A gruesome thing

I don’t know what it is, and I don’t think it’s anything really. Just made a rough sketch and laid on some watercolours, decided to play with skin tones. I hope it intrigues you.

Skulltopus

So here’s what I did today while wrangling with my phone provider. It’s watercolour over a biro sketch, by the way.

ButterflEye

Lately I’ve been noticing a sad lack in my work of what I think of as ‘Dark Traditional’. So I decided to do something about that.

After the line work was done over the newly dried tinted paper, I used Indian Ink to wash in some gradated tones.

Then I added some vein-like structures on the wings to make them more interesting.

Finally I add ink droplets to the painting, which I’ve been looking forward to doing since I started to think about the image

Want to see more like this? Subscribe! I post original art step by step on an irregular but frequent basis.