Thumbnail page for hARToween26 so far Even for lower effort pieces, I get a lot of mileage out of exploratory sketches and thumbnails.

You can call me 100k, I draw whatever I feel like, which is usually more goofy than scary. I try to post everything I draw, because I noticed how most artists hide the failures and WIPs from social media; and I want to be a source to see the whole process of creating and improving art skills.

I think lucky day 13 was when I really started cooking. Something just clicked and I was able to make this piece exactly how I pictured it. I'm still proud of this one, at that point it was probably my best totally original artwork and even a year later I find very little in it that I'd change.

Ah yes, the perfect media landscape consisting only of franchise sequels with uncomplicated characters doing only absolutely good things... That's like suggesting we should eat a diet of only white bread, what an awful dystopia of emotional vapidness they yearn for...

This piece started to show some growth; I used the tools better and my 'painting' improved as well. I wish I'd added maybe just one more whole person in the crowd, but I still like the overall composition.

My default "goofy cartoon" face: huge mouth and nose, different sized eyes that touch in the middle. Hard to go wrong lol. That background turned out pretty rad, considering it boiled down to layering swirls randomly.

They're all terrible at bluffing. You can see right through them!

That melody had slipped my mind, so I had to sing the phrase a few different ways to get it back haha. Great piece! I always love the sense of movement in your art 🙂

The idea was for the skull to look like barista art, but I could NOT figure out how to paint coffee foam for the life of me. Mug and spoon look better thanks again to tracing my refs.

Part 2/?

Despite tracing it, I'm still pretty pleased with the water effect and Dark Link here. I couldn't find a ref for what I had in mind so I had to photobash, which was a Eureka moment for my digital painting. I learnt a lot by painting the BG on one layer without erasing.

I'm almost a full day ahead in Aus, haha. My kids were pretty chill this morning so I had a few hours to knock it out today.

Oh gross, those dumplings would look pretty tasty if they weren't staring at me...

I think this is the first artwork I "painted", and was really where I started to click with the process and tools in CSP. I still like this one from a concept and composition standpoint, I think it does a good job of storytelling.

Tiny ducks in Halloween costumes, part 1/?