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?in24.6k
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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Welcome aboard, looking forward to your world building.
I have decided that for now, these are the only parts of the Image Adjustments assignment that I'm taking on. The second image for the Curves and the all in one combination at the end, I uh, yeah no lmao. I'm giving up on those for now. Also gonna bypass the merging and liquify stuff too (I don't feel too bad about that though since I'm doing other Photoshop learning anyway in other ways through other online learning).
Really really proud of myself with the work I did here in Hue/Saturation! I was super duper close with all of them. By that I mean that for the majority, I was spot on in terms of the Hue, Saturation, and/or Brightness value. And even for those where I wasn't exact for any, was still very close, being off by a few digits or so. So, that made me feel quite good!
This two I was like so on the nose, at least that's what it looks like to me. I think mine is just a tiny bit darker in some areas still (like the mountain in the back for example, if you look really close), but still felt really good!
As you can see by the text lol, I almost gave up on this one too (for now), but eventually got it to a poitnt where I was like, "Alright, this is fine enough for me, if I keep going I'm just going to drive myself crazy," and this was already after taking like a day or two break away from it when trying my first attempt. Opposite to the Curves above, mine is more brighter or like vibrant (popping with more color?) than the original (if you look at the lemon in the top left you can tell), but oh well. Still turned out pretty nice though, ya know?
All in all (again) I'm mainly wanting to bypass the Photoshop stuff (since I'm learning from other online sources) and am really trying to get into actually drawing. So off I go to Nude Figure Drawing and Gestures!
Here goes my first attempt with the beginning assignments regarding the Figure Drawing! I first started out with random cylinders, and then went straight ahead into drawing limbs, action lines, and so forth over reference images (used free ones from Rachel Bradley pinned in the discord). Drawing the cylinder limbs was honestly a lot of fun and I think they came out well for first try. Struggled with placing the head, torse/ribs, and waist circles, but can only go up from here, yea?
Below are three sets of the figure drawings: the ones over it, them on their own (references hidden), and then side-by-side sorta.
Would love any input, thoughts, and/or critique if you notice anything or want to point stuff out to help!
2 months later
Been a while since I posted to here haha. School and work really took my time away, so I basically didn't get around to much art studies/art school work throughout the month of February, but I'm on Spring Break as of writing this and have had time to really dedicate getting back into the swing of things! I've got three new things to share that I started back in January and just recently finished up. As always, would love any input/thoughts/feedback/critique!
Top 10 Drawing Exercises (from the weekly constructed schedule; term one week three). I had first started this back in January, then when I got to the Color Blending, I had so much fun with it that I took a break/pause from the exercises overall and went and did a bunch more of the color blending on its own lol. It was then, with the beginning of this month (March 2024), that I returned and finally finished up the bottom row:
Color Blending Exercise (as part of the ten from above). Like I said, really had fun just blending, so did a bunch more to try. These I actually got done back at the beginning of February, so at least there was something that I accomplished that month:
Drawing The Female Body (from Marc's video named the same and is pinned in the Term 1 discord). Even though I'm just starting out, and of course they're not the greatest, I"m really proud of my beginner's point. It's not like I have much reference to show this, but looking at this makes me feel like I've gained so much in what I've learned in these past two months of starting art school as opposed to anything in my life that I've done art wise, ya know? Like it feels like I'm truly gonna be on the path of wonderful improvement thanks to the teachings of the fundamentals and most importantly the set up structure that Marc has provided, and that makes me excited for the future of my art progress:
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