I have been making some headway in the little spurts of time I have to work on this painting. As you can see I have gotten a third tentacle’s white parts laid out better even after going back and readjusting them in the second tentacle. I had noticed that I had made far too many small bits from the first one I had reworked and the effect was bad. Lesson learned going forward. I was planning on holding off doing any more painting on the tips until after I got the white done on all the tentacles. However, I am impatient and was also worried that I would not be able to replicate the look from the first tentacle. I think it is going well.
On another note, I finally sent out for a print of Sarah Seadragon for my sister, whom this project is for. I can’t wait for her reaction. Also, I want to get an idea on print costs because that is one of the perks I plan to give supporters once I re-establish my Patreon page. One thing to understand about that is, while you can buy prints from my deviantart page, they will come from jpeg copies of my work. The compression these files use distorts the final product a bit. When I send out for prints myself, I use tiff files, which do not use compression for a truer print of the work. I will be talking more about Patreon and rewards in future posts.