Month: October 2021

  • Happy Halloween

    Happy Halloween

    Charcoal portrait of Aftyn as a witch from a few years ago, done in Procreate on the iPad. It’s safe to say I had much bigger plans for a Halloween picture than what I wound up with. There are 3 witches in that video, and I had intended to do a composition with all of…

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  • Samus

    Samus

    Samus Aran, star of Metroid Dread surveys her works. The game has been on my mind a lot lately. I’m in the final boss fight now, but it might be a while before I’m adept enough to beat it. This was a quick picture. I was trying to invent the lighting aspects, and it’s fair.…

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  • Relax in my lap

    Relax in my lap

    Charcoal portrait of Aftyn done in Procreate on the iPad. The colors on that satin robe were quite the challenge. I’m pretty pleased with this one. Much better than last week’s effort. I did 3 sketch layers for this one, which is unusual for me. It just took a long time to come together. I’m…

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  • Failure, and some sketches

    Failure, and some sketches

    In the interest of keeping up a weekly posting schedule, I’m going to show you my latest painting even though it is terrible. This was an attempt to paint Myrna Loy, an actress from way back in the silent movie era, who so brilliantly navigated the rocky early waters of “talkies” that her repartee with…

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  • Boosette

    Boosette

    Charcoal portrait of Aftyn in a Boosette cosplay, done in Procreate on the iPad. I had this dumb idea about this one that didn’t really pan out, where she’d be dialed down to 50% opacity so you could see the environment through her. And then I didn’t put anything of interest in the background to…

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