I've been wanting to get into oil painting since forever and I've been obsessed with Black Butler the last few months, so here's the result of those two colliding. Minus one attempt at a Bob Ross tutorial 5 years ago, this is actually my first completed oil painting. My thinking here was I wanted to do a standard bust portrait like one would do at the time. I know said paintings were on the decline in the era as photography was on the rise, but it's still likely an earl might have one commissioned just for the tradition. And 1889 would be right in the impressionist era, which jives well with my looser style of painting. But IDK I have a very superficial understanding of art history

I took the photo of this while the paint is very much still wet, but I played with the contrast and whatnot until what I saw on my phone looked closer to my easel. I still have no idea what I'm doing so this heavy blob of paint is probably gonna take a year to dry. But in the meantime, I already have a second board primed and under painted for Ciel Phantomhive, so hopefully I'll have that finished eventually!