#i miss my gouache~

[trashie-sdumpstr]

cubbywubbycubcub~

[gomosmorodina]

idk what it means i just pulled an image out of my head

[ihavesomejays]

bet

was testing out gouache brushes and somehow ended up drawing the mice piss duo again. kind of ooc ratio but anything for the brainworms man. also this is probably the most "rendered" thing i've done in quite a while and will probably remain so for quite a while. who knows? i might even start drawing BACKGROUNDS soon??? LMAO

closeups + process under keep reading

[myokk]

I filmed a timelapse of my process for this quick one💓

Honestly not really happy with how this turned out & I’ll probably redo it😆 but I always love making process videos!!

I REALLY HAVE TO TRUST MY PROCESS🙏🙏🙏 these paintings always look AWFUL😳 until the very end but luckily I’ve painted enough of them to keep pushing through and not give up in tears bahahahahahah

1) I start out just painting the base colors. I have a dirty paint palette I NEVER clean😤 but tbh I like it bc every color I want is basically already mixed from a previous painting, and I like having all of the colors kind of blend together. If I need a different color though I’ve never had problems mixing to get exactly what I’m looking for💓

2) WAIT FOR IT TO DRY (I didn’t…you can see at one point I check the back of the page to make sure I didn’t destroy it completely). This paint dries SUPER fast…I am just impatient bc the next step is when it all starts to come together🥰:

3) COLORED PENCIL ON TOP!! I always make sure the paint covers almost all of the page except the parts I want to keep really white, because the colored pencil looks awful if it isn’t drawn on top of paint. I just sharpen them and go in with the small details, but I also love going crazy with the colors and using them to shade, add highlights, add extra pops of color etc. For example, on Bea’s shirt I used gold, dark blue, dark brown, normal brown, mauve, tan, olive green…I just like to experiment and have fun choosing the colors (esp ones that I think SHOULDN’T work but they DO🥰)

Sometimes I switch between the paint and the colored pencil bc the paint can be used to kind of “erase” any mistakes, but I can’t go too crazy or add a lot of water to it because I use the cheapest paper known to man and it gets destroyed SO EASILY 😫 all of the fanart I’ve drawn is in €1 notebooks

[saturnvs]

paintings of horses i’ve loved

[callmemerry00]

Esteemed gentlemen with nerdy interests

[qt-kt]

I'm trying out gouache and for a first attempt I think this came out pretty well! It's very interesting to work with and I'm having a lot of fun so there will probably be more studies and paintings posted on here in the near future

[perpetualstews]

Eleanor Marx, my favorite :)

[newtsinboots]

Moonbeam moth shadowbox~

(Something I'm doing now!)

[the-husbando]

𝕿𝖆𝖐𝖊 𝕸𝖊 𝕿𝖔 𝕮𝖍𝖚𝖗𝖈𝖍.

[avoiltaire]

HAPPY (late) HALLOWEEN ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥‼👻 he's got a bone to pick?!

[cygnus-is-tired]

New profile picture for 2024!

Look, I hate doing self portraits the last time I did one was in middle school so this has some liberties taken with it. In real life I obviously have actual eyes but drawing them in made it feel too real? I guess. I read a book once where when you painted in the eyes of a character that meant that they were now real, that’s what gave them life. And I needed this to be far enough away from reality that I could rationalize it in my brain, so the eyes had to go. Good news is that it worked and so this is fairly close to how I actually look

I’m going to do a new header as well but that’s going to happen in like 3-5 business days because I’m very slow at painting, especially with gouache which I’ve only started experimenting with recently

[raspberryrot]

remember when you were a kid and you would put a seashell up to your ear like you were calling the ocean to say hello ?

[gwinwe]

burial at the museum

[sillyfairygarden]

i’m caving in (wip 🌹)

[creatrixcymraes]

study of a plant I met in Vasiliki (gouache, oil pastel sgraffito and watercolour pencils on paper)