Requinoesis

Hi! I am dedicated to offering a new insight into the image of sharks through art! I try to encourage exploring creative possibilities of shark imagery that can go beyond the old stereotypes of man-eaters, jaws and blood. And I hope to inspire people to turn their fear of sharks into fascination! 🦈✨

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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! 🦈✨

Which one are you? Tiago, who's always reminding his friends… or Roberto, who always forgets things?

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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! 🦈✨

Which one are you? Tiago, who's always reminding his friends… or Roberto, who always forgets things?

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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.

Blue Lobby - Concept | Requinoesis

Here I am again! I hope you'll forgive the delay in bringing new artwork. The new work I'm doing for Astrea is keeping me quite busy, in add

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Today is my birthday. For the first time in a long while, I can honestly say it's a day that makes me happy! 🎂🦈✨ Personally, I’m really grateful for the support from everyone here on Tumblr, you help me feel more hopeful about the future! Thanks a lot for all! ✨

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

What do you think they're talking about?

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This is a piece of art from 2023 that I thought about restoring and updating the character design details. This was the old sketch I kept:

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

What do you think they're talking about?

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This is a piece of art from 2023 that I thought about restoring and updating the character design details. This was the old sketch I kept:

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

What do you think they're talking about?

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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?

Please feel free to comment! 🦈✨

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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!

For location reference, this scene would be from this area. This is the South Hall.

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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:

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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!

For location reference, this scene would be from this area. This is the South Hall.

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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.

For location reference, this scene would be from this area. Called the Colortrail Courtyard.

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are you an architect? your residential is so solid conceptually and you presented it in such a professional manner!!!

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.

There are some curiosities structural features of the Sharkfolk buildings: The frames and other metal details are probably made of titanium and moisture-resistant stainless steel; they use concrete similar to Roman concrete that strengthens in contact with water; they adorn the buildings with ceramic tiles similar to those used in the Sydney Opera House that 'self-clean'; and finally, they use non-flammable and non-toxic cultivated algae bioplastic. How do they do that? I have no idea! But since they’re on the eve of becoming a post-scarcity civilization, they probably do it in the best way possible, though it’s beyond our understanding, hehe

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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.

North Hall - Sketch | Requinoesis

North Hall - Sketch by Requinoesis on Patreon. Join Requinoesis's community for exclusive content and updates.

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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.

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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.

ColorTrail Courtyard - Sketch | Requinoesis

ColorTrail Courtyard - Sketch by Requinoesis on Patreon. Join Requinoesis's community for exclusive content and updates.

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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.

ColorTrail Courtyard - Sketch | Requinoesis

ColorTrail Courtyard - Sketch by Requinoesis on Patreon. Join Requinoesis's community for exclusive content and updates.