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I’ve been going through a time of revelation, a

I’ve been going through a time of revelation, a time of ripping off bandaids, and jumping into new thorny thickets. I’m in Manhattan NY right now, outside of the comfort bubble that calcified into a shell over the last few years, hardened by the same dramatic degree that we have all seen over the pandemic. But I prepared myself for the next chapter, strengthening my body and mind, mending the emotional bridge between the two, cutting out the denial and taking responsibility for how I manufacture my own depression. Like many in my generation I have been predisposed to being a negative thinker, not so much a realist as I’d like to imagine, brooding for a very long time that the odds are just stacked against me, with many frustrating catch 22 situations dominating life. Yeah that’s how challenges seem at first, before you take them on. I’m still opposed to fake positivity, still stoic and a bit cynical, but I’m starting to experientially understand the logic behind optimism, beyond the silly platitudes. Every day’s work includes this discipline: to change my own mind. To peel away the onion skin grown thick over mine eyes.
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#growthmindset #abundance #mustard #indiecomics #vulnerability #authenticity #artist #wisdom #selfmastery #comics #mustardman #illustration #changeyourmind #transformation #digitalillustration #umbilicalcord #incubation

BoOm! It’s Chun li! This was a fun one, I challe

BoOm! It’s Chun li! This was a fun one, I challenged myself to a healthy dose of figurative painting. A big handicap of mine is costumes so this serves as an intermediate foray into that (considering how skimpy it is)
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#chunli #chunlicosplay #digitalpainting #figurestudy #conceptart #strength #study #painting #artdujour #onlyfans #shesgotlegsandsheknowshowtousethem

A recent commission. It’s been the season of han

A recent commission. It’s been the season of hands for me lately, I worked as a hand double on a tv series, preparing one of my hand jewelry pendants for a client and just finished this digital paint portrait of hands. I started pushing into “perceived colors” with this piece as opposed to exact color matching. Trying to get more painterly and improve my intuition. It’s working out. I love how gold can gather light even while cloaked in shadow. The blood of the sun.
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#digitalpainting #hands #photoshopart #painting #painthands #illuminatedshadow #shading #glow #portraiture #portraitpainting #aged #digitalportrait #skintone

Happy Mother’s Day. This is my mom, so alls I go

Happy Mother’s Day. This is my mom, so alls I gotta say is, this better get a lot of likes!
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#digitalpainting #mothersday #portrait #painting #glasses #grandmom #familyportrait #heirloom #digitalart #lightstudy #paintsketch #photoreference #momselfie #selfie

Title this piece? I decided to flip the script and

Title this piece? I decided to flip the script and do some photobashing, and came up with a sort of extraplanetary cat rover vehicle and work site. I’ve been reading Dune lately. Could this be mining or oil rigging on other planets?
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#photobashing #digitalpainting #rover #space #nasa #vehicledesign #terraforming #scifi #mars #marsrover #spacecraftdesign #oilrigs #landscape #collage #photoshopcc #conceptart #artstation #moonmagic

I’ve been mourning the loss of my good friend Ga

I’ve been mourning the loss of my good friend Gabriel Labossiere @heart.laboss a magnetic enlightened soul taken from us far too early. He was a beacon of light during a time when I felt very distant from this planet. He was inspiring and loving to a lot of people, some of which I’ve had the pleasure to meet, commiserate and celebrate with over the last few days. A vigil will be held tonight in Byrd Park at 5-8pm. The main photo is from when he modeled my screenprinted tee, if anyone would like to buy one from coylecavern.com at this time the proceeds will go to a charity that he avidly supported @orphansofugandachildren_center Slide for pics of his incredible folky abstract work, a life sketch I did one night, and lastly an ink of mine that he wanted me to tattoo on his bicep. I’m sorry I never got to do it brother. Sorely miss you Laboss ❤️ R.I.P.
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#laboss #positivity #rvaartists #carystreetcafe

The wet look. Several different challenges tackled

The wet look. Several different challenges tackled which I shall list: figurative subject, reflections of glass, satin highlights and the sheen of pink velour. Bright high contrast natural light on very pale skin. Slightly more stylization, exaggeration and improvisation, choice of smeary wet mixer brushes for nuanced stroke composition and spontaneity.
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#speedpainting #dailypainting #painterly #wetbrush #digitalpainting #digitalart #lush #girlportrait #glass #sargent #traditional #portrait #photoshop #paintsketch #nft #nftpainting #highcontrast

If the ancestors were watching what would be the l

If the ancestors were watching what would be the look on their faces? Sun drenched study of browns. I pressed into new territory with digital brushes bringing about 5 brushes in to play, instead of the 1 or two from previous trials. What do you think?
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#sunlight #realism #digitalpainting #ancestors #oldman #african #blackman #skintones #digitalbrushes #brightcolors #brownstudy #portraitpainting #facestudy #worldwide #paintingoftheday #digitalart

Low contrast grays for the gray day. Sometimes I c

Low contrast grays for the gray day. Sometimes I can feel the sepia tones seeping in to stain my memories when I’m not looking. From the other direction comes the dry overcast cover with clinical blue highlights to bleach my futuristic old age. I can’t stand it. Give me back my god damned color, I’m not your fucking statistic. Don’t touch that! Get away from me. Nurse!
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#sepiatone #lowcontrast #digitalpainting #gray #whitebeard #portraitpainting #grayscale #beard #dimlight #overcast #study #studiopainting #studentofart #oldage #oldman

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