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ZEROPOLARIS 🏳️‍🌈
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Roan | He/Him | Illustrator & Painter #art #painting
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zeropolaris.bsky.social
getting back to it
#wip #acrylic #traditionalart
a work in progress photo of a painting sitting on an easel. the painting is of a man sitting in a car smoking a cigarette. there are a few semitransparent glazes over a blue background that start to being the figure into focus. but it is still very muddled and clearly unfinished.
August 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
a painting of a man smoking a cigarette with his arms crossed. the smoke billows around his head, and half of his face is lit from the warm glow of the cigarette in his mouth.
August 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
just a little bit more to go...
#wip #acrylic
a picture of a painting of a man with a cigarette in his mouth. his arms are crossed and half of his face is illuminated by the glow of the cigarette.
August 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
a picture of a painting of a man smoking a cigarette with his arms crossed with a dark background. the cigarette lights half of his face with a warm yellow glow.
August 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
yeah that warmed up exactly how I wanted it to
(picture is so trash still lmao)
August 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
(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
a picture of a painting in progress. it shows a man standing in darkness with his arms crossed, face illuminated by a cigarette in his mouth.
August 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
round 1 of highlights complete
#wip #acrylic
August 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
a picture of a painting of a man smoking a cigarette. his arms are crossed and he is looking off to the side. the left side of his face is illuminated by the glow of the cigarette in his mouth. the background darkly swirls around him. the painting is still a bit rough and is clearly unfinished.
August 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
flat glazed complete. lining and shadows next.
#wip
a picture of a painting in progress. it shows a man standing with his arms crossed, a cigarette in his mouth. it is very roughly painted in with very few details.
August 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
a picture of an in progress painting of a man driving a car. the underpainting is covered completely with a teal blue transparent glaze.
August 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
a picture of a drawing of a man driving a car. the point of view is from the interior, as if the viewer was sitting in the passenger seat. the drawing is half filled with shadows painted in, clearly unfinished.
August 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
...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.
a picture of two canvases sitting next to each other in a easel. both have unfinished paintings on them of the same profile of a white man with slicked back hair. the canvas on the left has a black background, and the canvas on the right has a white background.
August 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
an image of a piece of paper with the head of a man drawn on it pasted to a gessoed canvas.
August 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
an underpainting of a man's face glazed over in a dark amber semitransparent layer. a partially done acrylic painting of aan staring off to the right with a dark background. the details are rough and unfinished.
August 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
underpainting is complete. I started doing them with alcohol markers and it has been a major game changer. much faster.
#sketch #wip
a photo of a drawing of the profile of a man done in brown and purple markers. the deep shadows on his face are exaggerated and seem quite dark.
July 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
it's been a while...
getting back into it with a lil leyendecker study.
#art #painting #acrylic #sketch #wip
a photo of a drawing of the side profile of a man. the drawing is done on a piece of paper taped to a canvas sitting on an easel. the style of the drawing is similar to that of the illustrator J. C. Leyendecker.
July 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
an illustration of a woman with large circle glasses and light brown hair. her hair is pulled back in a bun, and she glances at the viewer with a side eye through the green lenses of her glasses. she exhales smoke while holding a cigarette between two fingers, a sassy look on her face.
April 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
an illustration of a white woman with black glasses and dark brown hair. She is looking down at the viewer with a flirty smile, with one of her fingers touching the corner of her mouth. she holds a cigarette in the other fingers, the smoke billowing behind her.
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
did some figure drawing with my students today. 1-3mins, and 25mins.

#figuredrawing
1min and 3min figure drawings. a 25min figure drawing of a man in a half crouch with his arms up.
April 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
an illustration of an astronaut in a sleek space suit, holding up a mirror to the night sky, illuminating it and showing the strange creatures that exist amongst the stars. an illustration of a tiger walking down some moss covered rocks. it has a bird in its jaws, its tail lifted in a happy curl. an illustration of a character turnaround sheet. the sheet features a dark skinned black woman spinning yarn. she is a bit older, and has grey streaking through her hair. she has two large rollers on the back of her hair in an interesting hairdo. she is shown depicting the expressions of laughing, angry, and smiling. a traditional acrylic painting of a person wearing a suit of bamboo armor. the person is androgynous, but is a dark skinned black person. the armor is accented with large plumes of grass covering the shoulders and the legs. the person is holding a stylus and a board, in the motion of writing something. there is a mask resting next to where they sit, and a large waterfall stretches above them in the far distance.
April 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
an illustration of a catboi. he looks like a siamese cat, with a dark nose and mouth, dark hands, dark tail, and dark ears. the rest of his body is a pale cream color. his eyes are a blue green. he tilts his body to the side and looks at the viewer with a somewhat coy expression. he has a few scrapes and bruises on his body, and one clipped ear.
April 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
a screenshot of my profile, zeropolaris, showing 1k followers
April 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
an illustration of a woman holding a blue folding fan, staring at the viewer with a slightly mischievous smile. she has brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a dark brown flat brimmed hat.
April 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
zeropolaris.bsky.social
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
an illustration of an italian man with brown slicked back hair and a thick mustache looks at the viewer. he is smoking a thick cigar, and its blue grey smoke spirals around his head.
April 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM