This one was done very shortly before my last post, and is my first time figuring a balance stand point under a name with underhanging letters...

I drew a young man's portrait from a reference photo and was quite happy how it turned out.

graphite pencil on A5 paper

This particular coathanger happens to have a nice shiny black coating on it, and I didn't want to scratch, damage or remove that coating.

So I bent this one 100% by hand, with no pliers or anything, just my hands, fingers and muscles. And yes, it was extremely challenging, I'm surprised I didn't get any blisters and only broke one thumbnail in the process.

Note that I managed to get this one to stand up and balance on its own without a stand. I did that by ever so slightly curving the final result, the center is about 5mm closer to the viewer than the ends.

Ink52 2026 Prompt 34 - Goldfish

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

#arsritualistemplii

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/69965437

[Animation] Haircut

The animation: https://youtu.be/jheSw_md4U4

Aria got a haircut and looks like the Grimpoteuthis ("dumbo octopus") now!

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