wwoowwww, your painting style is absolutely nuts, i love it

Unf I love this. I love his character as well so it's double plus good.

Sula's a badass. I'm glad you think I'm doing his designs justice. I hold 'em it quite a high esteem!

oh man, i love this. can't wait to see more

Ooooh, this looks cooool :D

Holy shit!! This is amazing. Thank you so so much Stigmata.

And I don't know if you listen to Triarii, but the image really evokes their firey, brassy sound a lot, even in its sketchy state.

Didn't know it was a band, but I retroactively see the correlation! Thanks for the kind words. :)

No, thank you for the image!

Also, here's one of their songs.

And another

Wonderfully stunning! I love your style it reminds of the style I'd really like to learn with gouache
Is this done digitally? Is there any way I could pick your brain!?

Yeah, this is a sketch starting in Photoshop.

This page has some animations of my workflow, although it's all kinda screwy and messy, but I should be able to upload an animation of this image's stages when I'm done.

Around my sketches you'll find other walkthroughs. I also update a journal entry on here with random tips. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Ah, dude... this is freaking awesome. :B Loveee the colors and texture.

As someone that fancies your own textures and colours, I appreciate that very much!

Very cool. Do you do it all in one layer?

Only because I'm an idiot! :B

hahaha well I don't use any layers either. I have no idea how they work! D:

Really? They're a godsend! I just merge down constantly (at least on personal projects, like these).

haha maybe I should too. I just do it all in one layer and if I screw up, paint over it, lol.

Ah, this is flaming good! I love that orangey red you have in the background, with that splash of white behind the fellow it seems like he's just escaped from an inferno of sorts (or a waterfall of molten rock!).

Oh, I do have a thing for sketches (and generally 'unfinished' projects), they always look so wild and dynamic! Especially with your style, which I find wonderfully alive already. Man, those hints of detail you have really stand out! the armband and snout, ha! Absolutely astounding! I cannot wait to see the finished product~

Oh gee. Thanks, Music Man! :>

Looks finished to me :) love it

I never know what finished is anymore. There's that part of me trying to be "marketable" coming out! :P

I really like this raw style--it comes off as a lot fresher than a typical line-art + colour piece.
Great work!

OH! Don't finish it, it looks propa wicked like this! >.=.o

Fantastic! I adore the colours you used here. Positively radiant, they are. I must say I enjoy the static noise feel in the background, really helps break up the monotonous feeling of an empty background.

Also, your method of building up your painting intrigues me a lot. Just in comparing the very raw-feeling unfinished left hand to more refined area of the upper torso, I'm very interested to see how you work.

That's true. It's like an tutorial, but only for the most considerate of viewers. You have my thanks. :)

Teach me how you paint like this :C i love it!

Only use the hard brush, change layer blend modes to add disgusting contrast and then make it work for you, only use about 1% of what Photoshop can do, etc….

My technique is actually ridiculously simple. ;)

Ahhhh! <3 it!

I come back to this and it's still awesome as ever.

Damn, I gotta update this still! I can't wait until my Senior Show is done, so I can just go back to finishing gift art.

Glad you still enjoy this. Thanks, Sula. :)

I really like this one. ^____^