Hi there. It's me again, back with another painting. I hope you guys don't mind me posting individual threads for each painting, I've seen other people do it with artwork so, as I said, I hope it's cool. Anyway, on to the subject of the thread.

This acrylic painting took about 3-4 hours. Below the finished product anyone who is interested can see the work in progress, in about half an hour increments. Here it is:

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Now to the beginning:

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This was about twenty minutes into it. I don't put any lines down when I paint, I just slop everything into position and keep correcting stuff over and over until the features look right. Being careful is just not fun to me, that's why I enjoy painting over drawing these days.

At this point I stopped painting for the night because I just didn't dig the colour scheme. Too much like the reference image, which can be found here.

I also think this looks a bit like the dude who plays Marshall in How I Met Your Mother, at least the top of his head does.

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The next day I was just like, fuck it. I hated the colour scheme so I was like, what haven't I done before? So, I went blood crimson and cobalt blue. I was instantly pleased with how much more interesting the colours looked. At this stage I did not realise how zombie/vampirish it would end up looking, I was really just excited to use a colour scheme I hadn't ever used before.

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At this point I'm just fixing things here and there, completely unaware of how off position everything is. The next image I completely re-position most of the middle of the face because while I like to paint kind of messily, I try to keep the important features in the right place so it looks like th person I am painting.

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Used a lot of black, off white and red to establish the positions of everything here.

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Just about finished here. It's funny how knowing where the position of everything is supposed to be makes progress a lot smoother.

And of course, you see the finished result above. I hope you enjoyed this post. If anyone has any questions or comments for me (whether it's advice for me, advice for yourself or a friend or any other random thing) please post it here, or you can send me a note on my deviant art page here.

Thanks to everyone who looks.

Cheerio.