Requinoesis

Suggestion for Introducing Characters!

I'll be a little slow on bringing new things these days. The cold weather is approaching and making me lethargic for some reason, plus I'm doing some extra work for the indie game Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, for which I'm the art director.

In the meantime, I'll bring some older artwork that I've updated with some outdated details, and along with that, I thought about doing a short presentation with some details about each of the sharkfolk characters from the comic I'm trying to make called Waters Gone By. But I'm not sure how to make a concise and simple introduction.

What would you like to know about each of the characters? Favorite food? Hobbies? Things they like and dislike?

Testing things 🗨️🦈

While testing out ways to create dialogue, I think this font isn't very legible from a distance.

Versão em portugues que é um pouco mais engraçada, eu acho:

Berto got lost again! It's ironic that he's a hammerhead shark with all his sensory prowess, but he can't find his way around his own apartment. 🦈💫

Music: Blue Horizon - by: Alyzea

Full artwork from the second background test I did for the experimental comic, drawing over the 3D model I made of my Sharkfolk characters' home. In this one, I was able to experiment with interior lighting!

I didn't have many ideas about what kind of dialogue to include, so I thought of this simples and silly interaction. If you'd like to see more details about the creation process, you can check out my Patreon. Any help is welcome!

In a distant post-Anthropocene future, after the rise of the sharkfolk civilization, a hammerhead shark named Roberto asks himself a question! 🦈💬

Music: Aero Garden - by: Alyzea

As promised, here's the full version of this test sketch I made. Originally, there weren't supposed to be any characters in the scene, but I wanted to experiment with how I would do it and inserted Roberto and Tiago having a silly, random dialogue.

awesome work :0

I'm flattered you liked it! I'm surprised you thought it was a solid concept, because I thought it looked silly and weird, the top-down view even looks like a smiling clown, hehe 🤡 My father wanted me to be an architect when I was a child, concluding that because I liked dollhouses and drawing structures. I almost considered that career, but I enjoyed creating fantasy structures, so I went down a path related to game design college.

I like to create things that seem minimally coherent but taking care not to appeal too much to realism. For a shark civilization, one would expect something stylized and playful, resembling corals, boats, or something 'caricatured' like that, but I like it to be more subtle and not exaggerated. For example: I know that's the intention of these works, but I think the concepts in Chicken Little's structures sound too cartoonish, BlackSad is too realistic without any adaptation, while Zootopia has an architecture with more balance between cartoonish and realistic with many adaptations to meet the needs of different animal species; it's something more like that that I'm looking for.

For this particular building, I was inspired by real places, mixing themes and drawing inspiration from the design of an architect named Artacho Jurado. I comment on this in more detail here, and on my Patreon, if you want to support me, there's a little more about it.

Another sketch I drew over the 3D model I made of Seven Waves Towers. This place would be the North Hall, a path connecting the Amber and Coral Towers.

Do my backgrounds look decent for the comic I plan to make?

At some point in the future, I'll publish the complete artwork, but if you want to see it in advance and details of the creation process, you can check it out on Patreon if you'd like.

Here's a small diagram I made to help me find my way around the Seven Waves, The home of my sharkfolk friends. 🦈✨

I'm still unsure which English terminology would be ideal: Residential, Building, Towers, Complex? Which would be best to use?

After thinking about it, I came up with: The Seven Waves - Residential Island.

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Here's a really bad video I made so you can see the model better. At some point I'll redo this drawing without the 3D model to make it look like a building map pamphlet or postcard.

A test sketch I drew over the 3D model I made of the Seven Waves Towers. This place is called Colortrail Courtyard.

I'll show the complete artwork at some point, but you can see more details on Patreon if you'd like.

Almost finished with the 3D model of the Seven Waves Towers, the home of Roberto and his friends. I feel like I wasted a lot of time on somewhat useless details, but it was fun nonetheless!

On Patreon I shared more details and other angles of the models if you're interested or want early access. I'll publish them in the future anyway.

I've been having trouble with insomnia, but despite that, I feel more comfortable drawing at night, although I sometimes have existential crises..

I yearn to live place that looks like that!!

Hi! I'm glad you liked it, I'm honored that you've been with me for so long! It took me a long time to be satisfied with the design haha, I still need to imagine the ground floor anyway.

On my paid Patreon I explain in detail my inspirations, references and sketches to arrive at this result. But I think it's okay to say something about it!

I was mainly inspired by the Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore, but I wanted it to have a more retro and less futuristic look. So, I was looking for cylindrical buildings and what appealed to me most was a casino hotel building in Las Vegas called Sands that was demolished in 1996. While the roof is inspired by the design ideas of the Brazilian architect Artacho Jurado.

Now that the downtown Tidebay is finished, my next step will be to focus on completing the home of my main sharkfolk characters and Roberto's room!

I hope I don't get too bogged down in so many details sdfjkhsadf

Currently, I'm focusing on creating and designing the Seven Waves Building, the home of my main sharkfolk characters in the story I'm developing. I'm posting the creation process on Patreon if you'd like to follow along and support me in any way!