Art post: Yet another fairy (FAEbruary art challenge)

[radiantfracture]

Today's painting -- started yesterday, left in a state of disarray, repaired and thrust into the world today.



This was painted for the third prompt in #brettsfaebruaryartchallenge2023, founded by brettmanningart -- "urisk." The internet tells me that the urisk is a guardian of waterfalls and sacred springs, and also that he has the legs of a goat, like a faun.


Oof, this one really challenged me. Landscapes! They’re hard. Figures! Also hard. I’m going back to sexy fairy faces.

Objectively, this isn't very good, but I do like how the complementary colours work together. If I could have brightened up the greenish highlights on his legs a bit better, I think that part would look really cool.

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Comments

[sovay]

Today's painting -- started yesterday, left in a state of disarray, repaired and thrust into the world today.

I really like this one. Good face for his other half and also hot.

[radiantfracture]

Ha, thank you.

[sabotabby]

I dig it. But yeah, landscapes are hard. I can do figures well enough—figures that aren't just floating are the challenge.

[radiantfracture]

Yeah, I like the way you and yhlee have with figures -- they have this nice natural gestural quality. Mine feel so laboured and stiff.

[sabotabby]

Do you do a lot of live gesture drawing sessions? Yours don't feel laboured at all but large sheets of newsprint and conté go a long way to reducing stiffness.