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**monsi** · September 1st, 2008, 07:30 AM

wow. I LOVE this stuff!! thank you for the steps on the air ships I really enjoy seeing things like that. Also love the design style you've got on those airships. inspiring

**Quinn Simoes** · September 2nd, 2008, 12:44 AM

Very cool luness! great airship designs. Love the gun designs as well.

Q

**InFlame** · September 2nd, 2008, 04:47 AM

hey luness!

great updates, I love the robot designs on page 6. they nearly seem organic.

and the weapon designs are really cool too!

cheers,
rebecca

**luness** · September 2nd, 2008, 03:00 PM

Nubb – it’s an honor to have you around my SB, man. Thank you so much for the kind words. I try to do my best every time

monsi – thank you! I’ll do more for sure

Quinn Simoes – hey man, I’m glad you like them! I quick checked your SB the other day, great stuff!!! I’ll pass by and say hello

InFlame – thank you!!

I’ll be using a new sketchbook for random designs, mostly quick roughs, and here you have the first two pieces I did two nights ago. Some awful anatomy for the archer, my mistake.

I’ve been struggling a bit learning 3D on my own, but I’ll get there. It will be another tool to work on props, environments, and vehicles, which are my weakest areas of design.

There’s nothing that annoys me more than a blackout. Yesterday there was a nationwide power shortage, for almost three hrs. I kept saying the F word over and over again for the first hr until I decided to do some doodles. They turned out to be some “cute” baby creatures and, since they made me feel happier, I did some more until we got power again. Honestly, they made me smile all the way while working on them.

Peace.

**DARAF** · September 2nd, 2008, 04:05 PM

Love these last creatures. Actually I Like all of it. Rock on.

**Flaskpost** · September 2nd, 2008, 04:27 PM

daaaaaaang! super slick creature designs! love your linework!

**Rico Rodriguez** · September 2nd, 2008, 04:30 PM

Hey brother! I love all your stuff...Specially The study of womens the fairy and the guns! I put all on my refs! Best regards!

**Grimey** · September 2nd, 2008, 06:30 PM

those last creatures are adorable!
(the air ships are pretty fantastic too)

**Nibras** · September 3rd, 2008, 12:57 PM

Wow
cheers for the advice
Your work is supereb and more supereb

When i finish updating my sketchbook i'll add you to my sig

because you rock!

**erik-jan v/d schuur** · September 4th, 2008, 01:06 PM

haha you are so good
thx for showing your process its very interesting

beautifull work

**mentler** · September 4th, 2008, 01:59 PM

!Wonderful!

**BigPapaRaels** · September 4th, 2008, 10:25 PM

damn yet again another amazing update shit man i love this stuff hopefully i learn something at AAU

**Nubb** · September 5th, 2008, 02:33 AM

Muahah! Those baby-monster designs are monster-cool! That parrot thing kills me

**Fireflights** · September 5th, 2008, 03:52 AM

hahaha oh man, those creatures are fabulous...and your lines are so clean! *envious*. Very nice stuff, man. Keep it up!

**Joce** · September 5th, 2008, 03:58 AM

great great great value man. ur sic. very inspiring.

**luness** · September 6th, 2008, 09:30 PM

A bit of more fun with baby creatures, but first:

DARAF + Flaskpost + Rico Rodriguez + stonercurly – thank you!!!

lilnebo – haha, very nice from you. Thank you

`ej – thank you!!

mentler – wow sir, what an honor. A true master among us, cheers!!

BigPapaRaels – thank you for passing by. Don’t limit yourself to what they will teach you at AAU, keep learning from other sources as well, like online or DVD tutorials, books, etc. Have fun!

Nubb – hahaha, thank you man!

Fireflights + Joce – thank you!!!

So, I was sketching some characters and then I realized that I could use the space left between them for some tiny baby creature sketching. I remember once that I wanted to make an educational book for kids, full of cute or just weird creatures. I guess I’m into that sort of mood again.

