[stace]

Latest study is looking good! MORE MOREMORE!

[NorthernChild]

portrait studies is pretty nice, mate, keep it up!

[Veneq]

Amaakir Thanks a ton sir! You are a gentleman and a scholar!

Malo Thanks! Kicking it back into gear right now!

Fetsch Thank you! Means a lot to me!

Stace Okay now! and Thanks!

Northern Child Thank you!

So it's been about 2 months since I've posted anywhere. Essentially this is what's up:



Born at the end of September!! Beautiful and healthy baby girl! I'm a lucky man!

So here's some stuff from sometime between my last post and now.






Lastly this is some album artwork that I did for my "day job". The client wanted a propaganda influenced style with my unique spin on it. First image is the cover (sans-logo and album title). 2nd is an interior booklet 2 page spread.

[Amaakir]

Man, congratulations!
She is indeed a beautiful baby girl, a huge light of joy in your life, I'm sure!
Great, sketches, sir, and the album work ins AWESOME, I completely loved the style on the design.
Keep up the great work, man!

[Veneq]

AmaakirMuch love to you! Thanks so much!

Starting to get back into a balanced routine of practice and work... here is some stuff.

I've been waking up and beginning with gestures to get the blood flowing and then getting an hour of anatomy study in before beginning work. Afterward, I devote whatever time I have to personal projects, challenges, or studies.










And... Alice Morgan!

[Amaakir]

Glad to have you back drawing and painting, man, hope all is well with your family

Awesome figure drawings, did you use any ref for those? The anatomy studies are looking great as well and the portrait is fantastic, great works, man, it would be awesome to see you put them to the test on a challenge or a finished piece

[Veneq]

Amaakir Thanks and yes things are going very well! It's different trying to find the time to work but I'm really getting back into the groove and with a better perspective. And I do plan on hopping in on the current Character Forge - so that's something I guess. And those gestures are from either Pixelovely or Lovecastle - ranging from 30 seconds up to a few minutes.

Study from today.

[malo]

great study - great values
Cheers

[Veneq]

Malo Thank you! <3

Some thumbnail/silhouette work form today. Trying to focus on not rushing things and starting very middle key.

[mjasnowski]

Great job on the forms on your latest thumbs

[amemoryinblue]

Hey there - amazing studies, especially the figures
I have a bit of advice about the color portrait of the woman - the skin need some yellows and oranges as it's primarily pink/reddish right now. Some oranges,yellows in the light areas, especially around the eyes (that's where I've noticed them usually) and maybe saturated browns in the shadows will make the portarit seem even more lifelike than it is now

[Veneq]

mjasnowski Thank you! I feel like the middle key idea helped me out a bit there for me in feeling out the characters' poses.

amemoryinblue Hey thanks for the advice! I'll definitely keep that in mind on my next colored portrait.

I had come up with a self-challenge idea for myself but I don't know that it's feasible, especially when I'm already behind. The idea is to draw 16 heads a day minimum for 30 days - 8 from reference and then 8 from imagination. The problem for the first day was that I spent way too long on each individual sketch. I'll still try to keep it going even though I didn't get 16 out of day one and just make them quicker sketches.

Anyway, here is Day 1 of my challenge plus some anatomy work from the other day. And as far as I got with my infected scientist before my power went out last night.

[Veneq]

Today's heads - I don't think 16/day is going to work but I'm going to keep that as the goal for now. The bottom row is from imagination.

[Veneq]

Today's heads/faces - managed to get all 16 in there - top 2 rows from reference, bottom 2 from imagination. Need to go fasterrrrr...

And some sketchbook doodles from today.

[malo]

Those head studies are great, sir!
Cheers