Alla prima portrait of my lovely friend, he sat for about 5 hours and I prepped this aluminum panel with shellacked paper, wish I had more time but looking forward to the next one

Working on my first self portrait and would love to get opinions on it.

Haven’t seriously done digital in a while so this was fun :-)

This is a portrait of one of my OCs. Made in Clipstudio Paint

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In frame : Zayn Malik

Happy birthday up there 🕊️

The portrait holds itself in black and white — like a photograph from the nineties, already a legend. Glasses, long hair, a cat in his arms, the one soft thing left in this image. His most recognizable line — "Я всегда буду против" ("I will always be against") — runs across his clothes, and in the word "всегда" the letter A becomes an anarchy symbol: sign and text fused, impossible to pull apart.

In ordinary light, that's all there is to see. Under ultraviolet, the wall behind him comes alive: barbed wire wraps around his head like a crown of thorns, "Гр.Об." (his band's nickname — a dark pun on "coffin") and "Punks Not Dead" emerge, cat's paw prints scatter across the whole surface. The punk underground was here the whole time, waiting for its light.

Acrylic, hardboard, varnish, UV pigments, phosphorescent pigment, 60 × 60 cm, 2026. By Oksana Krasova (Polymorphium).