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Benjamin and Uncle Joel 🥺🥺💕 This was my second time in ArtRage and still kinda trying to find my footing, but I had a lot of fun with the color blending. I’ve been trying to narrow my color palettes to three hues max, and vary the saturation and intensity, and I think it’s helping me keep everything a little bit more coherent.

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Ellie and Shimmer 🥺🥺🥺

I think I've watched episode 1 four times now and I keep finding new things to love with every rewatch. It was really hard to choose which shot I wanted to paint (I took 350 screenshots but I just loved the colors and composition of this one

I used a primary palette for this one: French ultramarine, cad red, and lemon yellow (and titanium white). Also used a new surface: watercolor canvas from Masters Touch, straight off the pad with no additional coats of gesso. Controversial opinion cause that paper is very very cheap but I actually loved it as a painting surface. Definitely had a finer texture than any of the canvas panels l've seen at my local craft store.

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Quick study of Young Mazino as Jesse in S2 of The Last of Us

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Little Bellie study in oil 😭💜🫶

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Arthur, on Procreate, 7h

A master study of Keenan McAteer’s portrait, find his art here ✨

Charcoal brushes from @lane.draws on instagram

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Oil sketches/color studies of Tommy and Maria 💕💕

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gotta hold off on posting it to insta to appease the algorithm or whatever, but u guys get to see it now <3

kinda went overboard with the color saturation because i let myself use every color I own (which is like 7 colors), but the values are mostly correct (I think) so whatEvER. ALso, alizarin red + phthalo green? absolutely lethal aura. I'm obsessed.

do u guys have a favorite Tommy song? mine is Nose on the Grindstone by Tyler Childers I think. Or Keep the Wolves Away by Uncle Lucius.

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Ellie and Uncle Tommy 💕😭🫶

(scene from circle of fifths by @march-flowerr on AO3, this fic is my Roman Empire. Thank you @historian-in-pearls for such a lovely commission request 🫶)

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Ehehehe this is for TLOU art Sunday but u guys get to see it first

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Gabriel Luna 🖤🤍

Procreate

15 hours

27k brushstrokes

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You can pry light on dark color studies from my cold dead hands 😭💕

Referenced screencap of Gabriel Luna as Lance Flores in Transpecos (2016)

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Bella 🫶🖤

A quick study/cooldown painting

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Progress shot of my study of @keenanmcateerart’s gorgeous Arthur portrait (insta)

https://www.instagram.com/keenanmcateerart?igsh=MXNkZWRrZHFjZzB2cQ==

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“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." // And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God."

Arthur Morgan on Procreate, 3h

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“Only through fear may we find our true strength"

Jacob and Constance, portrayed by @michaelabbottjr1 and @makena_whitlock

16x20, oil on canvas

To date the largest oil painting I have completed, and one of the most complex too. Used a limited palette for this, mostly Zorn (cad red, yellow ochre, lamp black, titanium white) with a little bit of burnt sienna and cadmium yellow to boost the oranges and greens. Working at this scale is in some ways much easier than working on a smaller canvas, but it was also harder to convince myself to limit the number of focal points. I ended up putting a lot of detail into the hammer, as well as Constance's braid, because both those elements were narratively significant and compositionally interesting. I added too much linseed oil to the background on the first pass so it cured with a lot of gloss; I decided to go back over it and change the texture by using a smaller filbert brush to make the leaves, and I think it's a lot better for it.