Walent's sketchbook

[walent]

Hey Vlad, I am a huge fan of your work! I have an inspiration folder full of artists that I admire and you are definitely in it. I had no idea you had a crimson daggers sketchbook its amazing to see how far you have improved. I love how your paintings and sketches have a emphasis on form, its like you carved out your subject in clay.

Hey! Thanks, always glad to hear something like this!

love the antlers guy

Thanks! Yeah, it's one of my best I'd say

fuck yea dude, positivity is the real shit; I have some of your stuff in "good anatomy" folders, like feet and hands so youre on the money on a lot of it. You gotta have relentless positivity to be an artist long term, its impossible without it.

I think you have a slick sense of design, but i dont want you to think you've plateud by any means. There are so many things you can also explore with the skillset you have now like traditional art and painting, or 3d or animation. Dont just limit yourself; and i know its scary to dip into those things but you gotta fight through it because the rewards are immense.

Post when the urge strikes you homie, theres a never ending energy to this forum, a dimly lit candle burns dimly but it still burns

Thanks dude! I definitely need to focus on armor and clothing. If you see some character design that looks decent in here, it's usually a happy accident. Gotta change that soon.

I really could learn a thing or two on pastel palette in here.I encourage you to play with color theory.

I will, at some point. Right now, I consider I'm doing decent enough with colors, my priorities are character posing and design.

Hey Walent!  Woo-hoo!  Welcome back dude!

Sounds like you've been places while you've been away and are getting your stuff in order, good to hear man.  Loving your work more than ever!

Thanks, man!
Yeah, I'm in such a good mood, I don't have enough hours in the day to do as much stuff as I want to.

your sketches are wonderful! great work.

Thanks!

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Will continue to focus on armor/clothing and posing.
I found out I kinda dislike full plate armor and I'll avoid that for now. Seems too clunky, too many similar details, no variation.
So I'll keep hanging around medium/light armor, my main subjects will be celtic, scythian, nordic/viking and mongol.
Then I wanna get deep into tribal/ancient like maybe maori.
So far I'm having a lot of fun with these.


Will also start a big personal project soon. This one is for real. Will post what I can.