Working On Something Dope With @naromoreau

Reblogging this one because I was looking at this piece today and still am super in love with it. ❤️

Here's some process shots from this one, as a treat.

The original anatomy sketch.

Started laying down color while referencing a few portraits by John Singer Sargent. I specifically paid attention to how he painted hair (Sargent usually painted hair as one large, dark mass of color with little highlight detail) and how he painted skin (very subtle and smooth, not a huge amount of contrast).

Got the environment blocked in a little, too. I put that blue and white porcelain vase in because I can never, ever resist blue and white porcelain.

More detail in the environment and the character.

Adding a pattern to the chair upholstery.

Working on the rug, here.

This is the full rug design. I sketched the whole rug out in a separate canvas and then overlaid it into the working canvas and warped it into place to use as a reference.

Took this shot when I was halfway done with the decanter and glass.

A Place to Call Home --- --- ---

This piece was commissioned by my dear friend @tawnyontumblr for HER dear friend @saretton to accompany a WONDERFUL fic that Tawny wrote for Saretton's birthday!

The fic is A Place to Call Home (Explicit, on AO3), a Human AU set in the Late Victorian/1890s and featuring Portrait Painter!Aziraphale and Stage Actor!Crowley as his artistic muse. I am in love with this concept.

Crowley's voice was almost too soft to hear. It nearly faded amidst the sweep of Aziraphale’s brush over canvas, the carriage rattling past outside—another layer of stimuli amidst the light, and the smell of linseed oil and turpentine. The way the fabric Crowley wore hissed gently over his skin as he slowly, minutely shifted position and then moved back.

He half sat half reclined on a Louis XVI armchair that Aziraphale had picked up in an estate sale. His legs were crossed, and the emerald banyan, embroidered with gold, slid from one shoulder. Aziraphale had been staring at that curve of lightly freckled skin while he'd been mixing rose madder and Chinese white, letting the brush sweep over the damp canvas as he sought to give voice to the hunger he felt.

The idea here was for me to paint the portrait of Crowley that Aziraphale is painting in the story.

Tawny asked me to paint with John Singer Sargent vibes, who is quite possibly my favorite artist of all time, and one of, if not the greatest, portrait painters of the 19th century. It's quite a tall order to try to imitate his style, so I settled for something Sargentesque! She also specified that "I want I am both painting and fucking him vibes. Intimate. That's the word." And I hope I delivered.

@goodomensafterdark Ya'll need to go read this fic its hot af.

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A print of this piece will be up in my print shop on INPRNT!

Putting proper paint on Little Railed Riding Hood now.

WIP

Laying down some color flats on Crowley for my next piece. Working title: Little Railed Riding Hood

WIP

(p.s. I post full size WIPs and a whole lot more to my Patreon)

Sketchy sketch

Learning how to draw a certain spider.

Think I’m gonna try again but make him… twinkier?

Not sure yet.

one thousand and one nights ----

LOOK AT ALL THESE FABRICS I PAINTED (faint sobbing in the background) This piece is for the Good Omens Minisode Minibang, wherein my lovely author, Dashicra (@ineffableomenshusbands) wrote a WONDERFUL fanfic of femAziracrow in the world of Arabian Nights that I encourage you to all go read right this instant. (Rated M, nothing kinky but, as always, mind the tags)

Full size and detail shots after the jumpppppppppppppppp ⬇️

S3 has been announced and my skin has cleared, depression is gone, throwing away my Prozac as my brain is now fully healed, my dad came back from buying cigarettes, my insomnia? Gone. Anxiety? Never heard of her. The sun shines and a nightingale sang on Berkeley square again

i just waNted to reIterate that i am Not telling you where threE is 🙃

this is sooooo dope, OP 🔥🔥🔥

Demon days but real

happy Valentine’s Day!!

will you please complete me -------------------------- NEW ART, HOT OFF THE PRESS - FULL SIZE BELOW THE JUMP

Just in time for the /r/GOAD smut war and I'm not even drawing smut! Look at me, being a contrarian. This is a gift for the GOMM Holiday Exchange on Discord for @queenofthecute! Her prompt for the exchange was: "Aziraphale & Crowley and the intimate tenderness of a kiss on the hand/fingers/wrist," which I was only too happy to oblige. What a sweet prompt!

@queenofthecute, I hope you enjoy the final work as much as enjoyed painting it. ⬇️ FULL SIZE, detail shots, and more info below the jump. ⬇️

I LOVE painting Ultraginger Freckled Crowley (TM). It's frankly a sickness at this point.

I'm also learning how to efficiently paint certain things that I used to render totally by hand, and this piece let me practice several materials, namely gold metallics (Aziraphale's pinky ring and fob/chain) and silver metallics (Crowley's slutty little scarf).

About: Photoshop, Orig. 6491x4895; Title from Nine Inch Nails' "Please", a track on The Fragile.

Breathe, echoing the sound Time starts slowing down Sink until I drown Please, I don't ever want to make it stop And it keeps repeating Will you please complete me?