Octopus!

[firebyrd]

Last night I was extolling my love of cephalopods to bladespark, and it motivated me to finally finish an ATC I started about a month ago. I just had to do the background on it, but between feeling not so great and losing my reference picture (note to self-actually download said pictures, because things on Google Images change /constantly/), I hadn't gotten around to doing so. It's the first time I've used acrylics on traditional media, and wow, I love them so much. With as touch-oriented as I am, I love how full bodied regular artist acrylics are and the wonderful textures I can get. I'm definitely going to stop worrying about my brush marks and stuff on my ponies except for on Hasbro remakes, because I just love texture too much to not have it.

It's trading card size, so IRL it's 3.5" 2.5". On to the

Comments

[angelus49.livejournal.com]

What type of acrylics are you using?

The nice thing about acrylics is how versatile they are. You can use them thick like oils, or watered down like watercolors. I usually do something in between.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I'm using a mixture of Liquitex professionals and Utrecht's professional house brand.