Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Phallictus, the unintentionally penis-shaped monster



Finished this little painting yesterday. I had no idea how phallic it looked until it was complete. I'm sure Freud would have a few things to say about this. I'm happy with how the painting itself turned out, but I'm not happy with how it scanned in. Scanners have a tendency to pick up on a lot of "invisible" texture unseen by the eye in flat light. As a result, the soft/smoky look I work to achieve is destroyed as every single dust particle and brush stroke is picked up by the scanner. I managed to negate this by softening it up a bit in Photoshop, but it's not perfect.

Unfortunately, scanning is the only option I have at the moment until I get a high quality camera (which I'm hoping to get this Christmas).

Acrylics, airbrush, graphite

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