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Kiba Bones

Published: Oct 27, 2018

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2018 artist atmosphere black blue bones brush cat denise draw drawing fang foliage fun gouache grass green halloween happy hutchins illustration illustrator ink kiba lake magic magical manx mika mikarts

Description

Here it is! My Halloween illustration for 2018! It's my black Manx, Kiba, looking into a pond that only reflects his skeleton!

I came up with this idea because I wanted to do a different theme than I have in the past. So far, I had done pumpkins and ghosts (always with Kiba as the main focus--he's a black cat, after all). The next Halloween theme that came to mind was skeletons. After some brainstorming, I arrived at this idea.

This is the first time I've done a painting of a reflection in a body of water. I'm glad I did my due diligence and researched what it looks like in real life! I definitely wouldn't have been able to paint this convincing pond without that knowledge.

This is also the first time I've applied a color wash on the entire painting to create a tonal atmosphere and harmonize the colors. It worked better than I imagined! Every new color I applied matched perfectly with all the rest, thanks to the underlying tones.

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