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Here is the finished Joker painting. It's dark and creepy! I'm really happy with how it turned out, it's completely different from all the other Joker paintings I've done. I really focused on matching the actual screencap's colours to get that sinister 'in shadows' effect. If you want to order your own custom artwork, please go here to do so....

I've been learning a ton about how to paint better and how to set myself up to achieve better results. For anyone who has only started following my blog now: I'm really loving oil painting, but I really started oil painting for the first time less than 3 years ago. I can only describe it as being similar to learning...

I was commissioned for another Joker painting! I just started working on this 16"x20" canvas in oil, and I'm really happy with my progress on this piece so far. I watched 2 youtube videos last night that totally inspired me. The first video taught me that I should 'tone' my canvas and use it to build colour on top of...

The Joker painting is completely done. I learned a ton working on this piece and I found myself developing my style. Using the palette knife to add colour to the canvas to create form as opposed to just trying to make it look like the original photo. What's fun about painting is that the photo is a reference, but you...

Latest update since this morning on the latest Joker piece. Obviously at this point it's already miles beyond anything I've ever done in the past. Loving how this piece is turning out, I would say at this point I'm about halfway done. Next step is to work on the shadows and create more shape to the face. I'm really loving...

Finally completed my first oil painting. I had no idea what to expect from using oils, I had only ever used acrylic paints once or twice in the past. I had to stop working on this piece for 2 months as I wanted to give up, but then I realized I was just missing black and purple paint to move...

So as I've mentioned a hundred times I bought some oil paints. I've never oil painted before in my life, and previous to the Akumu Ink canvases I've never really painted at all either! I'm just really at a point where I'm tired of computer or vector looking art. I want to create something with my hands that is imperfect...

Today I had a little "freak out" where I thought I had ruined this painting beyond repair. I took a little break because I was at a point where I thought I had to trash it and start over. I went away and worked on some Akumu Ink designs, when I came back I knew exactly what I had to...

At this point I'm just adding in more and more detail to get it looking as close to the photo as possible.The light really sucks in this picture as it's hitting the canvas in a weird way that's throwing off what the actual image looks like. I'll make more of an effort to shoot the finished painting better so you...

I'm really enjoying the process of this painting. I think it's going really well so far, you can see on the bottom right of the image I'm putting into practice all the things I've learned in setting up a proper colour pallet. And something else I learned which I'm applying to this piece is that I'm only working with the...

Added the background yesterday, gives it a whole different vibe and a lot more ambiance. Next step is to work on getting that dirty stringy hair to look like the real thing. And probably need to darken the whole thing. Still loving this.

I don't know if I'm doing this right. Although I've learned a lot on this second attempt than I did on my first, I feel like I'm not using the medium to its fullest potential. From the youtube videos I've seen of artists using oils this looks like a water colour piece. I think I may be missing the point....