#kenesu

[k3nb]

Permission to repost granted by artist @daijoboo_kenesu on Twitter.

// Please do not repost/steal/trace. //

These are such cute quick sketches and I appreciated him fitting time for them during his busy schedule. Please support him by liking and/or retweeting the original post on Twitter here, following him, and/or commissioning him if you are able.❤️

[nbcthegoodplace]

We've got no trolley problems with this fan art! 🚂 

🎨: bit.ly/2pTySpc

[samzikei]

Art trade for @kenesu! This is his fabulous D&D character, Chasity, the Tiefling Cleric!! He’s so hot I’m gonna die Kenny. x

[evelynrl]

My son #kenesu https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq99D5WhdTw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1itm4ohnyc8s8

[draconli]

Scholarships and Portfolio Reviews:

For the black and biracial artists, this list is for you (for all others, please share this among your black artists to help them out):

For gaming development: http://www.blackgamedevs.com/

Scholarships (closed out but reopen... keep watch!): https://twitter.com/victoriaying/status/1266392721851203585

For portfolio reviews: https://twitter.com/kikiinspace/status/1267254637234548736

https://twitter.com/gostephgo/status/1267256796395102212

https://twitter.com/Blacknanimat…/status/1266742423381655558

https://twitter.com/LayronDeJarn…/status/1267067041040658432

https://twitter.com/LauraSreebny/status/1267272153700814851

https://twitter.com/akemiart/status/1266825943009554432

https://twitter.com/okeefe_artist/status/1267199032171958272

https://twitter.com/kenesu/status/1266874451649613825

https://twitter.com/VargasNi/status/1267037554022518787

https://twitter.com/jsanford/status/1266866740727648257

[japhers]

Hi! love your art and was looking at your 2018 year in review, and was wondering what the piece from july/august is (the one of the guy w/ chest tattoos). I looked everywhere for it but couldn't find it

OH YEA i never got to post him here! he’s Kenesu on twitter’s interpretation of a philippine harvest god, I drew him for the draw-my-oc-in-your-style tag thing going on there~

[talesofalethrion]

The thugs of Alethrion has more stories to be told. Here we have some designs by @kenesu who worked with me last year. These are designs connected to Tira, Uruth and Zit's storyline. We have 9 days left of the kickstarter for Season Two! We're 61% funded - link in the profile description and here https://t.co/vrwEDfqEw0 https://www.instagram.com/p/ByBdTCNAkHk/?igshid=71bgl4n54j51

[m0ntygee]

another draw peni parker in a different anime style challenge inspired by kenesu on twitter!

[daikenkki]

https://twitter.com/kenesu/status/1199409063991267328

[qrbits]

Finished the project I’ve been working on for the past month! It’s kind of a hybrid of a visdev portfolio and a self indulgent story guide. Due to tumblr’s photo limit, I only shared about half of the pages here, but if you’re interested in reading the whole thing, you can find it here. 

I have a lot to reflect upon, but the text is very long (and basically a creative biography ;;;), so I’ll put it under the cut. 

(I’m taking advantage of the fact that tumblr is supposed to be a blogging platform and actually writing a blog for once LOL)

As I said in the introduction page, Red Scherzo is a story I’ve been musing over for several years, and it’s not possible to truly understand the project without understanding its history. As most other creatives will relate, writing is Hard. Creating worlds is Hard. And even more so, creating people is Hard. 

The inkling for this story began in 2014 after I decided that I wanted to write something good. Something cool, something grand. And like most clueless 15 year olds with too much time on their hands, I began to daydream. I reasoned that the best way to make something really cool would be to list out everything that I ever wanted to see in film, in text, in anime, and to somehow mash it into one story. Here are some of the things I demanded from it: nonlinear storytelling, genius foreshadowing, heavy symbolism, characters who are the perfect balance of tragic and relatable, a powerful message, and the list goes on and on. I collected images of beautiful places and beautiful people that I wanted to write stories about and decided that I would incorporate them somehow.

As you can see, these are all very vague, ambiguous elements of storytelling. And so, with only the notion of wanting to make greatness, I began to write. I wrote and plotted and drew iteration after iteration, and I was never satisfied, because how could I be?  There was no way that I could have satisfied the guidelines I set for myself. 

