Subterranean Horror

Here is another new painting I call "Subterranean Horror".  It's also 16x20" acrylic on canvas.  I've been working on a few horror paintings that I want to have an 80's horror look except without quite so harsh and blown-out lighting.  This is one of them.  Below are a number of photos showing the painting as well as some of the creation process.  These initial steps include an anatomy study, a scan of the raw umber and white underpainting as well as a couple of inkwash studies.  For the inkwash studies I used three colors of ink: black, blue and a sepia mixed with yellow.  My intention was to use this approach to plan the two-lightsource setup with one warm and one cool light.  I'm always playing around with new media and techniques like this and trying to discover new methods for planning my illustrations.