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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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  • 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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Oct '20

Hey there, it’s been a while since my last post here in the forums (again), but after I finished Term 5, I thought it might be interesting, and helpful to share my assignments with you. Since I completed all these already, I’m planning to go over individual steps and share my workflow and thought process with you. First, I will go over one of my creature designs, and after this, I’ll do the same for one of my character designs. I hope everything is understandable, English is not my native language, but if something is unclear feel free to ask. Of course, if you have any feedback, I would love to hear it.

Creature Step 1:
So basically the first thing I do is read the assignments. In this case, there is nothing too specific other than create a believable fantasy creature. I usually follow the first idea that comes in my mind. For this, I went with a medium to large carnivore that can fly and lives in a jungle environment. After this, I go on Pinterest and collect references. In this case different birds, dinosaurs and big cats basically everything that reminds of my first idea.

Creature Step 2:
After I have some pictures, I start doing thumbnails. At this stage, everything goes. While I’m doing these, I have my reference images open to get more inspiration. For these thumbnails, I used mostly the lasso tool to create a silhouette and some basic shading to get some internal details. For this stage, I like to use just three values to focus really on the shapes. For my final design, I decided to work with thumbnail 4.

Creature Step 3:
Now I have an idea of what my final design could look like. But before I start drawing, I go back and see if I need more specific reference images. I like to start my final piece with a sketch. This sketch can be very rough or refined depending on how comfortable I’m moving on with the design. Other than that, I try to refine the anatomy and proportion, but things can and will change later on. Also, I like to have my thumbnail somewhere on my canvas so I can refer back to it when I need it.

Creature Step 4:
After I’m happy with my sketch, I use the lasso tool once again to create a silhouette. I can use this later for masking different layers. Then I block in the colours I want to use. In this case, I was aiming for an almost triade colour palette with green as my primary colour. I decided to use these colours after I saw the picture of a tropical bird with similar colours.

Creature Step 5:
I paint in some basic shadows and lights on an extra layer using a mask so I don’t paint outside of my creature. I usually keep working in colour because I find it much harder to add colours after a complete grayscale painting. But I still check my values using a layer filled with black and set to saturation. If I turn this layer on I can see the image in black and white.

Creature Step 6:
From there it's »just« refining things. I try to get rid of the linework by using sharp and soft edges to show the forms of what I'm painting. Also, I built up my shadows and lights and decrease my brush size for smaller details. Because the head is, in this case, the focal point I try to start there and put the most detail around the head area. Also, it's worth mentioning that it's never too late for adjustments but more on that in the next step.

Creature Step 7:
Because the wings were something that was bothering me a lot, I had to make several changes to them. For now, I decided to remove them altogether and work on the arms and legs that were covered by the large feathers. By doing this, I got a better understanding of how the feathers form the wings on the arms. For this step, I took a closer look into different dinosaurs with wings and how they are structured. I think it is important to change things that are not working until you are satisfied with the result.

Creature Step 8:
To speed up the process, I used a photo for the final wings. Before I painted over the photo, I adjusted the value, colour and saturation to match the rest of my piece. After this, I painted in some more feathers to blend in the photo with the rest. By the way, this is not the only photo I used. For the head, I did the same thing with the difference that I changed the layer mode to get some happy accidents

Creature Step 9:
For some reasons I really like adding rim lights to my paintings. It makes everything looks more 3D, and it can help with the readability too. I usually put in blue light from behind and try to imagine where the light can hit the object. I try to avoid contouring everything because then the opposite occurs, and it makes everything flatter. Then some final adjustments to the light and colour using Curves and Hue/Saturation and the creature itself is complete.

Creature Step 10:
For the final step, I add a shadow on the ground and add some colour to my background. Then I paint in some dust particles and brighten some parts behind the creature. And last but not least I make a new layer set to overlay, fill it with 50% grey, add a noise filter and lower the opacity. Its something I almost always do because it brings everything together. And there is the final image.

And some colour variations:

Oct '20

Oof, I love all of them. Each variation is so cool. Could be color variations within one species depending on their area of habitat? :smile:

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