Wip of a pet portrait comm I'm working on. The sketch is finished, I'm going to be going over it with watercolors next. Fingers crossed I don't screw it up.
I swear, agouti dogs are entirely made of triangles.
So the whole uprising of AI has kinda turned me off digital art for the moment (it doesn't help that my style that I have tried to perfect for 20+ fucking years could probably be mistaken for AI). Instead, I'm getting back into pastel painting!
This is the first pastel painting I've done in over 5 years. I've only ever really dabbled in traditional media here and there and have rarely pushed myself beyond pet portraits. But I'm feeling really inspired to get out of my comfort zone eventually and try different kinds of things - landscapes, still life, people, fanart :D
I'm currently working on a second pastel painting which I will hide below because it is CW: a closeup of a wolf spider referenced (with permission) from a photo from one of my fave spood photographers and experts, Paul Irvine 😍
this week’s work in progress is a pet portrait memorial for a lovely former coworker ❤️🩹 i’m making it with watercolor and gouache on muslin, stitched onto lace, with hand embroidered felt daffodils and ferns 💐
i need to finalize the layout and stitch down the flowers & their details, then i’ll paint in a couple more shadows and highlights on his face & it’ll be done 🐾
i’ve been documenting the process exclusively on my new patreon 🫶