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These are some fags that I know.

my painting process

When I paint, I work in layers. The background color goes down first. I find this easier than putting the subject in first and then having to paint the background around it. Less annoying white spaces and having to redo things that way. Usually before this I make a sketch with a rough idea of what colors I want to use.. other times I just wing it.

Next I start to fill in the shapes. The color I'm using here is a little bit lighter and more red/orange than what I actually want. I want this figure to look a little bit three dimensional, so I use a shade closer to the background color so that some parts will blend with it a little more, and look farther away.



Using both red and purple to shade and add highlights. In the center of the figure's chest I'm using cooler colors, since it's further away from the orange background. Using red more on the arm, ribs etc. Unfortunately this picture doesn't accurately show the colors... wish I could show it to you in person.



The necklaces were not originally part of the plan, but I added them because the figure's skin was very dark and not interesting to look at compared to the feathers on top. However I still want the mask to be the focal point, so I had to make sure not to make any of the jewelry too bright. The yellow was originally much brighter, I had to cool it down and darken it a bit because it was taking attention away from the mask too much.

And now you knooooowww

girls and smiley butts

brown paper sketchbook

purp smokin

from the sketch book 3

Busy lately. I'm back in school and moved out of my parent's place. Living alone is pretty cool. It's like I'm all grown up, except I'm still totally not.


I played a drinking game with some friends a while ago that involved drawing. What you see to your left is the result.



I've been doing little sketches of people like this for a couple of years now, and I'm just starting to feel like I'm getting the hang of it.

But things don't always go as planned.

from the sketch book 2

There's stuff in here I can't explain.

and reading is fundamental

Here's a bookmark I made.

Direach Ghlinn Eitidh

Here's some guy I've been doodling for the last couple of days.

This is an actual thing. Sort of.

Still figuring out exactly what he's supposed to look like.

From the sketch book

About 90% of the stuff I draw is pen doodles. I'm trying to get in the habit of spending more time on pictures, but since sketches are all I have right now sketches are what I will post.

Sorry they're hard to see.

That face in the upper right corner looked too much like a generic Disney girl for me, so I tried again and ended up with an ugly beatnik.

This is my monster character Threedle. He has hands.

More Threedles, and another monster named Gaston-Marcel.

Here's the sketch that later became the robot picture in my last post, and some other stuff that's not as good.

I'm thinking about something nice to put up at the top of my blog. Maybe in the next day or two.