**Nibras** · September 7th, 2008, 06:53 AM

That stuff is sweet
you should make an educational book for me just subtracte 10 years out of my age and i would count as a 4 yo old right? lmfao'
Sweet sketches though
your ideas are crazy!
Keep posting more!

**Max Martelli** · September 7th, 2008, 11:51 AM

This stuff is amazing, I'm blown away. I love your style and I look forward to seeing more. You are definitely an inspiration.

Edit: the only thing I can think of for you to work on involves your digital reworking and coloring. In my opinion, if you want to overlay the colored figure over the old paper background you should incorporate more digital stuff in the background. I guess what I mean is the look of the first colored piece, the giant with the sword, looks alot better than the one under it. It looks like the picture is more unified. The only reason I say this is because the digital media has such a distinct look and feel to it that it contrasts with the paper. If there is more digital "paint" spread throughout the image it will look more unified. Hope this is helpful, not that you need it anyway, your stuff is incredible.

**MeTaL-Mike** · September 7th, 2008, 04:24 PM

man talking about diversity!!! awesome creatures man

**luness** · September 13th, 2008, 10:50 PM

Hello again!

lilnebo - hahaha, cute

Max Martelli - I feel confident about my pencil work but I'm conscious that my digital stuff needs more work, so thanks for the tip, man! I'll keep that in mind.

MeTaL-Mike - haha. It keeps my design muscle working, regardless the strange results

So, these are colored pieces I've been working on every now and then. I'm learning to render in PS so I tend to leave the pieces for a while and then come back to them so then it's easier to catch the flaws.
Still WIP, but I'm very happy with the results so far. When I see my colored pieces from a year or two years ago, I can see a huge difference, in a good way.
Anyways, each design is based on a demon, and each demon has its own characteristics, powers, etc; so I'll add some elements within the smoke that would give a clue of what the powers are all about. They might seem almost done but there's still a lot of work to do.
They're part of a gigantic personal project I've had in mind for a long time, so more designs will come for sure.

See you guys later, cheers!

**Mischa rewrite** · September 13th, 2008, 11:25 PM

Wow man, your stuff is great! I've lurked your thread before and I love your pencil work, but wow! You bring a whole psychedelic edge to your ps coloring. Can't wait to see more from yah.

**kidult** · September 14th, 2008, 02:54 AM

Dman those colour so sweeeet! And the pencils keep rocking - and not to ass pat completely - maybe try some darker shadows on some of the pencils

**exposse** · September 14th, 2008, 08:51 AM

great work m8. looking forward to see more.

**BigPapaRaels** · September 14th, 2008, 05:16 PM

holy shit those are just insane when colored. the lightning guy is my favorite

**Robojon** · September 14th, 2008, 09:47 PM

Just browsed the whole thread and I'm astonished! You have great skill with pencils and a good mind for design it seems. Thanks for sharing your processes too. No real crits from me just looking forward to seeing more.

**luness** · September 15th, 2008, 12:36 AM

Oops, I forgot to post this group of sketches. Fantasy bugs. Some predators, some prey, some mimicry…just playing with shapes and some elements here and there.

Mischa rewrite – haha, thank you. I’m glad you like them

kidult – thank you! About the darker shadows, I want to keep the originals this way and do the darker shadows and perhaps some more midtones and white washes digitally

exposse – thank you!!

BigPapaRaels – hahaha. And hey, that’s my favorite too! Is more sinister and weird than the others

Robojon – thanks so much for the kind words and for visiting my SB

Anyways, some bugs for the thread:

**BigPapaRaels** · September 15th, 2008, 01:20 PM

man i just want to know how you come up with these creatures their so unique ive never seen any thing like them. great work as always.

**Bones Weep Tedium** · September 20th, 2008, 04:45 AM

can we see the coloured in airships from page 6?

**Iridyse** · September 20th, 2008, 11:10 AM

Hiya Luness,kickin' ass as always!

I love those bugs, mmmmmmm.

**Moai** · October 9th, 2008, 03:52 AM

I love these pages of multiple designs that you post. You bring knowledge, personality, and good design to each sketch. It's the kind of stuff that makes me want to whip out my pencil and draw.