Honestly while the work themselves are what initially got me clicking your videos, one of my favourite things is how you explain your work, unafraid to admit mistakes and just genuinely full of passion. I would love to hear the backstories of your original characters!
With regards to the green-magenta transition: you're 100% correct that the grey comes from moving "through" the colour wheel, which causes the dingy midtone. The solution is to move "around" the wheel. So either green - blue - magenta, or green - yellow - magenta. I'd actually love to see what the yellow midtone would look like. :) I'm primarily a mini painter, and seeing your sculptures makes me wish I could paint one of them.
@radiationcow I just posted this!! It's cool to see the same advice in different ways from so many different places of skill and knowledge. I went with lilac for the midtone and into the green bc u can play with purples pretty adventuoursly with this colour palette. it's probably one of my fave soloutions to my least favourite colours. thanks for making your art! hope u have good times
You can control the blend between contrasting colors by making your own halfway color. Green into magenta blends to a muddy brown, but if you blend the magenta to a yellow or blue then blend that to green, it’ll look a lot nicer! I learned that from painting skies :)
i’ve also seen people put just white inbetween the colors, i forget which model painter i saw it from though but it worked well without having to add unneeded colors
The sculpture was really good the light coming from the bottom was very good idea and you should put more stories behind the sculptures you make as it will give them as well give them definition and mystery behind there creation
Would love to see you do a Berserk piece, the process and way you talk us through are always so refreshing from the normal music overlaps. Fantastic work !
I'm only a few minutes into the video and this is the I think 9th video I've watched of yours and yet I somehow fall in love with how you make these characters every single time. I'd also love a storytelling video some time
Lilac! Again...another epic original character! I enjoy the back stories of your characters and your narrating voice❤ The muscles, posture and the line of her is absolutely beautiful! I love the style of your old videos where we can see your expression as you create the sculpture, the new style is also great, I love how you talk through the process of making your sculpture ❤ Really appreciate your videos and I'm so happy that I get to see a new one 😄
Omg I would LOVE to hear more about your characters backstory’s!! You create such complex expressions of emotion in your sculpture I have to know more. Your literally so talented and I’m so envious of how you give your characters so much depth. I’m obsessed!!
Hi just saying that you are my favorite art creator on this platform, I love your attention to detail and the way you show and tell your struggles while making an art piece because I think we really lack the amount of creators that show the graceful art but also the milestone while making something beautiful.
I just found your channel and it is one of the most inspiring things I watched in a long time, it makes me want to create something again after one year of not having any motivation nor energy to do so. The way you show and explain your process with all its challenges is so authentic and the results are beyond beautiful. Thank you so much for creating your RU-vid channel and I am excited for your future works 😊
I love your work! I’m not much of a sculptor anymore but the way you fix things has really made me view my art mistakes differently. I usually will scrap something so quickly but recently I’ve been doing what you do by taking a step back and deciding what can stay and what needs to be removed to be fully fixed.
This is a masterpiece, you are a real master! Congratulations. I've already watched all your videos several times and I want to watch it again and again!
absolutely amazing job, man. i love it from a character design perspective and compositional view. i appreciate how your commentary is not just the sculpting process, but you insert points of improvement and critiquing your own work
Thank you for this. She's gorgeous. Channels like yours make me want to try my hand at sculpting. I've no training, no schooling, but I'm going to jump in and see what I can do. It kills me that I can't finish watching this now. I'll definitely come back to it after work.
A bit late to answer your question, but youtube only just pushed this video/your channel to me today - I always love hearing more about the characters when creators have more to give. This sculpture is fantastic, I loved watching it come to life.
I think that you were right to envision the flames as vines on her body. Looking at the larger flames around her, I think they would have flowed just as well if not better as roots writhing out of the ground. She could have also been made into a pretty cool druid type character. excellent work.
