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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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  • 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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Dec '21

Hey everyone. An introduction seems to be the standard, so I start there.

About myself, my name is Tim, I'm 36 Years old and I'm completely new to art. I work as a programmer on a game with a small indie team and have very limited time between my work and family, but I wanted to give art a try. I just expect very slow progress because of my time, but I will try to get something done every day.
How I got to art is pretty simple: In the game dev team I'm probably the least artistic person but I'm very impressed what the artists are able to create and archieve. At first (about 2 month ago) I just wanted to improve my understanding of art, so I can appreciate and critique the work of the artists from a better perspective, than I'm able to do right now. While reseaching for a bit I began to find much more that I would like to learn and that wasn't totally obvious to me at first glance. Like learning to read emotions better (where I got some problems with) and become a better observer. And by now the fascination about art took over and I wanted to try and learn it by myself.
My goal is also straight forward: I want to be able to create fanart for our game (and maybe other games) where you can clearly identify it as such. My thoughts are, that with this goal, I will achieve or at least tackle every other goal I have mentioned on the way, I hope. I'm pretty sure the goal will develop further if I get this one done. :+1:

With that in mind a friend gave me his old tablet (Wacom Intuos CTH-690) for a couple of bucks and I started by searching and watching beginner videos on YT. Pretty early I came across Marc, liked his style of teaching and explaining things and with that I landed here (currently on the trial course to see if it's for me) and I'm currently on my 5th day of ever using a tablet to learn digital art. I'm a bit ashamed on posting these works, but somehow I have to get feedback and tipps. So I appreciate all critique, feedback and tipps from you and hope this stuff is not too basic for this forum. And I hope everything is understandable, since english isn't my first language. :blush:
I watched the first two videos of the course (Visual Communication and Photoshop for Digital Prod - I'm not sure about the order, but I understood everything so far) and did the first assignment several times.

Term 1 - Pen Control

Already struggling with that one, but I guess that's true for everything you do for the first time. It's extremely confusing for me to paint in front of me and look at the monitor at the same time. As settings I use the newest Clip Studio Paint and the brush is the G-Pen with brush size 5, pressure only for opacity (except the first attempt) for the first three tasks and size 70 with the needed pressure options as needed. All with no stabilization (I don't know if it matters and what it does excactly, but when looking at the settings I thought, that that's surely not helping for what this assignments try to teach) :smile:

Here is my very first attempt:

Here after 5 days. Every day after the first I made this two times. So this is the 8th or 9th attempt:

It's only 5 days, but I hope it's okay if I post this assignment multiple times in the future. As I understood this thread should serve as a Journey and I like the Idea of having a timeline of progress like this.
I also did the Image Adjustments once, but unfortunately I didn't save this one. I will do it again and post it when I did.

Dec '21

Welcome to the forums! so great practice so far and don't worry about being embarrassed we all start somewhere in art. For your pen exercises I would say try using your whole arm or should when you draw lines that way your lines become easier to draw, and also try drawing fast strokes as well that helps your line look less wobbly when doing a straight line or drawing a circle.

Dec '21

Hey, thanks a lot for the advice. I already try not using my wrist and more of my arm, but I think it's not working good so far. I think it's because I'm used to use my wrist and fingers a lot more while writing with a pen. But I'll focus on that and faster strokes as you suggest. :thumbsup:

18 days later

Dec '21

Hey, I tried the suggestions and felt comfortable enough, that I just started the next part of the course (Nude Figure Drawing).

Again the first assignment with the suggestions you gave me (draw faster and use the whole arm). After looking up how to use the arm and holding the pen I think I found a comfortable way of holding the pen and barely use my wrist anymore in these assignments. Also I deliberately try to speed up the lines. I still struggle a bit to follow the lines at the circles with more speed, escpecially in the second half where I "push" the pen (I'm left handed and draw circles counter-clockwise, so the right half when going up from the bottom point).

Then from the first assignment the color Adjustments. I tried the last one quite a long time, but couldn't get it better. I can see, that some parts are off, but since all operations should affect the whole image, I couldn't find the perfect balance:

And last some first tries at finding the action line.
As I saw from other posts nudity is okay for this purpose? Also I hope it's okay that I use these images. I got them from https://quickposes.com/ and just used the "Free model poses" library there. It just sais you shouldn't use the in my work, but since the page is for training purposes I guess it's okay.
If either one is not okay, I will delete them right away. Please just tell me in this case.
So here are the tries. I would like to know if I'm on the right track with those before going further and adding the marks for head, ribcage and pelvis.

Dec '21

so for your line of actions, they don't have to only extend from the base of the neck down to the butt nor do they have to follow the spine exactly either. You could definitely push those lines of actions more and if you see that the line extends/flows through the body to the arms or legs then don't be afraid to follow it there, other than that great work and the Mei adjustment is very hard and almost no one gets it 100% correct so don't worry too much about that.