Kaia and Dhio painting, animated process gif.

I made a little process gif of how I made the previous painting.  Ha ha, I have this bad habit of digitally noodling with real media stuff until it looks digital.  Gotta looooosen uuuup

I should probably mention, the actual painting is super tiny, maybe 4”x4”.

Kaia and Dhio.  ink wash, watercolor, pencil, white paint. (process gif here)

After doing the Exquisite Beast for a year, I’ve been meaning to push myself more with real media, maybe emulate something similar to the whimsical lineless stuff maruti-bitamin and tir-ri do, or the mixed media paintings Sam Bosma seems to be able to churn out in his sleep.

Anyway, I seem to be on a Beast Husband kick.  I think it started about a decade or two ago and expect it to putter out around the time I die.

Cecilia Tattoo Flash.  ink, ink wash, photoshop.

I’ve been looking at a bunch of traditional tattoo flash lately.  There’s some neat stuff going on you don’t see many other places, like that stark black shading that doesn’t really imply form but gives contrast and design.  I’d like to mess around more with stuff like this, gotta learn to assimilate more heavy darks into my usual art.

Forza comic - uncolored.

WOAAAAA, okay, wow, that Tumblr Tuesday thing yesterday went better than anticipated.  Thank you, guys!  This blog currently has six times the number of recommendations as the blog with the second number of recommendations in the Illustrators section.  o__o  And that’s because of yooouuuu, I love you dudes.

I’m going to try to put up more finished/interesting things here — I realized that this blog has been kind of front-loaded with doodles.  This is the uncolored version of this comic.