Giveaway! (winners announced)

It's been 24 hours! Thanks for participating and sorry if you missed out this time. :)

The winners are J.M. Martin (comment #12 here on the blog) and CobraVenom (comment #170 on dA). Congrats!

Happy holidays to all of you!

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Since I'm especially excited for Christmas this year I decided to go with the holiday spirit and have a little giveaway!

All you have to do is comment on this post within the next 24 hours (only once per person please!)
I will then use a random number generator to determine the winner.


The winner gets a painting, something along the lines of the portrait below.
It can be anything from your own original character, fan art of something you like or even a portrait of you or a friend/family member.


You can also comment on this image on my deviantArt to double your chances! (Again, only once per person!)
There will be two winners, one here and one on dA :)

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Now that this is out of the way, two recent paitings :)

Happy Halloween!

Well, I guess this is the closest thing to a Halloween-themed painting I can manage this year, so here you go! Happy Halloween!

... spooky LEDs!

some not so spooky pumpkins

skull in daylight

And finally, some drapery studies from photo reference. It might seem counterintuitive to study drapery from a statue, but Bernini really knew his stuff.

Update!

To start this off, here are a couple of super quick paintings which I've been doing randomly to unwind.

Ygritte from a Song of Ice and Fire <3

... a weird Barbie-looking girl waving goodbye o_o

... and Marceline the Vampire Queen!

Also, a pretty lame landscape thing I did from memory after staring out the window for a while. I did kind of capture the colors though - a small success at least!

Onto the studies!

Quick-ish John Atkinson Grimshaw master study

Brush economy and some derpy faces :3

awesome horse armor

And finally, one of these quick paintings from the beginning of the post taken to finish. Done after the last two studies :)