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Hi! I just found your art and it’s so beautiful, I just have two questions- where do you find your pose references (do you take them yourself or look somewhere online)? And how do you paint lighting so well, especially on faces? Thank you and I hope you have a nice day ❤️

Hi there! I do both, I take pictures of stuff like my hands, poses, etc. and I also look online to find similar poses to get as many angles as I can. 

For painting lighting, I look at photo references of lighting where it’s close to what I’m painting. Stuff like the turning shadow, rebound light, cast shadow; see if you can identify those in references or other objects. I’d also look at Bargue plates (ex down below), especially for faces. Lighting on faces is a bit more complex because there are so many planes at different angles, but hey, that’s what makes it interesting too. It definitely helps to look at facial structure drawings and sculptures. Knowing where the planes of the face are is important when you’re painting light on faces. 

I love Bargue :)

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Shelley Duvall in “Brewster McCloud” (1970)

honestly its so unbelievably lame that modern artists have settled on “plain white” for standard angel wing depictions considering the variety of cool and colorful designs that medieval and renaissance artists came up with.

like check out these blue and gold striped wings!! so sick!!

or the golden peacock feathers

or these rainbow ones! the paint is faded but imagine them much brighter and more vibrant originally

same with the paint on this blue and white gradient wing set

or even these sick goth wings on gabriel over here!!

like god not even going into the sticky moral implications of the whiteness/purity connotation theyre just so much lamer and more boring than they could be like come on

Snoopy of Finland and Devil Snoopy 😈😉

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the first sketches of this year, done not long after los angeles burnt to the ground...