the goblin king

halloween's over and now we're on the run up to christmas, but i thought i'd hang onto the make up and costumes for just a day longer and share with you all my costume from last night. i'd quite literally been looking forward to dressing up as this character for months after watching the labyrinth back in april and deciding the goblin king would make a perfect halloween costume, so when the day finally arrived i was probably a little too eager to throw together some of the more ugly pieces in my wardrobe and attack my face with the entire contents of my makeup bag.

after creating such a fabulous look, i've decided that a) the goblin king had a pretty dedicated makeup artist, and b) the fact that i managed to throw his outfit together using existing pieces of my own wardrobe must either make me totally fabulous, or completely ridiculous; i can't quite decide.

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dance, magic, dance!

 

just popping by to post another gouache portrait i've completed recently! this time of david bowie as the goblin king from the film labyrinth, which i watched while at uni and felt instantly inspired to one day recreate the characters from it. i do plan to more simply illustrate characters such as ludo (who is just adorable!) and create a whole set of them, but i thought i'd start out here as i'd been meaning to redo a bowie portrait at some point anyway after growing more and more displeased by my original aladdin sane illustration!

i was pretty pleased with this illustration on paper, however i don't feel as though the scan does it any justice *sigh*, such a nightmare when that happens! obviously i've room for a lot of improvement when it comes to portraits, however i do believe i'm slowly getting better at creating depth which is a lot easier to accomplish with gouache paints (my soft spot for them is rapidly growing.) i suppose i've just got to keep practising and practising!

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