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Chicken

You are looking at a piece of fanart I did for a game called Nuclear Throne - which I've been playing pretty regularly for the last couple weeks. I have had this piece drawn out for a really long time, but I wasn't entirely sure how to paint it. Now that the finished piece is in my hands, I'm really glad I finished it.

This is a combination of watercolor paint and watercolor pencils on 300 lb. hot press paper. The background was painted with a light wash of cadmium yellow. The "sun" was carefully painted with a medium wash of cadmium red. Everything else is watercolor pencil. As for the lighting - I sort of made it all up as I went along. There are inconsistencies here and there, but I am happy with the results.

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