Art In Progress

I added some frames in the background with skies and clouds to lighten up the atmosphere a bit.

Concept sketch of his grown-up form! I've planned to remove the wings from his back and just replace the front flippers with wings to try and simplify his design a little more while still looking fluid. Goodie is not a bad guy, he's just a little mischievous... and has a bit of a penchant for swallowing any demons unfortunate enough to be able to fit into his 3-4 ft (0.9-1.2 m) long mouth whole. I drew his larval form way back in June and this drawing will be of his mature form! 😃 Honestly love how weird and goofy he looks.

Oil on paper

Oil on cardboard-paper

Oil on paper

I tried using more dull colors because I used colors for the outline instead of black. The result is, curious I'd say. I don't like it that much but of the up side, in my opinion, it somehow got the looks of an old The Far Side comics. What do you think?

Found a really old dip pen with a fully functional nib (!) so I figured I'd try it out when inking my next aquarelle. A bit complicated but I like it! Works super well with both regular ink and aquarelle inks 💖.

Step 2, make the sketch on quality paper.

The starting point, a basic sketch.

Trying "loose" style, don't look too close!

Charcoal sketch on gesso primed simple student paper pad.

A sheet of Pikachu sticker’s I made for a customer’s child.

Sketched in Photoshop, printed it, inked with a Tombow Fudenosuke brush pen and scanned back in. Still haven't decided what else I wanna do with it, so I'm uploading it here now.

My first portrait, I'm super happy it got as well as it got, but I know there are lots of things to better :-)

Got "wolf priestess" from ArtPrompts.org

This is oil, but water-oil. So no white spirit or terebenthine, just water!

I have never tried oil or even gouache or acrylic, or making a "realistic" portrait before, I must say it's crazy fun!

You can go back, redo, move whole lines just by pushing the paint (I do tend to put down a ton of paint though) even days later!

Lots of work still to be done though.

Doing this has taught me how much time you save when you skip linework and go straight into painting.

I've been at this pretty much all day... Does drawing mechs take this long for everybody??????????

A sketch exploring a story idea for a prehistoric sci-fi that I don't think I'll be developing any further, at least anytime soon. Did a value pass to practice value structure though.