20”x24” acrylic on canvas painting of the Pokémon Mewtwo. Like my Hammer Bro painting, I began with making an acrylic paint pour of blue, purple, pink, and white paints to get the swirled abstract background. When the paints cured, I shot a photo of my Mewtwo figurine and made slight edits in Photoshop to adjust the colors and saturation. The actual Mewtwo character is rather bland with just white and light purple, so I heavily emphasized the saturation with neon pink and magenta shadows. 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.

I ran into a few issues with this painting: the left hand [the fist] didn’t quite look right, and I had to repaint over top of it. It still looks a bit wonky, in my opinion. Then I debated adding the pink lightning effect emerging from both hands after the main painting was done. I admit that I went overboard with the lightning and glow on the right hand, so much that it kind of obscures and overpowers the design of the hand. In hindsight I probably would have been a lot more subtle on the pink lightning, and may have just omitted it completely. I added it to make Mewtwo appear as it he’s attacking, rather than just standing there doing nothing.