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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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1 month later

Aug '24

I just realized the cast shadow of this thing should probably be in different direction. :smile:
As for what it's supposed to be? A ghost of sorts, except completely solid.

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Some more world building. This crest was (re)designed based on its written description.
And around it are different variants I tried along with the canon design, which I sort of disagree with because I think it looks goofy.

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Everybody needs a hobby. :smile:

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Apologies for the quality, I swear this is actually better visible IRL.

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This is my first ever D&D character. :smile: And yes, she is supposed to have no visible eyes. They are glowing as it's a feature from her prestige class.

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29 days later

Sep '24

This month's theme was Star Wars. No particular reason. :smile:

A lightsaber, katana-style:

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A Jedi temple statue:

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A Sith temple:

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And with that, I finished my first sketchbook. :smiley:
My new sketchbook doesn't have the ring binder, which is pretty handy, I've got to admit.

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An amulet of fire protection:

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Sep '24

Keep 'em coming. I want a katana light saber for my every day carry.

16 days later

cedricgoModerator
Sep '24

Nice work and congrats for finishing your sketchbook! Keep it up!

10 days later

Oct '24

So happy that you like my silly doodles. :smiley:

Still on a Star Wars bender, so to speak. :smile: I tried to design holocrons, a Jedi one and a Sith one respectively.

The shading on the Sith holocron could definitely be better, but I run out of ideas how to fix it.

I forgot what the prompts was about for this one. Something about an outdoor scene, perhaps.

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A sea monster:

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And my favorite submission for this month's Promptathon, a unicorn horn flute:

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1 month later

Nov '24

It was October, so just like so many others, I've picked up an art challenge to follow.
I didn't really do it every day, because life happened and because Drawabox is taking up a lot of my time and brainpower. :smile:

Anyway, the challenge I chose is called MYSTober. It is created by studio Cyan, the makers of Myst. Its prompts are based on the game Myst and its sequels, and also the entire setting as a whole, so it's going to be very nerdy. You have been warned. :stuck_out_tongue:

I don't think any of these constitutes a spoiler necessarily, surely nothing that would not be found pretty early in the games. The lore is not mine, it's all found in the games and the companion novels.

MYSTober day 2: "Worship" - The main antagonist from Riven, Gehn, likes to style himself as a creator god of his Ages, as he believes that he creates the world he Writes.
MYSTober day 4: "Mechanism" - This is just a rough recreation of the entrance to one of the Ages on Myst, the Mechanical Age.

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MYSTober day 11: "Home" - No home is complete without a cat. :smile: This is completely non-canon. It's supposed to be Atrus, relaxing at home with a book. He's never depicted with a cat in the games, but he seems like a cat person.

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MYSTober day 16: "Balance" - Did not know what to do for this one, so this is basically supposed to be a rock formation somebody Wrote to balace like this.

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MYSTober day 21: "Maintain" - The Guild of Maintainers in ancient D'ni had, among other responsibilities, been tasked with going to newly Written Ages to determine if they are safe for people. They used these bulky EV suits which were designed to be resistant to pretty much anything from vacuum of space to a supernova.

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MYSTober day 28: "Instability" - That's supposed to be a rift in reality right in the middle of the sea. Not where it canonically was in Riven.

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MYSTober day 31: Book - This is my take on what the Book of Riven might have looked like.

29 days later

Dec '24

I often struggle with coming up with drawing ideas and kind of rely on idea generators. Well, not this time! I've come up with an idea for an OC and decided to draw it before I could talk myself out of it. For a change, it actually doesn't have anything to do with Star Wars or D&D.

Meet Nadya, a scavenger/trader in a post-apocalyptic, flooded world.

And then I decided to just run with the theme for the rest of the month. :smile:

It's a dangerous job, but somebody's got to do it.

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Sometimes a small treasure can be found.

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New customers spotted!

Greetings, new friends, can I interest you in the old world's treasures?

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1 month later

Jan 1

Another year has passed, time for another summary. :smile: This time in the form that might be a liitle easier to read.

  • January - About half and half between digital and trad, with topic all over the place, from character design, still lives and some landscapes
  • February - Digital is on the decline. :smile: I just decided that before I start getting more serious with digital art, I first need to get used to drawing in general.
  • March - This was my last semi-decent digital piece, from now on it's fully trad. Still all over the place.
  • April - More prop design, and a happy little accident of a scene.
  • May - Some prop design based on prompts. Mostly character design.
  • June - Designing OCs for a possible future story / RPG scenario. My characters' proportions are so bad. :smiley: But it was mosty aimed to get an idea across.
  • July - Fleshing out more details for the story.
  • August - This month's theme was Star Wars :smile:
  • September - still on a SW bend.
  • October - MYSTober time. Technically failed, because out of all 31 prompts I actually did like 10.
  • November - Worldbuilding for another scenario. I will actually use them eventually. :smile:
  • December - Mostly brainstorming other landscapes to be possibly used for a Myst-like game.

A couple of thoughts:

  • I'm still working on Drawabox. Recently passed lesson 6. Turns out I severely underestimated how long the lessons will actually take. :smiley: But even at the pace I'm currently trucking, I should be able to finish it this year unless something unexpected happens.
  • I was surprised to look back at this year and see how much I improved. Even without taking any specific courses in anatomy, I can sort of eyeball a reasonably decent human figure. Learning all that properly is on my to-do list.
  • I need to get a better phone or figure out how to take better pictures of drawings. :smile:

Happy New Year! :fireworks:

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