Cerkvenik's sketchbook

**cerkuenik** · June 28th, 2010, 02:29 AM

Welcome to my sketchbook! Comments and critiques are mostly welcome!

**cerkuenik** · December 20th, 2011, 11:22 PM

**snippet** · December 20th, 2011, 11:28 PM

Nice update.
I can see that you have improved a lot.

**cerkuenik** · December 21st, 2011, 01:11 AM

Thanks Snippet!

I´ve been practicing a lot at work but I don´t have so much sketches to post, I kinda left CA for Cghub, but there are still a lot of interesting threads around..

**cerkuenik** · January 13th, 2012, 05:42 AM

Thanks Corvy!

**cerkuenik** · January 13th, 2012, 05:42 AM

**cerkuenik** · January 13th, 2012, 05:44 AM

anatomy studies

**cerkuenik** · January 13th, 2012, 05:45 AM

latest card Im working on

**cerkuenik** · January 24th, 2012, 10:49 PM

quick update

**cerkuenik** · March 8th, 2012, 12:44 AM

a little update, 3 random images and a big evolution at the monks

**cerkuenik** · March 13th, 2012, 12:20 AM

**cerkuenik** · March 13th, 2012, 12:21 AM

**cerkuenik** · March 14th, 2012, 02:02 AM

blocking colors, got a little ahead to the shadows

**cerkuenik** · March 16th, 2012, 01:43 AM

I changed the lighting a little based on my newer reference, i´m happy with the skin evolution but I realised later that his left side doesn´t match pretty much his left side!
Idk how much beard he´ll have. Its was kinda hiding his smile.

**cerkuenik** · March 21st, 2012, 01:29 AM

a little update, decided to go with a small beard to show better his smile. The only thing I would change so far is the old man´s nose (too square?) and fatten a little his right cheek I´m still deciding the color for the guy at the fg.

**cerkuenik** · March 24th, 2012, 02:29 AM

last update before the final version! At Photoshop the shadows were much darker... but I finished the bkg, I´m happy coz its way simpler than I normally do, I always go deep in details.
I just want to finish the guy´s head (gonna paint him smiling)

**cerkuenik** · April 4th, 2012, 01:09 PM

A new page! Which background would you choose?

**cerkuenik** · April 5th, 2012, 07:41 AM

here´s a update! most ppl chose the 1st one. So I went with it!

**Revidescent** · April 16th, 2012, 06:41 PM

Really like the progress on that latest one, it's already come a very long way since the first drawing, and I love how the woman's face is looking.

Some of your skintones - the monk, the martial arts guys - look a bit plasticky. I think it's partially the strong shine compared with the strong orange colour; you could use a bit more colour variation.

**cerkuenik** · April 24th, 2012, 08:59 AM

Thanks for stopping by Revidescent! i've changed her face but other people talked they liked it too!
Thanks for the feedback on the skin! More practice is on the way!

**cerkuenik** · April 24th, 2012, 09:06 AM

Hand studies!

**cerkuenik** · April 26th, 2012, 04:32 PM

New page!
I'm trying to convey a medieval funeral. I know they weren't buried with armor
but I wanted to be more interering with the armour reflectin the candles!

critiques are welcome!

**cerkuenik** · May 9th, 2012, 05:40 PM

huge update! Almost done, I struggled a lot with the colors but I´m happy atm

**cerkuenik** · May 26th, 2012, 04:19 PM

Finally finished the knight!

And now I switched back to the princess/peasant scene!

**cerkuenik** · May 28th, 2012, 11:20 PM

I started framing the characters, I´m kinda happy with the composition, I think my biggest weakness is composition and I tend to go too much to the details and add a lot of things to compete with the main theme. Learning a lot with Bourguereau

**Izaya-Shirow** · May 28th, 2012, 11:26 PM

Really great the way you did the skin coloring on the hands, any advice to have that kind of detail? the amor on the knight funeral it's also great.

**cerkuenik** · May 28th, 2012, 11:37 PM

Thanks Izaya!
I took a photo of my parents! To go deeper on details you have to have the best references, photo is the fastest way, but if you starting to learn how to draw/paint, it´s important to learn anatomy too..

For the color, I use Deviant Nep skin swatch, just google it and you´ll find her deviant art pretty easy! Good luck!

Thanks for the knight! I got some nice feedback and I´ll try to simplify some things.. they told me that there are too many shiny spots..

**JakehC** · September 19th, 2012, 05:45 PM

nice work

**cerkuenik** · December 5th, 2012, 10:35 PM

Thanks Aryeh!
It´s been 3 awesome months travelling, but now is time to get things on track! New home, new city. Just a random guy before big things to come!

**matcha** · December 5th, 2012, 10:58 PM

You have a nice way of polishing up your renders, I like it.

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