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...

Tiger Skull Progress

Acrylic painting, tiger skull, lotus root, lotus bud.  Nice progress thus far!

Delicate Arch Work in Progress

Working through this one!

Broken Open

This is a shirt design I made for a Threadless contest.  Didn't win, but it garnered a bit of attention.

Still a little lost as to how to brand myself, but I figure sharing things is the best way to go about it.

Here's the shirt design and some mockups for if I print it.

Updates

I have been a big behind in posting, and I apologize!  My life has been consumed by socials and working on private commissions, which means I don't have too much I can share with you wonderful people.   But here's an update on a non-fandom/obscure shirt I've been working on for a while.   Pandabeer!  Hoping to have it ready in time for summer shows.

Winter Chase Process

How I digital art:

1.  Initial sketch.  Done in Photoshop with my favorite faux pencil brush.  

2.  Inking, inking, inking.  I use Clip Studio Paint for my inking.  It has a line stabilizer, so you have cleaner lines.  It's also fairly compatible with Photoshop, so you get transparency behind lines. 

3. After I ink, I take things back into Photoshop and use the warp tool to push and pull areas that feel too squished. 

4.  Colors and texture.  Pretty simple.  Background texture, then a hard edged brush and the selection tool to divide up areas.  Each color on a separate layer, another texture overtop to create the worn look.  Honestly, it's not hard... but I could afford to do an entire tutorial on speedy flat coloring. 

Keep everything on separate layers.  It may make for a big file, but it's worth it in the end to be able to endlessly edit.  

Winter Chase

Whew! Haven't posted in a bit, so here's something new.   Just working out my inking and photoshopping skills.  Might finagle this into a shirt.

I see a lot of semi-surreal and mythological art that I really like, so I'd be interested in doing more work like this... but this one has a few issues.    There's not quite enough to the composition, is't not really horizontal or digital, the pose could be more dynamic... and so on.