Veneq's journey of self discovery

[Lumens]

Ohh them aliens are delicious, love the last batch!

[Mannequin]

Agreed... Aliens are just so good to watch. Great diversity, heh!

[Veneq]

Thanks guys!! Sorry for the lack of actual commentary but I just wanted to update very quickly before heading to bed.

Update on the album cover (inks):


Pencils:



Markers, etc:

[Jonesoda]

Really dig the post nuke santa and character forge. This marker stuff is pretty sick too. Looking forward to some more stuff :)

[michaeldoig]

Really digging the extreme perspective on the album cover. Lines, and marker stuff is rockin.

[iCi]

Dude, those markers and pencils rock, try to save that initial energy on the finished pieces, it's very strong. I dig the gesture and small sketches as well, awesome work!

[Veneq]

Jones: Thanks man! Markers are so much fun to get me going early in the day.

Michael: Thank you thank you!

Ivan: Thanks! Nobody ever notices the small ones - not even me. In fact, what the hell are you talking about? ONLY BIG SKETCHES! :)

Here's how that album art turned out. The lesson? I need to practice perspective, environments, industrial design, and a ton of other stuff a lot more.

[ramalooke]

Craaaazy perspective action going on here. Love it ;3 It was a while since i visited CD forumz and your sketchbook. And I can see some sweet improvement. Good. Goooood ;33

[Veneq]

Ramalooke: Thanks dood! High five I guess, eh?

More alien stuff:




And I'm a little late to the party on this one but I couldn't resist once I had some down time from work stuff - Lines for an LMS fan piece of Nikolai! I really like that character design - his weapon is crazy and he's basically a rock star - easy choice for me!

[Veneq]

Had a few hours to doodle today - felt great! Experimented with how I approach early stage sketching a bit.

[Veneq]

This. Turnaround. Was. Not. Fun. #f'ingfeathers

[michaeldoig]

Awesome turn around Pierce, can't help but think of this when I hear 'turn around' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-sCrhRPCMg

Keep it up :3

[Telse]

I really love all the delicate lines! You have an amazing eye for nuance.

[ramalooke]

Some quality linework here ;3 You're improving fast. Me like <3 Me want more ;<

[Veneq]

Doig - Thanks and lolz

Telse - Thank you!

Ramalooke - Thanks dude! I hope so. Been a crazy month though and I've been suffering from insufficient available time for fun/improvement.

Woah it's been over a month. I'll have to look around and see what I have to dump here, but for now I'll just leave this cropped WIP (almost done-ish) of my LMS fan art of Nikolai.

[Veneq]

Finally finished my fanart piece of Nikolai from Danny Luvisi's Last Man Standing. Looking back, I wish I had planned out my values a bit more. Live and learn.
2x res on my blog: http://veneq.blogspot.com - just open up the image and you can grab it straight from there or open that in a new tab/window.

[Veneq]

Warmup scribblin'

[Veneq]

Man meat.

[devinn]

Man meat.

How long did this take you and what was the focus of this study?

I am working on something similiar and it has already took 10+ hours and I haven't even finished my study.

[Veneq]

Manny - Hey I replied to your question on your sketchbook thread, but for the sake of consistency, I think it was just under 4 hours and I was studying pose, anatomy, skin tone, and working on drawing without line work. Thanks for stopping by!

Quickie head studies and then 3 fails from imagination at the bottom. And a quick pose study.