Alright, been a little bit but I've been doing my best to keep up on the daily pen control practice and am starting on the simple mannequins. Currently watching through the first figure drawing video. For now this is my combined image project. This was done using CSP instead of photoshop because I don't have ps, nor do I want it.
- 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
- 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 drawingin
- 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.in22.3k
Hey so I'm currently trying the "advanced" practices which the guide says to use Marc's Top ten drawing exercises and the one that's giving me issues is the fifth practice, with making a gradient between two colors. I'm trying to use a hard edged brush, the g-pen in csp specifically, and it just doesn't seem to be acting right? I got the below gradients after trial and error.
But neither of those were really done using the kind of technique I think was being shown? The color just sorta overwrites itself and doesn't blend naturally.
I think you probs need to set opacity to pen pressure and if you already did that then lower the opacity to like 50% or less to get a better gradient.. then when u go over it multiple times, it builds up (i'm also a CSP user)
setting opacity to pen pressure should mainly do it tho. u just need to practice controlling the pen pressure
I made a thing for u
here's how i did it - apparently it took me about 12 mins but yea its all about the pen pressure - sometimes u need to build over each stroke and smooth things out
I probs could have made it smoother if i spent even more time on it
(its not showing a thumbnail cuz its unlisted but the vid should work.. also its for some reason taking forever to render in HD - says about 40 mins left but hope it helps!)
Hey thank you so much! I did manage to get it figured out better with some more experimenting and watching the vid. It does take a fair bit of patience. I found it was important to essentially not over do your strokes and cover your own work. The hard edge means you can't "mix" the colors like a soft brush can.
Not perfect but better than I was getting.
noice! that is looking a lot better than ur initial one
i would encourage you to try to blend a bit more between the white and the greys but yeah that is some nice improvement
Glad the video was helpful!
not over do your strokes and cover your own work
yep and if you happen to do so, simply bring a bit more of the original color from both sides of the overpainted area back so they overlap then color pick the overlapped section
So right now I'm must in a stage of doing practices so nothing in terms of a project but thought I'd give an update on my most recent pen dex practice.
Have been trying to do some of the advanced practices and gesture drawing with this as well.
Still at just somewhat fancy stick figures for now on that end.
1 month later
Hey, had a busy few months but been trying to stay in the swing of things. Starting to get geared back up into things. I have this one point perspective room based on my room and honestly can prolly do a lot more with it but I've sank a lot of time into it, figuring things out and trying to get things to look right that I think I need to move on right now. I feel I have a decent understanding of 1 point perspective and need to move on to the next lessons.
I'm not sure how to ground it better cause most of the room lines are hidden behind things. And the curve on the bottom of the drawers was very difficult to figure out.
8 days later
I think perspective-wise - it looks good! And yes the curvy elements in perspective are a bit "special" but it gets better. The only thing about the piece - it is a bit difficult to read - but this is absolutely not anything you've done badly - just worth in the future to try to draw elements that are obviously closer with thicker lines - makes it a lot easier to figure out what's where
All together great job!
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