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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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Nov '22

Yeah, I have been trying to shake off my need to add anatomy and make gestures look good for a few weeks now. I'm finding it to be a real struggle :joy:

I'm currently just doing more gestures and trying to get more of a grasp on it.
I watched some of David finch's videos (@creARTive_Paul s suggestion) on gesture drawings and he mentioned recommending people go through 'Bridgman´s Complete guide to drawing from life' and just draw everything in it from start to end twice (minus the heads)

I wish I had 50 hours in a day so I could try out twice as many things.
I want to try doing that challenge, I want to do 3D modelling to see if it can help my understanding of form, I want to do more gestures and draw more faces. I want to draw more characters.
What a curse it is that there are only so many hours in a day.
Maybe my time is more efficiently spent creating a time machine :sweat_smile:

Nov '22

Haven't really been able to stop thinking about the Bridgman book.
I think i spent around 8 hours on these 2 pages alone.
Half of the drawings make no sense because I keep repainting things, but i'm absorbing so much information out of doing it.

Even if his depictions sometimes feel kinda caricaturized it is insane how much form he manages to push through while still keeping the gestures of his drawings to the point where you can feel them.
I mean look at this!

I want to redraw everything on these pages because of how much more I could do and It makes sense why the recommendation was to draw the book twice.
I'm understanding a fraction of what is being presented and it still feels like so much.
This feels like it will elevate my gestures a ton if I can just grasp it more firmly.

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Nov '22

After much pondering I think I'm finally starting to get an idea of how Bridgman manages to make things so gestural while keeping so much form and shape.

It is his ability to break down the body into simple shapes from every angle and then adjust them so that he can forcefully push the body to match his gesture which does it.

The secret doesn’t lie in the gesture, it lies in the construction of the shapes and how he breaks them down.
Once you can break down the body into those simple shapes, nothing is stopping you from drawing the most dynamic lines possible and then just adjusting the puzzle pieces to match.

The reason why I was seeing his drawings as being caricaturized is because they are.
Bridgman is trying to show how he is breaking the different parts of the body into shapes by exaggerating it.
Additionally he is also showing how you can make those shapes fit any gesture by pushing and exaggerating the core shapes from any angle.

I have to admit that I’m finding myself skimping out on line weight and shadows because of how much information my brain is trying to take in.
I would definitely like to reintroduce more form into the drawings again by focusing more on it, but I would imagine it’ll gradually become easier as I get more comfortable with this line of thinking.

As a side note this is definitely making it clear that I need to get better at shading via crosshatching and that my anatomy knowledge is absolutely nowhere near where I want it to be.

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Nov '22

The more of Bridgman's drawings I study the clearer it is becoming how everything at its core can be broken down to such simple shapes.
I have heard before that everything can be broken down into squares, triangles, spheres etc. but this is the first time I have been able to actually see it in my head.

I got curious so I spent a lot of time just trying it out on different things and filled a few pages with arbitrary objects.
When I tried it on people It was still kind of a struggle so I figured I would try to train my brain further by drawing people using on spheres squares and triangles for a while.

It become pretty apparent quite quickly that unless you curve the shapes you won't get any gesture out of it so I've been trying out different ways of doing it just to get my head around it.

Not a huge fan of how it looks but the whole process definitely got a lot of gears turning in my head. My gestures are certainly becoming more fluid from the whole process as I have to think less and less about the structure of what I'm drawing.

Think I might try to see what happens if I squeeze a little more detail/curves out of the core shapes tomorrow.

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Nov '22

Going with the flow and still just experimenting with trying to simplify form since it seems to be helping my understanding of gestures.

Been doing draw-overs to solidify simple versions of the body's shapes in my head.
When it comes to masculine figures the shapes are so easy to place since you can just break down everything into rigid squares and cylinders (and then add details and curves to them)
But when I have to draw more feminine figures the simplicity of the shapes just isn't in my mental image yet.
When I keep the shapes rigid it ends up looking too masculine, and when I try to soften them I lose the shapes I had placed, and with it, the mental image of the construction.

I'm assuming I just need some more practice to figure it out so I will continue the investigation tomorrow.

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Nov '22

Taking it slightly slow at the moment since my arm is pretty sore and I don't want to worsen it.

Still just trying to figure out how to better break things down in simple shapes since It continues to improve my gestures.
I'm impressed with how easy it makes changing things around on the fly.
You can so easily change things when you are capable of erasing an entire body part without losing the structure mentally.
Normally I would be terrified of trying to make a character look more masculine or feminine but with this i can just refer to the core shape and what I want to adjust and then erase away.

Got the idea for doing the "base structure into male, female and then a random version" study from www.toart-studio.com/ (sadly their courses are in Chinese, which I don't speak)
Tooth Wu, one of their teachers does some absolutely demonic line-art and has been on my watch list for ages. https://www.artstation.com/tooth

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Nov '22

Trying some of the same exercises from yesterday but on legs.
Just breaking them down into shapes and then working from there.

It is definitely more of a struggle than the torso, I'm finding myself having to experiment a lot more to figure out what works and what doesn't.

Main improvement I'm seeing from this is that It really helps having an idea of the different shapes that can be used for the body when doing gestures.
I guess maybe knowing some of the limitations of how they interact is making me more
confident in trying to push the gestures more?

Nov '22

I hurt my arm from overworking it and not respecting that I needed to rest :astonished:
This is a reminder to do your stretching exercises even if you´re really into a flow :scream:
Hopefully back on top soon.

Nov '22

You have done some great anatomy practice. I hope you feel better and enjoy the holiday :blush: