I'm sure you get plenty of questions about this (and please redirect me if you've already answered this!!), but how did you develop your painting style? I'm particularly interested in the parallel contour lines you add- looking at your progress images, it looks like you lay down a flat color and then manually hatch them in? However you do it, it's gorgeous! I've been seeing your art on twitter/tumblr for a couple months now and have always been curious as to your technique/painting inspirations

hi, and thank you for the kind words!! to be quite honest, it’s a little bit difficult to answer the question of how i developed my painting style, simply because i’ve been painting for over fifteen years 😂 a Lot of stuff has inspired me throughout this time, and there’s tons of things i figured out on my own, it’s all just a gumbo soup in my head at this point 🤭

however, i can tell you one thing in that the parallel hatching is mainly inspired by the works of leyendecker, toulouse-lautrec and edgar degas! when i use it i usually lay down/block out a base color and then go over it with parallel hatching in a slightly/entirely different shade depending on the kind of effect i need to achieve; usually it’s a lighter color, but not always! i pick the direction of the lines based on the 3d shape of the object to sort of ‘hug’ said shape; picking the right direction and stroke length also helps convey foreshortening, though for me it requires a lot of thinking and experimenting to achieve the right perspective. i also use other kinds of hatching to convey different textures! it can be fun to try and figure out what works best for this or that thing.

this is a bit of a bare bones answer i think, but yeah! i’m not entirely sure what else to add without writing a 10k word essay, but i hope this helps and if you have any specific questions, let me know!