A few years in, about 200,000 words of plotting and 2 or 3 Nanowrimo’s later,  I’d decided to make the story (it was not called Red Scherzo back then) a webcomic. I was starry-eyed and determined. This would be the project I worked on for the foreseeable rest of my life. I’d calculated that if I posted an update a week, it would take until my mid 30′s to complete. 

Saying that now feels so incomprehensible and hilarious. Very little planning went into how the story was going to look, and I had little to no experience storyboarding, panelling, scripting, and so much more. I jumped straight in with a script that was maybe 1/1000 complete, and let my whims drive the visual direction. I got 4 decently sized updates in until I realized I couldn’t keep doing this.

After one last Nanowrimo I did for this story in my first year of college, I decided that I needed to trash the whole thing. Just forget the entire past four years happened, and release myself. It had become a burden, trying to perfect the story, trying to make it something bigger than what I currently had the capacity for. And so I did. I closed all the Google Drive tabs, closed all the Photoshop files, and just stopped thinking about it.

It was a very strange 6 months. I hadn’t known what it was like to not have story in my head for many many years. To not have some scene playing out in my head as I went to sleep, to not see something quirky happen and think about how my characters would react, to not see a beautiful setting and want to inject my story into it. Because my head was clear now, empty and free of any sort of expectations. Of course, in this time, I tried to carefully and slowly plan other stories, and to find some sort of spark that would bring me back into the story realm. I won’t say those were all failures, but just that they need some time to brew, just like Red Scherzo did.

In those 6 empty months, I paid more attention to living. I paid attention to people, ideas, and truths that were important to me. I was struggling with academics for the first time in my life, and learning what it meant to make sacrifices and live in a fulfilling and exciting way. I reread my old old stories that I believed held some capacity of beauty and authenticity and began to illustrate them. I decided what kind of art I wanted to make and what kind of things I wanted to say with it.

And then I returned to Red Scherzo. My mistakes were glaringly obvious now. This story was written during high school, during a time where I was not challenged, not exploring, and not genuine. I used the excuse of plotting to have something to be working on, always, and to be able to show off how much work I was putting into an arbitrary project. It was written during a time when I was feeling bored and suffocated, and used the story as a lifeline to entertain myself. I had goals and things I wanted to say with my writing, but it was all artificial, because I didn’t know it felt like to live like I wanted to.  

You’ve probably grasped by now that the morale of what I’ve just written is that you need to live in order to create. (And that this blog has gotten horribly off topic).  You can’t know what kinds of characters you want to write if you don’t go out there and meet characters. You can’t know what kinds of worlds you want to build if you’ve never experienced yours. 

Okay, so trying to loop all this back around to the actual portfolio. 

Well, obviously, I’ve never been a schizophrenic rich boy living in the 1950′s who writes symphonies and chases murderers. But I think that now, I’m able to understand and respect the people that guide my stories a bit better. I’m less impatient and less worried about making something perfect, which this portfolio is definitely not.

I have a good number of gripes over how this project ended up, but I’m not going to try to add to it or fix it because I want to keep it as a marker in time. This right here is the current maximum of my creative efforts. There are many things in it that I’d never drawn, much less designed before in my life. Cars, knives, buildings, interiors. I discovered that I enjoyed drawing many of these things. I also did the entire thing in a style that I’d hardly used before, just to challenge myself. (I took a lot of inspiration from the way kenesu’s was formatted, and the style that Renareve and Sophie Li’s was done in). 

By the time I hit the midway point, I already knew that I was capable of far more than the project was offering me, but I stuck it through because I needed to finish something solid. 

I’m excited to let this project go into the wild and begin to plan what my next one will be like. There are so many styles and genres I want to try. I feel like I’ve only just discovered the tip of the iceberg of my creative potential.

If you made it, thank you for reading until the end. I hope at least some of this blog made sense or resonated with you!

