The background was giving me witchy vibes so I rolled with it and sketched out a cauldron, some bubbling ooze, and a funny crow. Plus some random potion ingredients, because why not. At first I was only going to use pen to ink in the scene.
But even starting to add hatching and shading wasn’t capturing the look I wanted. So I brought out my alcohol markers. The look of alcohol marker over shimmery acrylic ink is really cool. I added more shading and then used colored pencil to bump up the texture.
Here’s a pic trying to capture the shimmer, which is my fave part of this piece. That and the weird crow.
So many of my art pieces this year feel like they’re veering into picturebook/children’s illustration territory and this piece definitely fits that theme.
If you leave out the insanely long word in the middle it’s “The wishing potion”.
The word in the middle is no real word but a play with words and the fact that German words can get pretty long. But while normal German words get longer because two get combined this word morphs into the next one after the first syllable.
So the word is „satanarchäolügenialkohöllische“. It starts with satan and goes over to anarchy and then to archeology but always in the middle of each word. The single words are satan - anarchy - archeology - lies - genius - alcohol - hell.
Taking all of that together it’s a pretty evil wishing potion
Ok, so I flunked German in high school but here’s what my weird brain wants to translate this to… The Witch Punch
…and the small lettering: Satan’s Archealogic Alcoholics?
I also want to know what it really says though. Hopefully @Silky_Bee can forgive me for my ridiculous “translation.”
Totally agree that it could be in a picture book!
I wonder if that will be your next big project! Have you thought about it?
Thanks again for such a nice piece.
