@Mason_ Thanks! yeah the painterly ones were all I can find
@mitsuki-youko Thanks! I'm searching for that to see if I get lucky
@playforwho89 awesome! thanks!!
- 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?in24.7k
- 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
- memory 2min gartic phone, used ref 2m gartic, used ref for pose 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic memory memory memory memory study memory memory memorymemory memory memory memory memory memory study memorystudy study stylized left memory, right study study memory memorymemory memory memory memorymemory memory, porportions r offmemory memorystudystudy memorymemorymemory memory memory memory memory memory memory memory, right leg is a bit broken The feeling of only getting 1 - 3 likes on a social media post will never not be discouraging. But nothing is discouraging enough to make me quit drawing. I think the strategy of drawing a lot of stuff and waiting a while to post is good though rather than posting it immediately and then feeling that sadness on the next set of drawingin
- 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.in22.7k
No worries at all, don't think I was the first to organize the exercises that way anyways and if I was oh well, I didn't see any other way to organize all of those exercises anyways, so happy the layout works for you and that you like it!
Looking good, especially those spheres! Wow you can really feel their volume. Also nice gestures, those look great! Awesome work as always! and I think your color blends are looking good, takes a bit to get used to doing that, I still struggle with it so don't sweat it too much just keep practicing.
For the lineart studies, one way I found that helped me find a few to study initially was looking on https://characterdesignreferences.com/ If you go to the Artist of the Week tab, they have galleries full of character artist's work. Helped me identify some artists whose style I wanted to study and good for general inspiration.
Otherwise, outside of artbooks/comics, when I'm looking up references I try to search for concept sketches rather than concept art, sometimes that works and pulls up different results, but as others have said, concept art is pretty painterly generally. But worth a shot if you have a character you really want to study and can't find it through a normal search.
Sometimes I can spend too much time on details that don't matter (like how to organize an exercise) so I see how other people are doing it and that solves the problem for me!
Thank you so much for the website!! I'm going through it right now and wow, there's so much in it.. To the point of not knowing where to start or what to pick
My first lineart piece. As you can see, I completely misunderstood the exercise I saw the work everyone was posting and it suddenly dawned on me that it should be a full figure drawing because in the past week anatomy was the main lesson.. I know, pretty obvious but it went over my head!
I love certain scenes from different movies/shows. This is one of my absolute favorite ones! I hope it brings out nostalgic memories as it does with me
It was fun to recreate it so not a complete waste It took me 3 days because the closeup on the two characters made it hard for the lines to be clean (My OCD tendencies were not happy)
I followed my gut feeling on how thick each line should be (the closer to the screen, the thicker).. As always feedback is really appreciated!
Thanks! I definitely got more comfortable with the digital drawing aspect of things (especially how to use layers) so yess I learned a thing or two!
Although it's not the human figure, that study is amazing! I'd say it counts, as long as you feel that you learned something from it. I hadn't thought of using scenes as studies, but that's a really good idea. Great job Ola!
Thanks! Yeah it would've made more sense to use it for composition, but oh well
It's a hurtful scene but it's burned in my memory and it means so much to me.. And it's well executed by the animators, especially the expression on Mufasa Need to bring a joyful scene next time I do one!
Great study! It is so clean!
I study scenes from movies mostly for compositionWhy you had to choose this scene it hurts!
Great job!
Decided to color it, on my brother's request.. I'm sure by doing this I'm skipping to term 3 or 4, that's why I was totally winging it, especially the environmental parts of the drawing.. My pace is completely wacky!! It takes me 4-5 weeks to finish 1 week from the study guide and I still have the 4 remaining lineart work hehe
Let me know what you think
Finished the third line work. This took way too long for the end result. I was so disenchanted in the middle but I didn't want to bail so I continued even though there wasn't much enjoyment in it.
I'm always too concerned with how clean the lines are to the point of not focusing on anything else. If anyone has a solution for this perfectionism disease I have, please I'm all ears, cause it robs me from enjoying the process
Also the undo option can be unhealthy for some people... I overuse it... It's a rabbit I don't recommend for anyone to be caught into... even anyone I dislike!