Wealth Panther!!!

I'm a rookie here on steemit, been here less than a month, but already I have had the chance to meet a ton of great people. I was crazy lucky my first week to get noticed by @saywha and @m31 of the @ocd team. They even contacted me through my instagram to make sure I wasn't an impostor...or a robot hahahaha. One of my posts was chosen for the daily resteem and everything just grew from there. It was the catalyst to get invited to a great community of artists here on the platform, i'm finding incredible art/artists on the daily. Thanks again @in2itiveart for so many great tips on posting, art, etc.!!!

Anyway before I get to sappy hahaha, i asked @saywha what would be something I could draw for him. I love to do/ trade art with other artists. He asked for a Panther, something I had never drawn before so I was really up for a little challenge. After many days of "sex panther" jokes, I finally got serious and painted this little postcard watercolor. He really asked for a "wealth panther" so I thought instead of just blasting steem logo's all over it, I would paint him in the steem colors..WEALTH PANTHER for real!!!!! I tried to document a cool amount of the process as well as some of the supplies I used. Thanks for checking this out, and thanks again to everyone who has shown me love my first month here.

Okay so here's the initial sketch... first I like to go real loose then tighten it up with some quick sketchy lines... trying to get a little flavor in there haha

Next I learned it's so much easier if I just scan it into photoshop and rescale it to whatever size I'm painting on... Then I print and cut out a stencil... the time it saves u would not imagine

After I do a little pencil outline... the mess starts up...

The hardest part is letting it dry between layers lol

Here's the paints/ pens i used to get the colors... personally expensive to cheap, paint is paint. I usually water the hell outta it anyway so i'm not the best spokesman hahaha

Once it starts to feel right, not really sure how else to explain that part haha, then it's time to bust out the pens and get to the line work... prob my favorite part.

After getting a good outline I try and get some of the line weights in before details...

Now i usually get out some color pens and add a little extra jazz...

Little close up...

The pens I like the most.... are of course the hardest to find. For some reason companies in the US don't like to go much smaller than 0.5 pen sizes, and for a lot of the little things I do I might as well be drawing with a fat tip sharpie. These are the best ones I found, made in Japan, they know how to do pens out there!!! My favorite size is 0.25, but when i'm in more of a hurry a 0.35 or 0.4 does the trick just as well.

Here's one more shot showing off the backside as well, just scribble an address and throw this bad boy in the mail.... done it many times and they make it there in really good condition believe it or not.

Again I can't thank everyone enough for all the love I have been shown, and hope I can pay it back so we can all grow together!
@saywha let me stalk you so I can mail u this....i mean what!? let me just uhhhh... mail u this? lmao

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