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burn -------------------- Throwback Thursday once again! This is another piece I did in 2008, during my intense hyperfixation on Avatar: The Last Airbender. Obviously, this is Azula.
so after you draw the thing then you draw the thing all over again but spend waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more time on it
sketch to lines
lilith
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Throwback Thursday to a piece I painted in 2008. I was a baby artist back then!
Artistic nudity below the jump, you have been warned.
another sketch for an upcoming piece
what is this?
TOP HATS?
MUTTONCHOPS?
COULD IT BE?
@goodomensafterdark because I know that means you'll see this, G.
sketches for upcoming pieces
I still love the expression of Az's face in this piece.
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Aziraphale's Dream - link to original post/fullsize
This is a painting I did four years ago from LIVE REFERENCE, which is a crazy thing to get to do. Well...
I did the sketch from live reference, and then took a heap of pictures of the most gorgeous tiger that hung out right beside me for about an hour, on the far side of some very, very thick lexan at a public zoo.
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?
lines to "cel shade," or really more like a fancy base color
and now we paint
sketch to lines
Work in progress for a Discord holiday exchange. So excited about this one!
I JUST HAD TO MAKE A SEPARATE POST TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE SEES HOW CUTE THIS AZIRAPHALE I PAINTED IS, OKAY. Crowley gave Aziraphale that headband to wear, because that's what the Starmaker does -- gives her Angel a halo of stars.
i have brought her laughing (to my quietly dreaming garden) ------------------------------ The scene: A smoky, velvet-lined speakeasy smudged carelessly somewhere in the pocket of a roaring, glittered New York City, 1924, nighttime. Prohibition is on, but the law books never really dissuade anyone from getting a drink, not if they know where to go. It sure as Hell doesn't stop Crowley from taking her Angel out for a drink, because Aziraphale wanted one. And hey, it's the jazz age, Crowley knows where to get weed again.
This painting is one half of a collaboration I did with my dear friend @thescholarlystrumpet, who wrote a fantastic companion piece on AO3 (Rated M, mind the drug use tag).
“I got something else to liven up your final night in town. If you’re feeling a little… daring.” Crowley looked sidelong at Aziraphale and arched one penciled-on brow. Aziraphale wiggled happily and slid off the stool to sidle closer, until her head was practically on the Demon’s bare shoulder. “Do tell.” Crowley tried not to shiver as she could feel the Angel’s breath against her heated skin, smell the heady potpourri of perfume, wine, and a pinch of ethereal sweat, taste it on her (currently unforked) tongue. She held up the expertly rolled joint between two fingers accented by red painted talons. “It’s been a very long time, I think, since we really… indulged.” Turning her head just so, nearly nose to nose with her friend. “Don’t you think we’ve earned it?” “Why, you wicked temptress,” Aziraphale murmured, her voice low and slightly breathless, sly smile belying any hint of admonishment.
full size and detail shots after the jump
This is a fun thing I did for @vavoom-sorted-art's (Zoey's) Draw This in Your Style for her 5000 Followers celebration!
Zoey's original after the jump!
Zoey's original challenge piece:
CONGRATULATIONS, ZOEY!
おー！ これはとてもきれいですね！ クロウリーの髪を見てください！ そして太陽の光！ 美しいアート。
Oh! This is so pretty! Look at Crowley's hair! And the sunlight! Beautiful art.
slowly
slowly
slowly
i paint an aziraphale
and a crowley
work in progress
Okay, so drawing shameless thirst trap art isn't typically my bag, but it's a bag I'm willing to hold because /r/GoodOmensAfterDark is a wild group of people that inspire me to draw all sorts of things, not just smut. Better yet, I can hold that bag while I work on my absolutely tepid line art skills. I've always eschewed learning proper line art in favor of painting stupid, elaborate, over-worked, over-detailed portraits because that's just the kind of ADHD I have. Simplify form? Me? Pah. But... But it's a skill I need to work on to become a better artist. And the only way to improve artistic skill is to, you know, produce art. Even if I don't feel like it. Even if practicing line art is like sitting quietly at the dinner table and eating my vegetables while my brother is playing the Sega Genesis in the living room already because he likes brussels sprouts.
