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  • Day 4: Star Wars May The 4th =] Queen Padmé Amidala in my art style! First time drawing her and I really enjoyed making this one! Used watercolours, ink pen, acrylic markers and gold paint for accents on my Canson mix media sketchbook. I hope you like it!
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  • Here is some more recent stuff, I need to make more body studies
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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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Jan 23

Based on my limited knowledge, yeah. Based on one of 3D Animator Dikko's video on 3D modeling for animation, animating the figure would be more optimized if the polygons on the figure were arranged a certain way. I followed another approach from Bran Sculpts, but I was overzealous in how much polygons I was adding to my figure during the retopology phase. So I created way more work on myself unfortunately, and this has led to some odd areas in my model where some polygons/faces look unevenly spaced.

But this has been a good learning experience for me. I'm still afraid to jump into 3D animation frankly, but I also can't help but feel excited about the possibilities of what else I could do with it.

Jan 27

you can start with something really easy like a bouncing ball :smiley:

That's where I started ^u^ (not to say my 3D is all that good but thats where we started in 3D animation class)

I basically just move things around and then keyframe em XD

The task here if i recall properly was just to animate a ball with a tail jumping across something so that you could challenge yourself to animate the movement but I went ALL out XD

Obstacle Course

This was the final i think.. been like 7 or 8 years since i graduated lmao so dont quite remember, but ofc like always I went all out XD and it was super fun but most of it was just literally moving around spheres, cylinders, rhombus's

Norman vs Norman

Here's some more 3D I did - but these are all rather simplistic, like maybe you can try just animating a few fingers or just the hand and get the hang of it :smiley: most of the time i literally just moved the arms/legs/ slightly rotated the body and that was like half the movement :stuck_out_tongue: https://youtu.be/E4xPMOioLfw?feature=shared

but good luck! 3D can be really fun! you can sculpt better than i can :smiley:

Jan 28

Wow, these are amazing :heart_eyes: ! I really enjoy the mixed media approach in the last one, mixing live action with 2D and 3D animation.

Yeah, I should start with something easy in order to not get too discouraged. I guess the other challenge would be trying to balance doing 2D and 3D art :sweat_smile:

Feb 3

While I'm setting aside my character model, I decided to return to illustration. I plan to redo the flower composition (the one where my character was flying past my flower). I am modeling a 3D flower, partly for reference and partly for practicing on Blender so that I don't get rusty with the program. I still need to add some more branches.

Feb 7

I'm not done with my flower yet, but I am very proud of combining two parts together with relatively "smooth" and "clean" topology. I'll have to add in some edge loops and resize and readjust some areas as I keep going though.

Feb 8

Finally done modeling my 3D Flower. I might texture this later, but for now, I think this is good enough for my illustration

8 days later

Feb 17

Ok, I probably didn't even need to create the 3d model of the flower in the first place. I feel like I could have free-handed the flower. However, I still got some good practice in with 3D modeling in Blender. So far, I've been pushing myself in composition, keeping in mind the foreground, midground and background and looking up references of environments to see what other details I could add to the drawing. I'm going to add some screen tones and some color next. The white areas are where I'm going to convey how the rain lands on the environment.

Feb 17

This is looking very cool!

Few things i notice, one is that composition wise the major point of interest seems to be right in the middle (very symmetric composition), the plants on the sides aim at the point of interest but also away from it as the branch strongly and in multiple directions. Some of the contour lines on the members are off angle giving things like the figure’s right arm an off look, and some have tangents like on the thigh vs lower leg. The plant texture reads well but some of the contour lines used may conflict with eachother giving a more flat look on some areas. Finally, the line weight of the two plants’ outline is very strong, catching the eye away from the main subject

Feb 18

Thank you for your critique! I will definitely try to address all of the issues that you have brought up!!! It's a good thing I haven't put in any shadows yet haha :sweat_smile:

Feb 24

Based on snakker's critique, I fixed the foreground's flowers, changing up the direction of the branches and some of the details so that they're not too repetitive. I also tried to make the flowers' petals and leaves more droopy so that there is a more depressed feeling to the illustration. I also changed up the tattoos on Freya to conform to the contours of her body so that the foreshortening doesn't look too off anymore. I also added more of her wings on her right side because I want to give some more info to the viewer on how her wings looked, but they are currently damaged. I also made some changes to the trees' branches. My fixes look pretty sketchy right now, but I plan to tighten up the details, like the details and contours of the flowers' stems and Freya's tattoos and the line quality overall.

Feb 25

Looking good mate! Glad my critique helped, it definitely conveys the idea very clearly

Mar 4

I've been working on a very buff and muscular 3d figure that I plan to draw over in order to create character design iterations for at least 2 characters [they will not be in the same worlds, but they are fantasy-related]. I could have just drawn the figure on Clip Studio, but I wanted to keep up with practicing 3d sculpting in Blender.

I'm still working on my illustration, but I plan to do some comic book coloring studies and learn how to color in line art better so that my illustration can look as best as it can be.

19d

Eyy thanks!

ooh that is a really pretty flower model!

Woah, that looks fancy!

I like how it turned out! tho imo the lower part of the stem is too dark

haha can relate XD

but modeling is kinda fun

Yooo this looks great!! :smiley:

Tho imo the wings and the flower seem to ALMOST tangent each other..

17d

Aaaagh I can't unsee it anymore :sob: Thank you for pointing it out! I'll have to fix this. Thank goodness for layers lol

16d

hahaha np :smiley: and yes thank goodness for layers XD

o yea btw are you on discord too? :smiley:

15d

Yeah I'm on discord. I'm not super active on it – especially recently, but I do check from time to time whenever I remember/get the chance to check.

13d

I finally finished my illustration. I think I took it as far as I can go. It was nice to try out different things with the coloring, rain effects, etc. But I think it's time to move on. I think I need to keep pushing myself in terms of composition.

Also, I'm finally getting back into retopolgy. It's a bit confusing, since I'm referring to the tutorial again, but my model is different from the YouTuber's, eo I have to keep mind how my retopology might be a bit different than his.

8d

Illustration looks amazing! I love the colors and mood