Sketchbook: Veritasx5

Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

Thanks for checking out my sketchbook. Any critique and comments are more than welcome.

Links:
http://stephennauman.carbonmade.com//
http://stephennauman.tumblr.com/
http://veritasx5.deviantart.com/
http://about.me/stephennauman
https://twitter.com/StephenNauman

Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

If you'd like, feel free to checkout my deviantart account for some older stuff. Always enjoyable to see one's progress.
http://veritasx5.deviantart.com/

This is a 50 minute sketch I did a few month ago, after I started to apply the teachings of Feng Zhu.

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Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

A 45. min quick sketch. I'll prolly move this to the scrapbook later.

Some things that I feel are successful: composition, color, value, and lighting.
Somethings I need to work on: level of detail, clearly defined objects/tighter shapes.
I'm having difficulty in achieving high details/finished look in a short amount of time. Any tips would be helpful!

Darkleopard · Feb 2012

Looking nice. ive been wanting to do some environment practice myself.

Just remember all things take time. You'll get faster with more practice but getting a super detailed scene will always take time.

This guy has some really interesting tutorials/processes. Just find the enviroment ones and check em out. http://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL

Hope it helps! Keep up the good work

oskarreftel · Feb 2012

The environment in the first image with the woman lacks sense of size. I can't really interpret what's going on. Is it a large room or a small one? what's going on with the wall to the right? It looks like you started putting in some details but then left it undone. You could have used that to put in some shapes that are recognizable by most people, perhaps some stairs (if it's a large room), door openings or even some animals. If it's the inside of a large temple I bet there would be some lizards or birds nesting there. Anyway, my point is, if you get something that the viewer recognizes in the background then the size of that shape would be used for reference as to what scale this environment is in. You pulled it of nicely in the second image by placing two humanoids in the foreground.

I think you've got some nice colors, lighting and perspective going on but as you said, more detail would be nice.

Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

Darkleopard It's funny you should mention Feng Zhu: the recommendation that you just gave me is the one I've been giving to everyone else!
Yah, I consider this guy my "digital mentor" if you would. Glad to know there are others out there who love his work! Thanks!

oskarreftel I agree. Some sort of indicator might be nice to capture the size of the room. I was hoping that the worms eye view would be enough, but I really think that for future note, that having a marker for height is a good idea. Thanks!

Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

This is the first Environment Sketch for "Restaurant Prison!", a personal project of mine.
It's based off my experiences from when I went cruising to Alaska.
The feeling I wanted to get across what that the town is very cloudy, cold, and gray, yet connected to nature.
The three main elements I wanted to stand out are:
1. The large concrete pillar.
2. The restaurant (the namesake of the story) which is connected by a walkway bridge.
3. And the massive broken overpass.

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restaurant_prison__environment_sketch_1_by_veritasx5-d4oa4xn.jpg

Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

An hour and a half sketch with 2nd pass for clean up and a color layer. I've gotten some good feedback from this one, like the umbrella handle, for example, isn't fully in her grip. Very happy with the line weight.

Daven · Feb 2012

damn, you've really got to scale the images down.

Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

Thanks, everything is re-scaled.

Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

One hour warmup.

Blaisoid · Feb 2012

now this is pretty cool, if it's just one hour then i imagine few days of work would turn it into a decent concept.

the area already looks like it could make an appealing game environment.

Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

Warmup. 30 minutes.

Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

Spent a little longer on this one.

Veritasx5 · Feb 2012

Veritasx5 · Apr 2012

For a small game project. I used a combination of Max and PS to pull this off.
In max, I rendered out an AO pass and a line pass. After that, composited in PS and painted over it.
The concept is, in a very futuristic Japan, Vocaloid is the mascot of a bar that gives out Cosmopolitans and Liquid Cocaine Shots. She appears on the hologram and cheers you on as you get wasted. Too Japanese...?

Veritasx5 · Apr 2012

A WIP. Combining 3d and 2d. By starting in 3d, I find it's great for initial perspective and blocking, as well as helping me pay attention to detail.

amadarien · Apr 2012

Those are some sweet environment pieces! I like the look of them a lot? Do you overlay textures and paint over them? They definitely have a sort of textured feel (I like it). Look forward to seeing more.

Veritasx5 · Apr 2012

amadarien wrote: »

Those are some sweet environment pieces! I like the look of them a lot? Do you overlay textures and paint over them? They definitely have a sort of textured feel (I like it). Look forward to seeing more.

I do, especially after I finish painting the diffuse color layer. Thanks for the complement! I'll keep working at it.

Veritasx5 · Apr 2012

I don't usually draw really hot chicks, but when I do, I go all out.
I swear, if I don't finish this one I'm cutting off my hand.
Like I mentioned in the sketch thread, I'm attempting to figure out a background from a super mario game. any suggestions?

Matt Collins · Apr 2012

02-28-2012 07:57 AM
I really do enjoy this particular one because it does demonstrate that you can do a variety of different concpets and colour schemes as supposed to everything else. I just have one question that is really bugging me, whats the middle structure off in the distance upon the broken off cliff side?

njc6425 · Apr 2012

Cool concepting

Veritasx5 · May 2012

My gf's being evil as always.

Caspar · May 2012

really like the third one counting from the top of the page, would like to see it high rendered

Veritasx5 · May 2012

Thanks, glad you like! You're talking about the yellow and grey interior, right?

Veritasx5 · Jul 2012

WIP. Setting up my values and fixing proportions before adding color.

Veritasx5 · Jul 2012

Veritasx5 · Jul 2012

Hour and a half practice sketch for today. Going for something a little more surreal/fantasy. Learned a decent amount about detailing and stroke work.

Veritasx5 · Jul 2012

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Did this piece last night for our game, Amoeba. It's an illustration for one potential boss for an ice world. Took about... two hours, and it was really fun to do because it flowed so well.

Btw, we've got a kickstarter going on right now, and we JUST broke the thousand dollar mark!! Check it out, and let me know what you think!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1799717493/amoeba-the-game-big-adventures-for-little-microbes

Veritasx5 · May 2013

So I’m following through with my commitment to draw more hot girls.

Veritasx5 · May 2013

Heven't posted here in about a year. Prolly should start doing that again.

Since I need to do some catching up, here's a collection of stuff I've worked on over the past year.

CRatcliffe · May 2013

Your environment concepts are amazing, there's always so much going on in each scene right down to the very last pixel

Keep it comin!

Veritasx5 · May 2013

Cratchliffe, thanks for the complements!

40 minute environment sketch.

Veritasx5 · May 2013

40 minute quick sketch. My attempt to rectify line art with painting overlay. Let me know what you think!

Veritasx5 · Jun 2013

Veritasx5 · Jun 2013

Messing around with manga studio 5. Decided to turn my girlfriend into a shadow version of herself.

Veritasx5 · Oct 2013

Some new sketches.

Sketchbook: Veritasx5

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