[sweetpastas]

I’m extremely happy that I’ve been able to save enough money to purchase zines and stickers from my favourite artists. They’re extremely inspirational people! It’s really encouraged me to keep drawing, to keep trying. Maybe someday I’ll be the artist I’ve always dreamt of! (Pic 1: Eecks on Twitter) (Pic 3: Ameruu and Endy on Twitter) (Pic 4: Kenesu on Twitter)

[kennyaitkenart]

Character sheet for はせがわけねす (Kenesu Hasegawa) or “Old Man” Hasegawa from Apex Cybernetic Samurai Owl. I have been having brian redo some of my sketches so I have some solid go to reference sheets. 🤘🏻���😁 LINEART by @brian_balondo colors by @kennyaitkenart #art #artist #artwork #artistoninstagram #create #creator #creative #acrylicpaint #paint #love #me #californiaartist #indie #indiecomics #makingcomics #acrylic #digitalart #digital #traditionalart #comics #colorist #color #comicbooks #apexcyberneticsamuraiowl #instagood #illustration #draw #drawing #kennyaitkenart #worldwide https://www.instagram.com/p/CB9RwrDBspZ/?igshid=tztbv6w7w1t4

[chayadol]

FanExpo is here guyssss  If you guys happen to be there feel free to meet and chat with us anytimeeee :D  See you guys thereeee  Ps. I didn’t make this work lmao. It’s all belong to my dear friend, Kennysu You can check the original work form link down below  https://twitter.com/kenesu/status/902917682860875776

[starleeter]

Beauty and the~ DROP TEH BEAT *dubstep sounds*

Originally sang this after watching Beauty and the Beast with Kenesu and thought I was going to upload it for our anniversary. The mixing needed more work though and I thought I would spend more time fixing that. Well, my mixing in general needs more help BUT I AM TRYING HARD TO FIX THAT.

Many thanks to Jason Frisk for letting me use his beautiful piano cover.. Make sure to check him out here:

Also thank you so much to all the artists that gave me permission to let me use their art. I listed the artists below in order of appearance so please check all of them out!

Music: Alan Menken Piano: Jason Frisk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFqVEnJpFQmlKfdCD85E7BQ) Artists (In Order of Appearance) Steve Miller: http://stevemillersart.tumblr.com/ Valentina Pinto: http://valentinapintosportfolio.tumblr.com/ Dylan Bonner: https://dylanbonner.tumblr.com/ hodori: http://arempak.tumblr.com/ Valentina Pinto: http://valentinapintosportfolio.tumblr.com/ Valentina Pinto: http://valentinapintosportfolio.tumblr.com/ Umintsu: http://umintsu.deviantart.com/

[suprabug]

Quick post: scattered dreams and far off memories 💛🗝🎉 HAPPY #KingdomHearts3 EVERYONE!!! https://t.co/amhQEAMrl6 By @kenesu (http://twitter.com/kenesu/status/1090289885385318401)

[commish-catalog]

+COMMISSIONS+

Commission me, save a life. I’m a smol babby art student looking to make some change. I’ve got 4 slots available.If time allows and there is a high demand I’ll open up more slots and extend the dates!

COMMISSION TYPES

-Sketch commissions are quick drawings with rough line and colour ($30). Additional characters are +$10 per character. Backgrounds are an additional ($25).

-Lineless and full colour commissions are more detailed and drawn with a painted technique ($55). Additional characters are +$25 per characters. Backgrounds are an additional ($40).

Thank you for considering to commission me!

Slots:

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Steps to commission me:

1. SEND ME A MESSAGE - over here on tumblr, my email (mooingmage@gmail.com), or DM me on twitter (@kenesu).

Please include:

which character(s) you want drawn as well as information about the character.

Does this character have a specific pose?

Full body colour references. Especially if it is an original character, gemsona etc.

Permissions to stream and/or post your commission publically.

I’ll accept a variety of commission requests except anthro, mechas, dragons/creatures. I reserve the right to reject requests that are XXX or gruesome.

2. PAYMENT - I only accept Paypal! Please send your payments under friends and family or I could issue an invoice to you [please include your paypal email] via my Paypal, mooingmage@gmail.com.

 $30    fullbody, lineless, full colour single character

+$10x  additional character

+$25    background

or

 $55    fullbody, lineless, full colour single character

+$25x  additional character

+$40    painted background

Only after the full payment is sent will I start your commission.

3. RECIEVE YOUR COMMISSION - Expect your drawing within 4 days to a week. If there are any complications or problems with my schedule I’ll be sure to message you.

After I finish the commission I’ll post it publically on my twitter, tumblr and possibly my FB artist page (unless you want it private). Use my commission in whatever way you wish, but please credit me appropriately.

Thanks again!