Sketchbook: Veneq
Hello - I'm pretty much brand new to the PolyCount community but I've been lurking around ConeptArt.org for a few years and started a sketchbook over there last year. I also post on CGHub and Crimson Daggers.
A quick bit about me - I worked as a graphic designer from 2006-2011 - while working full time I began drawing tshirts and album art on the side for my friends' bands. When the company I was working basically collapsed, I decided to turn all of my efforts towards freelance. Unfortunately, illustrating for the music industry isn't really my endgame and it is barely paying the bills. About a year ago I made the commitment to change my make it a goal to work for companies I've dreamed about since I was a kid. So that's about it.
To kick things off here's some stuff from the last few months.
For everything I post, I greatly appreciate comments and critique.
Pretty much in order starting with the oldest.
Studies:
And a recent still life.
A quick bit about me - I worked as a graphic designer from 2006-2011 - while working full time I began drawing tshirts and album art on the side for my friends' bands. When the company I was working basically collapsed, I decided to turn all of my efforts towards freelance. Unfortunately, illustrating for the music industry isn't really my endgame and it is barely paying the bills. About a year ago I made the commitment to change my make it a goal to work for companies I've dreamed about since I was a kid. So that's about it.
To kick things off here's some stuff from the last few months.
For everything I post, I greatly appreciate comments and critique.
Pretty much in order starting with the oldest.
Studies:
And a recent still life.
Replies
This is a digitally painted album cover inspired by graphic propaganda posters.
And a few more sketches
Goal on this one was to try to repeat the referenced ones from memory
And a couple more sketches.
Recent studies and sketches:
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.
Man meat.
Anyways, very impressive and I love your coloring
Kerroh - Thank you! It's all just eyeballing things with a blank canvas up next to the reference photo. No tracing or color picking allowed. And with the one DA link I just wanted people to know that it wasn't an original take on Venom or anything - wanted to give that sculptor credit because it's awesome! Wish I'd had the actual thing in front of me to study from.
Quick question to anyone that's a regular around this forum: is "show signatures: unchecked" the default setting on this forum?? I don't think I unchecked mine in my settings but it definitely was unchecked. Just curious about that.
Quickie head studies and then 3 fails from imagination at the bottom. And a quick pose study.
Just a sketch dump here. Trying to hit the pencils every day now. Pretty random.
Mrs. Robocop?
I thought the first one was a reference image
How long does it take for each study?
KristaW - Thank you! That'd be my post-apocalyptic Santa as I envisioned him set in Cormac McCarthy's The Road universe.
Some more scanned sketches. Messing with pose and trying to get better at armor design and faces.
Uma Thurman in Kill Bill for this week’s Portrait Party. So much grungy fun all over that face!
Johnny Depp from Crybaby. Messed around with chromatic aberration for fun.
I really dig these sketches in particular. Great job.
Small pile of recent stuff I can post.
Some housekeeping - I've kind of moved my main web update presences to tumblr and facebook, but I'm still updating the blog as well. For anyone that wants to connect with me elsewhere, choose your poison:
http://veneq.tumblr.com
http://veneq.blogspot.com
https://www.facebook.com/Veneq.Pierce
http://twitter.com/VeneqArt
http://veneq.cghub.com
And onto updates.
60 second gestures - one of these is 45 seconds by request of someone on facebook - it's whichever one sucks the most. After that is a couple of rough sketches from a new commission.
Edit: removed this last one - new NDA in place.
Ryan Gosling in Drive for the Portrait Party.
Gestures. Bridgman. Gestures. Loomis. Gestures. Gestures. Gestures. Daily diet, right?
Anyway... Something different but fun! I freelanced for about 1.5 years almost exclusively in the music industry creating art for shirts - this is one I finished recently and did it all in a more digital painting style + linework. Creating the color separations was a whole different monster with all those smooth gradient tones. Sort of a cellshading, digital painting, comic style line work hybrid for a recent tee shirt commission.
And a bit more gesture work sort of experimenting all over the place:
For Mierce Miniatures
Tees first I guess:
Sketches:
A crop of a thing I can't reveal fully yet + some detail shots for accessories:
One of a handful of roughs for a lady for Mierce:
And the final of the aforementioned lady:
That's all for now
Inspired by two of my all time favorites Sylvia Jii and Alphonse Mucha.