- 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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I also keep getting pulled around a lot so I'm unable to post my work from Art school.
Decided to be a bit more loose with the cylinders as it is very time consuming to order them the way I have in my previous post.
I'm thinking of cutting back on art school and some of the exercises. Given that my line confidence is pretty decent along with my construction. The thing that continues to baffle me is gesture and how someone can make a pretty convincing figure in just 30s.
I'll be shifting my focus once again, this time towards gesture and mannequin construction so that I can make more progress towards my first goal. I'll also try and throw in a bit of anatomy on the side and try to show what I've been doing in my 50% time spent drawing. I'll be posting my 50% stuff in a separate forum topic under my art blog.
Aaand today's homework:
Pen control
Action lines & skeletons
30 minutes of 30s gestures
And finally more progress on the line art study.
I doubt I'll be able to finish the line art study before the end of this week but it should be fine. Gesture still confuses me so critique is welcome on that. Specifically whether or not I should be able to define the figure more than just stick figures at 30s.
Okay back at it again with the pen control and gestures. Missed yesterday as it was a busy day.
I started doing 1 minute gestures and I really still cannot figure out a way to do them right. Do they have to end up looking like stick figures or do I need to try to add more volume to them.
Anyway here's my homework for the day:
Pen control
30 minutes of 1 minute gestures:
Gonna try and get the proportions study done tomorrow as well. I will be using Loomis' proportions for it.
Back again, missed yesterday due to a business meeting.
Line control from yesterday, I modified it a bit to better suit my strengths and weaknesses.
Today's line control
And today's 30 minutes of 1 minute gesture
I might have to reduce the amount of work I do on art to focus on getting a better job but who knows. I've been getting better sleep so I should have more time in the day to do things.
Couldn't upload yesterday's work so I'm doing it today.
Yesterday's Pen control
Today's Pen control
Tried Michael Hampton's approach to gesture, it looks better to me but I struggle to get everything in time.
Yesterday's 30 minutes of 1 min gestures
Today's Gestures (30min, 1 min each)
Next week I'm thinking of switching to doing some anatomy study or something similar. Supposedly knowing anatomy can help with gesture.
All your gesture drawings look pretty good! I definitely recommend, if you can, doing that first as a part of your daily routine. even if its just a few for 10 minutes.
I think your next step should be studying the 3 basic parts of the body (Head, Ribcage, pelvis) to learn how to find them and how to draw them as boxes, and then using that knowledge to do the assignments. it's what's helped me the most. Proko has a few videos on that with the robo bean, also Moderndayjames has a few good videos that can help. Dan Bearshaw has a lot of videos on that stuff too with a lot of info.