20”x24” acrylic on canvas painting of a Hammer Bro from the Super Mario Bros. series. For this painting I began with making an acrylic paint pour of blue and white paints to get the swirl effect to mimic a sky-like background. When the paints cured, I shot a photo of my Hammer Bro figurine and made slight edits in Photoshop, to adjust the position of the toy’s limbs, since they weren’t very articulated. Using that as a reference image I then projected the photo onto the paint pour background, and used white primer paint to go along the basic shape of the image. Then I used a pencil and traced the key details of the image. Afterwards when I got the basic details complete, I turned off the projector and then I filled in the rest of the portrait by hand with various acrylic paints from Blick, Master’s Touch, and Liquitex. The overall painting was rather straightforward and streamlined. I didn’t run into any major issues with this painting.

I created this simultaneously with my Mewtwo painting, hence its similar art style.