Watercolor

Acrylic on paper.

Didn't manage to get rid of the masklike appearance of Cornelius's face, but am exceedingly happy with Zira's grief-stricken expression. #drawing #planetoftheapes #infiniteblack

Watercolor on paper.

Gouache in my sketchbook

Time-lapse: drawing of a burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)

I'm used to draw dark and occultism-related art, but my earlier attempts on sharing my artworks on Fediverse (which includes this community) ended up invisible/hidden, perhaps due to how I flagged these as "sensitive content" (so these ended up hidden even for myself because I don't use Lemmy as my Fediverse platform).

Now, I've drawn something more "family friendly" (albeit still heavily symbolic, at least to me): it's meant to be a burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia). Partly because it's a species with with I'm quite fascinated, partly because I can't help but notice how human artistic corpora often overlooks this specific species and genus of owls.

Any image Web search and/or artistic depictions of "owl" mostly revolves around the "ideal owl", the kind of owl many people can visually think of, which often have heart-shaped faces (a trait from Tytonidae family, aka barn-owls) and/or horn-like ears/tufts (common for owls such as those from Bubo genus aka horned/eagle-owls)... however, none of these famous "owl traits" occur on Athene genus.

Nesting behavior and size is also among the trait differences: the Athene cunicularia, specifically, nest on burrows (either dug by themselves or dug by other animals), and the genus as a whole are pretty small compared to other genera, measuring 23cm on average (some other genera of small owls are Micrathene, to which the elf owl belongs, and Glaucidium, to which the pygmy owl belongs).

Niche and over-specific knowledge, indeed, but when art is a phenomenal window to the noumenal, the signified made signifier, knowing about the signifier is important, at least IMHO.

Anyways, it's an(other) attempt of drawing this specific species from scratch. I used "PENUP" app to draw it, recording the time-lapse from within there. As I'm used to draw using Sketchbook, it may not have the same quality observed from my other drawings, because color palettes, brushes and features differ across both apps.

(Trivia: as I sometimes do across my posts, there's a hidden message above, hence why the paragraphs may sound "odd"...)

@artshare@lemmy.world

It could be special time for some of you, it might not, but I made you a small gift.

Enjoy holiday of rebirth, late Imbolc or easter ! A lot of eggs in the creature of your preference basket!

So, this one is actually a bit special to me as it was inspired by an actual childhood experience I had where I got to sign my name in a section of wet concrete near my childhood home as a kid when the street was freshly rehabbed in that area at the time.

Oil pastel on paper.

Drawn in carbon pencil #oohoohahhahh #greatape

You watch one Chad Smith video and YouTube thinks you wanna be a drummer. This is a Chad Smith inspired Animal creation. That's why he's wearing Chad's hat.

Timelapse: https://mastodon.social/@BallShapedMan/116341856307905085

Nothing against dogs, but that was the first image that came to mind 😅😉.

Gouache in my sketchbook

Mixed Media on paper.

Working on reflected light inside of shadows and looking for that inner glow.

I’m an absolute beginner that decided to make a comic character poster for my kids. I found a nice tutorial and was able to sketch a nice 24,36” picture of the character Luffy from the cartoon they watch called one piece.

It’s all pencil outlines and it cleaned up pretty nicely. I unfortunately only had fluorescent pink poster board.

I’d like to paint the character in, but I’m afraid the paint won’t cover the pink and it would look pretty bad.

There are only a few colors in the character and it’s line art.

At any rate I would want a paint marker for the black lines. Would the oil based sharpie paint market be a good choice? Does anyone have an overall recommendation?

Here is the drawing tutorial. I followed. https://www.drawingtutorials101.com/how-to-draw-monkey-d--luffy-full-body-from-one-piece

Here is the color palette

https://www.anime-colors.com/one-piece-series/monkey-d-luffy

It will never be fine art, but I want to make something nice for my kids.(ideally before Easter)

Thanks for any beginner friendly advice