NSFW - Kvenh's sketchbook of daily studies

[Kvenh]

Vulgar`: Thanks! Not at all comfortable. So many problems I don't even know how I should approach them.

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just... stuff, idk.

[MeteorCat]

The second painting is beautiful. Great work

[Mila]

Nice updates man

[Mariusz Kornatka]

cool update

[Kvenh]

MeteorCat, Mila, Mariusz Kornatka: Thank you!

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[MeteorCat]

Wow the lighting on the helmet is spot on Keep up the hard work.

[Kvenh]

MeteorCat: Thanks!

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Just some crapscribble. Just posting for the sake of posting

[MeteorCat]

I must apologise for being such a stalker but I like the first painting a lot. It has a lot of depth and drama. The second one reminds me of James Gurney's painting so obviously I like it too

[Kvenh]

MeteorCat: Thanks! Haha I guess it shows huh. I was actually skimming through his books as I was drawing.

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mehhehheh. Did some traditional stuff today. Maybe I'll scan them later

[Yor]

nice render on those armors, very cool studies!

[Satu]

I really like your armor studies. I wonder if I should try those also, only to taste some sweet failure again, yum. Also the creature-things on post #422 look cool. Why oh why am I so sucky at creatures? The crapscribble on post #428 looks, well, not that crap to me, lol. Also I like your signature quotation by the way. Where is it from? It's somehow inspiring. Still learning the toughness part myself.

[Tea of Doom]

What is it with you and shiny armor?

Running trough your sketchbook, I think you have a great eye for values, you seem to nail them every time.

Waht's your secret for adding depth to your environments? I seem to struggle with that all the time.

[Kvenh]

Yor: thanks!

Satupeikko: Oh yes, that sweet, sweet failure. The quote was by Karl Larsson. I went to see is exhibition at Ateneum. I don't like his work really (except his younger stuff was pretty cool) but the quote stuck on me.

Tea of Doom: Shiny metal is shiny x.x; I actually feel like I'm horrible with depth and all my paintings look really flat, so thanks! I guess I just try to keep a keen eye on the value transistions between the painting.

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*scribblescribble* just uh.. Idk.

[Kvenh]

Did the obligatory selfportrait of the day and stuff but boy did it suck. They just aren't getting any better ugh.

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rawr. stuff

[Yor]

keep the spirits up man! selfportraits can be a bitch sometimes :p
love the big dude, dark and vicious

[Gpozzo]

What a great sketchbook, looking forward for more!

[Kvenh]

Yor: Thanks! Hehe yeah, damn those SPs. I feel like I'm slowly getting closer to something though. I think they're pretty bad because of the way I'm trying to see things. Will have to try more.

Gpozzo: Thank you! Trying to update daily

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Sooo yeah. Another quick SP, pretty bad yadda yadda. The colours were something along those lines so not all failed. Just shapes and shit as usual. Also some b/w dude. The rest I did was pretty much along the same lines.

[Kvenh]

Quick and rough still-life.

wheee!

[Satu]

the still-life (and the chubby dude)

[Mila]

Hey man, keep up the great work. Love the big guy in post 435 :]
You should work on it. I bet it would look great when colored.

[will123will]

Great paintings, also love the perspective your using on the creatures in post 422.

[MeteorCat]

That's rough? It's freakin' epic. Those flowers look amazing.

[Kvenh]

Satupeikko: Thanks!

Mila: Thanks! I actually gave it a few tries but didn't come up with anything good.

will123will: Thank you! Glad you like them

MeteorCat: Hehe thanks! I didn't manage to get them to read very well I'm afraid.

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woopwoop. A study and some scribbling. Photoshop decided to crash on me few times today and lost a bunch of stuff. oh well.

[MeteorCat]

This latest study is one of your best. Her nose is stunning, her eyes hold emotion and look great, her mouth give a lot of expression too and last but not least the neck is wonderful. I love how you captured the tiny piece of reflected light on her chin.

The only advice I could give is try and smooth the hair above her ear as those white strokes don't really look right.

Keep up the stupendous work!

[Kvenh]

MeteorCat: Thanks! Yeah I prefer doing studies just focusing on one thing. That one wasn't about the hair so I didn't touch it at all.

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Was away for few days. Tried to do some traditional stuff. Boy do they suck. I'm horrible with lines.

just scirbbles. Been doing the selfportraits and stuff too but... yeah...

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[RaphaelLuebke]

ah-ah-ah dont make the same mistake like me and use the chromatic abberation thing hahaha, it will take months to get rid of it!

amazing work kvenh, allways enjoy visiting your sketchbook this one is especially a visual delight, but i like that youre getting more and more vivid with imaginative stuff!

[Kvenh]

xbert: Thanks! Yeah haha it's tempting x.x; I don't feel any of the studies kicking in the imaginative stuff just yet.

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just some stuff from head

[logartis]

I love how you render the textures (skin, rock, etc..)! Great work!

[Kvenh]

logartis: Thank you!

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stuff. And a crappy quick still-life I just did to keep myself drawing when I felt like stopping. Also did a bunch of other crap I'm not gonna upload

[Kvenh]

tits.

uuh I mean, skin practice. Didn't finish. And yeah the proportions were weird like that