More Skull Progress

So many layers, but this is what's on my desk now... The initial piece was a little too dark, so you can see that I'm lightening it up in the next one.

Skulls are so lovely!  I imagine I'll use the money from selling these to buy MORE skulls...

Day 31 - Be Mine!

Here's the last one!  The typical sort of Valentine I make and get commissioned for.

In conclusion: I did pretty well with this 30 day painting challenge.   The whole point was to get better at studio practice, and a lot of what I do is commission or design work that's not always public.  So I feel fairly happy with my work output... but I need to spend more time on fine art in addition to my illustration.

Tiger in Progress

The next animal portrait in my series of animal portraits!  I think I shall call is 50 Faces.  This will be number 6.

Here are a few progress stages. Sketch, color fill, line colors and overpainting, more detailing, more detailing...