- 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?in24.3k
- 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 youin1.4k
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I'm an amateur too, but I’ll try to help and give a little critique for your artwork.
First of all there are some nicely done parts:
- the design looks pretty nice.
- The anatomy of this character looks good to me.
- I like the rain effects
In myopinion there are two main problems with this piece
The first is the composition. It is an extremely boring composition. The rule
of thirds don’t work and the Balance is symmetrical. So with this, you don’t really
have a working focal point.
So my
suggestion is to make use of the Iconic Composition. It is often used for
character pieces, so you can have your focal point in the middle of your image
(red area).
The second "problem" is your linework. I struggle with this by myself but I suggest you to make cleaner lines and not those scribble lines. But as I said I’m really an beginner,
especially with lines. Maybe someone other can help you better on this subject.
Actually I startet a topic on this and someone postet a few Videos, maybe take a look at these: My lineart topic
Hope thatthis helps you a bit
And keep drawing
Hey! So.. i don't want to come across as the the wise old man because I'm also not perfect but i thought why not giving some helpful critics All in all i think its a good Illustration. What I would maybe do different is the lighting , since its more of a dark and grey scenario i would make that pop of light in the background a bit more effective on the character ...if that makes sense..xD and since the character is in the focus point you can give it more contrast.. Also since the Gun is made of metal, it shines more and also reflects the colours of the cape/scarf and light way more
but yeah...anatomy seems about right ;D
I think is great for a start, looks rushed, like you made it in less than half an hour, it needs more definition, the line dont look final, I would make that line layer a little bit transparent and then do a new line that will be more "pristine".
The colors are nice and the palette is good, probably you can contrast more or are more color balance using some bluish shadows.
There has been some talk about the composition I think is good, but I would have all the cape drawn so you can see the end of the cape, and then place the soldier a little bit to the left of the canvas, so is not centered and use the cape as a focal point in that drags the eye to the character (probably I didnt explain that part really well).
Define more the line, offcenter the composition, use some more color balance and add some blue to the shadow tones.
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