Wolf T-Shirt

I initally planned on this piece being my usual watercolour based animal painting, but as I inked the background, I noticed that the brush strokes created the perfect texture to match the rest of the painting. Creating a dry brush texture in watercolours is do-able, but it’s much easier using a fast drying paint, so I went back to using acrylics which I originallly focused my paint work. I had a great time working on this, and the texture I got from the acrylic paint worked much better than the watercolour would have produced. I finished the piece using some soft pastel blending and pencils to add some small detail and shading to the piece without loosing the brush marks from the paint.