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ZEROPOLARIS 🏳️‍🌈
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Roan | He/Him | Illustrator & Painter #art #painting
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getting back to it
#wip #acrylic #traditionalart
August 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Glow
8in x 10in, acrylic on paper on canvas.

quite pleased with how this turned out. need to make one last adjustment glaze on the physical painting (used a touch too much pthalo blue for the final glaze), but i really had fun with this one.

#art #illustration #painting #acrylic #arcylicpainting
August 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
just a little bit more to go...
#wip #acrylic
August 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
thinking about calling it a night. have a few more adjustments to make to the lighting on the arms, then gotta cool off the shadows and background with some pthalo blue, add the spark to the cig and smoke, then this'll be done.
#wip #art #painting #acrylic
August 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
yeah that warmed up exactly how I wanted it to
(picture is so trash still lmao)
August 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
(this thing is so fuckin hard to photograph now)
I really love cadmium red. it is so nice for getting that warm fleshy feeling. added it to give my shadows a bit of flavor.
gonna do some glazing to yellow the light then add the smoke.
#wip #acrylic #painting
August 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
round 1 of highlights complete
#wip #acrylic
August 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
didn't post my final progress pic last night, but been working on this more today. I'm so glad I decided to start incorporating the original drawing into the painting surface. it saves me so much time, I'm going to be a painting fiend.
#wip #acrylic #painting #art
August 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
flat glazed complete. lining and shadows next.
#wip
August 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
so... I was suddenly hit with inspiration and started a small painting of my rdr2rp oc Polli. still gonna finish the driver repaint, but figured id chase my flow state while I had it
#wip #painting #sketch #art #acrylic
August 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
doing what I should have done with my first approach with this study: a blue glaze. the original pic had such a cool tone over it all but I did a warm brown base glaze. hopefully this will give me the temperature I want.
#wip #acrylic #painting
August 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
doing a second attempt for this painting with my new workflow. the nice thing about having transferred my drawings in the past is that I retained the original drawing. now I've pasted that to a surface and will paint over it to see how it feels.
#painting #wip #sketch #art
August 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
...so I hated my second attempt too. I think, the way I was approaching it was also making me demotivated. so I scrapped both of these and gessoed over them. going to do some experiments in MY style of painting on top of them.
August 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
the nice thing about the transfer process is that I always have the original drawing saved. this time, I'm going to try pasting the drawing to my painting surface, then painting over that. sorta like a collage
August 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I forgot to add the progress pics for this study, but that's because I hated how it turned out after I glazed it. I've decided to start over and experiment with a different approach.
#wip
August 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
underpainting is complete. I started doing them with alcohol markers and it has been a major game changer. much faster.
#sketch #wip
July 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
it's been a while...
getting back into it with a lil leyendecker study.
#art #painting #acrylic #sketch #wip
July 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
currently working on a large illustration for someone, so won't have too much art for a while until that comes out.
but in the mean time here is the other commission i finished. this is one of my favorites ever since i opened my commissions back up.

#procreate #illustration #commission #oc
April 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
forgot to upload a few other commissions i finished last week.
here's the first one. the pose for this was fun

#procreate #illustration #commission #oc
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
did some figure drawing with my students today. 1-3mins, and 25mins.

#figuredrawing
April 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
seems like #portfolioday is back around.
howdy y'all. i'm roan, a black queer illustrator, painter, and character designer. currently working on a few projects, but still open for work.

email: thezeropolaris@gmail.com
website: www.zeropolaris.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
an older piece from 2021. did the “build a catboi” comment meme ages ago on twitter, and came up with this siamese fella. i really like the design, i might need to use him for something…

#art #oc #procreate #catboi
April 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
also i wanted to thank you all for 1k follows. it took me years to get to this point on twitter, and ever since i started using bluesky reagularly, i've had the most social media growth i've ever had. just wanted to say i appreciate you all, and i'm glad you all like my lil gay drawings
April 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
second commission from my most recent batch. it's been a while since i've done a lady portrait. drawing intricate hair is something i really missed, so im happy i was able to do some of that with her.

#commission #procreate #oc #illustration #art
April 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
finished a couple of commissions the past couple of days. here's the first one. had a lot of fun with this portrait, and really happy with the smoke and the cigar.

#commission #procreate #oc #illustration #art
April 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM