Veil Serenova

(They/Them / 24y) Heya, call me Veil. I draw! Wooo, exciting. So anyway, about gay vampires and dark academia... 【My Twitter!】 ┃ 【My Newgrounds!】

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HAIIIII HELLOOO :333

Welcome to my blog!

I'm Veil ! I also go by dawningveil (formerly cozenveil), Serenova or Dani. ✨️

I'm a self-taught, gothic, nonbinary concept artist, fan-artist and writer who loves dark academia vibes, prohibition-era aesthetics and gothic atmospheres. In my work, I try my best to get across my biggest priority, which is the importance of identity and self-expression, especially as an enby.

I'm also working on many different projects. My biggest project is a personal story I'm creating, titled "Domani." For a better glimpse into what it's about, check out the summary on my Carrd page, in the "Projects" section. 🤍

In short, it's a gothic, non-linear, multi-perspective action thriller in prohibition-era America where many characters seek what they believe to be true enlightenment, and the immoral lengths they'll go to attain it. 🕯

Aside from this, I also have plans for MAJOR A.U. fanworks that I'd like to create full-length graphic novels out of. The three most notable ones are for;

Sonic The Hedgehog,

Castlevania (Games)

and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Here you'll find mostly my art, since I tend not to reblog much, but I may reblog random stuff from time to time. I also have a tag for my art, if you'd like to browse that.

I don't quite know where to fit this in, but my BIGGEST interests include;

Games:

Castlevania, NiGHTS, Kingdom Hearts,

Sonic the Hedgehog,

Klonoa, LittleBigPlanet, Final Fantasy, Sly Cooper,

Spyro the Dragon, Zelda, Mario,

Blinx the Time Sweeper, Mega Man, Ape Escape,

Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, Kirby, Guilty Gear,

Ace Attorney. 💙

Anime:

Dragon Ball (all), Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Fullmetal Alchemist, Baccano!, 91 Days, Mob Psycho, Dungeon Meshi. 🧡

If you like any of these, pleeeease feel free to contact me so we can gush about our favorite franchises together. I'm typically really shy but I loooove meeting new people and making friends so yeah! Erm! reach out and dap me up!! Chances are I will reeeeally like you (i am very easy to please (and also quite obsessive))!!

Finally, if you enjoy my artwork or writing, please consider helping an enby out by commissioning me or donating to my Ko-Fi. All of my commission info is listed in my Carrd page, under the "Art Commissions" section. 🤍✨️

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A Carrd profile for cozenveil's portfolio, commissions, socials and upcoming projects.

I'll likely be back to update this post, but uh, yeah! Muah! Thank you for the support and I hope we can be besties. 🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍✨️

[dawningveil]

i forgot to make this oops. anyway. art fighting! working on revenges rn...

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i decided to remaster my NiGHTS piece froma while back! I came quite a long way drawing them.

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Three more contributors have arrived at the Dream Gate!

Introducing...

Cozenveil (@cozenveil | Twitter | Newgrounds)

Haiii, I'm Veil! I'm a gothic artist that specializes in elaborate and detailed art with grungy textures and tons of hatching. I enjoy expressing my identity through my art, and I hope to inspire others to do the same. For this zine, I'm making what's arguably my most ambitious piece yet! yeah the NiGHTS brainrot hit me like crack

Whalewithay (Twitter)

After so many years, the NiGHTS games continue to stake their claim in my heart. I hope my art can convey the feeling of excitement that comes from seeing an old friend.

LessGalaXy (Twitter | Instagram)

I'm LessGalaXy, a Mexican artist focused on the NiGHTS and Mega Man communities. I'm creating a NiGHTS vs. Reala design for acrylic standees. I hope fans of both characters enjoy it!

[dawningveil]

WIPs of my piece for a reeeeally dope project!

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my venom emotes are already seeing great use

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more guilty gear emotes

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i may have forgotten how to draw them

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NiGHTS and the nearly-weres ✨️

I might go back to touch this one up, but I felt like posting it, so uh, yeah. Woohoo!

[dawningveil]

hai there!! what makes u so attracted to Toru Nakayama's style~? :D icl tho I do really like the art he contributed for the MMZ series, it's one of the reasons I love it so much (Fefnir n Harpuia n Leviathan n Phantom n X n Zero n Ciel n I'm rambling now hhehe—)

Hai!! :3

It's a few things, honestly. The biggest thing is the relatively sketchy/wobbly lineart, which made me feel right at home since I have a naturally sketchy rendering style. The more I studied the style, though, I found myself loving everything; the way he shades with watercolors in his earlier works, his simple lighting techniques, the anatomy, the very subtle hatching, it all clicked. I especially enjoyed adding a feint blur to the lineart and shading in order to replicate the feel of Nakayama's earlier pieces. The whole shebang is so darn fun!

[dawningveil]

Reala ~

fun doodle sheet that I totally meant to post a while ago but forgot! sillyyy

[dawningveil]

yay classic mega! still workshopping some ideas but here's the general jist (gist?) of it. As per usual, my design is heavily (and I do mean heavily) based on multiple pieces of Classic Mega Man created by the goat Toru Nakayama.

If anyone is interested, i had a project in the works where i re-interpreted Mega Man X3 bosses in a style similar to Mega Man Zero, with considerable progress already done for Blast Hornet. figured if enough interest is shown ill do the whole maverick roster of that game and potentially others.

[dawningveil]

I made these pieces of the character from the upcoming Bloodstained sequel before we received the devastating news regarding SHUTARO. I hope he may rest in peace, and I'm eternally grateful for the massive contributions he has made to my favorite games of all time.

[mamabagels]

Happy Valentine's Day!!! Super excited for the new castlevania hehehehehe

[dawningveil]

WIP. This is one part of a potential new project. I want to see if anyone can guess what the project is, hehehe

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more Mega Man Zero style studies. Trying my best to interpret X in a way that feels coherent with the Zero games while maintaning the aspects of his design I enjoy the most

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art style study