Ooh. I'm really enjoying the looseness of the female portrait. Was the reference as muted or a style choice in color?

@ESL Cool, glad you appreciate this. No, like COMPLETELY NO, mostly I picked colors from imagination, so it was very challenging too. :octopus:

Just spontaneous piece, mostly for experimenting with brushwork. Yeah, failed with values a little bit. Also, I drew this one before the portrait from post above, the first attempt so to speak. :octopus:

smth different, few works from my ongoing personal project. :octopus:
Better resolution, if someone interested.

Really like those illustrations! I get a pretty pretty evocative horror mood, a general sense of the story told, though i won't say i "get it"

@ragamuffin Maybe later, with new pieces, it'll become more clear, but for now as it is. I'm working on it, anyway, it's all about balance, as always. Thanks! :octopus:

I quite like this one. It has a well defined face that attracts the attention and pleases the eye, framed in a nice way by the hair, and the flourish at the bottom give it the raw aesthetic you mentioned.

I really like the gesture drawings, I think it captures the emotions very good!

@anir Yeah, this one is more quick and simple, here is rawness is more natural, but also some shapes is pretty cheesy, brushstrokes are sloppy and random. I want to achieve more controllable rawness. Balance, as always. Thanks! :sparkles:

@nadjia Thanks, but there is no limit to perfection :grin: :octopus: