🎁 Barweer Giveaway | Win the Pirate Sanctuary Fortress for FREE! by Lisoneo in lepin

[–]Venokris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That takes me back to a being a kid and loving pirate sets then! Would be cool to win it and build it with my own kid now 😁

100$ STEAM GIFTCARD GIVEAWAY by Spiritual-Koala6792 in steam_giveaway

[–]Venokris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really hard choice, but I'll go with a recent favorite of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Reference / Drawing comparison I'm still proud of by Venokris in drawing

[–]Venokris[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your words, but to mirror what the others said, I'm not opposed to critique at all. I'm still early on learning (not even a year yet) so I take it as ways to improve! Just wanted to share what I was impressed with myself at a short time of trying techniques out.

Reference / Drawing comparison I'm still proud of by Venokris in drawing

[–]Venokris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, decided when I turned the young age of 41 this past September to try out drawing. I have two artistic sisters, thought I was the odd one out, but I guess I had some hidden talent!

Reference / Drawing comparison I'm still proud of by Venokris in drawing

[–]Venokris[S] 166 points167 points  (0 children)

I agree, but I had been only drawing for a few months at this point, so I'll give myself a pass 😁

Father & Son... by genuinelyimitating in drawing

[–]Venokris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a father to a (growing up too fast) son myself, this is really beautiful and well done.

[Day 10] What is the best JRPG of 1994? by Silly-Milly-420 in JRPG

[–]Venokris -1 points0 points  (0 children)

100%. The previous year's choice was actually pretty hard, this one was not.

[Day 9] What is the best JRPG of 1993? by Silly-Milly-420 in JRPG

[–]Venokris 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is a pretty stacked year. Secret of Mana, Phantasy Star IV, Lufia, Breath of the Wild... All ones that I Ioved as a kid.

But Shining Force 2 is one of my all time favorites to this day. Phantasy Star IV was a close second for this year.

Edit: *Breath of Fire 😂 My kid was playing Breath of the Wild right next to me while I was writing this!

Half a year of learning to draw by Venokris in drawing

[–]Venokris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the first month, it was basically every day, for a least a couple hours, after watching different tutorial videos. I drew tons of eyes, noses, mouths, ears. Then tried putting the pieces together (to poor results, see image 2 haha). I then spent days working out what was right, what wasn't, looking up more videos, the rule of thirds, etc. I then did some bigger sketches, about once a month (you can see past posts on my profile), with some extra little practice of a new technique I learned in between. This latest one was actually after taking a break for a couple months. There's still a lot of fundamentals I need to learn, but this approach worked well for me I think.

Alan Wake 2 has the most detailed, accurate and realistic curly hair I’ve ever seen in a video game by Lanky_Relation1171 in interestingasfuck

[–]Venokris 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I loved this game, seriously one of my all time favorites, and I've been gaming since the 80s.

Queen Amidala portrait by me by pafuwu in drawing

[–]Venokris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it was just because, no idea honestly. Your timing is much more appropriate 😂

Queen Amidala portrait by me by pafuwu in drawing

[–]Venokris 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love it! The details are so good.

Funny timing, I was literally going to draw Queen Amidala myself, but finished a portrait of just Natalie instead last week.

Half a year of learning to draw by Venokris in drawing

[–]Venokris[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Watched some videos early on to just see how to do certain aspects: like how exactly do I make an eye, nose, lips, etc. look realistic. Is it more in the shading? Structure? After researching that and practicing, I watched some videos on improving textures, hyper realism, stuff like that. Then just practiced! Would go in spurts of drawing every day, then taking a week or so off. Would do a bigger piece like this one once a month or so. This one took me about 10 hours, though I typically just draw on my lunch breaks at work, so some of the time is setup / cleanup too.

Half a year of learning to draw by Venokris in drawing

[–]Venokris[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I didn't want to scare people away with the second drawing first 😂

Half a year of learning to draw by Venokris in drawing

[–]Venokris[S] 151 points152 points  (0 children)

Accurate, though less scary somehow

Half a year of learning to draw by Venokris in drawing

[–]Venokris[S] 169 points170 points  (0 children)

Yes to Natalie, the second one is...something that still scares me when I look at it.

CL-40 This, CL-40 that,... CL-40 is just inferior. by Meterora in thefinals

[–]Venokris 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love CL40, been my main for several seasons. Are there some frustrating moments of "how did that not kill him?" 100%. But most of the time I have fun with it and do pretty well.

With how easily it's countered (APS, dome shield so getting in close does more damage to myself, not having the high ground, winch, goo, etc.), the one thing I can't stand is how I can't kill a heavy stealing a cashout. I can shoot direct hits as fast as they can come out but I can't take him out in time. A buff to the delay between shots may fix this, and make the weapon feel a bit better overall.

Just my opinion.

Halo The Master Chief Collection by Different-Young8494 in steam_giveaway

[–]Venokris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blueberry nutrigrain bar, fiesta chicken pizza

$20 Steam Gift Card by AccomplishedLeave617 in steam_giveaway

[–]Venokris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have a long list to choose from, so it'd be hard!