Month: January 2022
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Yoko smooches
Portrait of Aftyn and her dog Yoko, who is apparently a very smoochy girl! I did it in Procreate on iPad with the charcoal tools. It’s a little bit of a step back in terms of developing my color sense. I started out trying to paint with gouache colors. I’ve done a little bit with…
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Voyager
Acrylic painting of my dog, Riley, done in Procreate on the iPad. I think it manages to capture his perpetually worried look. I think I did a good representing fur with the paints — mostly dabbing with a wet brush and a touch of dry brushing in the finishing phase. The fleece of his jacket…
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Sauna
Digital portrait of Finnish actor Ville Virtanen, done in Procreate on iPad. The reference is a production still from a very cool movie called Sauna. Those glasses he’s wearing really jumped out at me. They are probably my favorite prop in any movie ever made. I painted this one with the default acrylic brush. I…
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Erica Slaughter
Painting of Erica Slaughter, lead character from the great horror comic Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera. Dell’Edera has a rough, scratchy style that isn’t my usual jam, but combined with his design sense, it’s wonderful. He draws these evocative characters (look at those eyes!) in all kinds of…
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Anna Kendrick
Charcoal portrait of actress Anna Kendrick, done in Procreate on the iPad. I tried doing the sketch layers in charcoal this time, and while I think they are not disasters, I didn’t like it as the clean lines you get from pencil or ink sketches. I was trying to eyeball colors at first, and it…
