Gorilla mini munny (acrylics) - NEW photos :)

Aidy · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:17 am

Right, here's another custom I have recently finished...used acrylics for the first time (there was a lot of trial and error) but I'm fairly pleased with the result.

I'll be putting the little fella up for sale in the coming days!

EDIT: some bigger pictures.

EDIT 2: NOW FOR SALE IN THE 'ITEMS FOR SALE' SECTION - feel free to PM me.

Thanks for looking,

Aidy

UNCLE · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:28 am

That is great! very realistic... so good in fact that I have nothing bad to say

I would like to see bigger pictures though!

UNCLE

CherryKissKill · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:13 pm

ooo this looks smart. love the eyes especially. Great detail on the fur and I like how you havent put the detail all over the body. looks good!

Aidy · **Posted:** Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:24 pm

DrMunny wrote:

:prayer:

That is great! very realistic... so good in fact that I have nothing bad to say

I would like to see bigger pictures though!

UNCLE

Thanks UNCLE...I'll post some bigger pictures soon..didn't want it too big to because I'm not sure if there is a max. image size that can be uploaded on here.

CherryKissKill wrote:

ooo this looks smart. love the eyes especially. Great detail on the fur and I like how you havent put the detail all over the body. looks good!

Thank you Cherry, I think the eyes are my favourite

the fur took a long time to get right..was really hard to leave brush strokes to look like his fur and to shade it correctly. Yeah I was thinking about more detail to his body but I didn't want him to look too "busy" if you know what I mean...but he has got 'indications' of fur on the rest of his body.

Thanks for looking,

Aidy

sculpturalmyth · **Joined:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:34 am **Posts:** 25

This is beautiful!! The lines are so clean and I love the fur texture and those eyes just grab you - Great work!!

ZombieGirl · **Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:28 am

Such an amazing paint job, holy cow! :prayer:

Aidy · **Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:42 pm

Thank you sculpturalmyth and ZombieGirl!

adik.na.chinoy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:11 am

bravo! oh man and with acrylics (which dries really fast) how did you get it to blend like that so perfectly? did you wet the acrylics first with water?

Aidy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:15 am

adik.na.chinoy wrote:

bravo! oh man and with acrylics (which dries really fast) how did you get it to blend like that so perfectly? did you wet the acrylics first with water?

thanks! I used acrylic flow improver which seems to slow the drying process down a tad and helps with blending!

adik.na.chinoy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:20 am

Aid1987 wrote:

adik.na.chinoy wrote:

bravo! oh man and with acrylics (which dries really fast) how did you get it to blend like that so perfectly? did you wet the acrylics first with water?

thanks! I used acrylic flow improver which seems to slow the drying process down a tad and helps with blending!

ahh never heard of that....what i do is i really soak the acrylic in water but it still dries pretty fast....how much is the acrylic flow improver?

Aidy · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:24 am

I got it for £4.55 GBP so not too much.

It comes in a 75ml glass bottle and is made by winsor & newton (not sure if that brand is available in the US).

I find that water dries to quickly as well...i still use it a lot when painting but when it won't do I use the flow improver which is a little oily so it makes the paint stay wetter for a bit longer.