Saturday progress on my current Ineffable Wives WIP.
Work in progress
Fem Aziraphale with 🌟actual line art🌟
A speedpaint I did for a couple of fantastic Redditors over on /r/GoodOmensAfterDark. The request was David Tennant as a an elf from LOTR. I humbly present to you: Davidriel.
blood of a reptile, just underneath the skin
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DRAMA!CROWLEY, ACTIVATE!
So we meet here again, in front of another flaming-as-anything-ginger Crowley. We can't keep doing this, you know. People will talk.
More info and hi res under the jumpppppppppppp.
I wanted to try my hand at a standalone portrait of Crowley before I jump back into what will inevitably be another Aziracrow portrait---I'm thinking 1920s theme. Flapper Crowley & Aziraphale? But that's for another time.
I wanted to try grey scale under-painting in digital art. A success, I hope? I'm pretty happy with the portrait (for now, give it a week and I'll hate everything about this painting, happens every time!)
I struggled a bit on the eyes in this piece. I normally paint straight color to canvas, so I have a method to my madness with painting eyes. Not so, here! This was new territory. I'm not 100% satisfied, but that just means I need more practice.
ALSO, GOLGOTHA HAIR WITH A BRAID WHAT WHAAAAAT
And because I learned how to paint snake scales for the last portrait, I decide to reprise that theme and torture myself again keep practicing them, this time with iridescence. I wanted to keep the scales low-key, though, almost as if they're just emerging or maybe the viewer caught a momentary glimpse of scales through the veil to an ethereal occult plane. Additionally, I wanted some good creepy claw hands with long fingernails (big fan of creepy, me) for a proper demonic manicure.
About: All digital, all Photoshop. Orig. 7200 x 5400 px. ~1 week of off-and-on painting. Title is taken from Reptile by Nine Inch Nails because I guess I'm still naming art after 30 year old albums? Is this a thing I do, now?
...and if so, can you imagine what I'll have to draw to use lyrics from Hurt in the title?
Painting the eyes has always been my favorite part of any portrait. Current WIP. Will probably be the next finished piece I post, unless Something Terrible happens.
help me, you tear down my reason
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This is my ransom note to Neil Gaiman love letter to the ineffable idiots and the Gomens fandom. There will undoubtedly be more because I caught the brain rot so bad.
More info and high res below the jump.
Scaly semi-snek flaming-like-anything-ginger freckled Crowley because why not? I wanted to mess around with a very pale, slightly creepy color palette for skintones, so this was a good exercise. And anyway, I could draw DT's glorious swan-like neck every day for the rest of my life and never grow weary of it.
Michael Sheen's nose --hell, his profile in general--will be my undoing. He is SUCH a challenge to draw, which I adore. I used quite literally 4x the references for 'Zira than for Anthony Janthony.
About: All digital, all Photoshop, baby. Orig. 4483 x 5391 px. ~2 weeks of off-and-on painting when I got tired of my work art. Title is taken from Closer by Nine Inch Nails because I pretty much exclusively listened to The Downward Spiral on repeat while I worked on this piece, because that's the kind of angsty teenage headspace I'm in??? I'm fucking 34 years old, I thought I was past this.
A portrait of myself that I've started painting to match the portrait I did of my friend and business partner. We're using these on our businesses'eses's website in lieu of photos because fuck having photos of ourselves out there on the internet.
A portrait I painted of my friend and business partner with her cat, Nito (who is the CTO of our business. He's always on top of technology -- mostly laying on keyboards).
My partner heroically located the cables for the scanner so I can finally post high res versions of these painting studies.
First is geometric shapes with open acrylic paints, second is broad colors with heavy body acrylics, third is open acrylics as the base with heavy body acrylics for defining highlights and shadows.
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A fun commission that I completed recently!
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Another completed charity commission, this one a surprise gift for an old tumblr friend ;3
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Xmas gift for my mom. A portrait of me (and my mullet), my partner (and his beard), the cat, and the plants.
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