I received a record amount of feedback on my last attempt to paint water on skin. Thank you all! The biggest mistake I made was I was trying to paint water on a waxed surface like a car on skin.

I learned a long time ago light reacts with skin very different than hard surfaces. Only makes sense water would do the same. And several of you pointed that out. It also explains why I couldn't find any famous artists who painted what I was looking for. Because skin isn't car!

Oops.

How did I do this time?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mqpccs4yis2q

Edit: There is supposed to be a small waterfall off screen to her left. The actual model was in the shower as a wet skin reference. I didn't want to paint someone in the shower. And people in waterfall scenes mostly focus on the waterfall! So I adapted this one.

Sorry the photo colors aren't super vibrant, but I went with horizontal stripes of glittery teal and glittery silver.

This photo is just the first coat, mostly done, basically, but figured I'd share before the ambient cloudy sunlight gets too dim ya know..

I like it, starting to make some money off this hobby no less 👍

Another piece by my GF Her mastodon

Trying a more detailed view of water droplets. How did I do?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mqkvliarnk2d

I'm trying to paint water droplets, thoughts?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mqkffgfix22e

At the age of 34, I remembered my dream, so I decided to create my own comic—or manga, or manhwa; call it whatever you like.

Did a lot of color mixing experimenting.

This project has evolved from a prior submission. https://feddit.uk/post/41070161

I ended up with an LCD screen on my CPU pump for some reason, so I decided to play around with it, make it mine. Let me see if I can get a video up... Yep!

https://files.catbox.moe/lysbqk.mp4

I did the video editing in kdenlive, I think it was a vertigo effect and one other, which I'm forgetting.

Made in autodesk sketchbook during a slow period at my job.

I wanted a new mobile wallpaper, so I whipped up something colorful and cute. It is inspired by seeing a bunny daily, and loving alien landscapes.

Also, I attempted to channel some lisa frank energy.

Another in my esoteric series, with the owl flexing her ability to be fully animated (well, not so animated herself, given her grumpy expression in a cemetery. lol).

Feedback is appreciated.

Alt-text: short animation taking place during night time, in a graveyard containing several rows of headstones surrounded by a short grass. A brown screech-owl is perched atop one of the headstones from the middle of the first row. The gray headstones all have the same carved inscription: “Vita mori oportet”. A red, large crescent Moon, with the concave part facing upward, looms above the owl. A few stars are visible behind, with the same red tint. A skeleton is stretching on the grass, few meters away from the headstones. The animation begins with the camera very close to the skeleton’s skull before it starts moving through the grass, past the skeleton, slowly approaching the owl. As the camera approaches, the owl briefly unfurls her wings while looking up, closing her eyes and opening her beak as if she were screeching/hooting. Then she furls back her wings, develops a grumpy face and begins staring at the camera. When the camera is closer to her, she tilts her head slightly (a behavior typical of real owls), then briefly lifts her right talons (scene’s left side) towards the camera while slightly stretching her claws and blinking both eyes in a tender manner, then she suddenly straightens her posture while doing the same piercing gazing again as her eyes glow green (slightly exaggerated tapetum lucidum to convey an uncanny supernaturality).

#arsritualistemplii #occultart #mementomori #3dart #blender #3danimation #owls #gothicart

A simple little landscape (treescape?) made by hand from a brass plate, cut with a saw.

I changed up from my 90s style to some more to mirror's edge. I don't have it down yet.

This was done in blender and one texture in krita.

I really enjoyed painting textures onto this one. All textures custom made by me in Procreate. (Textures extracted from creative commons images).