My Halloween painting for this year’s Art Ghoullery exhibition at The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum in Moorhead, MN. The theme this year is Staying Alive~
Screen redraw of Yami Marik using acrylic inks and colored pencils. I made a few mistakes here and there, as I hardly use acrylic inks and am not used to them, but it was fun practice! I really like drawing Marik! I hope to do more of him in the future~ 💜
Like everything I do, the skulls are a process. And unlike minis, these have some irritating dry times.
Anyway. The first step is a thinned layer of yellow oxide.
You can see some areas that I had to hit with a little bit of unbleached titanium- sometimes the thinned paint doesn't stick where there's still some of the release agent.
(I can hear my sibling- who got me this gig- grousing at me to hurry up, but I'm a mini painter first and foremost and "hurry" isn't in my painting vocabulary.)
(It blows my mind that, like, trained/educated artists do this shit and here I am with my weird little Warhammer armies, making a buck selling fake skulls to goths.)
(I love you, goths. You're the reason that I'm getting paid to paint. You're the real heroes.)
round ah little one for a small sketch to get back into painting. this one is about 3” x 4” on a scrap of watercolor paper 🍽 acrylic ink and gouache . . #watercolor #painting #gouache #acrylicink #holbien #illustration #illo #childrensbookillustration #kidlit #illustrationartists #cupcake #dessert #cute #holbeingouache #liquitex #liquitexink https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqn5XrLuu7S/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=