I don't sculpt or know what kind of paint you use, but I am an acrylic artist, so I can answer the dulling of the hair from my perspective. Colors that are complimentary on a color wheel will muddy when you mix them. Red and green are complementary, so the red in the magenta blends with the green and turns it dull/muddy. To fix/avoid this a layer of something neutral under the magenta and let it dry before adding the magenta. Black will make the magenta pop, white will make it look glowy, browns will show the distinction but keep the relative contrast between the two colors at a similar level. Hope this helps.
Discovering your channel with this project. It's a beautiful piece. The final display/shooting is really impressive, lighting from below was the final touch to call it complete.
Simply gorgeous! Considering the character's origin peeping through your commentary, I felt it entirely appropriate that the light of the flames would be coming from below and not above. She is a creature of darkness and fire. I could see her as an underwater volcano warrior, sprite, or even it's queen. PS: I would have loved to hear her story during the commentary!
Incredible work. Your videos, your art, help me a lot in moments like the ones I'm going through of depression, problems, etc. I thank you for making them, for sharing your talent with the world. Greetings!
i think i know what went wrong with the flames, it has darker tones in the top of them instead of in the bottom, if we look in real life, flames tend to be red in the bottom and gets yellower in the top. Aside from that, i just binged your videos the past couple days and now im addicted to sculpting and might be starting sculpting because of this channel. the quality of the videos are honestly super amazing and very professional, i hope you keep doing videos for ever (even tho they take a lot of time to make because sculptulres ain't fast to do) Thanks for this, i love you art, Art.
I could definitely listen to you telling the stories behind your characters, either as you do the piece or separately while reviewing them. You narrate in a very engaging manner and your voice is pleasant to listen to. Also, great job on the sculpt - it gives me an idea for one of my own.
you you're my inspiration! I'm from Brazil and one day I'll have your level! This is my goal. Thank you for existing, God always watches over you and loves you!👍
Ah, glorious. Given we started sculpting at the same time - it clearly shows how much more practice you put into this. Your anatomy skills are beyond me. I just realized that doing armature, base clay and then moving into position is MUCH better then forcing my armature to be in a position with good proportion. So you see - yet again I've learned something from your vid. Keep it coming man!
Lilac Just love the fact that you are expressing yourselves verbally as well. For me, it makes me feel like I'm also sharing your experience at first level [:
The gesture lines and flow of your work are truly amazing. There are so many great sculpting work out there, but I think yours stand out because of the outstanding posing of character, design, and environment.
Liliac, thanks again for another amazing sculpt. I really enjoy seeing your process. Also thank you for introducing me to a new medium. I have been working in apoxie for years now and have liked it overall but have been looking for something more akin to wax in workability and I think this might be it. Looking forward to trying it out!
Lilac, I love a sort of tech description in the description area :) I recently picked up traditional sculpting as I mostly sculpted digitally and it's great to see a) technique, creative choices and try and error and b) some tech tips regarding working with clay, baking it, wires, etc. i appreciate your work, cheers!
15:51 the fact that the pink source lighting on her body *LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE LIGHT REFLECTIONS* messed with my mind a little lol Fantastic job!!! (The improvement is palpable)
I like how the traditional carving method and the modern and pop form are blended well. It's impressive that you can focus more on your work with black cloth in the background. It's very attractive.
Yo, you can use kneadable eraser instead of tape for masking details like that. Then with with the green hair id do a dull-bright-yellow under painting of the hair first and do transition with little yellow showing. Then get like two adjustable stand lights where you can move the lighting. All and all keep facing those flames. This is interesting work.
Found your channel through North Of The Border and this was the first video that immediately caught my eye. The pinks and magenta’s and the pose of the character makes her look like a foe I would not want to challenge but admire her power from a very safe distance. You earned a sub!!
Lilac God this is a very cool sculpture, after seeing your bloodborne video I ended up going through most of your other ones and God damn your work is great you clearly put a lot of time in, so fantastic job can't wait to see more.
So cool, Art! I’m no sculptor but your honesty and authenticity when it comes to things like making mistakes or being human and especially things like artistic process and fundamentals are a huge asset to my own personal problems. I’ve only dabbled in human anatomy with sketching and illustration, so it’s really nice to have such a solid anchor like you. I’ve got Adam Duff for art psychology, and you for art fundamentals, thank you so much for what you do. I can’t wait to see what you do next! (:
The lore behind your creations would be fun to hear, but you don't need to replace your crafting/thought process with it. Behind the scenes explanations are always enjoyable for me, and you explain yourself and your projects so nicely.
