- 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?in24.4k
- 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 youin1.5k
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Well... well... well... swivels chair 180 degrees.... Glad to see you've made quite a bit of progress on this piece my good sir. As I am a man of my word I've been awaiting its arrival! Now to switch it up, because doing the same thing after a while become pretty mundane and redundant. I shall not critique you on what I believe could be done to improve this piece rather, let's talk about what I feel you've done a great job of executing.
Armor design+Runestone
- Might I just say, job well done on the armor, Though it may not be very practical that's another fantasy element you, many others and myself enjoy. The reason I like your armor is because it looks sturdy. The material it's made of looks durable, the slim sleek design complements the character while working in harmony with the glowing incantation in the back... and over all red was possibly the best color to choose for this illustration.
Contrasting (Light and Shadow)
- You're becoming a lot more conscious about light and shadow and it's ability to awaken the viewer. Great job experimenting and trying to push this piece even further, I love to see that in an artist!
(Make sure you don't push the contrasting element to far however, watch the glint on the sword it's almost blinding to look at)
- Also I would have never seen those leafs if you hadn't upped the contrasting factor of this piece great work.
Look man, I'm glad to see where you took this piece and what I ask of you now is to truly remember the elements that helped this piece succeed in areas and fail in others. What's most important is that we learn from our mistakes and empower our-self's with success. all in all terrific job and as always, I can't wait to see more!
Exofley, Signing out.
May the gods bless your art journey throughout the realm of Cubebrush Sir Martone.
Contrasted pieces are the best, I'm glad you give a try to it ! They are also a great challenge because the forces you to percieve volume a little bit differently.
Paint over time!
Here what could be done in order to improve your art work:
To give more depth to your character use the shadow caused by the ray of light at your
advantage. You character is in volume which mean, even if she’s standing
against the wall the shadow will never be straight. It will rather follow the
body’s part volume resulting into some curves.
I added some shadow under her breast and neck considering the light come from the upper
right. It is always interesting to make the lighting coming from another
direction especially in contracted pieces like this one.
I made the red rune shine a little bit more … it could be interesting if the shade would
be affected by this red. This would give an interesting atmosphere and it might
help to make the character's silouhette more obvious in the shadow.
Also make the skin warmer, there’s blood underneath! This will make the shadows more
red/orange.
I thought adding some leaf on the left would make the composition more balanced.
Hope it will help!
Hi guys,
Thank you so much for you critiques and positive feedback. Lighting is a very complex area and while I feel I have a good understanding of how it works it's hard to get every aspect of it right, especially in a complex composition. Like corne-branche pointed out, I missed the shadows on the body coming from the top right light source. After looking at a project for so long it is possible to miss glaring problems like I did in this instance.
corne-branche, Thank you for taking the time to do a paint over, I appreciate the feedback.
exofley, shout-out to you man. I see you comment on nearly every post with some feedback. Thanks for being such an active part of this community. Also you remembered my progess post that you commented on a while ago even though I didn't even post this one in the same topic. Thanks a ton for your encouraging remarks.
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