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Description My first acrylic painting. Cool! Technically my second. I did an awesome Flash painting when I was 14 or 15. So awesome that this is the first time I've touched acrylics since.

I dont really know why I've always been afraid of paint, but I have. The recent work I've been doing with watercolor has shaken some of that fear and made me curious. Plus, these days my biggest inspirations havent come from comics like they always have before but from painters like Frazetta and Jeff Jones, so this was something I really felt like doing finally.

This was just an exercise just to see what it was like to really paint and I have to say I enjoyed it. I didnt make any effort to plan it out or concern myself with details and it was fun. I didnt draw anything first, (mainly because I dont know how to do that yet) so the image here was just worked in as I went. In a way, it's liberating to not know what the hell youre doing. This was done with two paints. Burnt Umber and white. It's essentially a greyscale piece that I used brown on instead of black.

Liquitex acrylic on canvas.

image © Chris Stevens
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Comments: 124

richie-gomez15 [2012-06-20 05:33:35 +0000 UTC]

i'd love to see your watercolors, because tryout is beautyful.

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ChristopherStevens In reply to richie-gomez15 [2012-06-20 21:02:14 +0000 UTC]

I've never tried a piece that's entirely watercolor, but all of my marker pieces have a lot of watercolor in them.

Thanks!

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ShadedKnight In reply to ??? [2012-06-20 05:20:56 +0000 UTC]

It's a tryout for being a rock, unfortunately he didn't get the part because he was too mobile . Like the work, keep it up!

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BiohazardousDouglas [2012-06-20 05:06:49 +0000 UTC]

How were you able to get your canvas onto here so cleanly? xD photo ? or scanning?

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ChristopherStevens In reply to BiohazardousDouglas [2012-06-20 21:00:31 +0000 UTC]

I just scanned it. I do have an awesome scanner though.

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BiohazardousDouglas In reply to ChristopherStevens [2012-06-21 06:37:34 +0000 UTC]

ooh I see. Must be a big scanner?

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ChristopherStevens In reply to BiohazardousDouglas [2012-06-21 10:42:46 +0000 UTC]

yeah, pretty big. 11 by 17. The Epson Expression 10000 XL. Good but pricey.

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BiohazardousDouglas In reply to ChristopherStevens [2012-06-21 13:34:40 +0000 UTC]

ahhh wow that is huge xD the last scanner I used was a canon/epson. Man it's been awhile since I've scanned anything ..

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MasterOfNewts [2012-06-20 04:51:58 +0000 UTC]

I can sum it up in only one word: KICKASS!!!!!!

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yuffieHeart [2012-06-20 04:32:38 +0000 UTC]

he's soo cute!!~ xD

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birdinblack [2012-06-20 04:30:06 +0000 UTC]

Remind me of ZVR comic, great work

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TheDoogFactor In reply to ??? [2012-06-20 04:26:38 +0000 UTC]

This... Is just amazing.

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hermitsrme In reply to ??? [2012-06-20 04:20:09 +0000 UTC]

Good work. Great use of tones

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Ninibuba [2012-06-20 04:09:21 +0000 UTC]

awesome;]

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hyperider [2012-06-20 04:00:53 +0000 UTC]

Nice work Chris.

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mychimerasRcooler [2012-06-20 03:25:55 +0000 UTC]

Cool! (It reminds me of some of Ashley Woods paintings as well)

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ChristopherStevens In reply to mychimerasRcooler [2012-06-20 20:59:30 +0000 UTC]

I know hehe. Not intentional, but oh well. I guess that's not a bad thing.

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douglasbot [2012-06-20 03:23:59 +0000 UTC]

Really great! I love it! Makes me want to crack out the paints and a canvas!

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ChristopherStevens In reply to douglasbot [2012-06-20 20:58:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Do it

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s-w-a-n-i-e [2012-06-20 03:21:37 +0000 UTC]

... nice.

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yellowsmoke321 [2012-06-20 02:53:38 +0000 UTC]

cool robot design

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AnarchyWriter [2012-06-20 02:17:38 +0000 UTC]

...Success?

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ChristopherStevens In reply to AnarchyWriter [2012-06-20 02:52:16 +0000 UTC]

Sure why not. It was fun a ND makes me want to do more, so definitely a success.

