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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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  • memory 2min gartic phone, used ref 2m gartic, used ref for pose 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic 2min gartic memory memory memory memory study memory memory memorymemory memory memory memory memory memory study memorystudy study stylized left memory, right study study memory memorymemory memory memory memorymemory memory, porportions r offmemory memorystudystudy memorymemorymemory memory memory memory memory memory memory memory, right leg is a bit broken The feeling of only getting 1 - 3 likes on a social media post will never not be discouraging. But nothing is discouraging enough to make me quit drawing. I think the strategy of drawing a lot of stuff and waiting a while to post is good though rather than posting it immediately and then feeling that sadness on the next set of drawing
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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 '16

Hello! Welcome to my sketchbook :smiley: Here I’ll post mainly studies and sometimes finished paintings.
I work mainly in digital art, but I do use copics a decent amount and just got colored pencils for Christmas, so I hope to be using and improving in those soon. I also want to get started with watercolors (and maybe oils in the future when I master those, but I feel like its such a big investment). I’m 14 and self-taught, and I started doing art in around mid-February 2016.
Before I started, I had never really taken much of an interest in art. A lot of artists I hear talk about how they've been drawing since they could pick up a pencil, but I lost interest as soon as I figured it was worthless to draw when my parents would just lose it or put it away, never to be seen again. I never doodled in my notes or anything and until a year ago, I didn’t even know you could professionally use mediums other than just generic “paint” or that art supplies would cost more than $10 (a thought that stemmed from literally no consideration on the subject). It wasn’t until I saw a girl in my class doing really amazing drawings that it occurred to me art is an obtainable talent, not something that takes years upon years of studying to make something look semi-decent. I’m a really devout writer and was afraid that if I started doing art, I’d consider myself an artist rather than a writer (which is… totally what happened lol but I don’t mind. I’ve learned you can specialize in two things at once.) But I pushed that fear aside and picked up a pencil, and learned that I love it. So here I am, perpetually binging on art-related youtube videos.
If you have any critiques, please feel totally free to share! That’s mostly why I came here, to be in a community of other artists and improve my own art. I’m a beginner and there are obviously so many areas I’m weak or maybe even completely oblivious to.
But anywho, thanks for enduring my wall of text :stuck_out_tongue:
I would link my instagram for an archive of my previous works, but I'm not sure if that would be considered spam? Its just art on there, nothing personal, but I'll link just a few here just to be safe. So here are some previous works I’ve done a few months ago:

^ Done with copics, rip quality. I still like it but I can see a lot of blunders with the anatomy and some of the shading now.

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Another copic piece I've done, though the facial shape and the nose is a bit off.
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So all of those were when I was going through my dragon phase.

I tried realism for the first time there, it was Mary Crawley from Downton Abbey.

I've done many more pieces but these are some of my favorites, even though looking back I see a few flaws and some things I could have done better. Now I want to try and have less harsh outlines and a more painterly style in their overall appeal. (Among other things, like improving in values/color theory/composition and such, so I'll probably be doing studies on those. And since reading James Gurney's Color and Light, I really want to try my hand at doing a few quick pieces using a Gamut Mask)

Aand this is more recent, as those were probably around 4 or 5 (?) months ago and this was about a week ago.

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-Winter

Jan '17

I like your introduction. Welcome, this is a good place to be :smile:

Your lineart is pretty good and I like your imagination / concepts. Your rendering can use the most work. I feel the values you use are very random and don't come from correct light source(s). I think you just paint in shadows were you only think they are (like I used to do). Try to really put in and imagine a light source, maybe working from dark to light will help.

Also, don't be afraid to use fatter and more steady lines. You can always paint them out. The scribbly black lines give an unfinished look.

Lastly, maybe you want to add my beginner video tutorials to your YT list ^^

Good luck!

Jan '17

@enalya
Hi, thank you! I'll keep your advice in mind. I can see what you're talking about, like with the mermaid I tried to have the sun positioned almost directly above her and toward the viewer a bit, but I never checked the values and I should probably make a habit of doing that lel. Also I'm definitely trying to have better linework, I'll try out your recommendation
And I'll add your video to my list, thank you :smiley:

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Just completed this girl, my first time using colored pencils :smile: I tried to have her head tilting back but.. eh.. that didn't happen.

Also, here's some sketches I've done in the past few days. It's a collage so that the pics don't take up ∞ amount of space.

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On to doing some studies. I've got about a week left with our winter break so it's a rush against the clock to get stuff done XD

Jan '17

Nice stuff in here.

Yeah, having a head tilted back is really hard haha. My last attempt was a fail haha.

Excited to see more!

Jan '17

@big-misch Thank you! :smiley:

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Did a photo study! I didn't use the color picker for the most part, except for the background and sometimes when I got lazy XD. I learned a lot more than I was expecting to regarding color and how their appearance changes next to different colors, but in the future I really want to try to apply a more painterly look to it (so far I haven't found a brush that can really easily achieve that, I'm mainly using various watercolor brushes because of how they lay down color and blend. I'm using Clip Studio Paint btw) I also don't like how a lot of the shadows on her face lost saturation, but ah well. I'm kind of sick of realism now XD, the study took a while