Wait, huh?

Something I've been wanting to do for some time is try rendering some scenes from animated movies as practice with colour and lighting. I have used a fair amount of real life photographs in my studying, but real life can look a little boring. It seems like a good idea to take a look at how the pros deal with lighting and colour to make things look so appealing, especially since I find this is an area I really struggle with in my own work.

I also wanted to play around with acrylics some more. I still have no idea what I'm doing with them, so forgive how kind of awful this is, heh. I wanted a very simple scene to start out with, in fact I didn't even really plan on working out the background, I figured I'd just do some colours that vaguely represent it and focus on the character, but I noticed about three hours in that I was basically rendering the background anyway, so whatever. I ran with it.

Once again I'm not exactly what you'd call happy with this, but I'm still experimenting with acrylics, trying to figure out what makes them tick. I haven't found a surface I'm happy painting on yet, for example- the canvas paper I bought seems to work nice but is way too textured for my liking. I also still only have crummy brushes for acrylics, but I ordered a few more that will hopefully be better, won't know until they show up.

Most of my drawing has been from my imagination, trying to replicate things has never been a strong point of mine so it's all a bit wonky, but maybe some of y'all will still wanna see this so here it is. Lemme know whatcha think.