I can say that you cant go wrong as long as you're doing the coloring correctly when you blend colors together so its a matter of your own artistic choice, your taste and how you feel plus I thought the green and the magenta together looked amazing
Who knew you could fall in love with a sculpture. No but seriously she's gorgeous ❤ Great job as always. Love watching you work and hearing you talk about your vision for each piece you create. "Love your work, so that we may freely love it as well", said someone somewhere lol. I know I don't have to say that, but hearing you try to justify what you're doing because it's your art made me a little sad. It is your art, and you deserve to love and enjoy what you're doing and creating for us the viewers. I, among so many others, appreciate the passion and respect you put into each piece. That alone gives each piece so much character ❤
Lilac! Great video and an even greater sculpture! I enjoy the backstories of the characters you make as well as more technical commentary, so I suppose do what feels most fun. As for the duller transitions, I think the magenta paint might be a slightly transparent and so is being desaturated by the complementary green underneath. Undercoating after the green with an opaque, lighter colour might help (an off white would be good; for a warmer magenta - a bright yellow -, or cooler - perhaps white). Doesn't detract from the end result in any case; some brilliant art.
Just found your channel and I am loving it! Fantastic work. That lady would make for a great character in fighting game like Mortal Kombat :D Love the anatomy and the detail. Great stuff. Hope you will keep on updating channel! Greetings from Mexico!
just stumbled across this vid, found myself mesmerized and watched it all, enjoyed it alot SUBBED, you have a good easy way about you easy to listen too, chill
This is phenomenal everything about it you're sculpting your storytelling the emotion everything is fantastic this is such a amazing piece with an amazing story
Also for the transition between green and magenta, I did a video of a Sailor Moon character with these 2 colors and had a frame where I had to use both in a gradient finish, the way I got around that horrible color combination when doing it was adding a layer of silver between the transitions (you could also use white instead) and it looks pretty decent (it's the Princess Jupiter video in case you wanna see what I mean)
This is so amazing. I really do like watching the progress and evolution of your sculptures. Also, very envious you got to take a class with Simon Lee, I have been wanting to do that for years
"Lilac" Great Video. I love your voice over, your camera angles and the whole presentation a lot. It's nice to see the journey and i think showing it part by part instead of strickt chronological is a good idea! Oh and of course i liked the sculpt a lot. I have had my own problems with the liquid varnish in the past and the main two things that help a lot are: Letting everything dry long enough (especially the foundation, i am using vallejo acrylic foundation) and more important at least 3 thin layers of varnish before masking! I prefer using glossy varnish before masking, that seems to help the best, but every varnish works for me. Using a very light green wash might help for blending pink and green together. It could give the pink a slight green hue, which would make sense, since its pink illuminated green.
Subbed . How is it youtube just showed me your channel wtf your ability is breathtaking . This is helping me sonkuch wirh my miniature painting and anatomy understanding pls keep it up❤
My fav so far. I love your scuplts, but this one is just on point for me. We can see your evolution since then on your burning passion. My painting thought? I'm colorblind for me green and magenta arent opposite color. Found the transition smooth.
Amazing work a always Art. Always look forward to see a new video from you. Actually got worried when one didn't pop up for so long before your last one. You are doing awesome man. Keep it up
Great sculpt! Found you through a suggestion after a Dr. Garuda Video You hooked me up with the overall sculpt but at 23:40 I was fully into the game and had to subscribe! You used music from hollow knight, which fitted so damn well to this sculpt!
I would love to hear your story telling when it comes to your character building, I feel like we often get lost in how as opposed to the why we make our characters the way we do
I would really love to see a video of you describing how you picked up sculpting and what your journey has been like to this point! Maybe some tips for people who just got into clay sculpting? Thank you for another awesome video!
