So my latests project is a series of African animal "masks". I do two versions. A purely black & white ink version and a colored version. The b&w is my beginnings. Its where I figure out the design and details. Eventually I want to take all the b&w and make a coloring book or series of colorable cards. Then comes the colored version where I start with watercolor as my base color. I then add ink and more metallic paint highlights. The end result is something that looks awesome in person but is very difficult to get a good picture that shows the details. Currently working on my method of photographing my art in order to get a really good reproduction. My paintings have always been difficult to shoot due to all the metallic paint. Of course I had to make my life challenging......
So the first in the series is the Lion king. His b&w version was done a few months ago. I was never 100% happy with the design. When I decided to try a colored version you can see I changed alot of the design.
Next up came the Gazelle
Next up zebra
then rhinoceros
and hyena
and water buffalo
and cheetah
Clearly I have a lot of work to do
I'll keep you posted on the works in progress
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