When the magick and the esoteric meets dark/grim humor... or is it (humor)?

#arsritualistemplii

Bonus soundtrack: https://youtu.be/opADNvgeZYY

He's in my head

Sharing another one of the 4 paintings I did awhile back. Expect the same color scheme throughout all but with different shapes.

Let's start a thing. Dig up an ancient sketchbook, and post something you've never shared.

I drew this straight from a reference about a decade ago, not sure when. It's definitely better looking than a lot of stuff I was doing back then.

Hello, I Just stumbled upon this community and wanted to share a few things. Painted this and a couple others with a similar style about 3 or 4 years ago and thought it may be worth sharing.

This reference was fairly neutrally lite which made it hard to paint. A better likeness than the last few. Practice is helping.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mtcqzxjymk2p

Of the speed paintings I'm happiest with this though without measuring its still not a good enough likeness. But until I get far enough in rendering I'm blind to the problem.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mtc57hwwrs2g

Modeled on Alexei Molchianov

Made from an image in this post

I didn't get what I wanted from the green, yellow, blue, and brown "cords", so I just kept tinkering, trying things. Last step was the Mod Podge over the blue at the top, and lower right. Also sprayed with a matte finish so reduce the shine of the Mod Podge.

I made this piece around 2010-2011, when I made my new workstation purely honed for making art. Wacom tablet. Gentoo, USE="-*" and just as needed per package. Xmonad. GIMP. And scant few else. Testament to the merit of this method of setting up ones tools focused for ones art, this art was made in that focus, and remains my favourite piece.

The girl wearing it is my collaborating artist

I'm house/pet sitting and have nothing but my sketchbook and a pencil. No eraser.

Creature design inspired by Draw Sessions on YouTube. He had a technique he taught where you scribble lightly around the page and then make a creature out of it. This is what I came up with. It's a bit odd, but so am I.

Without measurement and without liquefy the subject is very misshapen (watch the timelapse for an example). I have this crooked bias I'm not sure how to solve for. If you solved this for yourself, how did you do it? I'm struggling. And it's really digging into my time budget for high quality renders in ~10 minutes.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3msxpsmomck2t