.
- needs refinement on anatomy and face
- she looks cross-eyed at the moment
- start working on the hair/ears
- add brighter values maybe
Drezz, the deadly half-orc barbarian lady:
- the female/male/androgyne face is wanted
- needs refinement on the anatomy and face
- maybe more expressive

And yes I have done the whole body but is not ready to be shown yet (they don't have clothes yet and it is rough, I'll keep that for later).

I'll post the progress and other characters in the upcoming days/weeks.

I hope that you like them as much as I enjoy working on them! And of course I am open to Comments and critics even at this early stage on them.

Thanks!

Sep '17

An update on Drez, started to detail, refine, add highlights and started thinking about the costume, maybe a bit too samuraiish but that'll be fixed. Still heavy WIP. (also started my dwarf Kreggan, but not ready to show it yet :wink: )

Here's the progress so far:

Thanks!

Sep '17

Woohoo, new posts here:D

You said that Drez's outfit seems too samuraiish... From what you've shown it doesn't remind me of the samurai. Maybe there is a resemblance with the Harad people from lotr (which i think would work well) but that could be just because it's so vague still...

I can't believe how loose/shetchy the dwarf is and yet he is alreday so defined! I love it! And since i am far away, i dare to say it (i wouldn't say it to his face), his nose seems odd, as if it was broken...
Already so much detail ready for his armor and stuff! So much cool stuff in one painting... I am learning just by watching your steps in creating this:)

Really looking forward to seeing more!

Sep '17

Thank you very much for the support Rokdem!
Yup I thought it was too samuraiish at the time I made it, but now that I look at it, it isn't that obvious anymore. I'll have to define it anyways.

Aha, and yes I took another approach for Kreggan, this time I had the rough drawing you saw in the group picture, but I didn't decided to redraw it like the other but I tried to do a blank silhouette other the lines and see how it would work, it made him a bit more stylised at the begining but my concentration was on the big shapes. I guess he will become a bit more "realistic" with more colors and details/values like Drezz now. I'll have to flip the portrait to see what's wrong with the nose, thanks for noticing. And don't worry, he is a fierce warrior but a very kind and humble person.

I don't really have a process or steps, I just go with the flow but I'm happy it is helpful for someone else.
So far, my "process" for these was to do:
- rough sketch of the pose without clothes for all the characters
- think about the costume
- refine the anatomy drawing under it
- flat skin colors under the lines
- start painting in colors directly under the lines
- start refining the painting over the lines
- adjust with layers and masks for lighting scenari like in Eva's portrait
- sketch costume ideas over it.
- next we'll see :wink:

Thanks again Rokdem!

Oct '17

Hey everyone,
I was blown away by Sergey Kolesov's portraits he did for the latest Dishonored and that motivated me to get better with textures, shapes and volume.
So here's an update on my dwarf ranger, Kreggan portrait. I prefer it that way. It is still a WIP but I really like where it is going.

1 month later

Nov '17

The texture looks great! You do that with brush strokes or is there another trick? I guess his hair and beard will get the same attention?

Hope to see an update:)

Nov '17
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Thank you, I did that with brush strokes yes, I use the brushes of Bastien Lecouffe Deharme and Peleng but these strokes were done with one brush If I remember correctly. And yes the rest will definetly get the same attention.

I have been working on an another character (a god) for a Dnd Homebrew campaign for someone else (I have to do 7 characters for him ) and I hope I'll be allowed to show him because he is quite cool right now.

Thanks!

1 month later

Dec '17

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing good?
I apologize for the lack of updates, I have been been busy with tons of little commissions in october and then did and completed the Artstation challenge "Beneath the Waves" in the character design category
Here's the thread for WIPs, story, description etc... Here I won't post the pictures directly there because they are quite big for the submission but all is in the link.
I hope you like them, I had a lot of fun doing them and I learned a lot.
Also I wanted to have more sci-fi work for my portfolio because I am mainly working on fantasy projects but I love both.

8 months later

Sep '18

Hello there,

I hope you are all doing fine, I have been very busy, and totally forgot this topic.
If you want to see what you missed since last year, I have a proper portfolio website now:
Here
And some on my instagram as well: Here
I allow myself to directly post the links since I don't want to drown you with 50+ pictures of illustrations, sketches and commissions. But i'll try to keep this topic updated when I can and directly post on it. I have been recently hired to 40+ portraits of NPCs for tabletop rpgs, and If I am allowed to post them, I'll do that here. I'm also working on my most ambitious personal illustration with an environment and multiple characters since it is lacking in my portfolio, I'll post some sneak peeks here as well.
Until then, thank you very much for your interest and have a nice weekend.

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Sep '18

Hey there Lodal,
Very impressive portfolio! You did great!
Don't be scared to post 'too much'. No such thing as posting too much! :smile:
(There's a forum badge that you can earn for posting a lot too :wink: )

Sep '18

Hello Shia,

Thank you very much for the kind words, I appreciate it. I'll keep that in mind for next time, I have lots of pieces (both professional and personal) planed for the upcoming months.
Have a nice day!

1 month later

Oct '18

Hey there, it has been a while!

A crop of a big Symbaroum (Check it out if you don't know that pen and paper RPG, it is great) personal illustration in the work inspired by a scenario we played a while ago... It isn't even a third of the complete picture for now.

My portfolio was lacking big complete illustrations so I have been busy on this one between client works.

And before you ask why the woman, Kelva, has no clothes on her top, she was a changeling shapeshifter witch who could turn into beasts and she'll have animals skulls on her belt, furs and of course arms aha. Same for the guy, Derkan, he'll have legs, he's not a ghost, this is still an early WIP but I hope you like it and that you are intrigued.

Comments and critics are obviously welcome, even at this early stage.

Thank you for your time!

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Oct '18

I think it's coming along really, really well. I love the mood and the rendering so far. Pretty solid stuff!

Oct '18

Thank you very much! I'm having tons of fun with, unfortunately, I'll have to put it on hold for now. I have new client work to do. But I'll come back to it as soon as I can.

1 month later

Dec '18

Hello!

Here are the first two revealed NPCs portraits (out of almost 50) I did for the RPG "Knight" in crowdfunding here:
https://www.gameontabletop.com/crowdfunding-154.html
There's an option to have your own PC, NPC, Creature portrait by me or even yourself in armor!

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And some portrait illustrations I have done for some of the staff in meta-armor working on "Knight"

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The last one is an autoportrait. I hope you like them :smile: !

22 days later

Dec '18

Happy Holidays everyone!

Also a quick preview of a current full-body character lineart commission of a D&D Demon Huntress that's going to be finished in the upcoming days. I have 6 other sci-fi bust linearts upcoming as well so stay tuned for more :wink: ! Until then enjoy, the end of the year!

11 days later

Jan '19

First of all, Happy New Year and best wishes!

First personal sketch of this new year.

Here is my interpretation of a female Changeling of the Symbaroum universe with a little lovecraftian and 20ies influence. I like the idea of mixing these two universes that are close to my heart, maybe a personal project to explore for this new year...

I often do these kind of research / sketches but I do not post them, would you be interested if I posted more of these and more often?

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You can follow my work here:


https://www.artstation.com/lodal