Oil pastel on paper.

I started this painting in gouache and it was . . . not going well

I decided to go over it with oil pastel and i'm Happier with the results.

Just playing with my gelly roll pen.

Time-lapse: pareidolia as a tool for face drawing

Warning: the video contains some flashing lights. Do not watch if you have epilepsy.

This one is less about the art and more about the technique. This time-lapse is a demo of how I draw seemingly-convincing anatomy from scratch with no visual aid other than my own "instinctive" sense of pareidolia (i.e. whatever's going on in my own fusiform gyrus), so it may serve as a guide for those who draw faces.

There are a lot of techniques for drawing anatomically-convincing faces. One involves plotting some geometrical shapes using compass and straightedge in order to have a visual reference for facial proportions.

But, then, the human brain has this funny ability to see faces where ain't none. And the "uncanny valley" allows us to feel whenever a seemingly-human face isn't that human.

This mechanism usually goes this way: we see a visual pattern that triggers our "it's a face" perception, then the more specialized facial recognition mechanism kicks in, only for it to perceive how this "face" have some unexpected details (e.g. glowing irises, sharper canine teeth, etc) and/or proportions (almond-shaped eyes larger than expected), so it gets uncanny.

One can leverage it by going the reverse way: crafting an external visual pattern until it maximizes this perception, fine-tuning it for either uncanniness and/or accurateness, depending on the intended goal.

This explains the main flow going on in my mind as I'm drawing a face fully from scratch (i.e. no rotoscoping). I often start by drawing a pair of circles (meant as either eyeballs or eye sockets) to trigger my initial notion of size, then (inspired by owls) I draw the eyebrow ridge going from the silhouette for the nose slightly below the median point, then the forehead, then the mouth cavity, then the cheeks (meant to have some blushing), and the zygomatic relief, and chin, and then... well, it'll depend on the how the drawing is triggering my fusiform girus. You can see me getting back quite often to previously-drawn details as I fix these to better adjust my current perception, sometimes redoing things from scratch. I try to draw the hair as soon as I can, because it's one of the main references for this specific face.

The final shading ended up a bit "flatter" than I originally wanted to draw. I have a previously-drawn "mugshot art" where the shading ended up imbued with better 3d depth, but I didn't record a time-lapse for it, so I made another drawing.

That's pretty much everything for this post, feel free to ask if you got any questions...

Alt-text: a time-lapse disclosing the drawing of a feminine face (meant to depict Lilith, with large almond-shaped eyes, long red hair, expressive eyelashes, soft-yet-sharp chin, blushed cheeks and tender red lips with sharp fangs), seen in close mugshot. The drawing starts from a gray shape akin to a Venetian mask, then it gradually evolves into a feminine portrait.

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Mixed Media on paper.

Mainly Acrylic on Canvas but the face is actually pen on paper I handmade cut out into the nosferatu face with :3 written on it and some added fangs.

This is attempt #5 at painting and its been awhile so I wanted to try something silly just cuz i can.

This artwork was made by children in a kindergarten. It hung in the entrance there for quite some time and fascinated me then, and still does today.

At the kindergarten's annual summer festival, it was auctioned off to make place for a new piece, and I was lucky to buy it. The proceeds were intended to raise funds for the art supplies for the new project. As I later learned, the winning bid wasn't quite enough. I added the remaining amount (it wasn't far off) to the final bid. I.still enjoy the artwork today.

It reminds me a little of the works of Gerhard Richter.

Edit: Typos

Drawing a character from a recent campaign of Barbarians of Lemuria. Sorry for the quiet audio.

Will you return the kiss?

My latest art, I post weekly on bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/briniasona.bsky.social (NSFW warning)

Gouache in my sketchbook

Another beagle I made a while ago, this time with acrylic paints! 🐶

Watercolor and ink on paper.

Watercolor and ink on paper.

Time-lapse: the surreal encounter between two owls

Warning: the video contains some flashing lights. Do not watch if you have epilepsy.

In the New World West,
with its prairies full with mounds,
She governs the gates to the undergrounds
where She laid Her nest:
as the Sun raises cluelessly,
She raises majestically.

In the Ancient Near East,
where the Sun already fled and hid,
She who rules over the Levantine arid,
where even the pharaohs become Her feast:
nothing escapes Her grips
as She raises to Her highest trips.

A meeting of the two is unlikely to be seen:
not just because of the ocean in-between,
but also the desert and the greens:
two thrones for two Owl-Queens.

Took me 3 and a half hours for me to draw this artistic attempt at putting two overly-specific (and largely disparate) owls species (with which I've been hyper-fixated lately) together within the same, surreal scene: Athene cunicularia (burrowing-owl) and Bubo ascalaphus (Pharaoh eagle-owl).

I guess it's so far the most complex art whose time-lapse I managed to record (luckily, my phone didn't crash during the drawing).

Alt-text for the final art (to be posted as a reply):

Artistic depiction of two owls unusually sitting at different simultaneous biomes while facing each other.

The leftmost A. cunicularia stands next to the entrance of a burrow. She is seen in profile, turned rightwards as she looks at the Pharaoh eagle-owl with a scheming and defiant expression.

The rightmost B. ascalaphus is perched on a boulder roughly at the same distance from the viewer (so the disparate sizes is evident). She's also seen in profile, but turned leftwards, as she looks at the burrowing-owl with a purposefully ambiguous expression (open mouth as if screeching, body slightly leaned forwards with ruffled plumage, visibly hard grip onto the surface of the boulder, wide but half-closed eyes, traits that can be either a defense-attack, dominance pose; or simply the clumsy attempt from an innately strong owl to greet a smaller owl).

The leftmost biome is dominated by grass and other vegetation alongside the burrow, all covered in shadows by dense trees at the horizon. The rightmost is an open, plain desert, with some scattered pebbles and rocks, alongside the boulder where the Pharaoh eagle-owl is perched. The biomes meet almost seamlessly, with a somewhat gradual transition between grass and sand.

The dusk sky is dominated by a large, red crescent Moon, while the Sun is barely visible setting below the horizon.

Alt-text for the time-lapse:

A time-lapse disclosing the drawing processes behind the aforementioned art: from a black canvas to the initial landscape, with the multiplication of the layers containing the pebbles, then the Moon, then the approximated rotoscoping of two real photos of both owls, then a few final touches for texture and shading.

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Love the first few movies and the new TV show. I need to go back and watch these again!

Sigourney Weaver is a badass!

Timelapse: https://mastodon.social/@BallShapedMan/116421129547177888

Acrylic on paper.

I've always wanted to paint this place, yesterday was the day. I think I could do better with the stones but as a first try I'm happy with it.

The theme for today is "Scavenger" and the palette is 8lueens Palette

Need to learn how to texture
Like, this is just a silhouette of a crow :\ I wish I could do more...

Nonetheless it's a lot more ambitious than what I'd usually draw. Reference