- 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?in24.6k
- 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.in22.5k
@patrycja.lerch Thank you Patricia! I'll watch out for the alignment of the anatomy moving forward in that area! The fish knows everything.... everything!
@Norma My plan is to release snippets of the story as I post the visual development images! Which I'm sure will be really soon!
@leo.glt95 Thanks a lot Leo!! :DD It's a great course imo- the lessons are valuable and Steven is active in the community for feedback! Personally, I find rendering easier to understand now and I've noticed improvements! So to me, it's worth it.
Ohhh no, I don't think so I'm talking about Form From Imagination (which is hosted in its own site)- but my opinion stays the same! Steven is a good teacher and he explains things very carefully- FFI was an eye opener for me in many ways so I'm sure he's got some awesome secrets in his Proko courses or in Gumroad!
@leo.glt95 Yw! There are more lessons and assignments in FFI, that's true! I have no idea what sort of secrets are in the Secrets of Shading course tho :0
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Another week another update!
Some warm ups! I am considering to do something else on fridays, like observation exercises based on shapes. I clearly need those!
A Sphere Group for FFI!
And some portrait exercises. Damn, these are the reason I'll do something else on fridays lol
My takeaway from these is that blocking and value groups are the most important things. I got lost in details in some portraits and that kinda ruined them lol some faces may even look a bit cartooney... so I'll definitely work on my observation skills moving forward. Any advice to improve stuff like this?
Aaand my story and the characters are written! Now I'll make a list of everything I need to draw and hopefully I'll start the production stage next week!
Anyway thanks for reading! :)) have a lovely week!
Man your gesture drawing looks so fluid and expressive. I do recommend to try exaggerate the pose a bit more (e.g. push the hips further if you feel that's what the character want to do) to further define the pose.
And your portrait studies look so damn good. Just me asking but how you determine which style you want to do for each portrait as I notice a mix of different art styles.
Thanks a lot for the kind words Gordon! I'll play around with those action lines some more to convey more energy, I'll do this starting tomorrow.
The thing with the styles is that it all happened by accident I drew 2-3 heads a day and some days I was more focused at the beginning of the session and some others I started off pretty weak and gained confidence as I drew more. I'm having a hard time with proportions, which is why the styles are different. My intention with this exercise was to sharpen my observation skills, it worked in a few of these and failed in most. But I still learned a lot!
Warm ups for this week! Today I tried to exaggerate my gesture lines! I think I'll research some more into this topic!
Some head / face studies! I don't think I remember all the parts now but at least I memorized the structures which counts as progress maybe!
A picture of Ashe from Fire Emblem 3 Houses... my favorite game ever! The neck - sternum area is still a zone of conflict
Anyway! That's all I've got for this week! Next week will have more updates, I assure you! I drew other things but they're not finished atm
Have a nice weekend!
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