Halloween Workshop [>2000k prize pot]

@stouda01: Wow! That is amazing! I can't wait to see what the rest of the background looks like, but my jaw dropped when I saw that hellhound - can't wait to see it in its finished state!

Here's my third embarrassing little foray into the world of semi-freehand art. . Decided to drop my original concept of having MKT hunched over the table carving out his head and go for something a little simpler, but hopefully more thematic and epic.

I don't think I'll win any contests (hope I do!) but I'm more interested in the practice at this point. I'm just trying to block MKT out, then I'll do a little more detail work and try to get him to look better. Then after that I'll work on the environmental stuff for the background since I know I can actually do those to a certain extent. >_< Drawing characters is annoying, I much prefer cloudy vistas and space scenes.

@Stroud ~ thats looking really good , cant wait to see more

@Kiya, oh I didn't realise. Anytime I tried to dye things it has never come out even or dark enough, does leaving it in longer than the instructions say help at all?

@ Raven ~ ty, I love her expression, and her figure is nice. Not sure about the way she is holding the knife - I tried it, it is very uncomfortable. The glass is good , fill it with wine :P

@Minami ~ I think you could do with a drink Why not stay with what you enjoy doing? Anet have weird criteria for some of their winners...

@Tzu ~ uni work is more important, and any delays in updates wont stop anyone from developing their artworks.

But, oh dear, this Sunday is ITLAPD, don't you have to put on your eyepatch and parrot and go dance a hornpipe in the street? There will be no time for your costume.....

@Operative ~ looking good so far

Im not gonna do the workshop myself since i totaly cant draw lol but i was you all luck and most of all alot of fun. and put some love in your art that helps but i think that wont be a problem.

Mabye if sombody dont know what to do make Grenth standing in the underworld or a halloween looking armor or weapon if that is possible didnt read the rules since i dont gonna join myself.
Or make a halloween looking cake *JUMMY* .

I do love the idea of this workshop also give rewards for advice is also a good 1.
this makes it a very friendly thread and their will be alot of love here. xD so GJ on that.

So again i wanna wish you all GL & HF.

All righty... so....

Just redesigned my scene, and instead of always showing you guys the rendered test, I decided to take a screenshot and show you what the 3D scene interface of the program looks like when I'm looking through my posing camera, making sure nothing intersects with each other, how the basic lighting looks from another angle, etc.

Of course I had to block out certain parts of the base model, since I already put texture on her.

The skeletons arms belong to full figured skeletons, which has every single bone correctly in its body. Let me tell you it's a pain in the ass to make all those invisible, for 4 skeletons no less.

Once I do test renders, I will be looking through my render cam, which I set up to look at my scene exactly how I want it. Then I render every item separately and save them as .png files. THat way I can put them together as layers in photoshop, and still make minor corrections, blurs, etc to each item, without affecting the rest of the picture.

Ok, enough talk now :P

Here's my screenshot. More to come as I work on it.



EDIT:
I took a screenie from the render angle too. This is the final camera angle look.
Take note, it looks crappy because it's just the scene in the program, not a finalized render.
Also, I haven't tweaked the material settings yet.

To those who are drawing stuff for the contest, here is a site from where I learned a lot about different kind of things (no, it's not 3D... it's any kind of painting).
Very useful to browse through the tutorial section.

http://www.henningludvigsen.com/inde...ing/tutorials/

Thanks for the link Minami.

Great link Minami! ^^ Really some cool stuff in there.

Just one question that oftenly pops up, and does so again!

How do they go from black and white to colour? I mean, they first go colour it in black and white in full detail just to paint over it again? And they look so similar! Is there some sort of way to put a layer on the black and white to make it coloured?

Name: Verene
Art Form: Undecided
Idea: Undecided
Progress Gallery: Will add in later
Artbook Award: [x]
Official Contest: [x] (hoping to anyway!)
Workshop Awards: [x]

As you can see, I haven't got a clue what I'm going to do yet XD But hopefully I won't flake and will actually be able to get an entry done!

@Penguin: Nice progress that hood looks better now, and i hope ur RL problem gets better.

@Oh_Frustration nice work so far but i think you should do over the face or maybe make it more feminine

I havent done any progress yet, i stucked with the face i just spent 5 hours trying to do the face and nothing convinced me so i think i will continue with other body parts or maybe i will make more sketches.

Btw thanks for that website minami looks great im sure it will help me a lot!

The weekend at last! Back to work on mah necromancer :P Gnna start colouring them in tomorrow, any suggestions for the colour of the vabbian from the colours below:
White
Black
Orange
Pink
Red

post wut colour plz lol

That's very neat Minami looks like a ton of work, lol.

@Oh_Frustration: I think he might mean the features are a bit lacking in definition, at least to me. The nose and lips especially for instance. From this perspective, from what we see of the ear and the side of the face, it seems like the nose and the lips should be more defined, more standout-ish from the face. I don't mean to criticize at all, I certainly don't think I could do so well drawing anything freehand like that, just I think that might be what USK is talking about.

Here's my 4th WIP. I sort of got the stuff done on MKT's body, so I just need to go back and detail it once I have the scene set. Other than that I added my light source and a little bit of the environmental stuff that I wanted back there. Still needs a lot of work, but.. meh, it's a work in progress.