• Gave myself 5 days to do something. This is what I managed to do. I'm trying to get better at illustrations, but I have patience to work on something for 3 days maximum :( Splash_Process.jpg5000x3140 2.21 MB Splash_Process-6.jpg3896x2429 2.83 MB concept list char copy.jpg5388x3000 1.7 MB
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  • Did a character concept for a course.https://www.artstation.com/artwork/P6gm3y - more:) list1.jpg3541x1920 2.82 MB
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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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  • A creature design from a while back
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  • Here is some more recent stuff, I need to make more body studies
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  • It's been a while and god, it is so cringe to go through all previous messages xDmy study.
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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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  • Long time no see! New artworks produced lately
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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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Aug '23

Good to know! The Photoshop version still seems to have a lot more options unless 2.0 changed a whole lot. Which it could have. However I don't think it's compatible with windows 7 and I haven't swapped over to Linux again - yet.

Here is my "Photoshop" final project for Term 1 - all stock is royalty free from Pixabay. I used four images, considered a fifth but didn't end up using it. Not totally happy over the lighting but had fun with the concept. For a little extra light and shadow I used a top layer with hard light and a soft brush. Been paying attention to Marc!

Aug '23

Doing my perspective class - the last one from Term 1. Have done all the explanation and am working through the assignments. I'm not all that inspired by one point perspective so my room is not nearly as cool as Marc's is.

Aug '23

Final Perspective assignment for Term 1. I had a couple challenges. One, it was kind of hard drawing something where both vanishing points were actually on my canvas. Two, I kept wanting to convert to three point perspective. I still did something recognizable and then had a blast with the colors. As usual. I was going for a "buildings are basalt, floor is lava" type vibe for some reason. Of course the shop is a smithy. I should probably do this exercise again, or a version of it, but I really don't do full close up environments all that often. it's still a great skill!

Aug '23

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ooh really like the reflective windows! looks like some kind of mythical creature lives there XD maybe a dragon that can turn into a human or something

Aug '23

Back to it! I may not do quite as much practice in Term 1 as prescribed but there are some fundamentals I've done quite a bit. For years. So what I'm doing now is trying to translate my fluency with things like ink and graphite over to the tablet. Display tablet on weekends as a treat. (It's harder to hook up.) Here is my first sheet of primitives (Life-changing drawing practice number 1) and a sheet with a 1 minute pose and two 2 minute poses. I did others but am just putting this up as none are that great, I only want to have a benchmark for the future. Right know I could knock any of the basic exercises out with ease but the tablet constrains me a bit too much as far as the mobility of my wrist and shoulder, as my desk ergonomics are kind of bad.

Thank you Lightning_Flower and Mitsuki-Youko! I kept imagining some type of rugged lizard-man living in the town and shopping at the smithy.

Aug '23

Nice, I feel you on getting used to tablets, I had to get used to non display after my huion died on me. If you are having trouble with being able to make broader strokes I recommend propping up the tablet on something (I personally use a Parblo stand that came with a glove) it helps with the ergonomics

cheers!

Aug '23

Checking in - just finished Communication 2, beginning Anatomy 1. I like how this course gives me art related things to do that require creativity, and other things that don't. This way when I'm wiped out from work I can still feel like I'm improving myself! Even though some of the topics are basic to me at this point, I still pick up new things here and there, and it's still filling in gaps.

9 days later

Sep '23

Completed Anatomy 1, working my way through Perpective 2. Here are some reference notes for Anatomy 1. There's a bit of an issue at the beginning of the lesson, a part that repeats once, but it's not really a problem, just something I wanted to mention in case anyone was looking for things to fix. It's probably in the first 10 percent of the content. If anyone wants me to find the timestamp I could do that.

Sep '23

Assignment for Perspective 2: I'll probably try a better version of this assignment at some point but tonight I just wanted to do something fun and simple. Couldn't resist a bridge across a canyon. I want to play with repetition in my next project and maybe push the epicness a bit more.

Sep '23

Photoshop for Digital Production 2 - I totally get how to use the text tools in Photoshop, however Clip Studio Paint (original version not the updated one) doesn't use layer styles quite the same way. So I had to improvise. I will also have to skip the smart object assignment because I haven't seen that work in Clip Studio Paint either. Not too upset, I don't foresee myself ever doing package or product design. Only logos, which I can do now, after a fashion. "Only Hands" is my budding art YouTube channel, provided I ever get it off the ground.

4 months later

Jan '24

Hi all and happy 2024!

I've been a bit hit or miss with my art lately but here's evidence that I'm still doing some coursework. :smile: Of late, I've been pulling back from posting anything online and it's been more satisfying to fill up my physical sketchbooks, not to mention a little more portable. So I've been doing most of my clothed figure drawing with graphite, chalks and such.
I figure, if it gets me practicing, there's no real harm and though I like working in digital (and also need to get better at it) my first love is probably always going to be traditional. These are a bit messy and rough because I was using a 5.6 mm leadholder, but it feels so good in the hand!

26 days later

Feb '24

Still working - I've gotten through Anatomy 2 and Clothed figure drawing, though I admit I may skip the 3d modeling segment for now. It's just not relevant to my path right now, though I might return to it later.

I wanted to share a tip though! If you need good gesture drawing and figure drawing material, searching "dancer action poses" or "ballet action poses" will yield great, and free, results. I've also been finding some neat, dramatic reference material on photographer portfolios. Hope this helps someone!