Bitcoin for Art

I'm not really familiar with cryptocurrencies and such, just found out about it when someone randomly posted in Facebook on how he regretted not buying any bitcoin when its price was still low. With that, I began searching about it and learned a few things; on how it is the future in banking, payment and investment, on how its price has significantly rose since it began, now costing around $2,600 per BTC as of this writing. This has made me interested with its possibilities.

I'm not really adept with it yet and just beginning to learn the basics; like first having a wallet to store your bitcoins and something you can use to send and receive payments. For beginners like me, I think online wallets are the way to go as it's easy and convenient. Coinbase and Blockchain.info are among the popular ones. And when you have accumulated quite a few bitcoins which you intend to store for a while, offline wallet is the best method.

I was kind of thinking that this might also be used as payment for art commissions and such so I tried making an account that I can use to experiment and learn more. Here's my bitcoin address: 1EfdmLKqsqzoTeSExBNiWbWSd6dDD5bASv just in case :)

Still got to learn some more about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general and I hope that I'd also made you aware of this. This forum in reddit would be a nice place to start.

Art for Halloween

Halloween; time for ghosts, monsters, zombies and whatnot, 'tis one of my fave times of the year. So, I thought I ought to make a tribute and with silent hill as my all time fave psp game, it is only proper to make a fan art of it. I chose the nurse cause it's my fave character together with pyramid head, which I might also do a painting of.

Here's my process and stuff I used:

I used liquitex basics and grumbacher academy acrylic on illustration board primed with gesso.

I sketched the outline first

liquitex raw umber curdled up which I was not able to use much anymore

raw umber and titanium white base

brown underpainting

highlights

and voila! finished, which of course took a lot of layering. I mainly used naphtol red, yellow oxide, ultramarine, titanium white, mars black, alizarin and pthalo green.

Hope you enjoyed my painting and Happy Halloween everyone!