Oil painting attempt #1 (Patreon)

Happy new year all of you!

Calling attempt #1 done.  
Man it's tricky to photograph these things. I assume it does get a bit better when they're not wet anymore but hoh boy. Especially because i only have a phone to take pictures with and phones just slap all sorts of post processing on it, so the picture is much more saturated than it actually is. And it being dark now with the lights i have set up being a bit warm it probably messes with the sensor as well.

It's rather messy in spots, especially the face where i tried to put in some subtle detailing but then it became to obvious and trying to merge it back it made it all sorts of weird and whatnot. And of course plenty strokes in there that probably could have been left away and that now stick out a bit...but which i didn't want to fiddle about with because then it would just end up like the other times i over-fiddled!...

But yeah all in all it, unsurprisingly, comes much more naturally than watercolour does. Still will need some getting used to of course, just getting a feel for how the paint behaves, but all in all it's much easier to get it do what i want it do.

All in all though pretty happy with how it turned out! Think this one will continue with a good deal less frustration than the watercolour attempt. (though i also already am looking anxiously at my wallet judging by how much of the lavender paint thinner is already used up :') )