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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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I was asked to share how i made my artwar 2 character. :wink:

INTRO

Before the contest was announced i was thinking about modelling Selene From Underworld so i knew i had to model a shiny character with latex.
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RESEARCH

Here are some of the references that i used to design this character (many of the refs that i used are not here because they're pretty NSFW) :wink:

Originally, i was going to make a mix of sci-fi/fantasy but after a couple days i found out that it was not allowed. That's what i get for not reading the rules. I then decided to go with something cyberpunk with big bulky technology.
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HEAD PROTOTYPES

I always start with the head since its the hardest thing to make for me. I made around 10 heads but they were terrible so i took a little break to start concepting the outfit.
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Concept

I design my characters in Zbrush using the Dynamesh feature, it may not be the fastest way to make concepts but its how i've been doing it for years.

I started by designing the suit, i liked the shapes but it was too symmetrical, so i made sure that the outer layers would have a lot of asymmetry.
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My goal was to make something with many visible layers, that is why i added those transparent plastic parts.
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I now had a good idea of what the outfit was going to be so i started building the basemeshes.
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BASEMESHES

I imported the dynameshed parts inside blender so i could remake them with clean topology. (Make sure that the models are decimated before importing them to reduce lag)
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HEAD REDO

after designing the outfit i went back to work on the face and i was finally able to make something pretty decent! I love me some thick noses :smile:
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HIGHPOLY: I imported the basemeshes in zbrush and started detailing them using the XMD cloth brushes made by michael dunnam. https://michaeldunnam.com/
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I made the stitching on the shoulders with this technique.
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HAIR PROCESS: i made all the hair strands inside blender and then detailed them inside Zbrush. Since there was no texture budget i decided to model all the hair strands individually.
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Done! What a cutie.
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LOWPOLY

I Decimated the highpoly and imported it in blender to make the lowpoly mesh.

Here it is sitting at 113,472 tris
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BASE PROCESS

i decided to make a beat up sidewalk because it would look good with water on it.
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SKETCHFAB SETTINGS

I love the sketchfab model viewer , it can look really good with proper lighting. Here are my lighting + post processing settings.

https://sketchfab.com/models/2deba92d5b5b4c05b54c663417199217

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CONCLUSION

Hopefully someone learned a thing from this little guide, making this character was a blast! I can't wait for the next art war.

If you got questions hit me up on twitter https://twitter.com/PearForceOne