Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
This is a spoooky painting of a large bunch of faces molten together to a large hill: Mount Crushgore. I painted this using ProCreate on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil 2.
Here are some more timelapse videos on painting:
- Eye monster: youtu.be/n6WiwV_nCCA
- Happy flower heart face: youtu.be/5IesZ9HKc78
- Dragonrider: youtu.be/7-Lw6DfEwu0
- Dude eating a tasty sandwich : youtu.be/XL520ZtCq_o
- Dance Like Nobody's Watching: youtu.be/XPgmJAnBxhY
And this one I started out traditionally on paper and then colored it in ProCreate on an iPad Pro:
- Disgusting Goblin-like creature: youtube.com/shorts/XWvAoHjk-WE?feature=share
This one I painted in ProCreate on an iPad Mini 5 using a Logitech Crayon which doesn't have pressure sensitivity:
- Happy worm: youtu.be/Ibylnw7piEA
For more of my work, go to marincomics.com
More Details:
This one took a bit longer to paint. After two works using Infinite Painter on Android, I returned to the comfort of ProCreate on the iPad Pro. In the meantime, I had been invited to join the DarkArtwork Reddit, so I decided, I'd paint something specifically for #DarkArtwork.
I paged through some of the other works on the Reddit and really loved the scary, crazy, meticulously crafted pieces. Frankly, I was a bit concerned that my style would not really fit in with the other works. After getting a lot of inspiration from the works of other, I decided to give it a shot with a painting in black and white.
I wanted to make something like a disgusting, lovecraftian Mount Rushmore with faces fused together and either hands or tentacles emerging from their split heads. I sketched out rough outlines to get the feeling for the available space and the distribution of the figures.
On a new layer, I then started the detailed rendering of the outlines in pen. I would also take the opportunity to make corrections to the initial sketch. Once I was happy with the outline, I spot the black areas. I could now hide the original sketch layer.
On a new layer beneath the line drawing, I filled the gray that would be the main color of this painting. Then I added a background layer and put in some shades of gray and white and used the blur and motion blur filters to makethem look atmospheric.
On gray layer under the line art, I put in two shades of gray for more depth and added highlights in light gray. I was preparing this layer of shading for the next stage of smearing the tones to blend them.
Using the smudge tool, I blended the shades on this layer. I worked at a relatively high zoom level. While looking at the details and working on the blending, I'd occasionally add highlights or dark tones for depth and then smear those in.
Even though I paused the blending because I felt that I was done for now, I knew that I would need to get back to the gray layer at a later time. I returned to the la er with the line art outlines and started blending them and correcting thrm with the smudge tool. Every now and then, I'd move the lines thus shifting them to no longer match thr gray shading on the layer below, so I'd need to return to the gray shading layer and "push" the shaded area to match the outline above with the smudge tool. Once I thought, I had blended the line art, I moved to a new layer (of course I had missed some lines and had to return to them later).
On this new layer I started adding more highlights and shades. This time round they were more subtlr and I would repeatedly stroke over certain highlights that I wanted to accentuate because I had set the brush to 30% opacity,
There were only two stages left: Firstly, I'd go back and forth between layer making tweaks and corrections here and there. And lastly, I painted the pupils onto the eyes only at the very end because I didn't want them staring at me eerily while I was working on other parts.
After a final polish, I was done. And exported the inage and the timelapse video.
This is a spoooky painting of a large bunch of faces molten together to a large hill: Mount Crushgore. I painted this using ProCreate on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil 2.
Here are some more timelapse videos on painting:
- Eye monster: youtu.be/n6WiwV_nCCA
- Happy flower heart face: youtu.be/5IesZ9HKc78
- Dragonrider: youtu.be/7-Lw6DfEwu0
- Dude eating a tasty sandwich : youtu.be/XL520ZtCq_o
- Dance Like Nobody's Watching: youtu.be/XPgmJAnBxhY
And this one I started out traditionally on paper and then colored it in ProCreate on an iPad Pro:
- Disgusting Goblin-like creature: youtube.com/shorts/XWvAoHjk-WE?feature=share
This one I painted in ProCreate on an iPad Mini 5 using a Logitech Crayon which doesn't have pressure sensitivity:
- Happy worm: youtu.be/Ibylnw7piEA
For more of my work, go to marincomics.com
More Details:
This one took a bit longer to paint. After two works using Infinite Painter on Android, I returned to the comfort of ProCreate on the iPad Pro. In the meantime, I had been invited to join the DarkArtwork Reddit, so I decided, I'd paint something specifically for #DarkArtwork.
I paged through some of the other works on the Reddit and really loved the scary, crazy, meticulously crafted pieces. Frankly, I was a bit concerned that my style would not really fit in with the other works. After getting a lot of inspiration from the works of other, I decided to give it a shot with a painting in black and white.
I wanted to make something like a disgusting, lovecraftian Mount Rushmore with faces fused together and either hands or tentacles emerging from their split heads. I sketched out rough outlines to get the feeling for the available space and the distribution of the figures.
On a new layer, I then started the detailed rendering of the outlines in pen. I would also take the opportunity to make corrections to the initial sketch. Once I was happy with the outline, I spot the black areas. I could now hide the original sketch layer.
On a new layer beneath the line drawing, I filled the gray that would be the main color of this painting. Then I added a background layer and put in some shades of gray and white and used the blur and motion blur filters to makethem look atmospheric.
On gray layer under the line art, I put in two shades of gray for more depth and added highlights in light gray. I was preparing this layer of shading for the next stage of smearing the tones to blend them.
Using the smudge tool, I blended the shades on this layer. I worked at a relatively high zoom level. While looking at the details and working on the blending, I'd occasionally add highlights or dark tones for depth and then smear those in.
Even though I paused the blending because I felt that I was done for now, I knew that I would need to get back to the gray layer at a later time. I returned to the la er with the line art outlines and started blending them and correcting thrm with the smudge tool. Every now and then, I'd move the lines thus shifting them to no longer match thr gray shading on the layer below, so I'd need to return to the gray shading layer and "push" the shaded area to match the outline above with the smudge tool. Once I thought, I had blended the line art, I moved to a new layer (of course I had missed some lines and had to return to them later).
On this new layer I started adding more highlights and shades. This time round they were more subtlr and I would repeatedly stroke over certain highlights that I wanted to accentuate because I had set the brush to 30% opacity,
There were only two stages left: Firstly, I'd go back and forth between layer making tweaks and corrections here and there. And lastly, I painted the pupils onto the eyes only at the very end because I didn't want them staring at me eerily while I was working on other parts.
After a final polish, I was done. And exported the inage and the timelapse video.
