In The Box

He/Him - LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Focused on male beauty and improving my painting skills. Never stop learning.

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"Virginia's Wings" | Digital Painting, 11x14 (Artist Study: Re°)

I recently discovered Re° they are a manga artists although I cant find their Social media or much on them ): still, their work is amazing and so bright and gentle. i tried a new rendering prosses using grayscale and "color" layer modes with just the air brush tool and it worked out fantastic. it creates very interesting gradients while being very quick and easy. It made playing with the colors fun and not too difficult. My dumb butt forgot to start a timelapse until all the interesting parts were over so no timelapse with this one.

Anyways, my art nerd ramblings aside, here's a link to my reference. its a statue as usual although this time I wasn't able to locate the artist.

Escultura romana | Arte de cementerio, Cuadros de arte oscuro, Estatuas

Pinturas, Anatomía, Anatomia

The butterfly is a West Virginia White, hence the name.

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Bee

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Bee (buzz buzz)

I'm actually quite scared of bees.

Clip Studio Paint

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Study of Marble Sculpture

Watercolor

Wasn’t able to find original artist of the sculpture but here’s a link to my reference:

Classical statue poses | Nude woman statue, Women from behind reference, Ancient greek sculpture

Dec 8, 2025 — A sculpture of a nude figure with long, flowing hair. The figure is positioned with its back to the viewer, highlighting the i

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Hydrangea

Hydrangea flowers look very pretty in light, the shape of the bulb allows light to glow in the middle in a cool way (if that makes any sense).

The figure was referenced of the sculpture "Death of Abel" Vincent Feugere Des Forts (1865).

I really wanted to push my rendering skill on this one. it feel a little overworked, but I learned a lot.

You can find the full timelapse on my YT channel.

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Hydrangea Speed Paint up on my YT

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“Bloom”, Watercolor on paper, 10 x 6 inches

I love when you find references that just seem to fit together like puzzle peices. That’s what happened here. The figure reference was in a pack I got off Proko for 15$. Got some very conveniently placed flowers on this one.

Flower reference:

Pawn tree | Floral branches, Flowering dogwood, Flower photography

A branch with white flowers and green leaves against a black background. The flowers have five petals each, and the leaves are oval-shaped.