Fitting that when posting this right now the image I have is blurry and out of focus (hopefully I'll have edited in a better photo by the time you see this). I decided to paint the Momo, short for the Missouri Monster, this state's own personal variation of bigfoot. Really it's just like a normal bigfoot except he disrupts picnics, attacks dogs, and has enough hair to play every part in a death metal band.
I didn't have my illustration board at the time I started it so I ended up painting it on foam board instead, which was weird. The surface was too smooth and I should have just painted on a completely level surface so I could take advantage of that instead of having it be a problem. I feel like no amount of detail I add or changes I make can make it look how I want. The brushstrokes just naturally decided to all look like the same sloppy thing all over no matter what I did to it. If I ever use this sort of paint on this sort of surface again it will only be with very specific type of images as a darker sort of thing like this just doesn't want to play nice.
It really is a horrible photo. You can't even see his glowing red eyes! Photoshop refused to show them if I did anything at all to improve the contrast and lighting. I also had to actually warp the image to make up for what was sadly the best angle my webcam mounted on top of my laptop would allow for a picture leaning against the wall, but mostly because that foam board actually warps itself! I'm going to flatten this thing under something until I can barrow a camera and I'll also paint the red eyes with more contrast. Maybe some yellow even.
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