Acryllic on paper. Inspired by Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance. I normally only paint based on fiction, but after reading about Virginia Hall, real World War II spy, I wanted to do her portrait.

I tried to do it in the style of this video. I don't know if they thinned out their paint or just have transparent paint, but I immediately covered over my sketch with paint too dark and gave up following along. I still like the way it came out.

Acryllic on paper. Inspired by Scott Smith's The Ruins. I tried doing this abstract botanical style but it didn't work out for me. I used so much paint on this stupid thing.

And didn't even like the book. I think it's been too highly praised online. If you go into it expecting a B movie of a book instead of a literary masterpiece, you'll have a better time.

Oops! Friend reported this is not his. When he sent it to me i thought it was original . He was sharing it to me because he thought it was cool. Super kudos to the original artist. Sorry!

Drawing a stack of books.

Link: https://kylejudd.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/apple-freeform-drawing-dark-rob/

Playing around with felt tip Japanese pen thingy.

Reference was some AI image I built from prompt.

Drawing Practice from the end of July.

Happy with how this came out! Drawing this on thick card with proper ink felt absolutely gorgeous.

I got a new colouring book.

This is from Mythogoria: Darkest Desires by Fabiana Attanasio. Pencil colouring by me.

I made this for a video of mine but I am a big fan of just making good art as my thumbnails instead of bothering with actual thumbnail techniques that people do.

I don't make videos in order to make money so most of the thumbnails I make end up like this.

Got approached by njb and asked if I wanted to do a painting for his email listing which is a free online newsletter about pinball and retro arcade gaming.

Well that sounded like fun, and here it is!

I'm plugging a link here to the actual site : https://nantucketebooks.com/ebooks/quarterup/

It was lots of fun !