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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?
  • 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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Hello! I'm Ricardo and I'm an Artist, 3D Animator, and avid Blender user. I've been drawing a long time and have even attended art classes in college, but when I went for my degree in 3D animation, I was told to put art aside and focus on 3D animation. While I'm (somewhat) confident in my abilities, I feel that my fundamentals need improving and that I really need to get over my fear of drawing backgrounds/perspective.

I had been watching Marc's tutorials for sometime now and even finished his 30 Day challenge which inspired me to want to join the Art School. By the end of the Terms, I'm hoping to sharpen my skills and have an improved portfolio for work, or to become a content creator who can better illustrate my stories I want to tell.

Also... I've already been working on Term 1 since last month, but haven't gotten around to posting due to IRL stuff, but I am going to try to post on a weekly basis or whenever I finish a Term Assignment.

Wish me luck, and I wish you all the best and success on your journeys as artists. :smile:

Welcome to the forums! glad to se another animator here! (tho i do 2d and not super into 3d animation haha)

That is also why i got this course and i feel that it has really helped both doing the homework and getting the feedback from the awesome community here :smiley: I no longer fear drawing backgrounds and have gotten much better at it, though still not as good as i wanna be.

imo you have a great tool - blender - which u can make 3d models and set the perspective and draw over it. i also wanna learn blender to make fancy buildings so i can put it in perspective and draw over it to make things easier but i have so much stuff to work on (my personal project that i've been working on since 2017) i keep putting it off lmao

eyy same :smiley: my personal project is a story that im worldbuilding/plotbuilding/character building with 5 mcs, 100s of side characters i still need to fully flesh out, across 2 worlds and about 24 arcs so i draw a lot of my characters when doing some of the hw assignments :smiley:

Can't wait to see more of your work and your story! :smiley:

Hi Ricardo! Welcome in the forum. It made me sad that you was told to put art aside. (It may be a good reason behind that.) How wonderful, that you are back to enjoy art.

Same! I caught a glimpse of your work and your animations with the shapes and body perspective is amazing! :smiley:

Happy to hear your journey has helped you improve on backgrounds regardless.

That's a pretty cleaver use of Blender. That and combined with the Add-On FSpy, would help a lot. FSpy is an add-on that helps you set the scene to model in a particular perspective based on a reference of a room or whichever.

Sounds like you've got an epic saga planned. Hope your journey continues to bring you closer to your goals! :smile:

Likewise! :smile:

Thank you! Either way, I'm glad to be learning and improving. The courses have really been changing the way I approach things. :smile:

Welcome dude! I'd love to see your assingment works to see your progress. I also do animations (2D) from time to time and pixel art, but I really wanted to sharpen my skills and go over the fundamentals, just like you.

Good luck dude!

Welcome aboard! can't wait to see your work

cheers

Term 1 - Photoshop Practice

Not a lot of apples, but I really wanted to focus on making it look convincing.
And as you can see, I took some liberties on the stamp/heal brush assignment. XD

This assignment was by far my most favorite. I adore sci-fi fantasy scenery and I wanted to try my hand at making my own. I had a hard time figuring out the placement of the airship, but a friend of mine suggested that I shrink it down and put it closer to the castle so the center of focus was easier on the eyes. All in all, I love how this turned out.

Term 1 - Figure Drawing Practice

I'm no stranger to figure drawing, but the tips and tricks Marc shared really changed my approach on the concept especially with foreshortening.

Daily Gesture Drawing - Day 1

Daily Gesture Drawing - Day 5

Term 1 - Perspective

The fear of many (next to hands), but after doing these assignments, I feel a little more comfortable tackling this subject and I look forward to what lies ahead in mastering it.

Squares/Shapes in Perspective

Meant to show this again without the rough lines, buuuut... you know you work hard on a layer but realize too late you were on the wrong one?... Yup. :sweat_smile:

Street Perspective Studies

This is the first room I've ever done in a long while so I kept it simple. Referenced from the house kitchen.

It's supposed to be two point but it looks kind like 3 point. haha

It's so uncanny how seemingly complex doing shapes in perspective appears at first until you realize that it's all just a matter of dividing squares into smaller squares/triangles until you get the angle you need. This course never ceases to amaze me and I can't wait for what's next in Term 2!