Requinoesis

This is the full artwork for the third background concept experiment, drawing over the 3D model.

This would be the Blue Lobby, the entrance to the Cerulean Tower of the Seven Waves residential, the home of my sharkfolk. 🏢🦈

For this scene, I improvised by filling it with several other residents instead of just Tiago and Roberto alone. I tried to portray that in this universe there are no 'maintenance services', the residents themselves take care of the upkeep of the residential complex, a kind of ancient tradition.

This Saturday I lost a friend, and today is his birthday.

He was a dear friend whom I saw every day in our group of friends. He once told me that thanks to me, he began to see sharks in a much deeper way and said that the blue shark was his favorite.

This is the first time I've lost a friend so suddenly like this, I'm still trying to process it...

A few weeks ago he asked me to illustrate a blue shark for him to get tattooed, as he'd always wanted one of my artworks. But because of work and other commitments, I kept putting it off.

I revisited an old design I made to illustrate my artistic name 'Requinoesis'. The old idea was related to two fictional mythological figures I created for Sharkfolk story. Now, it's also the name of a fictional state of mind present in the story. 🦈✨

I wrote more details and shared some related illustrations on Patreon with free access, if you want to know more.

After my last background test, I wanted to try making a short animated comic scene. Just a short, random scene from the daily lives of my sharkfolk characters! 🦈✨

I finally found a little time to finish this other background design test, draw over on a 3D model.

This place would be the "Blue Lobby", the entrance to the Cerulean Tower of Seven Waves, the home of my sharkfolk characters. ✨🏢🦈

If you want to see the complete version and the creation process in more detail, you can check out my Patreon to support me in some way! I'll post the complete version sometime in the future anyway.

Our three shark buddies love hanging out at Fintastic Snacks! 🥪🍤🍨🦈

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In the meantime, I'll bring some older artwork that I've updated with some outdated details, and along with that, I thought about doing a short presentation with some details about each of the sharkfolk characters from the comic I'm trying to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.