Rotten's Pocket

[RottenPocket]

Hi Rottenpocket,

Thanks for dropping by. Congratz on that last portfolio piece. Wonderful work! In addition to displaying technical skills, your recent works display an increasingly sophisticated approach to visual thinking. Your most recent artworks shows a strong sense of storytelling.

Everything, the thorns in the background, the rose in the devil's hand, and the floating blossoms in the foreground, tell a story together. Both characters, the goddess and the devil, are beautifully drawn and tastefully designed.

There is only one criticism. Your drawing of the devil's wing outside the frame is fantastic. But I think the cropped wing would work better fully drawn. The shape would be even stronger this way. But it is still a fantastic piece of art despite that. Keep doing what you do!

Heey artlurkerrevivalist

 I'm definitely exploring a lot more digitally and haven't touched trad in months, and I think I've gotten over a lot of hurdles I used to have adjusting to digital painting techniques. I will definitely put that down to the fact that I stopped following the wrong advice and just did what worked for me :D I appreciate you seeing the narrative in every piece, I've always been very story oriented over pure aesthetics. If anything I enjoy making something off or weird because I know it makes some people uncomfortable. I think drawing the wings in full would 100% look cooler, however the practicalities of framing for print did overrule that idea. I have some silver leaf I want to fudge around with so I've ordered a giclee print of this one to embellish. 

I'm actually on holiday right now, so driving hard into painting and put my tentacles out there to acquire a few paid gigs. This here is the finished linework for the last CHOW (Now CHOM?) which includes a few firsts. First for flint, will be a first for painting fur properly, first for dead pheasants and first for de babies. Wil see how she turns out.