Art! Pan!

[radiantfracture]

This is only my second painting for the various February challenges I usually get excited about, but I like my Pan. The reference was a photo of Cecil the Faun, who has four winsome faun personae who lift my spirits.


(Cuter if you click on him)

I used the new gouache paints I got for Christmas, and I do think they have richer, denser colour, and therefore can do more nuanced things (though this was a fairly fast painting whose nuance must be mostly accidental).

They are a bit tricky to figure out -- when the pools of paint dry, they tend to become brittle and to break off into chunks -- probably because they have much more pigment in them than the old cheap ones. It does mean I often chase little balls of pigment around the tray with my brush.

The super secret mission of this painting was to become cover art for one of my games (because that's what I'm excited about lately, obvs) so I threw some text on that sucker:



And now it's the new cover art for The Fledgling and the Vale.

Obviously I need to be using better software to put these graphics together, but I haven't landed on a free application that works smoothly for me / will work on my increasingly cranky Macbook.

Mind you, nothing at all about today was smooth (but in ways so petty that they can't be described effectively.) Anyway, at least this painting happened.

I like the idea of doing original art for the games when I can, because then like -- at least the person got a picture out of the deal?

{rf}