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AnarchyWriter In reply to ChristopherStevens [2012-06-20 03:13:01 +0000 UTC]

Glad to hear it.

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crazystarshiine In reply to ??? [2012-06-20 02:16:09 +0000 UTC]

I LOVE THIS AHHHHH


AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Emerson-Fialho In reply to ??? [2012-06-20 02:05:41 +0000 UTC]

Very good, my friend!!!

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Emub [2012-06-20 01:58:06 +0000 UTC]

well i havnt got much to say but that i love it

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ChristopherStevens In reply to Emub [2012-06-20 02:51:36 +0000 UTC]

Works for me! Thanks

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aidenke [2012-06-20 01:34:10 +0000 UTC]

Hah - this guy looks kind of awesome. Makes me want to know what his story is/what he's up to. Looks like he's on a quest/lookin' for something...

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ChristopherStevens In reply to aidenke [2012-06-20 01:54:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. That's a great compliment.

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aidenke In reply to ChristopherStevens [2012-06-20 02:09:46 +0000 UTC]

He looks like he'd be a good buddy for, say, Wall-E or something. A generally friendly, curious dude out looking for something/seeing what's out there. Could make for a fun animated short or something!

No matter what, nice work here for sure!

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ChristopherStevens In reply to aidenke [2012-06-20 20:56:46 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I could see that. I sometimes forget about Wall-E, but it's an awesome film.

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searching4somewhere In reply to ??? [2012-06-20 01:34:09 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome you did really good work for someone who doesn't use actual paint all that often

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ChristopherStevens In reply to searching4somewhere [2012-06-20 01:54:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. All that often is an understatement hehe. I hope to change that though.

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Fires-storm [2012-06-20 01:18:37 +0000 UTC]

Well done, I love the style! The coloring is also very brilliant, mostly a single color variation but it all works

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macsorro [2012-06-20 01:13:55 +0000 UTC]

looks great. Makes you wish "layers' and "undo" existed IRL doesn't it? lol

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searching4somewhere In reply to macsorro [2012-06-20 01:32:28 +0000 UTC]

they do it's called painting over

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macsorro In reply to searching4somewhere [2012-06-20 02:32:07 +0000 UTC]

I know all about glassing with translucent acrylics by Liquitex, but we both know that's not what I mean.

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ChristopherStevens In reply to searching4somewhere [2012-06-20 01:51:35 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, true. Real paint is awesome that way.

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Estonius [2012-06-20 01:11:44 +0000 UTC]

Very cool painting and character!

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lucas-irineu In reply to ??? [2012-06-20 00:56:13 +0000 UTC]

This is your first acrylic piece? Damn. If you hadn't said that, I'd just assume that you're really familiar with the medium. That said, this is awesome.

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ChristopherStevens In reply to lucas-irineu [2012-06-20 01:51:06 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I hope to get familiar with it soon.

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Grafight [2012-06-20 00:44:20 +0000 UTC]

congrats on your first acrylic. Here's hoping to see many more to come.

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howlett66 In reply to ??? [2012-06-20 00:29:25 +0000 UTC]

This is actually awesome Chris

Doing things as you go is great.I'm also learning how to handle paints, but I'm not as good as you seem to be haha

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ChristopherStevens In reply to howlett66 [2012-06-20 00:40:04 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I've learned that a lot of your knowledge can be transferred to totally different mediums. I know squat about acrylics, but my experience with watercolor seems to be helping me get started.

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howlett66 In reply to ChristopherStevens [2012-06-20 14:17:51 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.Yup I noticed that when I first tried paints, it's an interesting fact

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TheHalfBEAST In reply to ??? [2012-06-20 00:18:47 +0000 UTC]

Wow. this is really interesting! I love the design of the robot, its very unique and adorable! <3

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ChristopherStevens In reply to TheHalfBEAST [2012-06-20 00:37:31 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I tend to like making my robots cute rather than kickass or cool looking. Not sure why.

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TheHalfBEAST In reply to ChristopherStevens [2012-06-20 00:41:32 +0000 UTC]

you're quite welcome!


yeah same here, sometimes I'll doodle a small little robot out of random. I think robots in general are just adorable <3

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regourso In reply to ??? [2012-06-20 00:04:54 +0000 UTC]

That's amazing, man. The volume is well-rendered.

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